Utilização de terra diatomácea para proteção de grãos e sementes de sorgo contra insetos-pragas, durante o armazenamento.

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Used food oils: physical-chemical indicators of quality degradation

Comunicação apresentada em 11th Baltic Conference on Food Science and Technology “Food science and technology in achanging world” FOODBALT 2017 Conference Proceedings. Jelgava, LLUUsed food oil (UFO), designated as frying oil, is a residue. Degradation by reuse or during storage, may occur by contacting, chemical, enzymatic and microbiological pathways, but oxidation is a major concern of the industry, as it affects sensory and nutritional quality of edible oils, with potentially toxic compounds formation. In Portugal, UFO's main destination still is the sewerage system, an environmental problem and waste of raw material, which can be re-qualified for non-food uses. However, quality control applied to UFO's, often results into expensive analysis inappropriate for small laboratories and catering industry. This project, developed with the Musketeers Group Portugal co-promotion (2012-2016), aimed to identify low-cost physicochemical parameters for further implementation as UFO's Quality Degradation Indicators (QDI) indicating defects quickly and accurately. UFO's analysis was tested on the use, for industrial frying, and by degradation induced in the laboratory (frying and heat stability tests) by applying following parameters: moisture, water activity (a(w)), total acidity, peroxide index, iodine index, colour (CIE, CIE Lab), UV absorbency, total polar compounds and microbiological indicators. Internal procedures (ESAS) were validated, redefining working ranges and test conditions, as standards procedures did not provide reliable results for the entire life cycle of oils, whose profile changes with time and reuse. Results demonstrate significant differences with quick response parameters as Total Acidity, Peroxide Index and CIE Lab colour, outlined as QDI's. Moisture, aw and CIE Lab colour proved to be inadequate for this purpose. Iodine Index and UV Absorbency are more complex and time-consuming and were profiled as reference methods.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Dados geocronológicos e geoquímicos sobre o cortejo hipabissal de Dehsalm (leste do Irão): contributo para o conhecimento do arco vulcânico terciário no limite oriental do Bloco de Lut

A associação de rochas intrusivas hipabissais, de textura geralmente porfirítica, da zona de Dehsalm faz parte da cintura vulcano-plutónica do Bloco de Lut, na parte central da região oriental do Irão. Estudos anteriores incidindo sobre a alteração, as mineralizações e o papel dos fluidos hidrotermais revelaram que, em consequência da instalação das referidas rochas intrusivas, teve lugar a actividade de um sistema mineralizante do tipo pórfiro de Cu-Mo (Arjmandzadeh et al., 2013). As rochas estudadas neste trabalho variam desde as composições gabro-dioríticas até às graníticas, com predomínio das monzoníticas e quartzo-monzoníticas, e apresentam características geoquímicas de sequência calco-alcalina rica de potássio a shoshonítica, de zona de arco vulcânico. A conjugação da informação petrográfica com a projecção dos dados de elementos maiores em diagramas de Harker sugere que a cristalização fraccionada de clinopiroxena, plagioclase, horneblenda, apatite e óxidos teve um papel fundamental na diferenciação magmática. Nos perfis multi-elementares normalizados em relação ao manto primordial nota-se um nítido enriquecimento de elementos litófilos de grande raio iónico, como o Rb, o Ba e o Cs, e empobrecimento de alguns elementos com grande força de campo, como o Nb, o Ti, o Y e as terras-raras pesadas. Quanto aos perfis de lantanídeos com normalização condrítica, eles mostram, por um lado, um nítido fraccionamento entre as terras-raras leves e as pesadas, com valores elevados de LaN/YbN (21.5 to 31.0), enquanto, por outro lado, são desprovidos de anomalias de Eu. Na associação intrusiva de Dehsalm, registam-se ainda valores entre 31.6 e 72.2 para a razão Sr/Y e entre 21.5 e 33.5 para La/Yb, o que revela que, apesar de serem ricas de potássio, estas rochas possuem alguma afinidade adaquítica. As análises isotópicas efectuadas para o sistema Rb-Sr permitiram obter uma idade de 33 ± 1 Ma (87Sr/86Sr inicial = 0.70481 ± 0.00001; MSWD = 0.112), definida pelas composições de rocha total, feldspato e biotite de uma amostra de quartzo-monzonito. O resultado referido pode ser interpretado como sendo muito próximo da idade de intrusão, tendo em conta que a amostra escolhida tem uma textura que indica um rápido arrefecimento do magma e que, além disso, a composição mineralógica não inclui testemunhos significativos de alteração. A idade agora obtida coincide, considerando a margem de erro, com um dado geocronológico reportado num estudo anterior (Arjmandzadeh et al., 2011) efectuado em materiais semelhantes na área de Chah-Shaljami, a qual se situa a NW da presente zona de estudo, ao longo do bordo oriental do Bloco de Lut. Os valores de 87Sr/86Sr(33Ma) e εNd(33Ma) variam de 0.70481 a 0.70508 e de +1.5 a +2.5, respectivamente, o que é compatível com uma fonte, para os magmas parentais, em ambiente de cunha mantélica supra-subducção. Adicionalmente, as gamas estreitas das composições isotópicas indicam que a contribuição crustal para a diversificação magmática não foi significativa. Conciliando os diferentes tipos de dados geoquímicos - isotópicos, oligoelementares e macroelementares - parece poder sugerir-se que os líquidos parentais se terão originado por fusão de uma fonte mantélica metassomatizada, em que a granada se comportou como fase residual, enquanto a flogopite terá contribuído para os fundidos gerados. Quer as características geoquímicas dos pórfiros de Dehsalm, quer a sua associação com mineralizações de Cu-Mo estão de acordo com a sua instalação em ambiente de arco continental maduro, o qual deverá estar relacionado com a convergência das placas do Afeganistão e de Lut durante o Oligocénico. As características dos granitóides de Dehsalm revelam uma forte afinidade com as rochas contemporâneas de Chah-Shaljami, estudadas por Arjmandzadeh et al. (2011). O facto de em Dehsalm estar presente um leque mais amplo de litologias, incluindo composições mais máficas (nalguns casos, praticamente gabróicas) do que as encontradas em Chah-Shaljami, reforça a ideia, já apresentada no trabalho anterior, de os magmas parentais terem origem mantélica

Chemical abundances for the transiting planet host stars OGLE-TR-10, 56, 111, 113, 132 and TrES-1. Abundances in different galactic populations

We used the UVES spectrograph (VLT-UT2 telescope) to obtain high-resolution spectra of 6 stars hosting transiting planets, namely for OGLE-TR-10, 56, 111, 113, 132 and TrES-1. The spectra are now used to derive and discuss the chemical abundances for C, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn. Abundances were derived in LTE, using 1-D plane-parallel Kurucz model atmospheres. For S, Zn and Cu we used a spectral synthesis procedure, while for the remaining cases the abundances were derived from measurements of line-equivalent widths. The resulting abundances are compared with those found for stars in the solar neighborhood. Distances and galactic coordinates are estimated for the stars. We conclude that besides being particularly metal-rich, with small possible exceptions OGLE-TR-10, 56, 111, 113, 132 and TrES-1 are chemically undistinguishable from the field (thin disk) stars regarding their [X/Fe] abundances. This is particularly relevant for the most distant of the targets, located at up to ~2 Kpc from the Sun. We also did not find any correlation between the abundances and the condensation temperature of the elements, an evidence that strong accretion of planetary-like material, tentatively connected to planetary migration, did not occur.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics (June 2006

Sr isotopic signatures of Portuguese bottled mineral waters, their relationships with the geological setting and potential use for product authentication

The Sr isotopic ratios of nine bottled natural mineral waters from Portugal were measured in the Laboratory of Isotope Geology of the University of Aveiro (LGIUA). The results obtained show that the Sr isotopic variability of these waters is strongly correlated with the age and mineralogical composition of the aquifer source rocks. The lowest 87Sr/86Sr ratios are found in water samples from the Monchique aquifer (87Sr/86Sr = 0,70447), located in Late Cretaceous alkaline magmatic rocks of mantle origin. The Vimeiro waters are hosted in carbonate and evaporite formations of Jurassic age and have 87Sr/86Sr values of 0,70808, whereas the waters sourced in Cenozoic siliciclastic sediments tend to exhibit higher 87Sr/86Sr ratios, close to the rainwater value (São Silvestre; 87Sr/86Sr = 0,71078). Finally, the waters coming from granitic and/or metamorphic terrains of the Iberian Variscan basement (Vitalis, Luso, Carvalhelhos, Fastio, Serra da Estrela) display the most radiogenic Sr isotopic signatures (87Sr/86Sr > 0,7136). In the modern commercial context, the differences encountered provide a powerful tool for fingerprinting the mineral water origin and may be used for purposes of mineral water authentication. The use of 87Sr/86Sr ratios may also be extended to studies on the provenance of some foods and beverages, taking into account the influence of the geological / pedological factor on the Sr isotopic composition recorded by the plants

Shelf-Ocean material exchange influencing the Atlantic chemical composition off NW Iberian margin since the last glaciation

Rivers are the main conduit of sediment to the shelf. The basin geology, the drainage area and the discharge rate are the major factors that determine their sediment load (Milliman and Syvistski, 1992). Besides suspended particles, dissolved components may also give some information on the eroded crust. Sr isotopes in carbonate shells of biological organisms have been used to study, in the geological record, the influence exerted by the chemical weathering of the continental crust on the seawater composition (Macdougall, 1991). In this work, Sr isotope ratios obtained in tests of foraminifera representing the last 40 ka are presented and discussed in the scope of the palaeogeographical evolution of NW Iberia. This work aims to present and discuss the results of Sr isotope analyses (performed, by TIMS, in the Isotope Geology Laboratory of the University of Aveiro) of tests of two species of foraminifera, from nine samples taken along the OMEX core KC 024-19 (181 cm; 42°08’98’’N, 10°29´96’’W, and 2765m), collected in the Galicia Bank area, off Galicia. Taking into account that Sr contained in the carbonate tests is usually considered as preserving the signature of the contemporaneous seawater, one planktonic species (Globigerina bulloides) and one benthic species (Cibicides wuellerstorfi) were selected in order to try to detect Sr isotope variations both through time and between two different levels of the water column. The core age model, which records the last 40 ka, is based on a combination of oxygen isotope stratigraphy, eight AMS 14C datings and the synchronisation of the last four Heinrich Events in the Iberian Margin sedimentary records. As a whole, the obtained 87Sr/86Sr ratios vary between 0.709209 and 0.709108, with a mean 2σ error of 0.000025. These values lie within the range of modern marine Sr isotope ratios (0.70910-0.70922), as previously defined using analyses of both seawater and marine carbonates (see compilation by Faure and Mensing, 2005). Despite their small variation, the 87Sr/86Sr ratios obtained in G. bulloides seem to indicate that Sr dissolved in seawater at the KC 024-19 core site became slightly less radiogenic after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). This decrease is concomitant with diminishing amounts of the detrital components in the sediments (Fig. 1). Therefore, both the composition of dissolved Sr, as revealed by results on tests of planktonic foraminifera, and the proportions of suspended terrigenous particulate material arriving at the KC 024-19 site point to a decreasing importance of the contribution of the erosion of the Iberian Variscan crust since the Last Glacial Maximum and in the Holocene. The 87Sr/86Sr ratios measured in tests of benthic foraminifera (C. wuellerstorfi) are more erratic and no correlation can be established with palaeogeographical/palaeoclimatic constraints. The difference between the behaviour of Sr compositions in G. bulloides and C. wuellerstorfi may indicate that whilst the planktonic foraminifera should reproduce very closely the seawater composition, the benthic organisms should, in addition to the major role of seawater, also be affected by some sort of interaction with the sediments. As such, planktonic foraminifera are probably more reliable indicators of seawater composition in studies involving very small periods and corresponding very slight variations of the 87Sr/86Sr ratios. Taking into account that G. bulloides is a common planktonic species (living mostly in the first 50m of the water column), whose tests seem to be in equilibrium with sea water composition, variations in its 87Sr/86Sr ratios can be related with changes in the chemical composition of the water of the Atlantic Ocean off NW Iberian Margin. The highest 87Sr/86Sr values are contemporaneous with a period of low sea level (about -140 m; Dias et al., 2000) during the LGM. According to Dias et al. (2000) at 18 ka BP the shoreline was close to the shelf break. The summital parts of the Gerês and Estrela mountains were covered by local glaciers and close to the coast freezing occurred frequently. The river catchments, which extended far to the shelf, received more rainfall due to a longer, compared to present day conditions, wet season, which promoted both physical and chemical weathering. Higher pluviosity combined with the effect of spring ice melting maintained high river discharge and consequently caused very important sediment supply to the coastal zone. The extremely narrow shelf was a very energetic environment due to sea bottom inclination and very limited long wave refraction. Therefore, at that time, a long wet season and very competent rivers should have caused important erosion of the Variscan basement in NW Iberia. Additionally, then, the shoreline was much closer to the KC 024-19 site. The combination of all these factors favoured an important deposition of terrigenous sediments and the local slight enrichment in radiogenic Sr of the seawater. With sea level rise, after the deglaciation and during the Holocene, the river estuaries became progressively far away from the shelf break. Their competence of transport also became progressively reduced and the offshore transport of detrital sediments became progressively lower. Conversely the biogenic carbonate proportion in the sediments increased, due to lower dilution by the terrigenous particles. Simultaneously, the values of 87Sr/86Sr in the seawater at the KC 024-19 site became lower, as a consequence of a complete homogenization with the ocean global composition, which was now more effective with the increasing distance towards shoreline

Novos dados petrográficos, geoquímicos e isotópicos sobre a área de concessão de Boa Fé (Montemor-o-Novo, Zona de Ossa-Morena)

A área do estudo situa-se na Zona de Cisalhamento de Montemor-o-Novo (Maciço de Évora, Zona de Ossa-Morena - ZOM). O trabalho incidiu sobre amostras de metassedimentos e metabasitos da Série Negra (Ediacarano), bem como de granitos tardi-variscos. Os metassedimentos vão de micaxistos a paragnaisses com a associação, de pico metamórfico, Qz+Pl+Bt+Ms+Opq ±Tur±Sil±Crd+Zrn. Os metabasitos são anfibolitos com paragénese Pl+Hbl+Qz+Mag+Ilm±Bt. Quer nos metassedimentos quer nos metabasitos, existem testemunhos de duas fases de deformação importantes, sendo uma xistosidade de crenulação a estrutura mais penetrativa. Aquelas duas fases de deformação dúctil deverão corresponder às fases variscas D1 e D2 do autóctone da ZOM. Ocorreu ainda deformação posterior, testemunhada por kinks e processos de subgranulação e recristalização afetando alguns grãos em zonas confinadas às proximidades imediatas de fraturas tardias, a qual deverá relacionar-se com a fase D3. Os granitos tardi-variscos são fortemente peraluminosos, tendo como minerais mais abundantes quartzo, microclina, plagioclase sódica e moscovite. Como acessórios ocorrem biotite, zircão, apatite, opacos, turmalina e silimanite. Em termos isotópicos, os valores de εSr320Ma variam entre +93 e +182, enquanto a gama de valores para εNd320Ma vai de -6.7 a -9.0, compatíveis com um forte contributo de anatexia dos metassedimentos da Série Negra na génese dos magmas que deram origem aos granitos tardi-variscos.The study area is located within the Montemor-o-Novo Shear Zone (Évora Massif, Ossa-Morena Zone - OMZ). The analysed samples are of metasediments and metabasites of the Série Negra lithostratigraphic unit (Ediacaran) and of late-Variscan granites. The metasediments are micaschists to paragneisses displaying Qz+Pl+Bt+Ms+Opq±Tur±Sil±Crd+Zrn as peak metamorphic assemblage. The metabasites are amphibolites displaying the paragenesis Pl+Hbl+Qz+Mag+Ilm±Bt. Microstructures observed in both types of metamorphic rocks document two major ductile deformation phases. The most penetrative tectonic anisotropy is a crenulation schistosity. Those major deformation phases probably correspond to the Variscan D1 and D2, previously recognized in the autochthon of the OMZ. There is also evidence for a later deformation stage, likely related to the Variscan D3: some grains, in narrow zones adjacent to late fractures, show kinks or were affected by subgranulation and recrystallization. The studied late-Variscan granites are strongly peraluminous, and have quartz, microcline, Na-plagioclase and muscovite as the most abundant minerals. Biotite, zircon, apatite, opaques, tourmaline and sillimanite occur as accessory minerals. Considering isotope geochemistry, εSr320Ma varies between +93 and +182, whilst the εNd320Ma values go from -6.7 to -9.0. These data can be explained by a strong involvement of anatexis of the Série Negra metasediments in the genesis of the granitic magmas

Procedure for Sr and Nd isotope analysis in the terrigenous component of marine sediments

Neste trabalho, apresenta-se um protocolo analítico para a obtenção das razões isotópicas 87Sr/86Sr e 143Nd/144Nd na fracção detrítica de sedimentos marinhos. Dado ser comum estes materiais apresentarem uma fracção biogénica carbonatada significativa, foram testadas diversas metodologias com o objectivo de extrair selectivamente os carbonatos sem comprometer a composição da componente terrígena. O ataque com ácido acético 5N durante 12h, à temperatura ambiente, revelou ser eficaz na remoção dos carbonatos e, simultaneamente, preservar fases detríticas que incorporam concentrações significativas de lantanídeos. A aplicabilidade do protocolo desenvolvido é ilustrado com a análise isotópica de amostras de um core colhido no talude continental da Galiza. Os resultados obtidos, em ambos os sistemas de decaimento radioactivo, para além de serem consistentes com a assinatura isotópica de materiais resultantes da erosão de crosta continental, também permitem detectar, através do decréscimo dos valores de εNd em determinados níveis do core, alguns episódios (eventos de Heinrich) em que a fonte crustal terá sido bastante diferente da habitual.In this paper, an experimental procedure for measuring 87Sr/86Sr and 143Nd/144Nd ratios in the detrital fraction of marine sediments is presented. Since these sediments commonly include a significant biogenic carbonate fraction, several methodologies were tested in order to leach the carbonates without compromising the composition of the terrigenous component. The extraction with 5N acetic acid for 12 hours, at room temperature, reveals (a) to be effective in the removal of carbonates, and (b) to preserve detrital phases that incorporate important amounts of REE. The applicability of this chemical procedure is illustrated with analyses done on samples from a core collected in the Galician continental slope. The results for both radiogenic decay systems, on one hand, are consistent with the isotope signature of material resulting from the erosion of continental crust and, one the other hand, allow the identification of several episodes of modification of the source areas involved