scholarly journals Metagenomic Insights Into the Diversity of Halophilic Microorganisms Indigenous to the Karak Salt Mine, Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leena Mavis Cycil ◽  
Shiladitya DasSarma ◽  
Wolf Pecher ◽  
Ryan McDonald ◽  
Maria AbdulSalam ◽  
...  
1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 221-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Martín-Alonso

The Llobregat is a 156 km long river, which supplies 35% of the Barcelona's drinking water needs from the Sant Joan Despí Water Treatment Plant. Since the establishment of the Salt Mine Works in the Llobregat basin in 1923, a progressive salinization of the water sources has been recorded. The operation of the Brine Collector, as a public work carried out by Aigües de Barcelona (AGBAR), started in 1989; it enabled a very significant improvement in the quality of the surface water used for drinking-water production.


Author(s):  
SIDDHARTH V.DE SHMUKH ◽  
PRADNYA P.KAN EKAR ◽  
RAMA K.BHAD EKAR ◽  
SUNIL K. DHAR

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander H. Frank ◽  
Robert van Geldern ◽  
Anssi Myrttinen ◽  
Martin Zimmer ◽  
Johannes A. C. Barth ◽  
...  

AbstractThe relevance of CO2 emissions from geological sources to the atmospheric carbon budget is becoming increasingly recognized. Although geogenic gas migration along faults and in volcanic zones is generally well studied, short-term dynamics of diffusive geogenic CO2 emissions are mostly unknown. While geogenic CO2 is considered a challenging threat for underground mining operations, mines provide an extraordinary opportunity to observe geogenic degassing and dynamics close to its source. Stable carbon isotope monitoring of CO2 allows partitioning geogenic from anthropogenic contributions. High temporal-resolution enables the recognition of temporal and interdependent dynamics, easily missed by discrete sampling. Here, data is presented from an active underground salt mine in central Germany, collected on-site utilizing a field-deployed laser isotope spectrometer. Throughout the 34-day measurement period, total CO2 concentrations varied between 805 ppmV (5th percentile) and 1370 ppmV (95th percentile). With a 400-ppm atmospheric background concentration, an isotope mixing model allows the separation of geogenic (16–27%) from highly dynamic anthropogenic combustion-related contributions (21–54%). The geogenic fraction is inversely correlated to established CO2 concentrations that were driven by anthropogenic CO2 emissions within the mine. The described approach is applicable to other environments, including different types of underground mines, natural caves, and soils.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Pearse ◽  
Andrés Cárdenas Contreras ◽  
Carol Vanessa Barrera Lopez ◽  
Nataly Castillo Ruiz ◽  
Henry Martínez Gómez ◽  
...  
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Author(s):  
Thomas Mainka ◽  
David Weirathmüller ◽  
Christoph Herwig ◽  
Stefan Pflügl

Abstract Saline wastewater contaminated with aromatic compounds can be frequently found in various industrial sectors. Those compounds need to be degraded before reuse of wastewater in other process steps or release to the environment. Halophiles have been reported to efficiently degrade aromatics, but their application to treat industrial wastewater is rare. Halophilic processes for industrial wastewater treatment need to satisfy certain requirements: a continuous process mode, low operational expenditures, suitable reactor systems and a monitoring and control strategy. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of halophilic microorganisms, principles of aromatic biodegradation, and sources of saline wastewater containing aromatics and other contaminants. Finally, process examples for halophilic wastewater treatment and potential process monitoring strategies are discussed. To further illustrate the significant potential of halophiles for saline wastewater treatment and to facilitate development of ready-to-implement processes, future research should focus on scale-up and innovative process monitoring and control strategies.


2013 ◽  
Vol 63 (Pt_10) ◽  
pp. 3563-3567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Yan Zhang ◽  
Yuan Meng ◽  
Xu-Fen Zhu ◽  
Min Wu

A novel extremely halophilic archaeon KCY07-B2T was isolated from a salt mine in Kuche county, Xinjiang province, China. Colonies were cream-pigmented and cells were pleomorphic rod-shaped. Strain KCY07-B2T was able to grow at 25–50 °C (optimum 37–45 °C) and pH 6.0–8.0 (optimum 7.0). The strain required at least 1.9 M NaCl for growth. MgCl2 was not required. Cells lysed in distilled water. Polar lipid analysis revealed the presence of phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylglycerol phosphate methyl ester, derived from both C20C20 and C20C25 glycerol diethers, together with five glyolipids. The bis-sulfated glycolipid S2-DGD-1 was present. The DNA G+C content was 62.5 mol%. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strain KCY07-B2T was closely related to Halopiger xanaduensis SH-6T and Halopiger aswanensis 56T (95.8 % and 95.5 % similarity, respectively). On the basis of its phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and genotypic characteristics, strain KCY07-B2T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Halopiger , for which the name Halopiger salifodinae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is KCY07-B2T ( = JCM 18547T = CGMCC 1.12284T).


Geophysics ◽  
1945 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack W. Peters ◽  
Albert F. Dugan

During May, 1944, detailed gravity and magnetic surveys were made at the Grand Saline Salt Dome to secure additional information on the physical properties of this typical East Texas salt dome. The results of the surface gravity and magnetic surveys, and the subsurface gravity survey in the Morton Salt Mine are illustrated and discussed. Densities and the available subsurface data were compiled and were utilized in a quantitative evaluation of the observed gravity data. The theoretical mass distribution which was determined by this quantitative evaluation is not intended to represent the unique solution of the geophysical and geological data; instead, it is offered as a possible solution based on relatively simple assumptions.


2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 450-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jervian Johnson ◽  
Pamidimarri D. V. N. Sudheer ◽  
Yung-Hun Yang ◽  
Yun-Gon Kim ◽  
Kwon-Young Choi

FEBS Letters ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
D.J. Kushner

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