FIRMINO, P. I. M. Remoção de cor de corantes de efluentes sintético e real em sistemas anaeróbios de um e dois estágios suplementados ou não com doador de elétrons e mediador redox. 2009. 115 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Engenharia Civil: Saneamento Ambiental) – Centro de Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2009. / Submitted by Hohana Sanders (hohanasanders@hotmail.com) on 2016-04-28T16:22:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_dis_pimfirmino.pdf: 654428 bytes, checksum: bf7e698c0ecee6035407d36fc266ad81 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marlene Sousa (mmarlene@ufc.br) on 2016-06-01T15:52:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_dis_pimfirmino.pdf: 654428 bytes, checksum: bf7e698c0ecee6035407d36fc266ad81 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-01T15:52:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_dis_pimfirmino.pdf: 654428 bytes, checksum: bf7e698c0ecee6035407d36fc266ad81 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-01 / The release of textile effluents into superficial water bodies represents a serious environmental problem and a public health concern because lots of dyes from wastewater and their breakdown products are potentially toxic and carcinogenic. Colour removal of dyes is still a challenge for textile industry wastewater treatment plants. Amongst the decolourisation methods, the anaerobic treatment has called attention for being economically attractive. This work reports two textile wastewater colour removal experiments. The first one aimed, primarily, to assess and compare colour removal of synthetic textile effluent, which contained the azo dye Congo Red (CR), in an one-stage anaerobic system, consisted of only a UASB reactor (R1), and in a two-stage anaerobic system (R2), consisted of an acidogenic (R2,A) followed by a methanogenic reactor (R2,M). The reactors were run under different operational conditions by varying the initial dye and electron donor (ethanol) concentrations as well as the hydraulic retention time (HRT) of the reactors. It was observed that, with gradual increase of CR concentration from 0.3 to 1.2 mM, R1 total average colour removal efficiency decreased from 97.8 to 95.1%, while R2 did not present remarkable variation, and R2,A was responsible for the major part of total decolourisation reached (98.5%). Concerning the initial ethanol concentration, a less than 2% drop was observed at R1 average efficiency against an almost 6% one at R2 by reducing the substrate concentration from 1.0 to only 0.2 g COD/L. And, by reducing the systems total HRT from 24 for 12 hours, the R1 and R2 average efficiencies changed from, approximately, 98% to 96.6 and 97.7%, respectively. Afterwards, those same systems were fed with real textile wastewater, and, although both have presented lower colour removal efficiencies than the ones achieved with CR, R1 reached a 7% average value higher than R2. The second experiment aimed to assess and compare the real textile wastewater colour removal in one-stage anaerobic systems (HRT = 12 h) supplemented or not with electron donor (ethanol) and redox mediator (AQDS). No difference was observed between decolourisation efficiency average values achieved by the reactor supplemented with AQDS (R3) and by the reactor free of this compound (R4). However, in the absence of ethanol, both reactors have presented lower colour removal efficiency values, the R3 reached a 5% average efficiency higher than R4 one. It can be concluded that the used anaerobic systems achieved good decolourisation efficiencies with both synthetic and real textile wastewaters under the different operational conditions studied. The redox mediator impact was not evident in the treatment of the real effluent at HRT of 12 hours, and the absence of an external electron donor reduced the reactors colour removal efficiency / O descarte de efluentes têxteis em águas superficiais representa um sério problema ambiental e de saúde pública devido, principalmente, à presença de corantes na sua composição, muitos dos quais são potencialmente tóxicos e carcinogênicos. A remoção de cor desses compostos ainda é uma das maiores dificuldades enfrentadas pelas estações de tratamento de efluentes das indústrias desse segmento. Dentre os métodos de descoloração, o tratamento anaeróbio tem merecido bastante destaque por ser economicamente atraente. Nesta pesquisa, foram realizados dois experimentos acerca da remoção de cor de corantes de efluentes têxteis. O primeiro objetivou, inicialmente, avaliar e comparar a remoção de cor de efluente têxtil sintético, contendo o corante azo Congo Red (CR), em sistemas anaeróbios de um estágio, composto por um único reator UASB (R1), e de dois estágios (R2), composto por um reator UASB acidogênico (R2,A) seguido de um outro metanogênico (R2,M). Os reatores foram submetidos a diferentes condições operacionais, variando-se as concentrações iniciais do corante e do substrato doador de elétrons (etanol) assim como o tempo de detenção hidráulica (TDH) dos reatores. Constatou-se que, com o aumento gradual da concentração de CR de 0,3 para 1,2 mM, a eficiência média total de remoção de cor do R1 diminuiu de 97,8 para 95,1%, enquanto a do R2 não apresentou variação relevante, sendo o R2,A responsável por grande parte da descoloração total alcançada (98,5%). Em relação à concentração inicial de etanol, observou-se queda de menos de 2% na eficiência média do R1 contra quase 6% na do R2 ao se reduzir a concentração do substrato de 1,0 para apenas 0,2 g DQO/L. E, ao se reduzir o TDH total dos sistemas de 24 para 12 horas, as eficiências médias de R1 e R2 passaram de, aproximadamente, 98% para 96,6 e 97,7%, respectivamente. Posteriormente, esses mesmos sistemas ainda foram alimentados com efluente têxtil real, e, apesar de ambos terem apresentado eficiências de remoção de cor menores do que as obtidas com o CR, o R1 atingiu um valor médio 7% maior do que o do R2. O segundo experimento buscou avaliar e comparar a remoção de cor de efluente têxtil real em sistemas anaeróbios de um estágio (TDH = 12 h) suplementados ou não com doador de elétrons (etanol) e mediador redox (AQDS). Não se observou nenhuma diferença entre os valores médios de eficiência de descoloração obtidos pelo reator suplementado com AQDS (R3) e pelo reator livre desse composto (R4). Entretanto, na ausência de etanol, embora ambos os reatores tenham apresentado menores valores de eficiência de remoção de cor, o R3 obteve uma eficiência média 5% maior do que a do R4. Concluiu-se que os sistemas anaeróbios empregados foram capazes de remover a cor de corantes de efluentes sintético e real sob diferentes condições operacionais. O impacto do mediador redox não foi evidente no tratamento do efluente real a um TDH de 12 horas, e a ausência de doador de elétrons adicional reduziu a eficiência de remoção de cor dos reatores

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-193).

Amyloidosis is a group of diseases caused by proteins that have lost their correct three-dimensional conformation and instead assemble into insoluble fibrils in various tissues and organs. Today, more than 30 different proteins that can give rise to amyloid fibrils have been identified. Each protein that assembles into fibrils causes a specific disease. For clinical diagnosis of amyloid, antibodies are one of the most important tools. In this study, antibodies generated towards various amyloid-specific peptides were characterized and validated. This was assessed by immunohistochemistry, slot blot and SDS-PAGE and western blot. Congo red, an amyloid specific dye, was used for detection of amyloid. Immunohistochemical staining and slot blot analysis indicated that each antiserum used in this study was amyloid-specific. Antigen retrieval can facilitate staining by the techniques ability to break cross-linkages caused by fixation in formaldehyde. The results from the characterization of antisera in this study should be a great helpin clinical work on amyloid, and ensure correct diagnosis.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / O descarte de efluentes tÃxteis em Ãguas superficiais representa um sÃrio problema ambiental e de saÃde pÃblica devido, principalmente, à presenÃa de corantes na sua composiÃÃo, muitos dos quais sÃo potencialmente tÃxicos e carcinogÃnicos. A remoÃÃo de cor desses compostos ainda à uma das maiores dificuldades enfrentadas pelas estaÃÃes de tratamento de efluentes das indÃstrias desse segmento. Dentre os mÃtodos de descoloraÃÃo, o tratamento anaerÃbio tem merecido bastante destaque por ser economicamente atraente. Nesta pesquisa, foram realizados dois experimentos acerca da remoÃÃo de cor de corantes de efluentes tÃxteis. O primeiro objetivou, inicialmente, avaliar e comparar a remoÃÃo de cor de efluente tÃxtil sintÃtico, contendo o corante azo Congo Red (CR), em sistemas anaerÃbios de um estÃgio, composto por um Ãnico reator UASB (R1), e de dois estÃgios (R2), composto por um reator UASB acidogÃnico (R2,A) seguido de um outro metanogÃnico (R2,M). Os reatores foram submetidos a diferentes condiÃÃes operacionais, variando-se as concentraÃÃes iniciais do corante e do substrato doador de elÃtrons (etanol) assim como o tempo de detenÃÃo hidrÃulica (TDH) dos reatores. Constatou-se que, com o aumento gradual da concentraÃÃo de CR de 0,3 para 1,2 mM, a eficiÃncia mÃdia total de remoÃÃo de cor do R1 diminuiu de 97,8 para 95,1%, enquanto a do R2 nÃo apresentou variaÃÃo relevante, sendo o R2,A responsÃvel por grande parte da descoloraÃÃo total alcanÃada (98,5%). Em relaÃÃo à concentraÃÃo inicial de etanol, observou-se queda de menos de 2% na eficiÃncia mÃdia do R1 contra quase 6% na do R2 ao se reduzir a concentraÃÃo do substrato de 1,0 para apenas 0,2 g DQO/L. E, ao se reduzir o TDH total dos sistemas de 24 para 12 horas, as eficiÃncias mÃdias de R1 e R2 passaram de, aproximadamente, 98% para 96,6 e 97,7%, respectivamente. Posteriormente, esses mesmos sistemas ainda foram alimentados com efluente tÃxtil real, e, apesar de ambos terem apresentado eficiÃncias de remoÃÃo de cor menores do que as obtidas com o CR, o R1 atingiu um valor mÃdio 7% maior do que o do R2. O segundo experimento buscou avaliar e comparar a remoÃÃo de cor de efluente tÃxtil real em sistemas anaerÃbios de um estÃgio (TDH = 12 h) suplementados ou nÃo com doador de elÃtrons (etanol) e mediador redox (AQDS). NÃo se observou nenhuma diferenÃa entre os valores mÃdios de eficiÃncia de descoloraÃÃo obtidos pelo reator suplementado com AQDS (R3) e pelo reator livre desse composto (R4). Entretanto, na ausÃncia de etanol, embora ambos os reatores tenham apresentado menores valores de eficiÃncia de remoÃÃo de cor, o R3 obteve uma eficiÃncia mÃdia 5% maior do que a do R4. Concluiu-se que os sistemas anaerÃbios empregados foram capazes de remover a cor de corantes de efluentes sintÃtico e real sob diferentes condiÃÃes operacionais. O impacto do mediador redox nÃo foi evidente no tratamento do efluente real a um TDH de 12 horas, e a ausÃncia de doador de elÃtrons adicional reduziu a eficiÃncia de remoÃÃo de cor dos reatores / The release of textile effluents into superficial water bodies represents a serious environmental problem and a public health concern because lots of dyes from wastewater and their breakdown products are potentially toxic and carcinogenic. Colour removal of dyes is still a challenge for textile industry wastewater treatment plants. Amongst the decolourisation methods, the anaerobic treatment has called attention for being economically attractive. This work reports two textile wastewater colour removal experiments. The first one aimed, primarily, to assess and compare colour removal of synthetic textile effluent, which contained the azo dye Congo Red (CR), in an one-stage anaerobic system, consisted of only a UASB reactor (R1), and in a two-stage anaerobic system (R2), consisted of an acidogenic (R2,A) followed by a methanogenic reactor (R2,M). The reactors were run under different operational conditions by varying the initial dye and electron donor (ethanol) concentrations as well as the hydraulic retention time (HRT) of the reactors. It was observed that, with gradual increase of CR concentration from 0.3 to 1.2 mM, R1 total average colour removal efficiency decreased from 97.8 to 95.1%, while R2 did not present remarkable variation, and R2,A was responsible for the major part of total decolourisation reached (98.5%). Concerning the initial ethanol concentration, a less than 2% drop was observed at R1 average efficiency against an almost 6% one at R2 by reducing the substrate concentration from 1.0 to only 0.2 g COD/L. And, by reducing the systems total HRT from 24 for 12 hours, the R1 and R2 average efficiencies changed from, approximately, 98% to 96.6 and 97.7%, respectively. Afterwards, those same systems were fed with real textile wastewater, and, although both have presented lower colour removal efficiencies than the ones achieved with CR, R1 reached a 7% average value higher than R2. The second experiment aimed to assess and compare the real textile wastewater colour removal in one-stage anaerobic systems (HRT = 12 h) supplemented or not with electron donor (ethanol) and redox mediator (AQDS). No difference was observed between decolourisation efficiency average values achieved by the reactor supplemented with AQDS (R3) and by the reactor free of this compound (R4). However, in the absence of ethanol, both reactors have presented lower colour removal efficiency values, the R3 reached a 5% average efficiency higher than R4 one. It can be concluded that the used anaerobic systems achieved good decolourisation efficiencies with both synthetic and real textile wastewaters under the different operational conditions studied. The redox mediator impact was not evident in the treatment of the real effluent at HRT of 12 hours, and the absence of an external electron donor reduced the reactors colour removal efficiency

MENVSC / Department of Ecology and Resource Management / In this study, the efficacy of bentonite clay, pre-treated magnesite and their nanocomposite on the removal of Congo red dye from aqueous solution was explored. Batch experimental approach was a technique used to fulfil the goals of this study. A number of operational parameters were optimised, and they include effects of shaking time, adsorbent dosage, initial CR dye concentration, initial solution pH and temperature. Findings of the study revealed that the optimum conditions that are suitable for the removal of CR dye are 20 minutes, 0.5 g of dosage, 120 mg/L, 250 rpm, and pH = 7. This has achieved > 99% removal efficacy of CR dye for the nanocomposite and reduced it to below the South African National Standard (SANS) 241 water quality specifications. Furthermore, kinetic studies revealed that bentonite clay, pre-treated magnesite, and their nanocomposite fitted very well to pseudo-second-order kinetics than pseudo-first-order kinetics. The regression analysis was observed to be 1, 0.9, and 0.9 for bentonite clay, pre-treated magnesite, and their nanocomposite respectively. Adsorption isotherms indicated that CR removal by bentonite clay, pre-treated magnesite, and their nanocomposite fitted well to Langmuir adsorption isotherm than the Freundlich adsorption isotherm hence indicating mono-layer adsorption. Thermodynamic values for CR removal were observed to be: ΔH0 (kJ mol-1) = 43.86, 30.67, and 24.88 for bentonite clay, pre-treated magnesite, and their nanocomposite respectively. This indicates that the reaction is endothermic. The positive ΔS0 (kJ mol-1 K-1) values for bentonite clay and 25 °C for pre-treated magnesite confirms that there is an increase in the degree of randomness at solid/solution interface during the removal of CR ions from aqueous solution. The negative values of ΔG0 (kJ mol-1) for 40 – 70 °C on bentonite and the entire range for the nanocomposite suggest the spontaneity and feasibility of CR adsorption whereas the positive ΔG0 (kJ mol-1) for bentonite clay suggest a non-spontaneous nature of adsorption. As such, pre-treated magnesite/bentonite clay nanocomposite demonstrated superior adsorption capacity in relation to individual materials and other materials reported in literature. / NRF

<p>Elderly committing suicide can be in a “preclinical phase” of dementia. Depressive symptoms may indicate a risk to develop a disease of dementia, for example Alzheimer’s Disease. Today almost 10% of the Swedish population older than 65 years suffer from a cognitive impairment diagnosed as dementia. Symptoms of dementia are associated with degenerative changes in the brain caused by a deposition of amyloid, leading among others things to a nerve cell death. A clinical diagnosis can be hard to set, and a definitive diagnose can only be set after a pathological examination, which only is possible after death. For this study we used Congo red staining of brains sections to find amyloid in autopsies from elderly people committing suicide. 35 cases (>60 year) were studied. Of the 35 cases 1/3 showed to be positive for amyloid deposition. This result in addition to other studies suggest that depressive symptoms is a “preclinical phase” of dementia, and therefore the suicide risk for this group must be consider to be elevated. However, more reliable prospective studies most be done to confirm this retrospective study.</p>

Elderly committing suicide can be in a “preclinical phase” of dementia. Depressive symptoms may indicate a risk to develop a disease of dementia, for example Alzheimer’s Disease. Today almost 10% of the Swedish population older than 65 years suffer from a cognitive impairment diagnosed as dementia. Symptoms of dementia are associated with degenerative changes in the brain caused by a deposition of amyloid, leading among others things to a nerve cell death. A clinical diagnosis can be hard to set, and a definitive diagnose can only be set after a pathological examination, which only is possible after death. For this study we used Congo red staining of brains sections to find amyloid in autopsies from elderly people committing suicide. 35 cases (&gt;60 year) were studied. Of the 35 cases 1/3 showed to be positive for amyloid deposition. This result in addition to other studies suggest that depressive symptoms is a “preclinical phase” of dementia, and therefore the suicide risk for this group must be consider to be elevated. However, more reliable prospective studies most be done to confirm this retrospective study.

Induction of growth of submerged cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) fibers from cultured ovules has been investigated for the first time. Both exogenous plant hormone levels and the age of the ovules at induction play important roles in induction of submerged cotton fiber growth. The diameter of submerged fibers was about same as that of air-grown fibers but was smaller than that of fibers grown in vivo. Submerged fibers were shorter in the fiber length, stronger in the tensile strength, and they had thicker secondary cell walls and smaller crystallite sizes compared with air-grown fibers and fibers in vivo. Helical secondary cell wall thickenings were exclusively found in submerged fibers. Congo Red is a natural dye that has a high affinity for the biopolymer cellulose. The addition of Congo Red to the culture medium had an influence only on submerged cotton fibers and not on air-grown cotton fibers. When Congo Red was applied in the early primary wall stage, fiber cell elongation was inhibited, but amyloplast production was induced. When Congo Red was applied in late primary wall or early secondary wall stage (about 14-16 DPA), the effects were less severe, but a significant increase in birefringence of secondary cell walls was observed. In both conditions of treatment with Congo Red in the primary wall and the secondary wall stages, a "nodulation" occurred on the wall surface. Neither cellobiohydrolase CBH I or CBH II had affinity for the external wall materials, implying that there was no cellulose present or binding sites for CBH had been occupied by Congo Red. X-ray diffraction data showed that Congo Red decreased the crystallite size of cellulose in submerged cotton fibers. The preliminary investigation with auxin (indole-3-acetic acid) depletion in the culture medium was to study whether or not amyloplasts were produced under this condition. No amyloplasts were observed in submerged fibers grown in the auxindepleted medium, but cellulose microfibrils in the secondary cell wall were greatly disorganized. Possibly, indole-3-acetic acid might play an important role in regulating the arrays of microtubules, which, in turn, may help to organize the patterns of cellulose deposition. / text

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Cellulose, a sustainable raw material derived from nature, can be used for various applications following its functionalization and oxidation. Nanocellulose, inheriting the properties of cellulose, can offer new properties due to nanoscale effects, in terms of high specific surface area and porosity. The oxidation of cellulose can provide more active sites on the cellulose chains, improving its functionalization and broadening applications. Two kinds of oxidation and their corresponding applications are described in this thesis: periodate oxidation and Oxone® oxidation. 2,3-dialdehyde cellulose (DAC) beads were prepared from Cladophora nanocellulose via periodate oxidation, and were further modified with amines via reductive amination. Several diamines were selected as possible crosslinkers to produce porous DAC beads, which showed higher porosity, stability in alkaline solution and enhanced thermal stability. After functionalization of DAC beads with L-cysteine (DAC-LC), thiol, amine and carboxyl groups were introduced into the DAC beads, endowing the DAC-LC beads with high adsorption capacity for palladium. The synthesized DAC-LC beads were character­ized with SEM, FTIR, XPS, TGA, BET and XRD and the palladium adsorption process was investigated. Chitosan was employed as a crosslinker in functionalization of DAC beads (DAC-CS). The conditions for the synthesis of DAC-CS beads were screened and verifying the stability of the beads in alkaline solution. The DAC-CS beads produced were investigated using SEM, FTIR, XPS, TGA and BET, and the adsorption and desorption capacity of Congo red was studied, indicating DAC-CS beads have potential as sorbent. Oxone oxidation of cellulose is a novel one-pot oxidation method in which mainly the hydroxyl groups on C6 are oxidized to produce carboxylic acid groups on the cellulose chains. To increase the efficiency of Oxone oxidation, several reaction parameters were studied. Cellulose pulp and Cladophora nanocellulose were chosen as prototypes to investigate the effects of oxidation, and the physico­chemical properties of the oxidized products were characterized. Cellulose pulp, pretreated with Oxone oxidation, was disintegrated by homogenization to prepare cellulose nanofibers (CNF). The effect of pre­treat­ment on the preparation of CNF was studied, and the results indicated that Oxone oxidation was efficient in the production of CNF.