Fertilizers that are essentially sulfurfree have been used increasingly. Ammonium nitrate, anhydrous ammonia, urea, and ammonia solutions are examples among the nitrogen carriers. The use of concentrated superphosphate and other phosphorus carriers with little sulfur has been expanding. We recommend that farmers in areas of potential deficiency should have a planned program of adding sulfur ins...

A combined bioelectrochemical and sulfur autotrophic denitrification process for drinking water treatment was put forward and investigated extensively in this paper. In this new process, the bioelectrochemical denitrification was carried out in the upper part of the reactor while sulfur denitrification in the lower part. The H+ produced in Sulfur Part could be consumed by hydrogen denitrificati...

The objective of this research is to find an economically attractive alternative method for hydrodesulfurization of petroleum fractions and to select a suitable adsorbent for this process.Deep desulfurization of transportation fuels (gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels) is being mandated by governments and is also needed for future fuel cell applications. However, it is extremely difficult and ...

Because of the requirement for low sulfur content of fuel oils, it is necessary to develop alternative methods for desulfurization of heavy fuel oil. Due to the disadvantages of HDS technologies such as costs, safety and green environment, new methods have been developed. Among these methods is ultrasoundassisted oxidative desulfurization. Using ultrasound-assisted oxidative desulfurization, co...

This reaction is equilibrium-limited to 95 to 97% conversion in 2 to 4 stages because the temperature must be kept above the dewpoint of sulfur. Additional processing must be provided to reduce the concentration of sulfurous compounds in the effluent to environmentally acceptable levels. When the reaction between H2S and SO2 is carried out in organic liquids at temperatures below 15OoC it is ir...

Natural gas is odorized by trace amount of mercaptans and organic sulfides to be recognized by individuals, in case of gas leakage. These materials may pollute the environment particularly in injection station at local gas plants. Therefore, removal of sulfur compounds from the remaining odorant in barrels is essential. To remove the residual portion of mercaptans and alkylsulfide mixtures diff...

As reported previously (Kimura, T., Ting, J., and Huang, J. J. (1972) J Biol. Chem., 247, 4476-4479), adrenal iron-sulfur protein, which contains no tryptophan and 1 tyrosine residue at position 82, displays an anomalous fluorescence peak at 331 nm. The present study conclusively demonstrates that he emission originates from the tyrosine residue with no contribution to the fluorescence of t...

Mutants of rhodanese (EC 2.8.1.1) which substitute serine residues for each of the 4 cysteine residues have been studied to determine the roles of cysteines in the structure and function of the enzyme. The proteins compared in these studies were: the wild-type, C63S, C247S, C254S, C263S, C254S/C263S, and C63S/C254S/C263S. These current studies show that cysteine 247 is the only cysteine require...

Elemental sulfur (S(0) ) is deposited each summer onto surface ice at Borup Fiord pass on Ellesmere Island, Canada, when high concentrations of aqueous H(2) S are discharged from a supraglacial spring system. 16S rRNA gene clone libraries generated from sulfur deposits were dominated by β-Proteobacteria, particularly Ralstonia sp. Sulfur-cycling micro-organisms such as Thiomicrospira sp., and ε...

Background & Aims of the Study: water pollution by synthetic organic dyes is mainly regarded as environmental and ecological critical issues worldwide. In this research, magnetite iron oxide/silica gel nanocomposite (termed as Fe3O4/SG) was synthesized chemically and then used as an effective adsorbent for removal of sulfur dyes from aqueous solution. Materials and Method...