|
|
Article: United States: Olive Oil Inspires Novel Nanotechnology Wastewater Cleanup Material.
- Article from:
- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- June 18, 2008
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2008 Al Bawaba (Middle East) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: Mamta03
Researchers from the University of Naples in Italy and the University of Massachusetts in the U.S. have shown that a combination of aluminum oxide nanoparticles and polymerin, a biomaterial that can be recovered from olive oil mill wastewaters, can potentially be used to adsorb phenanthrene, a hazardous compound derived from the combustion of carbon fuels, from polluted waters. The article says that the Italian researchers first recovered polymerin from olive oil mill wastewater, which is itself has considerable polluting properties, in a 2002 study. The researchers found that polymerin is naturally rich in metal cations and could potentially be ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Olive oil seeps its way into mainstream cooking
St. Joseph News-Press;
August 6, 2003 ;
700+ words
... ... of wars, leaders and religious upheavals. It's olive oil. Olive oil was brought to America from the Mediterranean more ... physical ailments. In ancient Islam, people applied olive oil to their bodies as a holy sacrament. And the Christian ...
|
|