The poly(styrene)-block-poly(2-vinylpyridine)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) triblock copolymer, PS200-b-P2VP140b-PEO590, where the subscripts refer to the average degrees of polymerisation of the constitutive blocks, has been dissolved in water/toluene mixtures with a large range of composition, i.e. in (i) toluene added with a small amount of water, (ii) water-in-toluene emulsion forming mixtures...

Benians (1913) demonstrated that all Gramnegative organisms were destroyed by toluene, which had an inhibitory action on diphtheroid bacilli and streptococci but little effect on spores and staphylococci. Webster (1942) suggested the use of toluene to suppress Gram-negative bacilli in mixed broth cultures; he added 10 per cent of toluene to broth cultures, shook them at intervals, and allowed t...

A 21-year-old woman developed severe muscle paralysis after sniffing toluene-containing thinner solution for 2 weeks. Her serum chemistries revealed severe hypokalaemia and a normal anion gap hyperchloraemic metabolic acidosis secondary to renal tubular acidosis. Her initial presentation mimicked hypokalaemic periodic paralysis, but toxicology screening of her blood and urine revealed the corre...

Two toluene-degrading strains, T103 and T104, were isolated from rock surface biomass in a freshwater stream contaminated with toluene. The strains exhibit different capacities for degradation of toluene and other aromatic compounds and have characteristics of the genus Mycobacterium. Both are aerobic, rod-shaped, gram-positive, nonmotile, and acid-alcohol fast and produce yellow pigments. They...

Catalyst S. Al-Khattaf* Chemical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Abstract Catalytic transformation of toluene has been investigated over Y-zeolite based catalysts in a novel riser simulator at different operating conditions. A number of experiments were carried out in the temperature range of 400-500C to understand the transformat...

Objectives-To clarify the relation between the genetic polymorphism of ALDH2 (low Km aldehyde dehydrogenase) and toluene metabolism. Methods-The study subjects were 253 toluene workers (192 men and 61 women with an age range of 18-66). The genotypes ofALDH2 were classified by artificial restriction fragment length polymorphism into the homozygous genotype of normal ALDH2 (NN), the homozygous ge...

Sterile peat used as biofilter medium, was amended with four different concentrations of a nutrient solution, inoculated with a toluene-utilizing consortium. Samples were incubated over 120 days in closed environments microcosms with water vapor and toluene saturation to emulate the conditions prevailing in biofilters. An improvement on toluene consumption rates, associated with microbial growt...

The present study examined the gas-phase photocatalytic degradation of toluene using ZnO-SnO2 nanocomposite supported on activated carbon in a photocatalytic reactor. Toluene was selected as a model pollutant from volatile organic compounds to determine the pathway of photocatalytic degradation and the factors influencing this degradation. The ZnO-SnO2 nanocomposite was synthesized through co-p...

The auto-ignition of toluene and n-heptane as model fuels for Diesel fuel components have been studied in a highpressure shock tube under engine-relevant conditions. Toluene/air and n-heptane/air mixtures as well as toluene/nheptane/air (10/90% and 40/60% by volume) have been investigated over a wide temperature range (700 – 1200 K), = 1.0 and 0.5 and 40 bar behind reflected shock waves. A kine...

We have used novel microporous biphenylene-pillared layered silicates as receptors in a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) for sensing toluene vapors. The silicate was successfully coated on a QCM electrode modified with 2-aminoethanethiol. The resultant electrode showed quantitative frequency responses due to enhanced adhesion between the silicate and the electrode. The silicate-coated electrod...