Ionogels for flexible conductive substrates and their application in biosensing.

Ionogels are highly conductive gels made from ionic liquids dispersed in a matrix made of organic or inorganic materials. Ionogels are known for high ionic conductivity, flexibility, high thermal and electrochemical stability. These characteristics make them suitable for sensing and biosensing applications.

Dual modifications of chitosan with PLK for amputation of cyanide ions: Equilibrium studies and optimization using RSM.

The aim of the study is to characterize and hierarchically modify chitosan using partially lateritized khondalite (PLK) rock. PLK is a metamorphic rock rich in mineral oxides and is not commercialized thus, treated as a mining reject. Chitosan was sequentially altered to Chitosan-PLK (Ch-PLK) and Chitosan-PLK-Epichlorohydrin (Ch-PLK-ECH) and both the materials were characterized by FT-IR, SEM, EDX, XRD, XRF and BET surface area analysis.

Recent advancements in the mitigation of obnoxious nitrogenous gases.

Nitrogenous gaseous emissions commonly have an obnoxious odor associated with it, which when discharged into the environment results in serious environmental problems and health hazards. Several strategies for mitigation of nitrogenous odorants have been reported which include physical, chemical and biological methods. Biological treatments are widely employed because of their efficiency even at low concentration, where physical and chemical methods are not effective.

Application of electronic nose for industrial odors and gaseous emissions measurement and monitoring--An overview.

The present review evaluates the key modules of the electronic nose, a biomimetic system, with specific examples of applications to industrial emissions monitoring and measurement. Regulations concerning the odor control are becoming very strict, due to ever mounting environmental pollution and its subsequent consequences and it is advantageous to employ real time measurement system. In this perspective, systems like the electronic nose are an improved substitute for assessing the complex industrial emissions over other analytical techniques (odorant concentration measurement) and olfactometry (odor concentration measurement).

Calibration transfer between electronic nose systems for rapid in situ measurement of pulp and paper industry emissions.

Electronic nose systems when deployed in network mesh can effectively provide a low budget and onsite solution for the industrial obnoxious gaseous measurement. For accurate and identical prediction capability by all the electronic nose systems, a reliable calibration transfer model needs to be implemented in order to overcome the inherent sensor array variability. In this work, robust regression (RR) is used for calibration transfer between two electronic nose systems using a Box-Behnken (BB) design.

Air-lift reactor system for the treatment of waste-gas-containing monochlorobenzene.

An air-lift bioreactor (ALR) system, applied for the treatment of waste-gas-containing monochlorobenzene (MCB) was seeded with pure culture of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, isolated from soil as a starter seed. It was found that MCB was biologically converted to chloride as chloride was mineralized in the ALR. After the built up of the biomass in the ALR, the reactor parameters which have major influence on the removal efficiency and elimination capacity were studied using response surface methodology.