Xylose-to-xylitol bioconversion by Ca-alginate entrapped Candida guilliermondii cells in sugarcane bagasse hemicellulosic hydrolysate was carried out in erlenmeyer flasks using the repeated-batch mode of fermentation. The hydrolysate was supplemented or not with ammonium sulfate and/or rice bran extract at the beginning of each repeated batch. Altogether, six sets of three repeated-batches were...

This study evaluates the market power and cost efficiency of China’s rice processing firms through a stochastic frontier function. The effect on is tested using two-stage ordinary least squares method Hausman-Taylor type instrumental variable. On average, in industry have weak but high efficiency, which has been declining since 2008 global financial crisis. Firms with stronger exhibit higher co...

In order to increase economic growth, the Government of Indonesia is making efforts accelerate infrastructure projects, one which Trans Sumatera Toll Road. This expected help growth and connectivity on island. Island an area that has abundant natural resource potential. However, this potential not been fully developed by considering construction study aims develop a leading sector-based industr...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a primary global food cereal. However, when compared to wheat, rice has poor food processing qualities. Dough that is made from rice flour has low viscoelasticity because rice seed lacks storage proteins that are comparable to gluten protein from wheat. Thus, current research efforts aim to improve rice flour processing qualities through the transgenic expression of vi...

Biomass is an important source of renewable energy in Thailand and currently is the second major energy sources in the country, especially for households and small industries in rural area. It provides basic energy requirement for cooking and process heating in residential and manufacturing sectors as well as for processing in traditional industries. Four major sources of biomass in Thailand ar...

Proteases are a group of enzymes, found in all living organisms and are essential for the cell growth and differentiation. The proteases have wide applications in pharmaceutical, leather, laundry, food and waste processing industries. Their catalytic function is to hydrolyze peptide bonds of proteins and break them down into polypeptides or free amino acids. The present study was aimed at isola...

All important decisions about the variety of rice grain end product are based on the different features of rice grain. There are various methods available for classification of basmati rice. This paper proposed a new principal component analysis based approach for classification of different variety of basmati rice. The experimental result shows the effectiveness of the proposed methodology for...

In foodstuff trade, grading of coarse food resources is essential because samples of stuffs are subjected to adulteration. In the precedent, foodstuffs in the appearance of granules were conceded through sieves or supplementary mechanical way for grading purposes. In this manuscript, investigation is performed on basmati rice granules; to appraise the act via image processing and Neural Network...