The modeling and optimization of a dehydrogenation reactor in the industrial styrene monomer plant has been proposed in this study. Because this reactor consumes large amount of expensive high-pressure steam to produce the styrene monomer (usually more than two third of total energy costs), the minimization of the operating cost is highly desirable to maximize the profit. However, it is not eas...

Oils of plant origin have been predominantly used for food-based applications. Plant oils not only represent a non-polluting renewable resource but also provide a wide diversity in fatty acids (FAs) composition with diverse applications. Besides being edible, they are now increasingly being used in industrial applications such as paints, lubricants, soaps, biofuels etc. In addition, plants can ...

Nowadays, the optimal control of a heat integrated industrial plant becomes one of the most important research areas in the chemical industry. There are at least two main reasons why this topic is interesting: first, the reduction of production costs applying the heat integration techniques and second, process optimization through advanced control alternatives, when taking into account the impr...

Wearable computing promises to gain efficiency improvements in industrial applications due to augmentation of the device as well as improved interaction between the user and the device. In this paper, we present the results of a study with focus on utilization of wearable computing in industrial service applications. Our study consisted of a preliminary market scan with regard to wearable compu...

R. García-Gonzáles, K. Quiroz, B. Carrasco, and P.D.S. Caligari. 2010. Plant tissue culture: Current status, opportunities and challenges. Cien. Inv. Agr. 37(3): 5-30. In the last two decades plant biotechnology applications have been widely developed and incorporated into the agricultural systems of many countries worldwide. Tissue culture tools have been a key factor to support such outcomes....

Abstract. A pilot plant for treating 1,000m of textile dyeing wastewater per day with electron beam has constructed and operated continuously in Daegu, Korea since 1998. This plant is combined with biological treatment system and it shows the reduction of chemical reagent consumption, and also the reduction in retention time with the increase in removal efficiencies of CODCr and BOD5 up to 30~4...

Nutraceutical compounds as plant flavonoids play an important role in prevention and modulation of diverse heath conditions, as they exert interesting antifungal, antibacterial, antioxidant, and antitumor effects. They also possess anti-inflammatory activities in arthritis, cardiovascular disease or neurological diseases, as well as modulatory effects on the CYP450 activity on diverse drugs. Mo...

In nature, fructans are synthesized from sucrose by various microbial and plant species. Depending on the source, fructans can contain from two to more than a hundred thousand fructose units linked by β-(2→1) (inulin-type) or β(2→6) (levan-type) glycosidic bonds. Bacteria produce levan or inulin polymers via a one-enzyme process aimed to confer competitiveness in the interaction with the host p...