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Syngas Production, Storage, Compression and Use in Gas Turbines
This chapter analyses syngas production through pyrolysis and gasification, its compression and its use in gas turbines. Syngas compression can be performed during or after thermal treatment processes. Important points are discussed related to syngas ignition, syngas explosion limit at high temperatures and high pressures and syngas combustion kinetics. Kinetic aspects influence ignition and final emissions which are obtained at the completion of the combustion process. The chapter is organized into four subsections, dealing with (1) innovative syngas production plants, (2) syngas compressors and compression process, (3) syngas ignition in both heterogeneous and homogeneous systems and (4) syngas combustion kinetics and experimental methods. Particular attention is given to ignition regions that affect the kinetics, namely systems that operate at temperatures higher than 1000 K can have strong ignition, whereas those operating at lower temperatures have weak ignition. Keywords: Pyrogas Pyrolysis Ignition Syngas Compression GasificationacceptedVersio
Biofilm eradication by in situ generation of reactive chlorine species on nano-CuO surfaces
Repurposing as a means to increase the activity of amphotericin B and caspofungin against Candida albicans biofilms
Neurospora crassa transcriptomics reveals oxidative stress and plasma membrane homeostasis biology genes as key targets in response to chitosan
The RLR/NLR expression and pro-inflammatory activity of tissue mast cells are regulated by cathelicidin LL-37 and defensin hBD-2
Antifungal Actions of Glycinin Basic Peptide against Aspergillus niger through the Collaborative Damage to Cell Membrane and Mitochondria
Quinolines and Quinolones as Antibacterial, Antifungal, Antivirulence, Antiviral and Anti-parasitic Agents
Infective diseases have become health threat of
a global proportion due to appearance and
spread of microorganisms resistant to majority
of therapeutics currently used for their treatment.
Therefore, there is a constant need for
development of new antimicrobial agents, as
well as novel therapeutic strategies.
Quinolines and quinolones, isolated from
plants, animals, and microorganisms, have
demonstrated numerous biological activities
such as antimicrobial, insecticidal, antiinflammatory,
antiplatelet, and antitumor. For
more than two centuries quinoline/quinolone
moiety has been used as a scaffold for drug
development and even today it represents an
inexhaustible inspiration for design and development
of novel semi-synthetic or synthetic
agents exhibiting broad spectrum of
bioactivities. The structural diversity of
synthetized compounds provides high and
selective activity attained through different
mechanisms of action, as well as low toxicity
on human cells. This review describes quinoline
and quinolone derivatives with
antibacterial, antifungal, anti-virulent,
antiviral, and anti-parasitic activities with the
focus on the last 10 years literature