• Adsorption from multicomponent CEC solution by three activated biochars was studied. Biochar porosity and hydrophobicity both influenced the removal efficiency. Predominantly microporous peach stone biochar showed lowest overall capacity. Hydrophilic CECs adsorbed best on ash-rich wheat straw biochars. of hydrophobic highest softwood biochar. six contaminants emerging concern (CECs) – caffein...

Surface characterization and metal ion adsorption properties of Spirulina sp. and Spirulina maxima were verified by various instrumental techniques. FTIR spectroscopy and potentiometric titration were used for qualitative and quantitative determination of metal ion-binding groups. Comparative FTIR spectra of natural and Cu(II)-treated biomass proved involvement of both phosphoryl and sulfone gr...

This work is a primary achievement in studying the CO2 and N2–oil systems. To predict gas-liquid relative permeability curves, a Shan-Chen type multicomponent multiphase lattice Boltzmann model for two-phase flow through 2D porous media is developed. Periodic and bounce back boundary conditions are applied to the model with the Guo scheme for the external body force (i.e.,...

Although stimulus frequency otoacoustic emissions (SFOAEs) have been used as a non-invasive measure of cochlear mechanics, clinical and experimental application of SFOAEs has been limited by difficulties in accurately deriving quantitative information from sound pressure measured in the ear canal. In this study, a novel signal processing method for multicomponent analysis (MCA) was used to meas...

We investigated the suitability of a lyophilized bovine hemoglobin (LBH) preparation containing various fractions of oxyhemoglobin (O2Hb), carboxyhemoglobin (COHb), and methemoglobin (MetHb) for quality assessment in multicomponent analysis (MCA) of hemoglobin derivatives. It was demonstrated that a stable preparation of these components after reconstitution yields a hemoglobin solution that is...

Abstract A highly efficient and stable heterogeneous coordination polymer (CP) was successfully prepared by hydrothermal combination of silver 4,6-diamino-2-pyrimidinethiol. The characterized FT-IR, XRD, TGA, SEM, EDX, X-ray mapping Nitrogen adsorption–desorption analysis. Ag–CP exhibit excellent catalytic activity in multicomponent Hantzsch synthesis polyhydroquinolines under mild reaction con...

The alkylation of benzene by ethene over H-ZSM-5 is analyzed by means of a hybrid MP2:DFT scheme. Density functional calculations applying periodic boundary conditions (PBE functional) are combined with MP2 energy calculations on a series of cluster models of increasing size which allows extrapolation to the periodic MP2 limit. Basis set truncation errors are estimated by extrapolation of the M...

Mixing rules stipulating both concentration and distribution of proteins adsorbed to the liquid-vapor (LV) interphase from multicomponent aqueous solutions are derived from a relatively straightforward protein-adsorption model. Accordingly, proteins compete for space within an interphase separating bulk-vapor and bulk-solution phases on a weight, not molar, concentration basis. This results in ...