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The biotechnological gas desulfurization process under haloalkaline conditions is widely applied for removal of toxic H2S from sour streams. In this biologically oxidized into elemental sulfur. Recently, the has been extended with an anaerobic step (dual-reactor line-up), increasing selectivity sulfur (S8) ~85–97% and decreasing formation (thio)sulfate. It was also found that biological sulfide...

Gasification of biomass as a technological option for energy conversion is a concept that is widely discussed and taken into consideration. Due to financial incentives, i.e. increased feed – in tariffs, several small scale gasification units have been developed in Europe. In principle, the two main products of gasification are syngas, which is a gaseous fuel and char, which is a solid fraction ...

Among traditional hazardous waste sources, pharmaceutical-containing wastewater and acidic mine drainage need treatment to preserve the expected water supply quality. A nano zero-valent iron (nZVI)-enriched of these two streams is evaluated for simultaneous removal various heavy metal ions, organic pollutants, sulfates, efficiency system, separation reaction products in fluidized-bed reactor. T...

Often simple metrics are used to summarise complex patterns in stream benthic ecology, thus it is important to understand how well these metrics can explain the finer-scale underlying environmental variation often hidden by coarser-scale influences. I sampled 47 relatively pristine streams in the central North Island of New Zealand in 2007 and (1) evaluated the local-scale drivers of macroinver...

Unchanging physicochemical conditions and nutrient sources over long periods of time in cave and karst subsurface habitats, particularly aquifers, can support stable ecosystems, termed autochthonous microbial endokarst communities (AMEC). AMEC existence is unknown for other karst settings, such as epigenic cave streams. Conceptually, AMEC should not form in streams due to faster turnover rates ...

jet impingement heat transfer is an effective and practical approach that is employed in many industrial processes where heating, cooling, or drying is required. details of the heat or mass transfer rate have been investigated both experimentally and numerically and can be found in the published literature. in most of the numerical studies, control-volume approach has been employed to solve the...

The aim of this article is the measurement of the basic characteristic of superhydrophobic surfaces using high speed shadowgraphy. Here we describe the novel patented system for the industrial production of superhydrophobic surfaces. These surfaces were investigated with two optically based measurement methods: impinging drop and inclined wall. The results of the visualization and analysis help...