To reduce the risks of climate change, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases must be lowered. Direct capture of CO2 from ambient air, ‘‘air capture’’, might be one of the few methods capable of systematically managing dispersed emissions. The most commonly proposed method for air capture is a wet scrubbing technique which absorbs CO2 in an alkaline absorbent, i.e. sodium hydroxide prod...

Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) produced by microorganisms have a key role in the sedimentary compartment, e.g. promoting aggregation and biostabilisation of sediment particles increasing chemical reactivity at water/sediment interface. Therefore, proper extraction methods are needed to study this EPS matrix. In work, nine based on physical (centrifugation, sonication), (sodium hydroxi...

Blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension is raised by sodium chloride but not by nonchloride sodium salts. Although a high sodium chloride diet is known to augment the pressor response to norepinephrine and angiotensin II, the effect of nonchloride sodium salts on pressor responsiveness has not been studied so far. To examine whether sodium chloride and nonchloride sodium salts ev...

Sub-cutaneous immunotherapy is an effective treatment for allergy. It works by helping to modify or re-balance an individual's immune response to allergens and its efficacy is greatly improved by the use of adjuvants, most commonly, aluminium hydroxide. Aluminium salts have been used in allergy therapy for many decades and are assumed to be safe with few established side-effects. This assumptio...

There are four major irrigation systems and two minor/ micro available in the state for irrigating crops. Gurgaon canal flowing through Gurgaon, Rewari Palwal districts NCR has been chosen analysis. takes delivery of millions industrial domestic waste matters. The objective study is to characterize water quality suitability using geospatial techniques generate interpolation maps individual para...

Chemical recycling of Polyethylene terephthalate, PET, wastage has been investigated in this study. The aim of this work is recovery of terephthalic acid and ethylene glycols from PET waste. This process has been done in two stages. At the first stage, reaction between PET waste and sodium hydroxide for production of ethylene glycol and sodium terephthalate solution carried out in a stainless s...

Urea formaldehyde resins were formulated with vatiables of three reaction pHs (1.0, 4.8, and 8.0 5.0) and three catalysts (sodium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide/ammonium mix, and triethanolamine) . The resins were prepared by placing all formaldehyde and water in reaction kettle and pH was adjusted with sulfnric acid and sodium hydroxide, respectively. Urea was added in 1.5 equal parts at 1 minute...

This study investigates the utilization of slag and fly ash (FA) as alternative cementitious binder. Combination of 60% slag and 40% FA was used as new binder. In addition, for activation of slag and FA, sodium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide was used as a chemical activator by 5% weight of the binder, separately. Water to binder and sand to binder ratios was kept 0.55 and 3 in mortar preparati...

Public health is at risk from physical and chemical contaminants in the drinking water which may have immediate health consequences. The data from the current study was evaluated for groundwater quality in the rural villages of Neyshabur County in Iran. For determination of the essential physicochemical parameters, water samples were collected from 30 randomly-selected water wells during 2013 a...