BACKGROUND Liquid hot water (LHW) pretreatment is an effective and environmentally friendly method to produce bioethanol with lignocellulosic materials. In our previous study, high ethanol concentration and ethanol yield were obtained from water-insoluble solids (WIS) of reed straw and corn stover pretreated with LHW by using fed-batch semi-simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (S-SSF)...

Bioethanol is considered to be the most optimistic biofuel. Hydrated ethanol with more than 2% (v/v) of water is not completely miscible with gasoline, so complete dehydration of ethanol is required. Distillation alone cannot concentrate ethanol beyond its azeotropic point so various other methods are used to concentrate ethanol to completely anhydrous state in short span of 93-99.80% (w/w) eth...

Global transcription machinery engineering (gTME) was employed to engineer xylose metabolism. Mutation of the transcription factor gene Sptl5 was introduced by error-prone PCR, followed by screening on media using xylose as the sole carbon source. One recombinant strain growing well on such media was chosen for further research. This strain showed modest growth rates in the media containing 50 ...

Transport of liquids by pervaporation takes place by a solution-diffusion mechanism. In order to investigate the “solution part” of this transport model, preferential sorption has been compared with preferential permeability. Sorption equilibria and pervaporation experiments for the systems water-ethanol-cellulose acetate, water-ethanol-polyacrylonitrile and water-ethanol-polysulfone have been ...

Ethanol intake stimulates expression of galanin in several hypothalamic sites, including the paraventricular nucleus. Because injection of galanin in the paraventricular nucleus induces eating, we hypothesized that galanin might also affect ethanol intake. Rats were given ad libitum access to 4% ethanol for 4 weeks and assigned to one of two groups according to levels of ethanol consumption: hi...

PURPOSE This study compared the dentin collagen cross-linking potential of carbodiimide (EDC) prepared in three most commonly used solvents in dental adhesive systems: water, ethanol, and acetone. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-eight extracted caries-free human permanent molars were used in this study. Demineralized dentin beams were prepared and cross linked by 0.3 M EDC in water, acetone, or ...

A modified method for calculating practical ethanol yield in the simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) at high lignocellulosic solids content and high ethanol titer is proposed considering the liquid volume change caused by high titer ethanol generation and the water consumed during cellulose degradation. This modified method was applied to determine the practical ethanol yields ...

I. The effects have been compared of long-term administration of similar amounts of ethanol given either diluted in drinking water or spaced out in the form of intoxicating doses. 2. The effect of ethanol on the development of liver lesions produced by a marginal diet was examined. The measurements of growth rate, water balance, plasma glucose and electrolytes, rate of ethanol elimination, and ...

Common ethanol detection methods are not applicable to cell culture media and microdialysates due to interference with medium constituents including amino acids and pH indicators. We present a novel GC-MS method for the accurate and precise analysis of ethanol in cell cultures and microdialysates. The method is based on the carbonate-catalyzed extractive pentafluorobenzoylation of ethanol and d...