Biological transformation processes types

Descriptions of the Major Types of Biological Transformation Processes... 

Research to date has focused primarily on azo and anthraquinone dyes, due to their commercial importance. Environmental processes including biodegradation, photolysis, sorption to soils and sediment, and abiotic transformation in sediment /water systems have been studied. The quantity of dyes apparently entering and potentially passing through wastewater treatment systems unaltered has prompted research on the behavior of these chemicals in biological and other types of wastewater treatment systems. 

A chemical process system comprises of a set of interconnected physical, chemical, biological and even information technological unit processes. The functional task of a chemical process system is the transformation of the type, properties and composition of given raw materials to result in a desired material product with given specifications. This transformation process is implemented in a process plant which consists of various pieces of equipment dedicated to one or more related unit processes in order to achieve the sequence of... 

When discussing factors controlling the distribution of organic compounds in seawater, several types of processes must be considered. These include biological production and consumption, geochemical and biological transport processes and chemically and biochemically controlled transformation reactions. 

Many biological processes involve an associa tion between two species in a step prior to some subsequent transformation This asso ciation can take many forms It can be a weak associ ation of the attractive van der Waals type or a stronger interaction such as a hydrogen bond It can be an electrostatic attraction between a positively charged atom of one molecule and a negatively charged atom of another Covalent bond formation between two species of complementary chemical re activity represents an extreme kind of association It often occurs in biological processes in which aide hydes or ketones react with amines via imine inter mediates... 

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