methyl tert-butyl ether (mtbe), a gasoline octane enhancer, was introduced as a substitute for lead tetraethyl over 30 years ago. widespread use of mtbe in gasoline, has introduced mtbe into the environment compartments, mostly into the under ground and surface water and water as a second most frequently detected contaminant. in this study, we have isolated pure cultures from bacterial consorti...

nowadays, equal channel angular pressing, known as the ecap process, is one of the most popular methods for manufacturing ultra-fine grained (ufg) materials. in this paper, ecap process has been carried out on pure copper and 6012 aluminum alloy up to six passes by route . principal attention was paid to the influence of parameters such as diameter, material, and the height of billet on mechani...

two pure bacterial strains capable of rapid degrading methyl tert–butyl ether (mtbe) were isolated from an industrial wastewater treatment plant, identified and characterized. these strains are able to grow on mtbe as the sole carbon and energy sources and completely mineralize it to the biomass and carbon dioxide. the strains were identified as bacillus cereus and klebsiella terrigena. both st...

this work. We are also indebted to the " W. H. Ross Foundation (Scotland) for the Prevention of Blindness," who have defrayed the expenses of this investigation; to Sir Henry Dale, who kindly gave us some of his supply of tyrothricin; to Dr. Trevan, of the Weilcome Research Foundation, who kindly supplied us with penicillin made by Dr. Pope and Miss Stevens; and to Mr. Edwards, of British Scher...

It is well known that a state of pure shear has distinct sets of basis vectors or coordinate systems: the principal axes, in which the stress σ is diagonal, and pure shear bases, in which diagσ = 0. The latter is commonly taken as the definition of pure shear, although a state of pure shear is more generally defined by trσ = 0. New results are presented that characterize all possible pure shear...