background and objectives: lipases are valuable biocatalysts which are widely used in the detergent, food, dairy and pharmaceutical industries. the aims of the present study included the isolation of a lipase-producer from industrial zones and the partial characterization of the enzyme. materials and methods: a number of bacteria were isolated from sites related to the oil industries. an isolat...

introduction: the key characteristics of positron emission tomography (pet) are its quantitative capability and its sensitivity, which allow the in vivo imaging of biochemical interactions with small amounts of tracer concentrations. therefore, accurate quantification is important. however, it can be sensitive to several physical factors. the aim of this investigation is the assessment of the e...

introduction: nickel is found in varies industrial processes such as electroplating, leather tanning, cement preservations, paints and pigments, textile, steel fabrication and canning industries. it is proved that ni(ii) has several health hazards such as carcinogenic. the aim of this study was the evaluation of ni(ii)adsorption on apple peel granola from aqueous solution. material and methods:...

a catalytic-kinetic method for the determination of selenium is proposed. alizarin navy blue is reduced by sodium sulfide to from a colorless product. the reaction is accelerated by trace amounts of se (iv), and can be followed by measuring the decrease in absorbance of the dye at 620nm and 30 °c by the fixed time method. selenium can be determined in the range of 0.004 — 0.12 1.1g.m1-1 . ...

in this study simulation and optimization of an industrial acetylene hydrogenation reactor was studied. three well known kinetic models were used for a nearly similar catalyst to predict the industrial data. due to the complexity of the reactions, none of the offered kinetic models could be considered as an exact kinetic model and it is necessary to determine the kinetic parameters. one of the ...

this paper considers a class of one-dimensional solidification problem in which kinetic undercooling is incorporated into the temperature condition at the interface. a model problem with nonlinear kinetic law is considered. the main result is an existence theorem. the mathematical effects of the kinetic term are discussed

the kinetic of photo oxidative decolorization of c.i. acid yellow 23 (ay23) was investigated in uv/ process. the semi-logarithmic of the concentrations of ay23 versus irradiation time were linear, suggesting pseudo-first order reaction. a simple kinetic model is proposed which confirms pseudo- first order reaction. the results indicate that the apparent reaction rate constant is a function of l...

phenol and its homologues are aromatics containing hydroxyl, methyl, amide and sulphonic groups attached to the benzene ring. these molecules are both anthropogenic and xenobiotics. phenols are environmental pollutants discharged through wastewaters from various industries. phenols are toxic to several biochemical reactions. however biological transformation of phenols to non-toxic entities exi...

in this work, styrene removal from wastewater by using sugarcane waste (bagasse) as an adsorbent was studied. equilibrium isotherms and kinetics were determined; the effects of bagasse particle size and concentration, solutions ph, and temperature on the biosorption of styrene were studied in batch experiments. adsorption equilibrium data was successfully fitted to langmuir isotherms (r2=0.986)...