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... Hudson Bay is a small arctic inland shelf sea which receives large amounts of freshwater from riverine discharges, with marine flow from the north and the Atlantic. A warming climate has resulted in an expanded open water season which will result in an increase in shipping of fuel oil and petroleum to communities and mines on the western shore, increasing the risk of hydrocarbon releases. To evalu ...
air quality; alkanes; climate change; coal; combustion; dust; environment; human health; organic carbon; particulates; uncertainty
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... Carbonaceous substances in industrial emissions are harmful to human health, air quality, and climate change. Owing to the existence of various fuel types and different technological processes, the characterization of carbonaceous substances from industrial emissions varies significantly, which causes a large uncertainty in source apportionment. Therefore, nine typical industrial sources were sele ...
aerosols; air pollution; alkanes; biomarkers; chemical species; climate; gasoline; lactate dehydrogenase; organic carbon; particulates; regression analysis; toxicity; toxicology; China
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... Exhaust emissions from gasoline vehicles are one of the major contributors to aerosol particles observed in urban areas. It is well-known that these tiny particles are associated with air pollution, climate forcing, and adverse health effects. However, their toxicity and bioreactivity after atmospheric ageing are less constrained. The aim of the present study was to investigate the chemical and to ...
... The preparation of supramolecular cyclodextrin (CD) assemblies and control of their assembly mode through guest inclusion in CD cavities have been actively studied. Contrarily, there are limited reports on the control of the assembly mode of guest-free CD molecules by external stimuli. Herein, we report the use of 2-O-methylated β-cyclodextrin (2-Me-β-CD) as an effective building block in fabricat ...
... Present study demonstrates a two-stage integrated process for production of hydrocarbon oil designated as ALGLIQOL, with potential to be utilized as liquid transportation fuel. Stage-I involves in-situ catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of microalgae biomass to produce biocrude oil and stage-II involves distillation of biocrude to hydrocarbon oil. A strategic attempt has been implemented to ...
... Monitoring environmental status through molecular investigation of microorganisms in the marine environment is suggested as a potentially very effective method for biomonitoring, with great potential for automation. There are several hurdles to that approach with regards to primer design, variability across geographical locations, seasons, and type of environmental pollution. Here, qPCR analysis o ...
... The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) system plays a crucial role in regulating climatic and hydrological variability in East Asia. The hydrological effects of the EASM in eastern China during the Little Ice Age (LIA) remains controversial, however. Here, we established a relatively high-resolution palaeohydrological record over the last 700 years in East China via analyzing n-alkanes from a peat c ...
... Self-assembly of surfactants in aqueous solution can form a variety of aggregate structures, among which worm-like micelles (WLMs) have attracted much attention due to their excellent viscoelasticity. The addition of oil often leads to a decrease in the viscosity of WLMs, which is closely related to the location of oil dissolution within the WLMs. Whether oil could induce a viscosity increase in W ...
... Poly(lactic acid) (PLA), a well-known environmentally friendly polymer, however, due to its brittleness and poor antibacterial properties, it is restricted in several aspects. In this study, alkyl thiol-grafted Ag nanoparticle (NP)-decorated cellulose nanocrystals (ATₓ-Ag-CNCs) were obtained by modifying Ag NP-decorated CNCs (Ag-CNCs) with 1-decanethiol, 1-tetradecanethiol and 1-octadecanethiol, a ...
... Eremanthus erythropappus (DC) McLeisch (Asteraceae), commonly known as “candeia”, is a native species of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, frequently used in medicine as an anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial agent. Eremanthus erythropappus hosts six different gall morphotypes, whose associated inducers manipulate plant cells and tissues and stimulate the neo-synthesis, maintenance, or inhibition of bot ...
... This article presents the first experimental data on the ability of microbial communities from sediments of the Gorevoy Utes natural oil seep to degrade petroleum hydrocarbons under anaerobic conditions. Like in marine ecosystems associated with oil discharge, available electron acceptors, in particular sulfate ions, affect the composition of the microbial community and the degree of hydrocarbon c ...
aldehydes; alkanes; cured meats; food analysis; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; ham; meat quality; octenol; odor compounds; olfactometry; pyrazines; sulfides; China
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... Chinese dry-cured hams have become increasingly appreciated by consumers because of their unique flavor characteristics. In this study, the volatile compounds of four Yunnan dry-cured hams (Xuanwei, Nuodeng, Sanchuan, and Saba) were characterized by monolithic material sorptive extraction (MMSE) and GC-MS. A total of 66 volatile compounds were identified, of which aldehydes and alkanes were the mo ...
alkanes; chemistry; equations; models; process design
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... SAFT-VR Mie is an established equation of state that offers excellent holistic descriptions of fluid behavior. However, the model does not account for the long-wavelength density fluctuations encountered in the critical region and can therefore not describe this region accurately. To this end, SAFT-VR Mie is treated with renormalization corrections, yielding SAFT-VR Mie + RG. This procedure is bas ...
alkanes; carbon cycle; environment; fossil fuels; hybrids; industrialization; oils; rivers; sediments; total organic carbon; transportation; urbanization; China
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... Sedimentary organic matter (SOM) plays an important role in the transportation and transformation of various pollutants and the carbon cycle in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, especially for seagoing rivers. However, few studies have focused on the sources and factors of SOM in rivers under the significant pressure of high urbanization and industrialization. In this study, we adopted the molec ...
... PURPOSE: Understanding fluxes of soil organic carbon (OC) from the terrestrial to aquatic environments is crucial to evaluate their importance within the global carbon cycle. Sediment fingerprinting (SF) is increasingly used to identify land use-specific sources of OC, and, while this approach estimates the relative contribution of different sources to OC load in waterways, the high degree of spat ...
... The anthropogenic release of oil hydrocarbons into the cold marine environment is an increasing concern due to the elevated usage of sea routes and the exploration of new oil drilling sites in Arctic areas. The aim of this study was to evaluate prokaryotic community structures and the genetic potential of hydrocarbon degradation in the metagenomes of seawater, sea ice, and crude oil encapsulating ...
... With the crude oil exploration activities in the Shanbei oilfield of China, the risk of soil contamination with crude oil spills has become a major concern. This study aimed at assessing the bioremediation potential of the petroleum polluted soils by investigating the expression of key functional genes decoding alkane and aromatic component degradation using an array of primers and real-time quant ...
... It is well known that the electrical conductance of molecular junctions in the tunneling regime varies exponentially with the length of the molecular backbone. This behavior is strongly influenced by anchoring groups, which connect the molecular backbone to the electrodes and locate the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) resonances with respect ...
... Here, we combine an advanced synthesis of two-dimensional (2D) materials (MoSe₂) having well-defined atomic edge configurations with ab initio and atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study how atomic edges interact with polyethylene (HDPE) chains in a dilute solution assembly process. Our results reveal that Mo-terminated zigzag (Mo-ZZ) edges act as preferred nucleation sites and stro ...
alkanes; byproducts; physical chemistry; spectroscopy; temperature
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... Although long-chain aliphatic hydrocarbons are documented in meteorites, their origin is poorly understood. A key question is whether they are pristine or a byproduct of terrestrial alteration? To understand if these long-chain hydrocarbons are indigenous, it will be important to explore their thermodynamic and mechanical stability at conditions experienced by extraterrestrial objects during atmos ...
... The role of leaf cuticular wax of cabbage, Brassica oleracea L., rapeseed, B. campestris L., and Indian mustard, B. juncea L. in host preference by two generalists, Spilarctia obliqua Walker and Pieris brassicae L., and a specialist, Plutella xylostella L. was investigated under laboratory conditions. A total of 25 n-alkanes from n-C₁₄ to n-C₃₆ and 15 free fatty acids (FFAs) from C₁₂:₀ to C₂₂:₀ we ...
... Three bacterial species related to the genus Thalassospira (T. lucentensis, T. xianhensis and T. profundimaris), isolated from polluted sediment and seawater samples collected from Priolo Bay (eastern coast of Sicily, Ionian Sea), were analyzed for their biotechnological potential. For this purpose, the presence of specific catabolic genes associated to aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbon metabolis ...
... Growing use of recalcitrant fuel oxygenates like methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE), tert-amyl methyl ether (TAME), and diisopropyl ether (DIPE) poses serious threat to aquatic environments and drinking water sources. Mycolicibacterium sp. strain CH28 was isolated earlier as a potential degrader of DIPE. Optimal culture conditions for strain CH28 were determined to be 32 ...
... Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are generated in different commodities through various biosynthetic pathways. They act as biomarkers for different infections and metabolisms and can be instrumental in the development of biosensors for monitoring the health of stored horticultural commodities. Healthy onions and samples infected with Pectobacter Erwinia carotovora were stored at different conditi ...
... The end-Triassic mass extinction (ETE), one of the five largest mass extinctions, occurred at 201.6 Ma. It was characterized by dramatic declines in marine and terrestrial ecosystems and was approximately synchronous with the eruption of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP). Loss of marine biodiversity is linked to extreme global warming while the cause of floral destruction in terrestria ...
Iuliana Vasiliev; Marcel T.J. van der Meer; Marius Stoica; Wout Krijgsman; Gert-Jan Reichart; Sergei Lazarev; Geanina A. Butiseacă; Eva M. Niedermeyer; Elmira Aliyeva; Christian G.C. van Baak; Andreas Mulch
... Landlocked basins like the Caspian Sea are highly sensitive to changes in their hydrological budget, especially at times of disconnection from the global ocean. Here, we reconstruct the Pliocene to Pleistocene palaeohydrological and palaeoenvironmental changes occurring in the South Caspian Basin between ~3.6 and ~ 1.9 Ma, using compound-specific hydrogen isotope (δ²H) data on long chain n-alkanes ...
... Reburning technology combining coal and biomass can effectively reduce NOx emissions and promote carbon neutrality in coal-fired systems. This work is based on the flat-flame burner test bench that decoupled the process of biomass-coal reburning effect on coal in the initial stage. The changes in surface functional groups and carbon skeleton structure of coal char were analyzed using FTIR, XPS, an ...
... Efficient biosurfactant producers with hydrocarbon degradation capability and harsh environment adaptability are precious bioresources for microbial enhanced oil recovery and petroleum-related bioremediation. In this study, a novel facultative-halophilic strain Bacillus sp. XT-2 was isolated and shown to degrade long-chain hydrocarbons along with lipopeptide biosurfactants production. The biosurfa ...
... The catalytic hydrogenolysis of a typical model compound of mulching film waste, polyethylene, was investigated as a potential way to improve economic efficiency of mulching film recycling. Nickel-based heterogeneous catalysts are proposed for polyethylene hydrogenolysis to produce liquid hydrocarbons. Among catalysts supported on various carriers, Ni/SiO₂ catalyst shows the highest activity which ...
... Photoproducts can be formed rapidly in the initial phase of a marine oil spill. However, their toxicity is not well understood. In this study, oil was irradiated, chemically characterized, and tested for toxicity in three copepod species (Acartia tonsa, Temora longicornis, and Calanus finmarchicus). Irradiation led to a depletion of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and n-alkanes in oil resi ...
... Thirteen Australian oils and one condensate, covering oil reservoir ages from Mesoproterozoic to Early Cretaceous, show monoalkene contents varying from 0.01 to 22.3 wt% of the whole liquid. Radiolysis of saturated hydrocarbons is the most likely process leading to oils with high alkene contents. The major radiolytic component is an unresolved complex mixture (UCM). The bulk of the resolved alkene ...
... Percolation of water through oily sludge during storage and handling of the sludge can cause soil and groundwater contamination. In this study, oily sludge from a refinery was equilibrated with water to obtain the water-soluble fraction (WSF) of oily sludge. The WSF had dissolved organic carbon (DOC) of 166 mg/L. Human cell line-based toxicity assay revealed IC₅₀ of 41 mg/L indicating its toxic na ...
... Plant leaf waxes are used as vegetation biomarkers in several archives (i.e. soils, lake and marine sediments), study of these compounds in modern plants is needed to makes their application and interpretation more robust. However, in the South American Temperate Forest (STF), few species have been studied. The main goal of this research was to characterize twelve dominant modern species of the ST ...
... Flavor characteristics of raw shrimp, high-salt and low-salt shrimp paste were evaluated and compared by sensory analysis, headspace-gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS) and solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (SPME-GC-MS). In addition, aroma profiles and aroma-active compounds in these three samples were analyzed by solvent-assisted flavor evaporat ...
... In this study, two biosurfactant producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa sp. were isolated from motor oil contaminated soil for crude oil, alkane and PAH degradation studies. Metagenomics analysis identified as proteobacteria phyla was the dominant. Isolated two bacterial species were well grown in mineral salt medium with 1% of crude oil, alkanes (dotriacontane and tetratetracontane) and PAH (pyrene, be ...
air quality; alkanes; climate change; coal; combustion efficiency; environment; fuel combustion; heating systems; human health; organic carbon
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... Residential solid fuel emissions are among the most important sources of carbonaceous substances that exert harmful effects on air quality, human health and climate change. Considering the constantly updated emission reduction policies for residential solid fuel combustion in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region, the emission data for the source should updated in a timely manner. Testing was per ...
... An intensive field campaign was carried out in Hefei, a city in the Yangtze River Delta in eastern China, in the summer of 2020 to examine the composition and sources of organic aerosols (OA). Time-resolved filter samples were collected and quantified to obtain the concentrations for organic functional groups (OFGs), including alkane, hydroxyl, carboxylic acid, non-acid carbonyl, amine, and aromat ...
... PURPOSE: The Great War Island (GWI) is a landform of exceptional features and a protected area located in the center of Belgrade at the Sava and Danube River’s confluence. The position of GWI causes a large number of possible hydrocarbons inputs that influence the quality of both river waters and sediments. The main objective of this research is to assess the distribution and source of hydrocarbon ...
... Crude oil contaminant is one of the major problem to environment and its removal process considered as most challenging tool currently across the world. In this degradation study, crude oil hydrocarbons are degraded on various pH optimization conditions (pH 2, 4,6,7,8 and 10) by using two biosurfactant producing bacterial strains Pseudomonas aeruginosa PP3 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PP4. During cr ...
... The International Marine Organization 2020 Global Sulfur Cap requires ships to burn fuels with <0.50% S and some countries require <0.10% S in certain Sulfur Emission Control Areas but little is known about these new types of fuels. Using both traditional GC–MS and more advanced chromatographic and mass spectrometry techniques, plus stable isotopic, δ¹³C and δ²H, analyses of pristane, phytane and ...
accidents; alkanes; case studies; combustion; condensates; environment; evaporation; flammability; fuel oils; fume hoods; soot; tankers; volatilization; East China Sea
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... The condensate spill accident from the Sanchi oil tanker collision in the East China Sea is unique in world history. To date, the spilled and burnt amounts of condensate remain unknown. The present study demonstrates the chemical fingerprints of a surrogate condensate (SC) from the same source, and of the carried heavy fuel oil (HFO) of the Sanchi accident. The evaporative features of the condensa ...
... The chemical profiles of PM₂.₅ emitted from a non-road diesel generator, wood burning and cooking activities including chicken and beef charcoal grilling and general cooking activities were determined. The characterization included the carbonaceous fraction (OC/EC), water-soluble ions, elements, and organic species comprising n-alkanes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carboxylic acids, levogluco ...
... Technical chlorinated paraffins (CPs) are produced via radical chlorination of n-alkane feedstocks with different carbon chain-lengths (∼C₁₀–C₃₀). Short-chain CPs (SCCPs, C₁₀–C₁₃) are classified as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) under the Stockholm Convention. This regulation has induced a shift to use longer-chain CPs as substitutes. Consequently, medium-chain (MCCPs, C₁₄–C₁₇) and long-chai ...
... One of the more important classes of potentially toxic indoor air chemicals are the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). However, due to a limited understanding of the relationships between indoor concentrations of individual VOCs and health outcomes, there are currently no universal health-based guideline values for VOCs within Europe including the UK. In this study, a systematic search was conduct ...
... Chia seed oil-candelilla wax (3 g/100 g) oleogel was prepared and subjected to annealing at three different temperatures (30, 35 and 40 °C). Light microscopy images showed the presence of needle-like crystals structures dispersed in the oil phase. Annealing disrupted the crystalline structures by reducing their number. Wide-angle X-ray dispersion analysis showed that the annealed oleogels did not ...
adsorption; alkanes; chemical species; density functional theory; drugs; enantiomers; fluorescence; gas chromatography; hydrogen bonding; pollutants; pollution control; standard deviation
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... Hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) are two dimensional (2D) or three dimensional (3D) porous crystalline materials constructed by Hydrogen bond interaction. In recent years, a variety of functional HOF materials have been successfully synthesized and used in structural identification, environmental pollutant removal, chiral resolution, drug delivery, fluorescence sensing, etc. Here, we firs ...
... Irregular hemorrhagic traumas always threaten the health of patients due to uncontrollable bleeding and wound infections. The traditional hemostatic materials show dissatisfactory hemostatic efficiency and antibacterial activity in solving these potential bleeding dangers. Herein, we proposed a kind of composites based on flexible wood membrane (FWM) loaded with chitosan/alginate derivative for ac ...
... Chlorinated paraffins (CPs) are high production volume chemicals currently produced and used in higher quantities than any other medium-size polyhalogenated compound (class). In addition, the composition of industrial CP mixtures is highly complex and poorly understood. In this article, we searched in the literature for the beginning of the chlorination of alkanes and how this substance class deve ...
... The recent studies on sustainable plasticizer mainly focus on raw material source, synthesis method and plasticization, but the effect of chemical functional groups (epoxy group and ester group) of sustainable plasticizer on compatibility and thermal stability of plasticized polyvinyl chlorid (PVC) materials has been ignored. In this study, two kinds of sustainable plasticizers (eleostearic acid e ...
Beauveria bassiana; Calliptamus; Locusta migratoria; Metarhizium robertsii; alkanes; conidia; fungi; gas chromatography; germination; lipid composition; lipids; mass spectrometry; migratory behavior
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... Cuticular lipids protect insects from desiccation and may determine resistance to fungal pathogens. Nonetheless, the trade-off between these lipid functions is still poorly understood. The migratory locust Locusta migratoria and the Italian locust Calliptamus italicus have dissimilar hygrothermal preferences: L. migratoria inhabits areas near water bodies with a reed bed, and C. italicus exploits ...
Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra; alkanes; cabbage; carbon; chemical composition; cutin; hydrophobicity; petioles; plant cuticle; transpiration
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... Plant cuticle as hydrophobic barrier covers almost all aerial plant organs. Herein the cuticular chemical components and the transpiration of various organs of Chinese flowering cabbage (CFC) and Chinese kale (CK) were comprehensively characterized. Numerous species‐ and organ‐specific differences in morphological, chemical, and physiological levels were found. The various organs were relatively s ...
... Surfactant-enhanced remediation (SER) is one of the most effective methods for petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated sites compared to single physical and chemical methods. However, biosurfactants are not as commonly used as chemical surfactants, and the actual remediation effects and related mechanisms remain undefined. Therefore, to comprehensively compare the remediation effects and biological mec ...
... It is of great importance to remove petroleum and petroleum-based products from the environment through the genes encoded by the chromosomal and plasmids of microorganisms. This study aimed to compare the petroleum removal efficiencies and plasmid profiles of clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 700721 (Kp1) and environmental Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 13883 (Kp2) strains. Over 80% of petroleum rem ...
... Pseudomonas chloritidismutans is a facultative anaerobic and chlorate-reducing bacterium. Many strains of chlorate-reducing P. chloritidismutans are suitable for biotechnological applications because they can undergo ammonia assimilation, aerobic denitrification, phosphorus removal, and pollutant degradation (Hou et al. 2021; Wolterink et al. 2002). Chlorate-reducing bacteria were mostly isolated ...
... To reflect the changes in pollution sources and evaluate the control efficiency more reasonably, seven groups of PM₂.₅-bound primary organic aerosol (POA) tracers indicative of pollution sources in urban Shanghai were analyzed before (BP), during (CIIE) and after (AP) the second China International Import Expo (CIIE, October 28–November 17, 2019). Combined with meteorological conditions, correlati ...
... Nonhydrolyzable organic carbon (NHC) fractions were isolated from commercial Chlorella using trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), sodium periodate (SP), ball mill (MES), and ball mill-sodium periodate (BSP) methods. The structures and relationships of the fractions with oil and gas production potentials (OGP) were investigated by solid-state ¹³C Cross Polarization/Total Sideband Suppression (CP/TOSS) NMR s ...
... New compound-specific isotope analyses of a sediment core from Laguna Los Mangos in southern Pacific Costa Rica improves understanding of late-Holocene precipitation change in a region with limited paleoprecipitation records that is vulnerable to future climate change. We established paleoprecipitation and paleovegetation records from compound-specific stable hydrogen and carbon isotopic compositi ...
Gibbs free energy; adsorption; alkanes; energy efficiency; methane production; zeolites
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... Alkane cracking using Brønsted acid zeolites, catalytically converting long-chain molecules into smaller ones, is critical to fuel and chemical production. To enable more energy-efficient cracking processes, developing zeolite catalysts with enhanced performance (i.e., a faster reaction rate with reduced methane formation) plays a substantial role. Given the adsorption thermodynamics of alkanes on ...
... Nature conservation is currently shaping many terrestrial ecosystems in Africa. This is particularly evident in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where conservation is intended to recover wildlife populations, with special focus on elephants. Rising numbers of elephants induce woody biomass losses but increase soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks from decaying wood and dung. We hypothesized that these increas ...
activation energy; alkanes; alkenes; aviation; gas chromatography; models; pyrolysis; reaction mechanisms; temperature
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... Methylcyclohexane is usually adopted as a surrogate component of aviation fuels to study its properties and reactions. Under the condition of 3.5/4.0MPa and the highest temperature of 1023K, the pyrolysis reaction of methylcyclohexane was investigated in a horizontal tube with the inner diameter of 0.2cm and the length of 90cm. An electric heating method and orifice online density measuring device ...
algorithms; alkanes; carbon; comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography; distillation; mass spectrometry; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; viscosity
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... For the purpose of formulating surrogate fuels for two lower freezing point diesels, namely −35# diesel and − 50# diesel, two-dimensional gas chromatography with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC × GC–TOFMS) was utilized to analyze their components in detail. And nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was used to obtain the composition of functional groups in hydrocarbons, which were cla ...
... We examined the possibility that, during short-term refrigerated storage, microbial communities continue to biodegrade individual lipid biomarkers in an intact core section of Early Eocene consolidated marlstone sediments from the hydrothermal system overlying the Chicxulub impact crater (Yucatán, Mexico). Amplicon sequencing of environmental 16S rRNA obtained from the core samples revealed a high ...
... This study is focused on producing biofuels from waste oils via a tandem vapor-phase hydrotreating process in a pressurized two-stage fixed bed reactor over a bifunctional Ni/Al₂O₃-SiO₂ catalyst under 0.25 MPa H₂. A 100% hydrodeoxygenation efficiency both in liquid and gas products was observed, yielding 83.9 wt% C₅-C₁₉ n-alkanes which corresponds to a 7.4-fold increase compared with that obtained ...
... Paraffin wax deposition has long been a vexing problem in industry. Especially, in offshore oil production, paraffin wax deposits and clogs pipes and containers because of low temperature, causing severe economic loss. It has been known that the crystallization of n-alkanes mainly causes the deposition of paraffin wax, which is necessary to understand the mechanism of the crystallization behavior ...
alkanes; crystallization; heat; molecular weight; polyesters; temperature
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... Poly(ethylene tridecanodiate), also known as poly(ethylene brassylate) (PEB), is a short–long aliphatic polyester obtained from a renewable source. Cooled from the melt by differential scanning calorimetry or by fast scanning calorimetry, PEBs in a range of molar mass between 27000 and 188000 Da display single crystallization exotherms. On heating, PEBs exhibit two major melt-recrystallization eve ...
... 1. Fruit flies in the genus Rhagoletis are a model for ecological speciation via sympatric host plant shifting. Rhagoletis mate on or near the fruit of their respective host plants, generating premating reproductive isolation between taxa specialised on different hosts. However, non‐host‐related premating isolation has been observed between some Rhagoletis species associated with morphological dif ...
... Holy basil (Ocimum sanctum Linn) or known also as “kemangi” in Indonesia is a plant commonly used as a herb in Asian countries. It is also medicinal with antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, and neuroprotective properties. This dataset article provides broad screening of the phytochemical component of Ocimum sanctum ethanolic extract (EEOS) as well as a secondary metabolite profile of EEOS ...
Holocene epoch; air; alkanes; basins; biomarkers; coasts; monsoon season; organic matter; palaeogeography; paleoclimatology; paleoecology; primary productivity; provenance; river deltas; sediments; watersheds; Republic of the Congo
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... A 19.5-m long Holocene sediment core (MZ-1) was retrieved from Manzala lagoon coast, the depocenter of the Nile Delta. AMS-dating shows the complete Holocene strata of MZ-1, mostly consisting of lagoon muds. The high-resolution dated geochemical elements (major and trace) and bio-markers (n-alkanes) of MZ-1 serve as effective hydroclimate proxies that oscillated during the Africa Humid Period (AHP ...
... BACKGROUND: Accumulation of industrial dyes in wastewater creates not only environmental problems, but also medical and aesthetic problems. Removal of synthetic dyes from contaminated hot textile industrial discharge is a fundamental issue. Herein, the microbial decolorization of azo dyes amaranth RI and fast red E was studied. The decolorization process was studied in terms of various physicochem ...
... 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonic acid (6:2 FTSA) is one per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances commonly detected in the environment. While biotransformation of 6:2 FTSA has been reported, factors affecting desulfonation and defluorination of 6:2 FTSA remain poorly understood. This study elucidated the effects of carbon and sulfur sources on the gene expression of Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 which is responsib ...
alkanes; carbon; energy; models; pyrolysis; reaction mechanisms; temperature
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... Many technologically important systems involve mixtures of fairly large molecules and relatively unselective chemistry, leading to complex product mixtures. These corresponding reaction networks are quite complex since each molecule in the feed can form many isometric intermediates and a variety of byproducts in addition to its major product. A variety of modeling methods have been developed to at ...
alkanes; biomarkers; carbon; molecular weight; petroleum; Malaysia; Middle East
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... In this study, levels and sources of aliphatic hydrocarbons and hopanes in surface sediments collected from rivers and estuaries of Peninsular Malaysia were assessed. The concentrations of total n-alkanes ranged from 21.19 to 364.54, and the concentrations of hopanes ranged from 0.23 to 2.45 mg kg⁻¹ dry weight. Evaluation of aliphatic diagnostic indices including Carbon Preference Index (CPI), low ...
... Yarrowia lipolytica is a widely-used chassis cell in biotechnological applications. It has recently gained extensive research interest owing to its extraordinary ability of producing industrially valuable biochemicals from a variety of carbon sources. Genome-scale metabolic models (GSMMs) enable analyses of cellular metabolism for engineering various industrial hosts. In the present study, we deve ...
alkanes; carbon; hydrophilicity; liquids; oil and gas industry; oils; petroleum; remediation; titanium; water treatment
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... Oil/water separation is an essential process in the petrochemical industry, environmental remediation, and water treatment. Alkanes are the major components of crude oil and are difficult to separate once they form emulsions in water. Much less attention has been focused on the feature of liquid alkanes that could, in turn, influence the separation process. The role of chain length is systematical ...
... The Altai Mountains are located at the junction of Asia and Europe and pathways linking East Asian climate with the Arctic and North Atlantic. Here, we report a record of n-alkanes from the sediments of Shuanghu Lake in the Altai Mountains. In this forested region, the vegetation is dominated by C₃ plants and the long-chain n-alkanes (C29–C31) in the lake sediments are predominantly derived from l ...
... Indoor dust is an important medium to evaluate human exposure to emerging organic contaminants. The principal aim of this study was to determine overall status of organic micropollutants (OMPs) of indoor dust in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and assess their corresponding health risks. One hundred thirty-three OMPs, ascribed to 13 chemical groups, were screened by Automated Identification and Quantificat ...
aerosols; air; air pollution; aircraft; alkanes; carcinogenicity; cities; desorption; dust; multivariate analysis; mutagens; people; principal component analysis; research; traffic
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... Approximately 15.4 million people are continuously exposed to various air pollutants in the megacity of Istanbul. Anthropogenic activities in Istanbul generate emissions from mobile sources (i.e., vehicles, aircraft, ships, etc.) and stationary sources such as industrial and residential heating emissions. Biogenic emissions and long-range transport such as desert dust from Sahara and pollutants fr ...
... The examined peatlands were assayed for the n-alkanes С₁₄Н₄₄–С₃₁Н₆₄; their contents of in all studied soil profiles are determined by both different botanical compositions of plant residues in peatlands and different climatic conditions (temperature and humidity) during these alkanes formation. The maximum total content of n-alkanes dates back to the Holocene climatic optimum and amounts to 104–19 ...
... Here, we report a nickel-catalyzed enantioconvergent hydroalkylation of olefins with trifluoromethyl-containing α-alkyl halides for the synthesis of enantioenriched trifluoromethylated alkanes. This reaction employs readily available and bench-stable alkenes as alkyl coupling partners, featuring mild conditions, a broad substrate scope, and high functional group tolerance. The synthetic utility of ...
Biljana M. Nikolic; Iris Đorđević; Marina Todosijevic; Zorica Mitic; Milena A. Stefanović; Jovana M. Stankovic; Srdjan Bojović; Vele Tešević; Petar D. Marin
... The content of nonacosan-10-ol and n-alkanes in needle waxes of 12 Pinus taxa (P. halepensis, P. heldreichii, P. mugo, P. nigra ssp. nigra, P. nigra ssp. dalmatica, P. peuce, P. pinaster, P. pinea, P. ponderosa, P. strobus, P. sylvestris and P. wallichiana) were examined. In eight Pinus taxa (except of P. halepensis, P. pinaster, P. heldreichii and P. peuce) nonacosan-10-ol contents were examined ...
... Superhydrophobic coatings have remarkable potential for applications in different fields. With the availability of either nano-structural templates or simple methodology, the search for superhydrophobic coatings that are easy to prepare and durable remains challenging for both academia and industry. This study presents a novel durable superhydrophobic coating formulation based on oil-in-oil-in-oil ...
... Crude-oil production and transport show high soil and water pollution. The principal aim of this research is to analyze the beneficial effect of natural Na₂CO₃ on the catalytic degradation of crude oil SARA fraction by Heterogeneous Fenton Reaction with natural magnetite. Saturates Aromatics, Resins and Asphaltenes (SARA) analyses and the gas chromatograph coupled with a Flame Ionization Detector ...
Strobilanthes; alkanes; alkynes; black tea; consumer acceptance; discriminant analysis; flavor; glutinous rice; ingredients; least squares; metabolites; octenol; odors; phenylethyl alcohol; research and development; summer; supply balance
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... The characteristic aroma of Chinese black tea (BT) produced in summer usually lacks intensity and persistence, reducing consumer acceptance and market demand. Strobilanthes tonkinensis Lindau (STL) possesses excellent biological characteristics, making it a promising novel tea ingredient. We investigated the effects of different addition methods and concentrations for the novel additive STL on the ...
... Vaporizable hydrocarbon-in-fluorocarbon endoskeletal droplets are a unique category of phase-change emulsions with interesting physical and thermodynamic features. Here, we show microfluidic fabrication of various morphologies, such as solid-in-liquid, liquid-in-solid, and Janus-type, of complex solid n-C₂₀H₄₂ or n-C₂₁H₄₄ and liquid n-C₅F₁₂ droplets. Furthermore, we investigated the vaporization b ...
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; alkanes; aromatization; carbon; energy; fuel oils; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; liquids; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; oil shale; pyrolysis; temperature
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... As the focus of research on the pyrolysis mechanism of oil shale shifting towards the molecular level, identifying the effect of pyrolysis temperature on the molecular composition and structure becomes all the more important. In this study, the molecular characteristics of shale oils produced at different final pyrolysis temperatures was compared and analyzed through synergistic use of multiple an ...
... Pine saw dust as a typical forest residue is slowly pyrolyzed at 400–800 °C in a fixed bed system. The influence of pyrolysis temperature on the characteristics of bio-gas, bio-oil and bio-char is investigated and then to assess their potential uses. The result indicates that the yield of bio-gas increases as pyrolysis temperature increases, while the yield of bio-char decreases. The pyrolysis tem ...
Japan; Scomber scombrus; alkanes; alkenes; antioxidant activity; chorizo; dried fish; free amino acids; liquids; mackerel; pH; salt concentration; water content
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... The effect of seasonings on the quality retention of dried mackerel (Scomber scombrus Linnaeus) was investigated by analyzing the components of the seasonings and prepared dried mackerel. The pH, water content, salt concentration, and inosinic acid content of dried mackerel were influenced by the water content of seasoning liquid. The free amino acid content of dried mackerel depended on the seaso ...
... Due to little industrial use of plastic waste recycling, over 200 million tons are thrown in landfills and more than 15 million tons end up in the ocean every year. This study aimed to investigate the effect of waste plastic pyrolysis oil, n-butanol, hybrid (Al₂O₃ and TiO₂) nanoparticles, and diesel fuel blends on combustion, gaseous emissions, and toxic particulates from CRDI diesel engine at ste ...
Pseudomonas; alkanes; biodegradability; biodegradation; bioremediation; biosurfactants; catalase; community structure; ecosystems; microbial communities; nutrition; petroleum; sludge; sustainable development
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... PURPOSE: This study was conducted to investigate the effect of biosurfactant and nutrient amendment on the bioremediation of heavy oily sludge. The biosurfactants exhibit characteristics of amphiphilicity, emulsifying activity, and biodegradability. The application of biosurfactant, appropriate water and nutrition, combined with mechanical stirring effectively enhanced bioremediation, providing a ...
... Soil contaminated with diesel fuel is a hazard to the environment and people; therefore, it needs to be remediated. Soil washing enhanced with Tween 80 (TW80), non-toxic and non-ionic surfactant, can effectively remove diesel from contaminated soils. In this study, the effects of 0.01%, 0.1%, 0.5%, 1%, and 1.5% (v/v) [TW80] concentrations; 0%, 5%, and 15% (w/w) bentonite; and variation in pH on wa ...
... In this study, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) functionalized magnetic biochar (SDS-Fe@BC) was successfully prepared. Compared to other traditional heterogeneous Fenton catalysts, more total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) (3499.40 mg kg⁻¹) was adsorbed from soil to the surface of SDS-Fe@BC through hydrophobic interaction between alkyls in alkanes and SDS-Fe@BC, which formed an efficient interface oxida ...
Cinnamomum camphora; Cunninghamia lanceolata; Eucalyptus robusta; Pinus massoniana; alkanes; biomass; carbon dioxide; combustion; conifers; environment; fire prevention; forest fires; forest litter; forests; fuel moisture index; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; olefin; smoke; water content; China
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... The moisture content of forest floor fuel influences fire initiation and spread, but little is known about its impact on the emissions of pollutants. This study aimed to estimate quantitatively the characteristic change of pollutants emitted by forest fires at various fuel moisture content. Thus, litter fuel (both branches and leaves) of two dominant coniferous species (Cunninghamia lanceolata and ...
... Fracturing flowback fluids (FFFs), which is generated from the process of oil and gas exploitation, is one of the major environmental concerns. In this study, a bacterial strain, Bacillus sp. SS15, capable of producing both bioflocculant (BF) and biosurfactant (BS), was isolated from oil-contaminated mudflat sediment. The BS produced by SS15 was identified as lipopeptide, which could reduce the su ...
alkanes; biomarkers; herbaceous plants; lakes; lipids; macrophytes; pesticides; phytoplankton; primary productivity; sediments; total nitrogen; total organic carbon; vegetation; Kyrgyzstan
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... Environmental and ecological changes recorded in lake sediments can provide valuable information about natural versus anthropogenic effects on the environment, especially in alpine lakes, which are commonly regarded as sensitive indicators of both local and global environmental changes. To reconstruct the past ~ 400 years of environmental history of alpine Lake Son-Kul, central Tienshan, Kyrgyzsta ...
... The Albufera de Valencia is one of the largest lagoon in the Spanish Mediterranean. Two continuous borehole cores reaching depths of 8 and 14 m in the northern part of the lagoon underwent sedimentological, micropaleontological and biological study. The organic content was also analysed, and ¹⁴C radiometric dating and amino acid racemization were performed. Study of the content of benthic foramini ...
... The preferred alkane carbon number (PACN) in the normalized hydrophilic–lipophilic deviation (HLDN) theory is a numerical parameter and a transferable scale to characterize the amphiphilicity of surfactants, which is usually measured experimentally using the fish diagram or phase inversion temperature (PIT) methods, and the experimental measurement can only be applied to existing surfactants. Here ...
... Remediation of crude oil-impacted areas is a major pervasive concern in various environmental conditions. The major aim of this study was to investigate the collaboration of vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanioides L.) and petroleum hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria to clean up contaminated soils. Vetiver grass and five native bacterial isolates were used in one consortium to remediate contaminated soil ...
... A single-component droplet placed on a completely wetting substrate shows a pseudostable apparent contact angle (θₐₚₚ) during evaporation. We propose a simple theory to explain the phenomenon accounting for the liquid evaporation and the internal flow induced by the capillary and Marangoni effects. The theory predicts that when evaporation starts, the contact angle approaches to θₐₚₚ in a short ti ...
... Evaporative emissions of vehicles are an essential source of atmospheric volatile organic compounds (VOCs), contributing to ozone contamination, especially in urban areas. Due to the outdated standards under which in-use vehicles were constructed and the ageing of control devices, high-mileage vehicles tend to produce an enormous amount of evaporative emissions. In this study, evaporative emission ...
alkanes; ligands; liquids; models; nanogold; oils; temperature; transmission electron microscopy
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... The interaction between gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with other components and phases has important consequences on their use in materials and devices as well as their fate in the environment or at biological interfaces. Previously we determined that long oil chain lengths and lower temperatures optimized the mixing of n-alkanes with alkanethiol-capped AuNPs which improved nanoparticle self-assembly ...