Systemic Transport

Figure 41-10. Schematic representation of types of transport systems. Transporters can be classified with regard to the direction of movement and whether one or more unique molecules are moved. (Redrawn and reproduced, with permission, from Alberts B et al Molecular Biology of the Cell. Garland, 1983.)...

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Thermal conduction (also referred to as electrical conductive heating or in situ thermal desorption) supplies heat to the soil through steel wells or with a blanket that covers the ground surface. As the polluted area is heated, the contaminants are destroyed or evaporated. Steel wells are used when the polluted soil is deep. The blanket is used where the polluted soil is shallow. Typically, a carrier gas or vacuum system transports the volatilized water and organics to a treatment system. 

All of the organ systems in the body, except the reproductive system, contribute to the maintenance of homeostasis (see Table 1.1). For example, the gastrointestinal tract digests foods to provide nutrients to the body. The respiratory system obtains oxygen and eliminates carbon dioxide. The circulatory system transports all of these materials and others from one part of the body to another. The renal system eliminates wastes and plays a role in regulating blood volume and blood pressure. 

Although lots of information is available on dilute phase transport that is useful for designing such systems, transport in the dense phase is much more difficult and more sensitive to detailed properties of the specific solids. Thus, because operating experimental data on the particular materials of interest are usually needed for dense phase transport, we will limit our treatment here to the dilute phase. 

In all classification systems, transporters are divided into families and further segregated into subfamilies. Saier and co-workers established a universal classification system called the transport commission (TC) system, which is based on both function and phylogeny [44] (see Figure 2). The main types of transporters are presented in Figure 3. 

Figure 1.6 Vesicular transport of proteins within the cell. Vesicles from the endoplasmic reticulum [A] carry protein to the Golgi complex, they are repackaged in the Golgi from which they leave to form primary lysosomes [B] or fuse with the plasma membrane this is to add proteins or to be secreted from the cell [C]. In the Golgi, new vesicles are formed to transport the proteins to the plasma membrane (e.g. transport proteins or proteins for export) or the lysosomes. This system transports, safely, dangerous hydrolytic enzyme to the lysosomes and it also protects membrane proteins, or proteins for export, from degradation in the cytosol.

The major polymers that make up the wall are polysaccharides and lignin. These occur together with more minor but very important constituents such as protein and lipid. Water constitutes a major and very important material of young, primary walls (2). The lignin is transported in the form of its building units (these may be present as glucosides) and is polymerized within the wall. Those polysaccharides which make up the matrix of the wall (hemicelluloses and pectin material) are polymerized in the endomembrane system and are secreted in a preformed condition to the outside of the cell. Further modifications of the polysaccharides (such as acetylation) may occur within the wall after deposition. Cellulose is polymerized at the cell surface by a complex enzyme system transported to the plasma membrane (3). 

Based on the treatment of 50,000 tons of contaminated material, the preliminary cost estimate for using the STRATEX technology is approximately 125 to 150 per ton of material processed. The preliminary cost estimations include preliminary estimates of the operations and maintenance costs, including labor costs, system transport costs, binder costs, fuel costs, and travel costs (D14167D, p. 6). 

The steroid hormones are distributed throughout the entire organism by means of the circulatory system. Transport often occurs in the form of a complex with a specific binding protein. An example for such a binding protein is transcortin, which is responsible for the transport of the corticosteroids. The steroid hormones enter the cell by diffusion and activate the cytosolic receptors. 

FIGURE 11-34 Three general classes of transport systems. Transporters differ in the number of solutes (substrates) transported and the direction in which each is transported. Examples of all three types of transporters are discussed in the text. Note that this classification tells us nothing about whether these are energy-requiring (active transport) or energy-independent (passive transport) processes. 

Although the primary role of the proton gradient in mitochondria is to furnish energy for the synthesis of ATP, the proton-motive force also drives several transport processes essential to oxidative phosphorylation. The inner mitochondrial membrane is generally impermeable to charged species, but two specific systems transport ADP and Pj into the matrix and ATP out to the cytosol (Fig. 19-26). 

The production of species i (number of moles per unit volume and time) is the velocity of reaction,. In the same sense, one understands the molar flux, jh of particles / per unit cross section and unit time. In a linear theory, the rate and the deviation from equilibrium are proportional to each other. The factors of proportionality are called reaction rate constants and transport coefficients respectively. They are state properties and thus depend only on the (local) thermodynamic state variables and not on their derivatives. They can be rationalized by crystal dynamics and atomic kinetics with the help of statistical theories. Irreversible thermodynamics is the theory of the rates of chemical processes in both spatially homogeneous systems (homogeneous reactions) and inhomogeneous systems (transport processes). If transport processes occur in multiphase systems, one is dealing with heterogeneous reactions. Heterogeneous systems stop reacting once one or more of the reactants are consumed and the systems became nonvariant. 

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Thermal desorption is a physical separation process. Waste is heated to volatilize water and organic contaminants. A carrier gas or vacuum system transports volatilized water and organics to the gas treatment system. The bed temperatures and residence times designed for these systems will volatilize selected contaminants without oxidation. Three types of thermal desorption are available ... 

These experiments show that with increasing plasma energy the chemical equilibrium of the reaction (1) is shifted to the right in the C/N2 -system (transport direction 2 - Ei) whereas it is shifted to the left in the C/H2- and C/02-systems (transport direction -+E2). The mechanism of the transport was previously discussed for the C/N2-system28,35,43 and C/H2- and C/02-systems28,39,44. It was shown that the transport involves formation and subsequent decomposition of CN, simple hydrocarbon radicals and CO in the systems C/N2, C/H2 and C/02 respectively. 

It is assumed that radium that has been deposited in the lung as a radium salt enters the systemic circulation either as that salt or as individual radium atoms at a rate dependent upon the solubility and chemical characteristics of the specific radium salt involved. Subsequently, these salts or radium atoms would be systemically transported in the same manner as radium acquired by oral or parenteral administration. However, some of the radium in the lung could be retained for a long time before this process is completed. The ultimate distribution, many years after an inhalation exposure, would probably be very similar to that of other routes of administration that is, most of the radium that was retained in the body would eventually be deposited in the skeleton (Marinelli et al. 1953). 

Associative reactions involve the non-covalent binding of DOM molecules with one another or with other components of the system. As discussed in the previous section, these reactions, affect every aspect of DOM metabolism, microbial community organization, and cross system transport. 

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