Investigating the Precision of Hydraulic Conductivity and Sorptive Number Estimation in Cased Boreholes by Reynolds Analysis: The Cased of Pakdasht Region

Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Kfs) and sorptive number are the most important hydraulic characteristics effective on soil process. Cased boreholes falling-head permeameter (Philip method) is the one of hydraulic conductivity measurement borehole method. The analysis borehole cased falling-head in unsaturated area promoted and investigated .This method has been investigated by HYDRUS- 2D simulator but in this study is not use experimental data. The purpose of this study precision investigation and determine Reynolds method accuracy by experimental data. Thirty boreholes has been prepared, 12 boreholes with 4 different length and 4 centimeters diameter, 9 boreholes with 3 different length and diameters of 6 and 8 centimeters (3 replications done for each length). A program was written by FORTRAN language for solving the equations presented by Reynolds. Shaghaghi et al determine soil hydraulic conductivity by Guelph method in mentioned area. The results gained by FORTRAN program compared by Shaghaghi et al results. Results showed that the best data drawdown zone for determining Kfs and α* is lower range of data. Considering studies is shown that diameter and length of cased boreholes are not effective on investigation and every length and diameter can be used for solving Reynolds equation. Also the results show that the best gravity factor for precision of estimation is obtained in zero value

Ethanol and Biomass Production from Spent Sulfite Liquor by Filamentous Fungi

Since filamentous fungi are capable of assimilating several types of sugars (hexoses and pentoses), they are potential candidates for bioconversion of spent sulfite liquor (SSL). Three filamentous fungi such as Aspergillus oryzae, Mucor indicus, and Rhizopus oryzae were investigated in this work. The SSL was diluted in order to obtain concentrations of 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90% and supplemented with two types of nutrients. The results from cultivations in shake flask showed that A. oryzae and M. indicus were not able to grow in pure SSL and SSL90% while R. oryzae could grow only in SSL50% and SSL60%. Cultivation with A. oryzae resulted in the highest yield of produced fungal biomass, while R. oryzae cultivation resulted in the lowest fungal biomass yield. Although, the mediums containing yeast extract, (NH4)2SO4, KH2PO4, CaCl2∙2H2O, and MgSO4∙7H2O as nutrients supplementations produced higher fungal biomass compared to the mediums containing NH4H2PO4 and ammonia, but there was no significant difference between two types of nutrients in terms of sugars and acetic acid consumption rate. The sugars consumption in M. indicus cultivation was faster than A. oryzae and R. oryzae cultivation. Acetic acid present in SSL was completely consumed during cultivation of all fungi. M. indicus was the best and fastest ethanol producer from SSL among the fungi examined, when yeast extract and salts were used as nutrients supplementations. Furthermore, no further improvement in ethanol concentration and rate of sugars consumption was obtained in medium supplemented with NH4H2PO4 and ammonia compared to medium containing yeast extract, (NH4)2SO4, KH2PO4, CaCl2∙2H2O, and MgSO4∙7H2O. On the other hand, the higher dilution of SSL resulted in a better fermentability, and better consumption of sugars and acetic acid