Research Abstracts

The daily total global (HT) and diffuse (HDIF) solar radiation, measured at Bahrain International Airport, Kingdom of Bahrain, (latitude 26° 13″N and longitude 50° 39″E), had been recorded, analyzed, and studied. The mean hourly values of HT and HDIF on horizontal and vertical surfaces (facing North

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Metropolitan), in conjunction with Koch Membrane Systems (KMS), evaluated three generations of a 16″-diameter by 60″-long reverse osmosis (RO) element in parallel with a commercially available 8″-diameter element. Design inefficiencies in the f

An approach to ranking antiscalant effectiveness for gypsum scale suppression using combined bulk crystallization and membrane scaling diagnostic tests was explored with a focus on the adverse impact of residual aluminum in dissolved (Al3+) and as colloidal species on gypsum scale suppression. Five

Recent theoretical work by Sholl and coworkers has predicted that carbon nanotubes, if used as membranes, have the flux/selectivity properties that far exceed those of any other known inorganic or organic material. To verify this prediction, we have fabricated nano-composite membranes consisting of

in water concentration. The smaller alcohols, ethanol and 1-propanol, show the trade-off that is generally observed for polymer membranes, i.e., an increase in flux is combined with a decrease in separation factor. A possible explanation for this remarkable behaviour is a low degree of three-dimensi

It is found that, at the same ML concentration, the specific ammonia utilization rates (nitrification rate) for the conventional BNR system are approximately 1.8 times higher than those found in the parallel MBR–BNR system, probably due to different selective pressures. In contrast, no differences i

Photo-initiated surface-selective graft copolymerisation onto polypropylene (PP) microfiltration membranes is an improved method to prepareporous membrane adsorbers . The method for preparing graft-copolymer based membrane adsorbers is successfully optimized via the combination functional, diluent a

The use of primary hepatocyte cultures is well established for the study of drug metabolism and drug-drug interactions. However, the application of these cells in hybrid artificial liver systems has been hampered by the gradual loss of differentiated function in vitro. Therefore, several hepatic cul

We were first to investigate concentrated micellar solution casting onto solid matrixes based on amphiphilic diblock copolymers. When the concentrated vesicular solution was casting onto glass plate under humid airflow, it forms honeycomb-patterned structure. Furthermore, we attempted to control the