The purposes of this study were to prove that ammonia can be present in biogas from anaerobic digestion and to control this ammonia by reducing the reactor pH. Ammonia containing biogas was produced for a period of more than 100 days, with a maximum of 332 ppm. Especially during periods of high free ammonia concentrations in the reactor was ammonia present in biogas. The free ammonia was effect...

*Correspondence: Shanwen Tao, Department of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XJ, UK e-mail: [email protected] Ammonia, an important basic chemical, is produced at a scale of 150 million tons per year. Half of hydrogen produced in chemical industry is used for ammonia production. Ammonia containing 17.5 wt% hydrogen is an ideal carbon-free fuel for fu...

Inflow of preformed ammonia in arterial blood, renal production of ammonia, outflow of ammonia in renal venous blood, and urinary excretion of ammonia were measured during the infusion of (15)NH(4)Cl into one renal artery of dogs with chronic metabolic acidosis. Our results show that the specific activity of ammonia measured in the urine and that calculated in the renal pool agree within 95%. P...

alpha-(N-Acetylaminomethylene)succinic acid (AAMS) amidohydrolase from Mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099, which is involved in a degradation pathway of vitamin B(6) and catalyzes the degradation of AAMS to acetic acid, ammonia, carbon dioxide and succinic semialdehyde, has been overexpressed in Escherichia coli. To elucidate the reaction mechanism based on the tertiary structure, the recombinant en...

The glycine-cleavage system component T-protein is a folate-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the formation of ammonia and 5,10-CH2-tetrahydrofolate from the aminomethyl intermediate bound to the lipoate cofactor of H-protein. T-protein from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 has been cloned, overexpressed in Escherichia coli, purified and crystallized by the microbatch method using PEG 4000 as a precipit...

Resurgence of interest in ammonia metabolism in liver disease has resulted in extensive use of the blood ammonia determination as a clinical and investigative tool. Almost all methods for the determination of ammonia in blood are based on the liberation of ammonia by alkalinization, diffusion of the ammonia into an acid medium, followed by titrimetric or colorimetric quantitation. Although wide...

There are various causes to a low level of consciousness in patients in the intensive care unit. Neurological injury, infection, and metabolic disarray are considered as some of the causes. A 39 year-old female patient was transferred to our hospital with septic shock due to ascending colon perforation. The patient had previously received ovarian cancer surgery and a cycle of chemotherapy at an...

The title compound, NH(4) (+)·C(2)H(8)NO(6)P(2) (-)·2H(2)O, was obtained by the reaction between 1-amino-ethane-1,1-diyldiphospho-nic acid and ammonium hydroxide (1:1) in an aqueous solution. The asymmetric unit contains one anion with two H atoms transferred from the phospho-nic acid groups to the amino group of the anion and to an ammonia mol-ecule, giving an ammonium cation. The structure di...

Modeling the dynamic chemical interactions of atmospheric ammonia and other trace gases with measured leaf surface wetness in a managed grassland canopy J. Burkhardt, C. R. Flechard, F. Gresens, M. E. Mattsson, P. A. C. Jongejan, J. W. Erisman, T. Weidinger, R. Meszaros, E. Nemitz, and M. A. Sutton Institute for Crop Science and Resource Conservation, INRES-PE, University of Bonn, Karlrobert-Kr...