To revise / revisit basic control schemes covered in the second year control course (Process Control I). Schemes to be discussed are: • Feedback control • Feedforward Control • Cascade Control • Ratio Control For each scheme a typical process example is used to highlight the application of the methodology. On completion of this section of the course you should have an awareness of a common proc...

The map of nutrition, evident in the structure of any course or textbook, derives from theses that framed a science begun in the 1840s, developed until the 1940s, and consolidated until now. Nutritionists now are as perplexed as the explorers of half a millennium ago, who continued to use maps that did not fit the wider world they found. Until the 1600s, alternatives to Ptolemaic cosmology rema...

Enterococci from pigs in Denmark, Spain, and Sweden were examined for susceptibility to antimicrobial agents and copper and the presence of selected resistance genes. The greatest levels of resistance were found among isolates from Spain and Denmark compared to those from Sweden, which corresponds to the amounts of antimicrobial agents used in food animal production in those countries. Similar ...

Flavie Luce Goutard senior epidemiologist 1 , Marion Bordier PhD candidate , Clémentine Calba research assistant , Elisabeth Erlacher-Vindel head of science and new technologies department , Delfy Góchez chargée de mission , Katinka de Balogh senior officer , Carolyn Benigno antimicrobial projects coordinator , Wantanee Kalpravidh regional manager , Francois Roger director 1 , Sirenda Vong regi...

Biodiesel is a promising alternative, and renewable, fuel. As its production increases, so does production of the principle co-product, crude glycerol. The effective utilization of crude glycerol will contribute to the viability of biodiesel. In this review, composition and quality factors of crude glycerol are discussed. The value-added utilization opportunities of crude glycerol are reviewed....