High solid anaerobic digestion (HSAD) is a rapidly developed anaerobic digestion technique for treating municipal sludge, and has been widely used in Europe and Asia. Recently, the enhanced HSAD process with thermal treatment showed its advantages in both methane production and VS reduction. However, the understanding of the microbial community is still poor. This study investigated microbial c...

Aloe vera gel is widely used as a functional ingredient in food processing. This gel is very unstable due to its high water activity. Drying process can be used to obtain shelf stable products. Response surface methodology was used to assess the effects of solution concentration (30-60% w/w), solution temperature (30-50°C) and immersion time (4-6h) at atmospheric pressure and constant solution ...

objective(s):the present study reports the development and validation of a sensitive and rapid extraction method beside high performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of crocetin in human serum. materials and methods:the hplc method was carried out by using a c18 reversed-phase column and a mobile phase composed of methanol/water/acetic acid (85:14.5:0.5 v/v/v) at the flow...

A new concept of fabricating thermal energy storage modules using high-conductivity, solid-solid, shape memory alloys is demonstrated here to eliminate the capacity-power tradeoff common in solid-liquid designs. First, three compositions Nickel titanium were solution heat treated and characterized differential scanning calorimetry Xenon Flash down-select a promising material (Ni50.28Ti49.36) wi...

Investigation was carried out to study the effect of different carrier materials namely, maltodextrin (MD) and gum Arabic (GA) with original juice (OJ) on viscosity of reconstituted beetroot (Beta vulgaris L.) juice powder at different solid contents (Xs) 10 to 50% and wide range of temperature 10 to 85°C. The rheological parameter shear stress was measured up to the shear rate of 1000 s-1 by c...

Core cross-linked star polymers of low polydispersity were efficiently prepared in high yield by RAFT-mediated emulsion and dispersion polymerizations in water at high solid content. These star polymers were demonstrated to be effective emulsifiers, and the emulsion was successfully used as template to fabricate polymer particles.