Sulfur (S) and nitrogen (N) are elements naturally found in petroleum-based fuels. S- N-based compounds liquid fuels associated with a series of health environmental issues. Thus, legislation has become stricter worldwide regarding their content related emissions. Traditional treatment systems (namely hydrodesulfurization hydrodenitrogenation) fail to achieve the desired levels S N contents wit...

In the present work we report a gram negative bacterial isolate, from soil of a dye industry, with promising biorefining and bioremediation potential. This isolate (GBS.5) could utilize carbazole (nitrogen containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon) as the sole source of nitrogen and carbon and utilize almost 98% of 3mM carbazole in 100 hours. The specific activity of our GBS.5 isolate for carb...

A marked clinical improvement in critically ill human subjects after the intravenous administration of oxygen has been reported by a number of investigators (1 to 5) despite the fact that only about 1.5 to 10 per cent of the calculated basal oxygen requirement was injected. However, in normal and in anoxemic experimental animals, other workers (6 to 10) have observed not only rapid, shallow bre...

In this work, eight CO2-derived cyclic carbonates, namely ethylene carbonate (Eth-C), propylene (Pro-C), butylene (But-C), hexylene (Hex-C), cyclohexene (Cyc-C), styrene (Sty-C), glycerol (Gly-C) and (Chloromethyl)ethylene (Chl-C) were evaluated as solvents to mitigate residual aromatic content in liquid fuels by envisioning an efficient liquid–liquid extraction process, using benzene, thiophen...

The use of organic solvents in the chemical industry for gas-liquid absorption or liquid-liquid extraction operations is still unavoidable. search “greener” to replace fossil-based counterparts a challenge scientific community. Biocompatible ionic liquids (bio-ILs) emerged as sustainable approach development greener processes. In this work, bio-ILs based on choline common cation are evaluated p...