background: determination of organic pollutants usually requires extraction of the pollutants from samples, using hazard­ous solvent. solid phase micro-extraction (spme) is a solvent-free equilibrium extraction method, in which, proper calibra­tion can allow quantitative measurements of organic pollutants at a very good sensitivity without the use of any organic sol­vent. because individual voc...

acetonitrile used as a solvent in manufactures and affects to central nervous system from inhalation exposure. the aim of this study was to develop a micro-solid phase extraction method for  the determination of acetonitrile in the air matrix. the sampling was performed with a small diameter fused silica fiber coated with a thin film of stationary phase and was subsequently desorbed and analyze...

A laboratory-scale drum bioreactor system was used to study engineering aspects of soil bioremediation. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were chosen as contaminants in soil. In the operation of the reactor, different mixing strategies were applied according to the size of soil without separate washing of sand. The effect of the water content of the soil mixture on solid mixing time and p...

Ghaly, A.E., Alkoaik, F. and Snow, A, 2007. Degradation of pirimiphos-methyl during thermophilic composting of greenhouse tomato plant residues. Canadian Biosystems Engineering/Le génie des biosystèmes au Canada 49: 6.1 6.11. The effectiveness of invessel thermophilic composting on the destruction of pirimiphos-methyl (12, 24, and 36 mg/kg dry matter) was evaluated. The bioreactor operated on a...

The present study examined the biodegradation rate of benzene vapors in a two phase stirred tank bioreactor by a bacterial consortium obtained from wastewater of an oil industry refinery house. Initially, the ability of the microbial consortium for degrading benzene was evaluated before running the bioreactor. The gaseous samples from inlet and outlet of bioreactor were directly injected into a...

Recent papers have described new bioreactor designs. Most innovations addressed either oxygen transfer, shear induced by stirring, control of water activity in organic phase systems or waste biotreatment. Innovations made during the past year were reported in mainly three areas: bioreactor designs for increases in oxygen transfer and decreases in shear stress; bioreactors for two-phase reaction...

Because human societies have not closed solid waste loops in the production and consumption of gaDds,methods of solid waste treatment are still necessary. In this work the author examines two modem methods of municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment as employed in Sweden. These methods are waste treatment in a bioreactor cell and MSW incineration. The investigation analyzes the critical economic c...

a chelating resin is prepared by condensation polymerization of aniline with formaldehyde andcharacterized by ft-ir, elemental analysis and studied for the preconcentration and determination of traceplatinum ion from environmental water sample using inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy(icp-aes). the optimum ph value for sorption of the metal ions was 5. the maximum adsorption...

A review on the main aspects associated with yeast flocculation and its application in biotechnological processes is presented. This subject is addressed following three main aspects – the basics of yeast flocculation, the development of “new” flocculating yeast strains and bioreactor development. In what concerns the basics of yeast flocculation, the state of the art on the most relevant aspec...

a membrane bioreactor (mbr) system based on a dead-end immersed hollow fiber membrane and filamentous fungus aspergillus oryzae were used for treatment of baker’s yeast wastewater. the fungus was adapted to the wastewater in the bioreactor for two weeks before starting the continuous process. average organic loading rate of 4.2 kg cod/m3.d was entered the bioreactor. mbr system was able to redu...