The ever increasing demand of water permits the need of alternative water sources for balancing the water supply and demand. Desalination has become a significant alternative water source due to growing demand of water and inadequate conventional water sources in many countries. Desalination is a process of removing excess salts and other dissolved solids from water in order to get clean water ...

Abstract. Since the 1960s, a deep groundwater system in Wright Valley, Antarctica, has been hypothesized source of brines to hypersaline Don Juan Pond and Lake Vanda, both which are rich calcium chloride. Modeling studies do not support other possible mechanisms, such as evaporative processes, that could have led current suite ions present waterbodies. In 2011 2018, an airborne electromagnetic ...

The oilfield water in the Upper Sandstone Member of the Zubair reservoir (Barriemian-Hauterivian) at Rumaila North Oil Field was investigated for the interpretation of salinity and geochemical evolution of brine compositions. The interaction of the oilfield water with reservoir rock resulted in a brine water derived from the marine water origin of partial mixing with meteoric water similar to t...

A total of ten seaweeds and four seagrasses were used in the present investigation to study the effect of crude methanol extracts on anti-biofilm activity using a microtiter-plate and anti-larval settlement assay using cyprids of barnacle Balanus amphitrite. Of these fourteen species tested, seagrass Halophila ovalis showed noticeable anti-biofilm activity against Listeria monocytogenes, Vibrio...

of high quality at high concentration (2,3). The performance of the membrane-type chlor-alltali plant mainly depends on the cell design, the membrane, the quality of feed brine, and operating conditions. Of these, the brine quality is the key factor affecting the service life and the performIn the case of conversion from amalgam to membrane process, it is important to elucidate the effects of m...

The evolution of the main physico-chemical properties of the unflooded 90-cm-thick first-year sea-ice cover at the Ice Station POLarstern (ISPOL) ‘‘clean site’’ is described. ISPOL was an international experiment of the German research icebreaker R.V. Polarstern. The vessel was anchored to an ice floe for an observation period of 5 weeks, during the early summer melt onset in the Western Weddel...

The refractive index of freezing brine is important in order to, for example, estimate oceanic scattering as sea ice develops. Previously, no simple continuous expression was available for estimating the refractive index of brine at subzero temperatures. I show that extrapolation of the empirical formula for the refractive index of seawater by Quan and Fry [Appl. Opt.34, 3477 (1995)APOPAI0003-6...

The salting process is an important step in the manufacture of most cheese varieties. The salt in cheese has different functions, such as reduction of curd moisture, suppression of unwanted microorganisms, modification of flavour and texture and contribution to cheese ripening (Ibáñez et al. 1993; Mulvihill and McCarthy 1994; Laborda and Rubiolo 1999; Mulet et al. 1999). Therefore, in cheesemak...

The exchange of malic acid, lactic acid, NaCl, and sugar between cucumber and cover brine was monitored over a course of 16 days for 5 sizes of cucumbers. Experimental results showed that sugar exchange between cucumbers and cover brine was the slowest. In comparison to Ficks diffusion equation, the exponential equation better described the movement of solutes during the brine fermentation of c...

The present study was designed to assess the cytotoxicity, anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties of methanol extract of Woodfordia fruticosa flowers. Cytotoxic activity of methanol extract of Woodfordia fruticosa flowers was tested using Artemia salina (Brine shrimp) bioassay. Two doses (400 and 600 mg/Kg) were evaluated for the anti-inflammatory activity against the carrageenan, histamine...