Huge quantum of agricultural crop residue from agrarian economies like India is disposed improperly by open land burning contributing to particulate and gaseous pollutants thereby severely impacting the environment human health. There an overwhelming need for sustainable utilization this misplaced resource as feedstock in biofuel production through anaerobic digestion. Substrate composition inf...

Phase stability of transition metal nanoparticles during exposure to elevated temperature and gaseous environment is a highly relevant topic in catalytic research with broad implications for rationalization of catalytic properties and design of new catalytic materials. For Pd based catalysts, the phase stability under oxidizing environment represents an important topic as many Pd based catalyst...

Chlorination is an effective method of water disinfection. However, it has been identified as contributing to the formation of a wide variety of disinfection by-products that have been associated with adverse health effects. Natural humic matter and anthropogenic pollutants are responsible for the formation of these by-products. Mass spectrometry is the most efficient tool to analyze the rates ...

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in water has been proposed as a promising solar fuel instead of gaseous hydrogen because of advantages on easy storage and high energy density, being used as a fuel of a one-compartment H2O2 fuel cell for producing electricity on demand with emitting only dioxygen (O2) and water. It is highly desired to utilize the most earth-abundant seawater instead of precious pure w...

BACKGROUND Gut content may be determinant in the generation of digestive symptoms, particularly in patients with impaired gut function and hypersensitivity. Since the relation of intraluminal gas to symptoms is only partial, we hypothesized that non-gaseous component may play a decisive role. METHODS Abdominal computed tomography scans were evaluated in healthy subjects during fasting and aft...

In champagne tasting, gaseous CO(2) and volatile organic compounds progressively invade the headspace above glasses, thus progressively modifying the chemical space perceived by the consumer. Simultaneous quantification of gaseous CO(2) and ethanol was monitored through micro-gas chromatography (μGC), all along the first 15 minutes following pouring, depending on whether a volume of 100 mL of c...

A nonlinear five-dimensional mathematical model is proposed and analyzed to study the removal of a gaseous pollutant and two different particulate matters by rain from the atmosphere of a city. The atmosphere, during rain, is assumed to consist of five interacting phases namely, the raindrops phase, the gaseous pollutant phase, its absorbed phase and the phases of two different particulate matt...

methods for measuring toxicity or respiratory activity of microbial cultures can be used as tools for assessing the presence of chemicals and their impact on the streams. the proposed toxicity test is based on the respirometric characteristics of the bacteria according to the principals of biolog’s microplate system. as the microorganism are utilizing the carbon source (peptone), the reductio...