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Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Education•Kharagpur, India•
About: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is a education organization based out in Kharagpur, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Natural rubber & Dielectric. The organization has 16887 authors who have published 38658 publications receiving 714526 citations.
Topics: Natural rubber, Dielectric, Microstructure, Population, Heat transfer
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TL;DR: The PM 10 and its chemical species mass concentrations were measured once in a week at residential (Kasba) and industrial (Cossipore) sites of an urban region of Kolkata for a period of 24h during November 2003 to November 2004 as discussed by the authors.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined linkages among transportation intensity, the extent of urbanization, CO2 emissions, and economic growth, and found that passenger carriage intensity should be improved in the developing countries within the G-20 for the purpose of propelling economic growth.
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TL;DR: In this article, an extended lattice Boltzmann (LB) formulation is developed for simulation of three-dimensional heat diffusion, coupled with solid-liquid phase transition aspects, which is subsequently utilized to simulate a generic laser surface melting process and compared with the continuum model results obtained by solving the governing equation for energy transport.
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TL;DR: In this article, the Pople 6-311G* basis set was used to measure the hardness and polarizability of a molecule around its equilibrium geometry, and it was shown that any nontotally symmetric distortion in bond length or bond angle along the vibrational symmetry coordinates decreases the equilibrium hardness value.
Abstract: Molecular vibrations in ammonia (NH3) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S), and internal rotations in hydrogen peroxide (HOOH), hydrogen thioperoxide (HSOH), hydrogen persulfide (HSSH), and ethylene (C2H4) are studied using ab initio SCF methods at the Hartree−Fock level using a standard Pople 6-311G** basis set. Polarizability values are calculated using both Pople's and Sadlej's basis sets. Any nontotally symmetric distortion in bond length or bond angle along the vibrational symmetry coordinates of a molecule around its equilibrium geometry decreases the equilibrium hardness value and increases the equilibrium polarizability value. During rotational isomerization the minimum energy conformation corresponds to the maximum hardness and minimum polarizability values and the maximum energy conformation corresponds to the minimum hardness and maximum polarizability values. Density functional calculations confirm these observed trends. In general we have found that the conditions of maximum hardness and minimum polari...
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TL;DR: It is highlighted that indigenous community of refinery sludge was intrinsically diverse, yet appreciable rate of in situ bioremediation could be achieved by supplying adequate N sources.
Abstract: Nutrient deficiency severely impairs the catabolic activity of indigenous microorganisms in hydrocarbon rich environments (HREs) and limits the rate of intrinsic bioremediation. The present study aimed to characterize the microbial community in refinery waste and evaluate the scope for biostimulation based in situ bioremediation. Samples recovered from the wastewater lagoon of Guwahati refinery revealed a hydrocarbon enriched [high total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH)], oxygen-, moisture-limited, reducing environment. Intrinsic biodegradation ability of the indigenous microorganisms was enhanced significantly (>80% reduction in TPH by 90 days) with nitrate amendment. Preferred utilization of both higher- (>C30) and middle- chain (C20-30) length hydrocarbons were evident from GC-MS analysis. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and community level physiological profiling (CLPP) analyses indicated distinct shift in community’s composition and metabolic abilities following nitrogen (N) amendment. High throughput deep sequencing of 16S rRNA gene showed that the native community was mainly composed of hydrocarbon degrading, syntrophic, methanogenic, nitrate/iron/sulfur reducing facultative anaerobic bacteria and archaebacteria, affiliated to γ- and δ-Proteobacteria and Euryarchaeota respectively. Genes for aerobic and anaerobic alkane metabolism (alkB and bssA), methanogenesis (mcrA), denitrification (nirS and narG) and N2 fixation (nifH) were detected. Concomitant to hydrocarbon degradation, lowering of dissolve O2 and increase in oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) marked with an enrichment of N2 fixing, nitrate reducing aerobic/facultative anaerobic members [e.g., Azovibrio, Pseudoxanthomonas and Commamonadaceae members] was evident in N amended microcosm. This study highlighted that indigenous community of refinery sludge was intrinsically diverse, yet appreciable rate of in situ bioremediation could be achieved by supplying adequate N sources.
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Rajdeep Mohan Chatterjee | 110 | 990 | 51407 |
Vijay P. Singh | 106 | 1699 | 55831 |
Arun Majumdar | 102 | 459 | 52464 |
Sanjay Gupta | 99 | 902 | 35039 |
Biswajeet Pradhan | 98 | 735 | 32900 |
Sandeep Kumar | 94 | 1563 | 38652 |
Jürgen Eckert | 92 | 1368 | 42119 |
Praveen Kumar | 88 | 1339 | 35718 |
Tuan Vo-Dinh | 86 | 698 | 24690 |
Lawrence Carin | 84 | 949 | 31928 |
Anindya Dutta | 82 | 248 | 33619 |
Aniruddha B. Pandit | 80 | 427 | 22552 |
Krishnendu Chakrabarty | 79 | 996 | 27583 |
Ramesh Jain | 78 | 556 | 37037 |
Thomas Thundat | 78 | 622 | 22684 |