Several high pressure (HP) treatments (100-400 MPa; 15 and 30 min) were applied to Chinese "Junchang" liquor, and aging characteristics of the liquor were evaluated. Results from the principal component analysis and the discriminant factor analysis of E-Nose demonstrated that HP treatment at 300 and 400 MPa resulted in significant (p < 0.05) changes in aroma components of the liquor. An increas...

Many industrial processes make use of sodium because is the fifth most abundant metal and seventh element on Earth. Consequently, there are many sodium-containing wastes that could potentially be used for carbon capture, paving way towards a circular biobased economy. For example, common chemical NaOH, which found in black liquor, by-product paper pulp industry. Nonetheless, literature availabl...

The cementitious materials under consideration by Caltrans for rigid pavement construction may be classified into four categories: Portland cements and blends, calcium aluminate cements and blends, calcium sulfoaluminate cements, and fly ash-based cements. With the exception of Portland cements, most of the cementitious materials under consideration have not been extensively used for pavement c...

Biomass pigments have been regarded as promising alternatives to conventional synthetic dyestuffs for the development of sustainable and clean dyeing. This investigation focused on in situ dyeing of fabrics with biopigments derived from tea polyphenols via non-enzymatic browning reaction. The average particle size of dyed residual liquor with natural tea polyphenol was 717.0 nm (ranging from 61...

BACKGROUND Chinese Nong-flavor (NF) liquor is continuously and stably produced by solid-state fermentation technology for 1000 years, resulting in enrichment of special microbial community and enzymes system in its starter. Based on traditional culture-dependent methods, these functional enzymes are hardly obtained. According to our previous metatranscriptomic analysis, which identifies plenty ...

Alkali activated materials (AAMs) have gained great attention as a new low-carbon binder. However, their durability performance, e.g. chloride ingress resistance, still needs further improvement. This study attempts to enhance the binding of AAMs by activating slag with sodium aluminate aim promote in-situ formation layered double hydroxides (LDHs). The evolution pH and ions in pore solution, r...