In this study, the possibility of using tea production waste as a new casing material in mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) cultivation was investigated. Some physical and chemical characteristics of tea waste, fermented tea waste and a mixture of tea waste with peat were compared with that of peat casing, as were their effects on yield. The highest yield was obtained from peat casing. Using tea prod...

The objectives of this study were to examine and model the probability of growth of Listeria monocytogenes in cooked salmon containing salt and smoke (phenol) compound and stored at various temperatures. A growth probability model was developed, and the model was compared to a model developed from tryptic soy broth (TSB) to assess the possibility of using TSB as a substitute for salmon. A 6-str...

In this work, we study the diffusion characteristics and structure of molten salt FLiNaK with dissolved CeF3 in operating temperature range molten-salt reactor. The dependence self-diffusion coefficients ions that make up mixture is represented good accuracy as a linear dependence, except for case Ce ions. As rule, Li F are more mobile than Na K significantly so slow coordination numbers their ...

A microfluidic device denoted the Phase Chip has been designed to measure and manipulate the phase diagram of multicomponent fluid mixtures. The Phase Chip exploits the permeation of water through poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) in order to controllably vary the concentration of solutes in aqueous nanoliter volume microdrops stored in wells. The permeation of water in the Phase Chip is modeled us...

Separation of a mixture of the main cytokinins occurring naturally in plant tissues was achieved by high pressure liquid chromatography using insoluble polyvinylpyrrolidone as the solid support. The separation of each cytokinin was first assessed over a range of salt and l-butanol concentrations and pH using a mixture of borate buffer and l-butanol as the mobile phase to determine the condition...

The road conservation activities allow to maintain the characteristics of platform elements ensure that vehicle mobility is carried out comfortably and safely. orographic conditions Spain, with a large length high mountain roads others at sea level; winter weather events, low temperatures, thermal gradients, wind, water, ice, snow… which cause deposits particles, filler, soils, small metals, or...

The equilibrium phase behavior of a binary mixture of charged colloids and neutral, nonadsorbing polymers is studied within free-volume theory. A model mixture of charged hard-sphere macroions and ideal, coarse-grained, effective-sphere polymers is mapped first onto a binary hard-sphere mixture with nonadditive diameters and then onto an effective Asakura-Oosawa model [S. Asakura and F. Oosawa,...

Increasing the operating temperature of molten salt-based concentrated solar power plants is paramount importance to enable next-generation gas turbines and an overall increase in conversion efficiency. The issue how mitigate degradation necessary metallic components highly corrosive salt environments. In this study, three eutectic mixture candidates, nitrates, carbonates, chlorides, are brough...