Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) yields were measured for cyclododecane, hexylcyclohexane, n-dodecane, and 2-methylundecane under high-NOx conditions, in which alkyl proxy radicals (RO2) react primarily with NO, and under low-NOx conditions, in which RO2 reacts primarily with HO2. Experiments were run until 95–100 % of the initial alkane had reacted. Particle wall loss was evaluated as two limit...

Leaf waxes (i.e., n-alkyl lipids or n-alkanes) are land-plant biomarkers widely used to reconstruct changes in climate and the carbon isotopic composition of the atmosphere. There is little information available, however, on how the production of leaf waxes by different kinds of plants might influence the abundance and isotopic composition of n-alkanes in sedimentary archives. This lack of info...

Comparative investigations of equilibrium structures, solvation forces, and conformational dynamics of thin confined films of spherical molecules, straight-chain alkanes (n-hexadecane and n-tetracosane), and a branched alkane (squalane) are performed using a newly developed grand canonical ensemble molecular dynamics method for simulations of confined liquids. The method combines constant press...

Alcanivorax borkumensis is a marine bacterium that has ability to grow on limited substrates that mainly is alkanes. The ability to use wide range of hydrocarbons is advantage of this bacterium to other marine community bacteria. A. borkumensis have two genetic systems for alkane biodegradation. The First system is alkane hydroxylase (alk-B1and alk-B2) and the second system is...

background petroleum hydrocarbons are mix compounds and divided into four groups: saturates, aromatics, resins and asphalten. among various phases of crude-oil, the alkanes with medium length chain are favorable substrates that rapidly degraded, although short-chain alkanes are very toxic and long-chain alkanes have low solubility in water that reduce its bioavailability and make resistant to b...

Geobacillus thermodenitrificans NG80-2 encodes a LadA-mediated alkane degradation pathway, while G. thermodenitrificans DSM465 cannot utilize alkanes. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of G. thermodenitrificans DSM465, which may help reveal the genomic differences between these two strains in regards to the biodegradation of alkanes.

In vitro complementation assays have been used to demonstrate the induction of alkane hydroxylase proteins in mutants lacking the ability to convert n-alkanes to their primary alcohols. Purified heptane is an effective inducer in a mutant lacking detectable hydroxylase activity.

Dilute solutions of two polar end-functionalized linear alkanes (1-hexadecylamine and palmitic acid), each dissolved in tetradecane, were confined between two mica surfaces and investigated using a surface forces apparatus modified to study shear nanorheology. These two solutions showed similar nanorheological properties that differed from those observed for pure n-alkanes. In static measuremen...

In a recent paper we predicted the fluid-phase equilibria of n-butane + n-alkane binary mixtures using the statistical associating fluid theory for chain molecules with attractive potentials of variable range (SAFTVR). Now we focus on the methane + n-hexane system, again using the SAFT-VR approach. The methane + n-hexane system exhibits type V phase behavior, in which partial miscibility of the...

The methanogenic degradation of hydrocarbons plays an important role in hydrocarbon-contaminated environments in the absence of an external electron acceptor. Members of Syntrophaceae sublineages were previously reported to be responsible for syntrophic alkane degradation. However, limited information is currently available on their physiological capabilities in nature because it is very challe...