Objectives: In the past decade many areas of Peru have been undergoing extreme environmental, economic, and cultural change. In the highland hamlet of Chugurpampa, La Libertad, climate change has ruined harvests and led to frequent periods of migration to the coast in search of livelihood. This...

3 - 5 July 2019 - Coimbra

Successful removal and eradication of invasive non-native species (INNS) relies on early detection, ideally with pathway screening, to prevent any spread or outbreak in to a new region. The collection of DNA from environmental samples, known as environmental DNA or eDNA, is a revolutionary...

It may not sound particularly appealing, but human-derived wastewater contains a number of nutrients, including nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium....

Oil pollutions reduce the potential of soils for optimal use in agriculture and crop production. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are a large group of oil contaminants with carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic effects. Phenanthrene, fluorine, anthracene and pyrene are tri and four-cyclic aromatic...

To release reducing sugars from cocoa pod shell, sulphuric acid pre-treatment was adopted where the variables affecting H2SO4 pre-treatment i.e., cocoa pod shell weight, H2SO4 concentration, microwave irradiation time and power were screened using one factor at a time approach. The weight of cocoa...

DNA polymerase (Taq) enzyme isolated from Thermus aquaticus, a thermostable gram-negative bacterium, is a basic component of PCR, widely used in life sciences. The extraction and purification of this enzyme involves time-consuming and expensive steps such as precipitation of proteins with PEI...

Moringa oleifera seed meal (MOSM) was used as test ingredient to formulate six test diets and were supplemented with graded levels (0, 300, 600, 900, 1200 and 1500 FTU kg-1) of phytase. The fingerlings were fed at the rate of 4% of live fish body weight twice a day and faeces were collected from...

The present study deals with the treatment of textile effluent using electrochemical techniques on pilot scale (70 L). One of the major problems encountered in the textile industry is the production of large volumes of highly colored wastewater. The scope of this new electrochemical treatment is a...