In Multi-Effect Distillation with Thermal Vapor Compression (MED-TVC) desalination system driven by low-grade thermal energy, it is arduous for conventional fixed geometry ejectors to operate efficiently with unstable feeding motive steam. In this paper, a variable geometry ejector named auto-tu...

Nuclear fission reaction is a clean energy source that can provide thermal power to desalination processes for producing potable water. Due to the inherent safety features of the integral pressurized water reactor (iPWRs) and economic competitiveness of the multi-effect-desalination and thermal-...

Four different configurations of Multi-Effect-Desalination (MED): backward feed (BF), forward feed (FF), parallel feed (PF) and parallel/cross feed (PCF) are modeled in steady and dynamic operation to examine the behavior of these configurations under transient operation. Adding thermal vapor co...

This paper deals with three hindcasting simulations of circulation and sea level elevation, using Med-ROMS (Mediterranean- Regional Ocean Model System, with high horizontal -resolution (8.6 km). Each simulation has started at the end of previous 100-years spin-up and control run. The model surfa...

Driving the thermal desalination system by waste heat is typically proposed to save utilized energy and mitigate environmental impact. However, to evaluate the performance of desalination unit, it is necessary to define the exergy efficiency correctly to reveal the real source of irreversibiliti...

In the past decade, great efforts have been made to obtain receptor-selective ligands with conformationally constrained structures. The β-alkyl-substituted amino acids are important structural features in highly constrained peptide systems. With two chiral centres, these amino acids afford four...

RING is a really interesting new gene which plays important regulatory roles in many developmental processes as well as in plant-environment interactions. In the present report, the ZmRHCP1 gene encoding a putative RING-HC protein was isolated from maize and characterized. The ZmRHCP1 protein co...

Xanthoceras sorbifolia Bunge seed oils are suitable for broad nutritional and bio-functional purposes. In this study, the oil yield, physicochemical properties, fatty acid profile, Fourier transform infrared spectra, tocopherol content, antioxidant activity, oxidative and thermal stability, and ...

To provide stable and low-cost naturally derived yellow pigments, a variety of food byproducts were evaluated and the constituents of lemon peel have emerged yielding a highly promising natural product with applications as a food dye. Here we report a new, highly stable and water soluble food dy...

Novel yellow phosphor based on BaSi2O5:Gd3+&Mn2+ was prepared via melt-quenching technique. Different heat treatment schedules, based on Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA), were applied to study sequence of crystallization. X-ray diffraction (XRD) confirmed crystallization of pure sanbornite (B...

HC-Pro is a helper component-proteinase which acts as a multifunctional protein in the potyviral life cycle. Apart from its proteolytic activity, HC-Pro has the capacity to bind duplex small RNAs (sRNAs). To investigate HC-Pro-mediated sRNA binding in vitro, high amounts of purified protein are ...

The interactions of microbiota in the intestines play an important role in promoting or maintaining the health of hosts. The present study aim to investigate the effects of the surface proteins of Lactobacillus pentosus HC-2 on the immune response and the bacterial composition of Litopenaeus van...

In this study, blends of poly (butylene succinate-co-adipate) (PBSA) and raw hydrolyzed collagen (HC), a byproduct of the tannery industry, were investigated in terms of processing by blown film extrusion/injection molding and thermal/rheological/mechanical properties. PBSA/HC blends were prepar...

S-4-methylbenzyl-β-N-(2-furylmethylene)dithiocarbazate (S4MFuH, 1) derived from the condensation reaction of furaldehyde (Fu) with S-4-methylbenzyldithiocarbazate (S4MBDTC) has been complexed with transition metal acetates to give Zn(S4MFu)2 (2), Cd(S4MFu)2 (3), Cu(S4MFu)2 (4) and Ni(S4MFu)2 (5...

The thermal decomposition of 2-, 3-, and 4-methylbenzyl radicals was studied behind reflected shock waves. α-Bromo- ortho (meta- and para)-xylenes were used as precursors for a series of experiments with temperatures ranging from 1150 to 1600 K and pressures between 1.5 and 4 bar. Mixtures of 1...

Enantiomerically pure terminal 1,2-diamines, which can serve as precursors for the synthesis of many biologically important compounds, were synthesized efficiently from a commercially available chiral [1-(1′R)-methylbenzyl]aziridine-2-yl]methanol. Various enantiomerically pure 2-vinylaziridines...

Metal complexes of general formula, [M(NNS)2] (M = Cu(II), Ni(II), Zn(II) and Cd(II); NNS′ = S-2-methylbenzyl-β-N-(di-2-pyridyl)methylenedithiocarbazate (1), NNS″ = S-3-methylbenzyl-β-N-(di-2-pyridyl)methylenedithiocarbazate (2) and NNS‴ = S-4-methylbenzyl-β-N-(di-2-pyridyl)methylenedithioc...

A comprehensive study on the separation of cesium and rubidium from potassium with 4-tert-butyl-2-(α-methylbenzyl)-phenol (t-BAMBP) from a synthetic brine solution containing 20 mg/L Cs, 200 mg/L Rb and 5 g/L K was conducted. The effects of alkalinity, t-BAMBP concentration, temperature, A/O ra...

Two experimentally well characterized four-coordinate complexes of the general formula [Co(2-NCH2-p-C6H4CH3-21-m-CH2C6H4CH3NCTPP)L] (with L = Cl− and N*CS− for 3 and 4) are considered for this study. The crystal structures of the paramagnetic chloro(2-aza-2-[p-methyl benzyl]-5,10,15,20-tetraphen...

A new N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) salt was synthesized by the reaction of 1-allyl benzimidazole with 2-methyl benzyl chloride. The structure of N-heterocyclic carbene salt was determined by elemental analysis, FT-IR, 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectroscopy and supported by the computational spectral an...