Composting is an important waste management strategy, providing economical and environment-friendly approach to sanitizing stabilizing biosolids for land soil amendment. However, the resulting product can contain a large number of organic pollutants that may have adverse effects on ecosystem. This paper presents occurrence eight widely used (four linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS C10-C13), no...

Current technologies give us the ability to enhance and replace developmental biology classes with computer-based resources, often called virtual labs. In the process of using these resources, teachers may be tempted to neglect the simpler technologies and lab bench activities, which can be labor intensive. In this paper, I take a critical look at the role of computer-based materials for the te...

introduction:detergentsleadtomanyenvironmentalproblems.themainaimofthisstudywastoevaluatesequencingbatchreactor(sbr)efficiencyonlinearalkylbenzenesulfonate(las)removal. methods:inthisexperimentalstudy,toinvestigatetheremovalefficiencyoflas,asbrreactorwasused.aroughly12-houroperatingcyclewaschosenwhichincludedthedischargetime(30min),thefillingtime(60min),andsedimentation(1hr),whiletheremainingti...

SNO+ will search for neutrinoless double beta decay by loading 780 tonnes of linear alkylbenzene liquid scintillator with O(tonne) of neodymium. Using natural Nd at 0.1% loading will provide 43.7 kg of Nd given its 5.6% abundance and allow the experiment to reach a sensitivity to the effective neutrino mass of 100-200 meV at 90% C.L in a 3 year run. The SNO+ detector has ultra low backgrounds w...

Identification, resolution and distribution of main microcontaminant sources of endocrine disruptors in Spanish harbours, coastal waters and sediments are investigated using chemometric methods. We investigated eighteen different endocrine disruptor chemical compounds, including non-ionic surfactants, their degradation products and linear alkylbenzene sulfonates, found in a total number of 74 s...