Intestinal nematodes are among the most common parasites of dogs, being Toxocara spp. and Ancylostoma spp. threats to public health due to their zoonotic potential. In this study, three parasitological diagnostic techniques for detecting the eggs/oocysts of canine intestinal parasites were evaluated. Fecal samples (n = 285) were collected from the environment (i.e. public streets, squares and h...

Flotation is an important part of coal preparation, and the flotation column is widely applied as efficient flotation equipment. This process is complex and affected by many factors, with the froth depth and reagent dosage being two of the most important and frequently manipulated variables. This paper proposes a new method of switching and optimizing control for the coal flotation process. A h...

IR, X-ray diffraction and thermal analysis were used to illustrate the structure of cerium and thorium laurate in solid state. IR results reveal that the fatty acid exists with dimeric structure through intermolecular hydrogen bonding and cerium and thorium laurate were ionic in nature. The X-Ray diffraction measurements confirm that these soaps posses double layer structure with long spacing. ...

In this work, the feasibility of employing Cyanex 923 as an extractant into the non-cerium REE (rare earth elements) impurity analysis of high-purity cerium oxide was investigated. Through investigations on the choice of the extraction medium, the optimium extraction acidity, matrix Ce4+ effect on the non-cerium REE ion extraction, the optimium extractant concentration and suitable extracting t...

Nanocrystalline cerium oxide is an attractive material for catalysis of environmentally hazardous gas-phase species such as sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. Oxygen vacancies in cerium oxide are believed to coordinate and aid in the transfer of oxygen ions between the reactive species. We have sought to characterize these defects in nanocrystalline cerium oxide as a function of the heat treat...

The objective of this study is to explain the different flotation responses observed in oxidized coal flotation when using a nonpolar flotation collector, dodecane, versus a polar flotation collector, oleic acid. Particularly, the effect of each flotation collector on bubble–coal particle attachment was investigated. Colloidal probe atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to directly measure the...

Thermodynamic calculation has been applied to predict the inclusion formation in molten SS400 steel. When the Cerium addition in liquid iron is 70 ppm and the initial Oxygen and Sulphur are both 110 ppm, the formation of oxides containing Cerium would experience the transformation from Ce2O3 to CeO2 and also the formation of sulfides containing Cerium would experience the transformation from Ce...

in this paper, the adsorption of cerium on modified mesoporous aluminosilicate (with si/al mole ratio of 10) was studied. the effects of ph, contact time, initial concentration of cerium on adsorption of cerium were investigated. the adsorption capacity was high in the ph range of 4-8 and decreases with decreasing of the ph value. the langmuir and freundlich isotherms were applied to represent ...

This study developed a coagulation-flotation process for microalgae Chlorella sp. XJ-445 harvesting, which was composed of algal surface modification by combined use of Al3+ and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and followed dispersed bubble flotation. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the medium was firstly characterized and mainly consisted of hydrophilic low molecular weight molecules. T...

An experimental investigation is carried out to establish the performance and emission characteristics of a compression ignition engine while using cerium oxide nanoparticles as additive in neat diesel and diesel-biodiesel-ethanol blends. In the first phase of the experiments, stability of neat diesel and diesel-biodiesel-ethanol fuel blends with the addition of cerium oxide nanoparticles are a...