A decision support system to reduce energy consumption has been validated during five months in a flat sheet membrane bioreactor pilot plant treating urban wastewater. Membrane bioreactor technology consists of biological nutrient removal combined with physical separation using microfiltration or ultrafiltration membranes for wastewater treatment. The main operational cost in membrane bioreacto...

The National Egyptian Agenda 2030 recently adopted the concepts of sustainable cities, mitigating and adapting to climate change. This study responded these by treating sewage reuse it in softscaping recycling sludge reduce energy consumption support heating systems producing biogas. Of limitations this study, focuses on a compound propose model increase sustainability cities. used many technol...

In coffee, bioreactors are the most promising way for scaling-up micropropagation processes, particularly somatic embryogenesis. The availability of an efficient somatic embryogenesis process would allow the rapid mass production of heterozygous materials such as selected Coffea canephora clones and F1 Arabica hybrid varieties. For the last fifteen years, bioreactors (mechanically or pneumatica...

Optimization and control in spite of plant uncertainties is always a challenge, especially if additional constraints about measurements are present. Here, two different approaches to solve this problem are compared using simulation. They aim at reducing the operation time of bioreactors with inhibitory behavior where measuring the reaction rate is not feasible. The “Adaptive Extremum Seeking” p...

Abstract In-vitro meat production has entered into the phase of pilot-commercial scale from conceptual-laboratory phase. The main challenge for in-vitro on a commercial is very high cost its production, mainly due to cell culture media, growth regulators, and requirement highly skilled manpower. development serum-free animal-free media with plant, microbial, fungi-derived compounds through reco...

Plants have been identified as promising expression systems for commercial production of vaccine antigens. In phase I clinical trials several plant-derived vaccine antigens have been found to be safe and induce sufficiently high immune response. Thus, transgenic plants, including edible plant parts are suggested as excellent alternatives for the production of vaccines and economic scale-up thro...

Plants provide an inexpensive and convenient system for the large-scale production of valuable recombinant proteins. This principle has been demonstrated by the commercial success of several first-generation products, and many others are currently under development. Over the past ten years, several efficient plant-based expression systems have emerged, and >100 recombinant proteins have now bee...

This study investigated the optimum mixture ratio of greenhouse tomato plant residues, wheat straw, and separated dairy manures for composting. Five 127-L laboratory-scale bioreactors were used to investigate the effect of separated dairy manure addition on the composting process of a tomato plant residues-wheat straw mixture. The wastes were mixed at 5 different ratios during the trials and we...

Bimbo – Ricolino candy manufacturing plant in Mexico City was discharging wastewater with high amount of fats oil and grease and dissolved sugars. Local regulatory agency requested that suspended solids, oil and grease and dissolved BOD be almost completely removed prior to discharge to municipal plant. The available real estate in Mexico City was very limited. A multistep treatment system was ...

Plants are a rich source of valuable secondary metabolites and in the recent years plant cell, tissue and organ cultures have been developed as an important alternative sources for the production of these compounds. Adventitious roots have been successfully induced in many plant species and cultured for the production of high value secondary metabolites of pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and indu...