Rapid and highly efficient treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD) is still challenging due to the low pH and high metal concentrations in it. This research focuses on a novel treatment method of AMD using direct contac...
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Rapid and highly efficient treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD) is still challenging due to the low pH and high metal concentrations in it. This research focuses on a novel treatment method of AMD using direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) and photocatalysis to recover water and utilize iron. In the DCMD process without pretreatment, the flux decreased by 93.38%. If pretreated by adding sodium oxalate, scale formation potential was effectively mitigated due to the removal of calcium and complexing of iron. For the treatment of the pretreated AMD (PAMD), 60% of water was recovered in the DCMD process with the flux decrease of 22%. The concentrate obtained from the DCMD process demonstrated high photocatalytic activity in the methylene blue (MB) degradation in an aqueous solution. In addition, the Fe (III)-oxalate complexes in the concentrate were reduced to insoluble Fe (II)-oxalate with visible light irradiation, which could be separated by sedimentation and used as a Fenton catalyst. Hence, this novel method exhibits great advantages on effectively inhibiting DCMD membrane fouling during AMD treatment, producing high-quality distillate with low conductivity, and realizing near zero-discharge of AMD. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The root-associated microbiota plays an important role in the response to environmental stress. However, the underlying mechanisms controlling the interaction between salt-stressed plants and microbiota are poorly und...
The root-associated microbiota plays an important role in the response to environmental stress. However, the underlying mechanisms controlling the interaction between salt-stressed plants and microbiota are poorly understood. Here, by focusing on a salt-tolerant plant wild soybean (Glycine soja), we demonstrate that highly conserved microbes dominated by Pseudomonas are enriched in the root and rhizosphere microbiota of salt-stressed plant. Two corresponding Pseudomonas isolates are confirmed to enhance the salt tolerance of wild soybean. Shotgun metagenomic and metatranscriptomic sequencing reveal that motility-associated genes, mainly chemotaxis and flagellar assembly, are significantly enriched and expressed in salt-treated samples. We further find that roots of salt stressed plants secreted purines, especially xanthine, which induce motility of the Pseudomonas isolates. Moreover, exogenous application for xanthine to non-stressed plants results in Pseudomonas enrichment, reproducing the microbiota shift in salt-stressed root. Finally, Pseudomonas mutant analysis shows that the motility related gene cheW is required for chemotaxis toward xanthine and for enhancing plant salt tolerance. Our study proposes that wild soybean recruits beneficial Pseudomonas species by exudating key metabolites (i.e., purine) against salt stress.
As a common high-speed interface,PCIe interface is very extensive in the field of data *** a development framework of Microsoft,WDF(Windows Driver Foundation)driver model can reduce the difficulty of the *** on the ...
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As a common high-speed interface,PCIe interface is very extensive in the field of data *** a development framework of Microsoft,WDF(Windows Driver Foundation)driver model can reduce the difficulty of the *** on the PCIe high-speed image acquisition card which is developed by ourselves,this paper designed a stable and reliable WDF driver for the high data transmission rate in the image acquisition process,and used the memory allocation method in WDF to share buffer with the *** order to enhance the speed of the image acquisition,this paper designed a ring buffer mechanism to ensure the continuity and stability in the image acquisition and transmission process.
The spread of COVID-19 is accelerating. At present, there is no specific antiviral drugs for COVID-19 outbreak. This is a multicenter retrospective cohort study of patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection...
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The spread of COVID-19 is accelerating. At present, there is no specific antiviral drugs for COVID-19 outbreak. This is a multicenter retrospective cohort study of patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection pneumonia from 3 hospitals in Hubei and Guangdong province, 141 adults (aged ≥18 years) without ventilation were included. Combined group patients were given Arbidol and IFN-α2b, monotherapy group patients inhaled IFN-α2b for 10-14 days. Of 141 COVID-19 patients, baseline clinical and laboratory characteristics were similar between combined group and monotherapy group, that 30% of the patients leucocytes counts were below the normal range and 36.4% of the patients experienced lymphocytopenia. The duration of viral RNA of respiratory tract in the monotherapy group was not longer than that in the combined therapy group. There was no significant differences between two groups. The absorption of pneumonia in the combined group was faster than that in the monotherapy group. We inferred that Arbidol/IFN - 2 b therapy can be used as an effective method to improve the COVID-19 pneumonia of mild patients, although it helpless with accelerating the virus clearance. These results should be verified in a larger prospective randomized environment.
Ionic liquids (ILs) have been introduced as novel high-performance shale inhibitors. The inhibition performance and mechanism of the cation groups in ILs have been widely investigated, whereas the effects of the anion...
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Ionic liquids (ILs) have been introduced as novel high-performance shale inhibitors. The inhibition performance and mechanism of the cation groups in ILs have been widely investigated, whereas the effects of the anionic groups in ILs on the inhibitory capacity have rarely been reported. In this work, a series of fatty acid-based ionic liquids (FAILs) with different anionic groups, methyltrioctylammonium octanoate ([N8881][C8:0]), methyltrioctylammonium laurate ([N8881][C12:0]), and methyltrioctylammonium palmitate ([N8881][C16:0]), were synthesized to evaluate their inhibition ability via the sodium bentonite (Na-Bent) immersion test, the linear swelling test, and the shale hot-rolling recovery test. Compared with the traditional inhibitor KCl (2 wt%), FAIL [N8881][C8:0] showed greater inhibition performance at a much lower concentration (0.1 wt%). The inhibition mechanism of FAILs was further analysed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), zeta potential measurements, and contact angle measurements. It was speculated that the best inhibition ability and thermal stability of [N8881][C8:0] should be attributed to the intensive interaction and the sizematching effect between cationic and anionic groups. The present study provided novel insight into the research and development of high-efficiency shale inhibitors.
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