Various alkylbenzenes were depleted during growth of an anaerobic, sulfate-reducing enrichment culture with crude oil as the only source of organic substrates. From this culture, two new types of mesophilic, rod-shaped sulfate-reducing bacteria, strains oXyS1 and mXyS1, were isolated with o-xylene and m-xylene, respectively, as organic substrates. Sequence analyses of 16S rRNA genes revealed th...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com it can replace toluene where slower drying is desired. It is also a powerful cleaning agent, e.g., for silicon wafers, circuits and steel [1,2]. Toxicity of xylene in lung, thymus, liver and skin has been reported [3,4]. The nephrotoxicity of xylene has not been well documented. Cortical tubular epithelial cells are a vulnerable site of organic solv...

Biochemical studies in Azoarcus sp. strain T have demonstrated that anaerobic oxidation of both toluene and m-xylene is initiated by addition of the aromatic hydrocarbon to fumarate, forming benzylsuccinate and 3-methyl benzylsuccinate, respectively. Partially purified benzylsuccinate synthase was previously shown to catalyze both of these addition reactions. In this study, we identified and se...

Stable isotope probing (SIP) was used to identify the aerobic toluene-degrading microorganism in soil microcosms. Several approaches (terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and quantitative PCR) provided evidence that the microorganism responsible was a member of the genus Polaromonas and could grow on toluene. This microorganism also transformed benzene, b...

In this work, an experimental and modeling analysis of the adsorption of four aromatic compounds (i.e., toluene, naphthalene, o-xylene and ethylbenzene) onto a commercial activated carbon is carried out. The aim is to assess the suitability of the adsorption process for the treatment of polluted groundwater, also when a multiple contamination is detected. Batch adsorption tests from simulated p...

in this research, gasoline vapours including benzene, toluene, xylene (btx) and total volatile organic compounds (tvocs) emitted from vent pipes of underground storage tanks (usts) were measured at six gas stations in tehran. thereafter, gas station no. 29 was selected as a pilot station and equipped with a vapour control system. the vapours were measured during the summer of 2013 and winter of...

Catalyst S. Al-Khattaf* Chemical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Abstract Catalytic transformation of toluene has been investigated over Y-zeolite based catalysts in a novel riser simulator at different operating conditions. A number of experiments were carried out in the temperature range of 400-500C to understand the transformat...

The effect of a single administration of aromatic hydrocarbons (AHCs) on the metabolic activity responsible for the biotransformation of dichloromethane (DCM) to carbon monoxide (CO) was investigated using adult female rats. In rats treated orally with benzene (1.5 ml kg-1), toluene (2.0 ml kg-1) or m-xylene (2.0 ml kg-1) 16-24 h prior to DCM (3 mmol kg-1, i.p.), the carboxyhaemoglobin (COHb) l...

A bacterial biosensor for benzene, toluene, and similar compounds has been constructed, characterized, and field tested on contaminated water and soil. The biosensor is based on a plasmid incorporating the transcriptional activator xylR from the TOL plasmid of Pseudomonas putida mt-2. The XylR protein binds a subset of toluene-like compounds and activates transcription at its promoter, Pu. A re...

Abstract The levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene isomers (BTEX) are important parameters for an indoor air quality assessment. Exposure to BTEX in science laboratories a university can potentially cause health risks workers. Active sampling was carried out using Tenax® GR sorbent tubes analyzed with thermal desorption gas chromatography...