Valorizing industrial tobacco wastes within natural clays and chitosan nanocomposites for an ecofriendly insecticide.

We report the engineering of insecticide films based on two mineral clays, montmorillonite and kaolinite, combined to chitosan and/or cellulose acetate originating from cigarette filter and subsequently impregnated with tobacco essential oil extracted from tobacco dust. Both binary composites, i.e.

Valorization of residual soft drinks by baker's yeast production and insight for dairy wastewater whey incorporation.

Residuals are responsible for the polluting load increase of soft drink industry wastewater due to their high sugar contents. The present work proposes an upstream segregation of residuals to be biologically treated by the bioconversion of their carbohydrates content into baker's yeast biomass. Carbonated soft drinks (CSD) and nectars and juices (NJ) ranges were considered.

Frankia saprophytica sp. nov., an atypical, non-infective (Nod-) and non-nitrogen fixing (Fix-) actinobacterium isolated from Coriaria nepalensis root nodules.

Strain CN3, a Coriaria nepalensis isolate, appears to form hyphae and sporangia typical of members fo the genus Frankia. However, it failed to form vesicles, to reduce acetylene and to induce nodules on its original host plant. A polyphasic approach was used here to determine the taxonomic status of strain CN3.

Blastococcus xanthinilyticus sp. nov., isolated from monument.

A novel, non-motile, coccoid, Gram-stain-positive actinobacterium, designated BMG 862, was isolated from a marble sample collected from the Bulla Regia monument, Northern Tunisia. Its taxonomic position was determined using a polyphasic approach. Results from chemotaxonomic analyses showed MK-9(H4), MK-8(H4) and MK-9(H2) as the predominant menaquinones.

Feasibility of carbon dioxide sequestration by Spongiochloris sp microalgae during petroleum wastewater treatment in airlift bioreactor.

The aim of this work was to study the ability of using Hydrocabonoclastic native microbial and Spongiochloris sp microalgae in airlift bioreactors couples in order to restore hydrocarbons wastewater and develop the capacity of natural systems to reduce greenhouse effect through maximal control of CO gas emission in atmosphere. The kinetic parameters of CO gas fixation level and conversion it into biological material by microalgae as the biodegradation process effect in hydrocarbon have been evaluated. The result present that maximum specific growth rate μ of Spongiochloris sp was (0.