In previous work with the chlorate method (1, 2) for determining nitrogen in plant tissues, materials were used in which the amounts of ammonia and amide nitrogen were either absent or negligible in relation to the total nitrogen present. In working with samples containling significant amounts of ammonia compounds or amide nitrogen, it is necessary to accomiipany the determination with a Nessle...

La/Fe/TiO₂ composite photocatalysts were synthesized by Sol-Gel method and well characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), nitrogen-physical adsorption, and UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectra (UV-Vis DRS). It is interesting that the doped catalysts were in anatase phase while the pure TiO₂ was in rutile phase. In addition, the composites possessed bette...

Removal of ammonia nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen by an heterotrophic nitrification-aerobic denitrification strain is an economical and effective method. In this article, a kind of heterotrophic nitrification-aerobic denitrification strain which has aerobic denitrification and heterotrophic nitrification ability was selected, and then was identified as rhodococcus sp. by 16S rRNA sequencing anal...

Herbicides that bind specifically to Photosystem II greatly increased ammonia liberation by a heterotrophic cyanobacterium incubated with methionine sulfoximine anaerobically in light. Comparison of cells incubated under argon and nitrogen indicated that about one-half of the liberated ammonia came from endogenous sources, as well as from dinitrogen fixation. Chromatography of cell extracts rev...

An intermittent aerobic process has been developed to effectively remove nitrogen from polluted rivers. In addition, a chemometric model was developed to achieve simultaneous rapid analysis of total nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen, and nitrite nitrogen based on near-infrared spectroscopy data combined with a support vector machine. An intermittent aeration process showed that total nitrogen decrease...

Most birds are uricotelic. An exception to this rule may be nectar-feeding birds, which excrete significant amounts of ammonia under certain conditions. Although ammonia is toxic, because it is highly water soluble its excretion may be facilitated in animals that ingest and excrete large amounts of water. Bird-pollinated plants secrete carbohydrate- and water-rich floral nectars that contain ex...

in many hydroelectric dams, when the inflows are greater than the demand for energy, a portion of the water that could be used to generate electricity is diverted to the spillway and literally wasted. this energy,designated as “spilled turbinable energy”, could be used advantageously to generate other products or an energy vector that could be stored for later use, since in these situations the...

The model rumen Firmicutes organism Ruminococcus albus 8 was grown using ammonia, urea, or peptides as the sole nitrogen source; growth was not observed with amino acids as the sole nitrogen source. Growth of R. albus 8 on ammonia and urea showed the same growth rate (0.08 h(-1)) and similar maximum cell densities (for ammonia, the optical density at 600 nm [OD600] was 1.01; and for urea, the O...

The objective of this study was to assess the role of cyclic aeration, vegetation, and temperature on nitrogen removal by subsurface-flow engineered wetlands. Aeration was shown to enhance total nitrogen and ammonia removal and to enhance removal of carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, and phosphorus. Effluent ammonia and total nitrogen concentrations were significant...

The removal of gaseous ammonia in a system consisting of a biotrickling filter, a denitrification reactor and a polishing bioreactor for the trickling liquid was investigated. The system allowed sustained treatment of ammonia while preventing biological inhibition by accumulating nitrate and nitrite and avoiding generation of contaminated water. All bioreactors were packed with cattle bone comp...