Several Nocardia abcessus bronchiolitis in a patient treated with inhaled corticosteroids: a case report.

Nocardiosis is a disease that mainly affects immunocompromised patients. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are standard of care for asthma. This treatment can induce respiratory infections but no case of bronchiolitis nocardiosis have been described so far.

Exfoliated BiTe-enabled membranes for new concept water desalination: Freshwater production meets new routes.

Water scarcity forces the science to find the most environmentally friendly propulsion technology for supplying plentiful freshwater at low energy costs. Membrane Distillation well meets criteria of eco-friendly management of natural resources, but it is not yet competitive on scale. Herein, we use a dichalchogenide compound (BiTe) as a conceivable source to accelerate the redesign of advanced membranes technologies such as thermally driven membrane distillation.

Performance of PVDF Based Membranes with 2D Materials for Membrane Assisted-Crystallization Process.

Membrane crystallization (MCr) is a promising and innovative process for the recovery of freshwater from seawater and for the production of salt crystals from the brine streams of desalination plants. In the present work, composite polymeric membranes for membrane crystallization were fabricated using graphene and bismuth telluride inks prepared according to the wet-jet milling (WJM) technology. A comparison between PVDF-based membranes containing a few layers of graphene or bismuth telluride and PVDF-pristine membranes was carried out.

Modeling of Nanofiltration Process Using DSPM-DE Model for Purification of Amine Solution.

The formation of heat stable salts (HSS) during the natural gas sweetening process by amine solvent causes many problems such as corrosion, foaming, capacity reduction, and amine loss. A modeling study was carried out for the removal of HSS ions from amine solution using nanofiltration (NF) membrane process that ensures the reuse of amine solution for gas sweetening. This model studies the physics of the nanofiltration process by adjusting and investigating pore radius, the effects of membrane charge, and other membrane characteristics.

A few-layer graphene for advanced composite PVDF membranes dedicated to water desalination: a comparative study.

Membrane distillation is envisaged to be a promising best practice to recover freshwater from seawater with the prospect of building low energy-consuming devices powered by natural and renewable energy sources in remote and less accessible areas. Moreover, there is an additional benefit of integrating this green technology with other well-established operations dedicated to desalination. Today, the development of membrane distillation depends on the productivity-efficiency ratio on a large scale.