The effect of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) of Gram-positive Bacillus subtilis and Gram-negative Pseudomonas putida on Cu(II) adsorption was investigated using a combination of batch adsorption, potentiometric titrations, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Both the potentiometric titrations and the Cu(II) adsorption experiments indicated that the presence of EPS in a biomass sa...

Results of studies reported here show that adsorption could result in considerable accumulation of hormones on hydrophobic hollow fiber membrane surfaces during filtration of trace-hormone-containing feed solutions with a linear adsorption isotherm applicable over the majority of the estrone concentration range examined (2.6-154 ng/L). Models based on both diffusion and surface reaction limitat...

A new method has been presented, which leads to a significant improvement of the adsorption ability of blast furnace slag (BFS). An ultra-high pressure water jet mill cavitation disintegrator and a controlled vacuum freeze dryer were used to disintegrate amorphous BFS. Specific surface areas of both BFS and disintegrated slag (BFS-D) were measured using the S method. BFS-D was obtained with an ...

Protein-surface interactions cause the desirable effect of controlled protein adsorption onto biodevices as well as the undesirable effect of protein fouling. The key to controlling protein-surface adsorptions is to identify and quantify the main adsorption mechanisms: adsorptions that occur (1) while depositing a protein solution onto dry surfaces and (2) after the deposition onto wet surfaces...

CO adsorption on the polar (% 1% 1% 1) surface of the intermetallic compound GaPd is examined within ab initio methods using an all-electron full-potential electronic structure approach. Comparison between the PW-LDA, GGA-PBE, GGA-RPBE, GGA-revPBE, and hybrid HSE06 functionals is considered through bulk, clean surface and CO adsorption calculations. The choice of the functional is found to have...

The rate of change of surface pressure, pi, in a Langmuir trough following the deposition of surfactant suspensions on subphases containing serum, with or without polymers, is used to model a likely cause of surfactant inactivation in vivo: inhibition of surfactant adsorption due to competitive adsorption of surface active serum proteins. Aqueous suspensions of native porcine surfactant, organi...

The present investigation was undertaken to compare the adsorption efficiency of pecan shell-based granular activated carbon with the adsorption efficiency of the commercial carbon Filtrasorb 200 with respect to uptake of the organic components responsible for the chemical oxygen demand (COD) of municipal wastewater. Adsorption efficiencies for these two sets of carbons (experimental and commer...

Charged, surface-active serum proteins can severely reduce or eliminate the adsorption of lung surfactant from the subphase to the alveolar air-liquid interface via a kinetically controlled competitive adsorption process. The decreased surfactant concentration at the interface leads to higher surface tensions during the compression of the interface during breathing. The correspondence between t...

Batch adsorption studies were conducted to determine the effects of contact time and temperature on fluoride removal by montmorillonite clay at neutral pH. The adsorption of fluoride was studied at four different temperatures, viz. 30, 40, 50 and 60°C. The kinetics of adsorption as well as adsorption isotherms at different temperatures were studied. Adsorption obeyed both Langmuir and Freundlic...