Over two-thirds of the soils in world suffer from phosphorus shortages (P). Due to being unavailable all but a small portion plants, agricultural productivity diminishes. Phosphorus-deficient have traditionally been fertilized order decrease severity environmental impact. Improving management practices for sustainable crop output, including reduction loss terms runoff, is emphasis this study. I...

In the dication of the title salt, C(6)H(16)N(2) (2+)·2C(6)H(4)NO(2) (-), the two ammonium groups are in the equatorial positions of the chair-shaped cyclo-hexyl ring. In the crystal, the cations and anions are linked by N-H⋯O and N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds, forming a layer network parallel to the ac plane. Weak π-π inter-actions between adjacent pyridine rings with a centroid-centroid distance of 3....

In the crystal structure of the title salt, C(2)H(10)N(2) (2+)·C(10)H(6)O(6)S(2) (2-), both the cation and anion lie on special positions of site symmetry. These are linked by N-H⋯O and N-H⋯(O,O) hydrogen bonds, forming a layer structure.

A new local strain of S. cerevisiae F-514, for ethanol production during hot summer season, using Egyptian sugar cane molasses was applied in Egyptian distillery factory. The inouluum was propagated through 300 L, 3 m(3), and 12 m(3) fermenters charged with diluted sugar cane molasses containing 4%-5% sugars. The yeast was applied in fermentation vessels 65 m(3) working volume to study the vary...

The correlation between alcoholic fermentation rate, measured as carbon dioxide (CO2) evolution, and the rate of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) formation during wine production was investigated. Both rates and the resulting concentration peaks in fermentor headspace H2S were directly impacted by yeast assimilable nitrogenous compounds in the grape juice. A series of model fermentations was conducted in...

The aim of this study is to investigate the biomimetic mineralization on a cellulose-based porous matrix with an improved biological profile. The cellulose matrix was precalcified using three methods: (i) cellulose samples were treated with a solution of calcium chloride and diammonium hydrogen phosphate; (ii) the carboxymethylated cellulose matrix was stored in a saturated calcium hydroxide so...

Diammonium diaquabis(phosphato)triferrate(II), (NH(4))(2)[Fe(3)(P(2)O(7))(2)(H(2)O)(2)], was synthesized under solvo-thermal conditions at 463 K. The crystal structure, isotypic to its Mn and Ni analogues, is built from iron pyrophosphate layers parallel to (100), which are linked by ammonium ions sitting in the inter-layer space via O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. There are two crystallographi...

Application of fertilizers such as urea, diammonium phosphate (DAP) and muriate of potash in soil adversely affected the spore germination of Arthrobotrys dactyloides. Amendment of soil with urea at the concentrations of 1.0%, 0.5% and 0.1% completely inhibited spore germination and direct trap formation on the conidium, whereas muriate of potash delayed and reduced the spore germination even a...

Fertiliser-drawn forward osmosis (FDFO) desalination has been recently studied as one feasible application of forward osmosis (FO) for irrigation. In this study, the potential of membrane scaling in the FDFO process has been investigated during the desalination of brackish groundwater (BGW). While most fertilisers containing monovalent ions did not result in any scaling when used as an FO draw ...