EFFECT OF CHARCOAL QUALITY ON TOXICITY OF HOOKAH TOBACCO

Author(s):  
Н.Н. БУБНОВА ◽  
Е.А. БУБНОВ

Анализ современного российского рынка табачной продукции свидетельствует о росте популярности смесей для кальяна. Особенностью данного продукта является специфика его потребления: нагрев с использованием натурального древесного или кокосового угля. Угарный газ – монооксид углерода в дыме кальяна появляется вследствие сгорания угля. Исследованы качественные характеристики угля для кальяна – влажность, продолжительность розжига и горения, динамика изменения температуры чаши и калауда в процессе работы кальянной системы – и его влияние на органолептические свойства кальянного дыма и содержание монооксида углерода в нем. В качестве объекта исследования были образцы угля для кальяна на основе скорлупы грецкого ореха (Украина), на основе скорлупы кокосового ореха (Индонезия), а также быстровозгорающийся древесный уголь, пропитанный селитрой (Польша). Установлено, что содержание монооксида углерода в аэрозоле при использовании угля из скорлупы грецкого ореха на 20% ниже, чем при использовании угля из скорлупы кокосового ореха, и в 10 раз ниже, чем при нагревании быстровозгорающимся древесным углем, пропитанным селитрой. Угли из скорлупы грецкого ореха и скорлупы кокоса имеют большую, чем быстровозгорающийся древесный уголь, продолжительность розжига, однако они характеризуются большей продолжительностью горения, меньше влияют на органолептическое восприятие курильщика и подходят для использования в любых кальянных системах (с калаудом и без него). Analysis of modern Russian market of tobacco products indicates that popularity of hookah tobacco is increasing. The main distinctive feature of this product is peculiarity of its consuming. It is heated by natural charcoal or coconut charcoal. Carbon monoxide in hookah aerosol appears due to burning process of utilized charcoal. Qualitative characteristics of charcoal – humidity, time of starting charcoal burning and time of burning, dynamics of temperature change of the bowl and kalaud during the hookah system are investigated. The effect of hookah charcoal on the organoleptic properties of hookah smoke and the carbon monoxide content in it has been determined. Samples hookah charcoal made of walnut shells (Ukraine), charcoal made of coconut shells (Indonesia), quick lighted charcoal made of wood charcoal and impregnated with niter (Poland) were used as the object of the study. It was found that the carbon monoxide content in the aerosol when using walnut shells charcoal is 20% lower than when using coconut shells charcoal, and 10 times lower than when using quick lighted charcoal. Despite the fact that charcoals from walnut shell and from coconut shell have a much longer time of starting burning than quick lighted charcoal, they are characterized by a longer burning, less affect the organoleptic perception of the smoker and are suitable for use in any hookah systems (with calaud and without it).

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 714
Author(s):  
Vladimír Frišták ◽  
Martin Pipíška ◽  
Vladimír Turčan ◽  
Stephen M. Bell ◽  
Haywood Dail Laughinghouse ◽  
...  

Elevated or unnatural levels of arsenic (As) and phosphorus (P) concentrations in soils and waterbodies from anthropogenic sources can present significant hazards for both natural ecosystems and human food production. Effective, environmentally friendly, and inexpensive materials, such as biochar, are needed to reduce mobility and bioavailability of As and P. While biochar features several physicochemical properties that make it an ideal contaminant sorbent, certain modifications such as mineral-impregnation can improve sorption efficiencies for targeted compounds. Here, we conducted sorption experiments to investigate and quantify the potential utility of magnesium (Mg) for improving biochar sorption efficiency of P and As. We synthesized a Mg-modified walnut shells-derived biochar and characterized its ability to remove As and P from aqueous solutions, thereby mitigating losses of valuable P when needed while, at the same time, immobilizing hazardous As in ecosystems. SEM-EDX, FTIR and elemental analysis showed morphological and functional changes of biochar and the formation of new Mg-based composites (MgO, MgOHCl) responsible for improved sorption potential capacity by 10 times for As and 20 times for P. Sorption efficiency was attributed to improved AEC, higher SSA, chemical forms of sorbates and new sorption site formations. Synthetized Mg-composite/walnut shell-derived biochar also removed >90% of P from real samples of wastewater, indicating its potential suitability for contaminated waterbody remediation.


Medicine ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 94 (19) ◽  
pp. e783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nai-Ching Chen ◽  
Chi-Wei Huang ◽  
Shu-Hua Huang ◽  
Wen-Neng Chang ◽  
Ya-Ting Chang ◽  
...  

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 896-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Lee Rodkey ◽  
Harold A Collison

Abstract A sensitive gas chromatographic method for blood CO determination was used to analyze samples of reduced and oxygenated blood having identical low CO content. Oxygenated blood always released more CO than did the reduced samples when neutral ferricyanide was used as oxidant. Several reagents for CO release from blood were applied to both oxygenated and reduced samples. CO release by K3Fe(CN)6 from oxygen-free blood or COHb solutions was complete and constant from pH 1.5 to 6. Values of extra CO released from oxygenated samples varied from 0.003 vol % at pH 1.5 to over 0.015 vol % at pH 6. The least amounts of excess CO were produced between pH 2 and 4.5. Neutral K2Cr2O7 causes less excess CO formation than does K3Fe(CN)6, but the rate of reaction with COHb is low. Neutral KMnO4 and acid K2Cr2O7 cause extreme formation of excess CO from blood in amounts many times the amount of COHb present. Acid KIO3 effectively releases CO from COHb solutions and reduced blood, but causes more excess CO formation from oxygenated blood than K3Fe(CN)6. When CO is released in citric acid with K3Fe(CN)6 at a pH of about 3.5, the CO released from oxygenated blood is only about 0.001 vol % greater than that released from reduced samples. These differences indicate formation of small amounts of CO during reactions used to release CO from blood. Reduced hemoglobin and carboxyhemoglobin appear to be much more stable to these procedures than is oxyhemoglobin.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 6359
Author(s):  
Elena David

Conversion experiments of wet and dry walnut shells were performed, the influence of moisture content on the hydrogen yield in the gas fraction was estimated and the resulted biochar structure was presented. Measurements of the biochar structures were performed using X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy methods. The results demonstrate that heating rate played a key role in the pyrolysis process and influenced the biochar structure. Under fast heating rate, the interactions between the water vapors released and other intermediate products, such as biochar was enhanced and consequently more hydrogen was generated. It could also be observed that both biochar samples, obtained from wet and dry walnut shells, had an approximately smooth surface and are different from the rough surface of the raw walnut shell, but there are not obvious differences in shape and pores structure between the two biochar samples. The increasing of the biochar surface area versus pyrolysis temperature is due tothe formation of micropores in structure. The biochar shows a surface morphology in the form of particles with rough, compact and porous structure. In addition the biochar structure confirmed that directly pyrolysis of wet walnut shells without predried treatment has enhanced the hydrogen content in the gas fraction.


1966 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1368-1370 ◽  
Author(s):  
S M Ayres ◽  
A Criscitiello ◽  
S Giannelli

JAMA ◽  
1933 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER O. GETTLER

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