this research is on the improvement of the procedure to determination of trace levels of antidepressant drug; fluoxetine in wastewaters. in this research a silica based sol-gel was applied for the extraction of fluoxetine from water samples. this two-phase technique is consisting of aqueous samples of fluoxetine (donor phase) and silica based nanocomposite prepared by sol-gel technique (accepto...

As the number of leaking underground fuel tank sites with MTBE contamination continues to grow, there is a need to develop cost-effective solutions for treatment of soil and water contamination. MTBE poses special challenges due to its physicochemical properties, in particular high solubility and low Henry’s constant, low affinity for sorption, and very slow rate of microbial degradation. Advan...

Plasma lipoproteins were selectively removed from familial hypercholesterolemic patients by using two types of plasmapheresis: double-membrane filtration and selective adsorption of very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) and low density lipoproteins (LDL). In both techniques, plasma was separated from blood cells by using hollow-fiber filters, and 100% of the VLDL and LDL was recovered in the fil...

Spinning of cellulose acetate (CA) with the additive polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) solvent under different conditions was investigated. The spinning parameters of air gap, bore fluid composition, flow rate of bore fluid, and quench bath temperature were optimized based on the orthogonal experiment design (OED) method and multivariate analysis. FTIR and scanning elec...

The as-spun alumina hollow fiber membrane was used as support for the development of ZIF-8 membrane. layers were successfully grown on by using in-situ solvothermal method and layer-by-layer method. morphology physicochemical properties membranes characterized field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), X-ray diffraction spectrophotometer (XRD), Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrophotom...

PURPOSE Hollow fiber assays offer an early in vivo method of anticancer drug screening. The assays have been optimized for human cancers originating from the lung, breast, colon, ovary, and brain, but not from the stomach and liver. The current study focused on optimization of hollow fiber assays for gastric and hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines. MATERIALS AND METHODS Gastric (SNU-16, SNU-4...

We have developed two significant modifications to conventional airstripping of MTBE from contaminated groundwater. The first modification involves application of thermodynamic principles to improve by at least a factor of three the overall mass transfer efficiency, obtaining very high removal efficiencies, using a combination of higher operating temperatures (40-60 C) and vacuum pressures (fro...