D. Chemical Reactions at Interfaces 1348 E. Electrochemistry 1350 F. Some Environmentally Interesting SH Studies 1351 G. Structural Phase Transitions 1351 H. Chiral Interfaces 1353 III. Dynamics at Liquid Interfaces 1354 A. Adsorption Kinetics to Air/Water Interfaces 1354 B. Electron Transfer at a Liquid/Liquid Interface 1355 C. Photoisomerization at Aqueous Interfaces 1355 D. Orientational Rel...

Motivation: Rapid advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology have led to exponential increase in the amount of genomic information. However, NGS reads contain far more errors than data from traditional sequencing methods, and downstream genomic analysis results can be improved by correcting the errors. Unfortunately, all the previous error correction methods required a large amount...

This paper describes a number of key modeling issues for the development of tools for solving nonlinear discrete/continuous problems where logic/disjunctive constraints are included in the formulation. A generalized hybrid representation of these problems is presented. A comparison between Constraint logic programming (CLP) and generalized disjunctive programming (GDP) is established together w...

ÐBiological treatment of a piggery wastewater for organic carbon and nitrogen removal in a combined anaerobic±aerobic system was investigated using two laboratory-scale sequencing batch reactors. The cycle length was 24 h. In the anaerobic reactor, fed with raw wastewater and recycling from the aerobic reactor, denitri®cation followed by anaerobic digestion of organic carbon was observed. In th...

This paper focuses on transport-reaction processes with unknown time-varying parameters and disturbances described by quasi-linear parabolic PDE systems, and addresses the problem of computing optimal actuator/sensor locations for robust nonlinear controllers. Initially, Galerkin’s method is employed to derive finite-dimensional approximations of the PDE system which are used for the synthesis ...

The kinetics of the ozonation of three phenolic acids is investigated from ozone absorption experiments in a semi-continuous reactor. After the evaluation of stoichiometric ratios for the individual reactions between ozone and each phenolic acid, the oxidation of p-hydroxybenzoic acid by ozone is performed in a first stage. The influence of the operating variables on the degradation process is ...

-The carbon dioxide produced during biological oxidation of wastewater has a pronounced influence upon the pH that is attained in the activated sludge process. The quantity produced is proportional to the COD removed, its degree of oxidation and depends also on the oxidation level of the substrate. A discussion of metabolism is given with emphasis on the description of the oxygen consumption. T...