Methane oxidation to value-added chemicals under mild conditions remained a research challenge and has attracted continuous attention, owing fundamental interest practical significance. Herein we report study of electrochemical methane reaction (CH 4 OR) on iron-nickel hydroxide (Fe-Ni-OH) nanosheets with controlled composition. The Fe-Ni-OH catalysts exhibit interesting CH OR activity towards ...

The microbial community response to a neat ethanol release (E100, 76 l) onto residual hydrocarbons in sandy soil was evaluated in a continuous-flow 8 m(3) pilot-scale aquifer tank, simulating a release at a bulk fuel terminal. Microbial genotypic shifts were assessed using quantitative real-time PCR analysis. High ethanol concentrations in the capillary fringe at potentially toxic levels, excee...

Coalbed methane (CBM) plays an important role in coal mining safety and natural gas production. In this work, The CBM potential of B2 seam in Parvadeh IV coal deposit, in central Iran, was evaluated using a combination of local regression and geostatistical methods. As there were 30 sparse methane sampling points in the Parvadeh IV coal deposit, no valid variogram was achieved for the methane c...

Integration of wheat straw for a biorefinery-based energy generation process by producing ethanol and biogas together with the production of high-protein fungal biomass (suitable for feed application) was the main focus of the present study. An edible ascomycete fungal strain Neurospora intermedia was used for the ethanol fermentation and subsequent biomass production from dilute phosphoric aci...

Work on the synthesis of ethanol from carbon dioxide over a rhodiumselenium catalyst i s reported, and related reactions and characterisation studies are briefly reviewed. I n order to inhibit the formation of methane (complete reduction of carbon dioxide) and simultaneously activate carbon-carbon bond formation by the reaction of CH, with carbonyl derivatives, it is necessary to control the ac...

Henry’s law constants of the solutes methane, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide in the solvent ethanol are predicted by molecular simulation. The molecular models for the solutes are taken from previous work. For the solvent ethanol, a new rigid anisotropic united atom molecular model based on Lennard-Jones and Coulombic interactions is developed. It is adjusted to experimental pure component...

Fuel ethanol can be produced from bamboo by concentrated sulfuric acid hydrolysis followed by continuous ethanol fermentation. To reduce the environmental impact of this process, treatment of the stillage, reuse of the sulfuric acid and reduction of the process water used were studied. The total organic carbon (TOC) concentration of stillage decreased from 29,688 to 269 mg/l by thermophilic met...

Anaerobic decomposition of organic compounds in landfills is responsible for generation of greenhouse gases. The present study aimed to determine the total gas and methane emission from a landfill located in Hamedan (west of Iran) from 2011 to 2030. LandGEM 3.02 model was used to estimate the gas emission with the volumetric methane percent of 60%, production potential of 107, and methane gener...

The reduction of CO2 to produce useful carbon compounds offers a way manage the emissions from various industrial sectors. However, selecting efficient systems remain crucial issue, especially considering low selectivity photocatalysts traditionally used in photoreduction processes. Here we demonstrate that modification MnWO4 with rare earth ions (Europium and Terbium) synthesized by coprecipit...

one of the main components of lung alveoli is surfactant. dppc (dipalmitolphosphatidylcholine) is thepredominant lipid component in lung surfactant that is responsible for lowering surface tension in alveoli in thisarticle. we used a very approximate model with computational method of ab initio to describe the interactionsbetween dppc as important component of lung surfactant and some chemical ...