LHW (liquid hot water), HCl (hydrochloric acid) and NaOH (sodium hydroxide) were used to pretreat sugarcane bagasse (SB), and composition assay showed that the carbohydrate content in NaOH pretreated SB got to 84.3% and lignin decreased to 3.4%, while the LHW and HCl pretreatments brought similar composition changes, where the carbohydrate content reached 61.2% and 66.6%, respectively, and the ...

Traditionally in swine nutrition, analyses of starch and fiber have focused on assessing quantity; however, both have a wide range of functional properties making them underappreciated nutrients. Starch ranging from low to high amylose changes from rapidly digestible in the upper gut to poorly digestible but fermentable in the lower gut thereby changing from a source of glucose to VFA source. L...

The loss of skeletal muscle mass with aging has been attributed to an impaired muscle protein synthetic response to food intake. Therefore, nutritional strategies are targeted to modulate postprandial muscle protein accretion in the elderly. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of protein administration during sleep on in vivo protein digestion and absorption kinetics and subseque...

In this study, the impact of thermal hydrolysis pretreatment (THP) on mono- and co-digestion thickened waste activated sludge (TWAS) food (FW) was carried out at temperatures 150, 170, 190, 210 °C volumetric ratios 90:10, 70:30, 50:50 in batch anaerobic tests. THP enhanced solubilization, reduced volatile suspended solids (VSS) particle size TWAS as temperature increased showing optimal improve...

This article proposes a methane production approach through sequenced anaerobic digestion of kitchen waste, determines the hydrolysis constants and reaction orders at both low total solid (TS) concentrations and high TS concentrations using the initial rate method, and examines the population growth model and first-order hydrolysis model. The findings indicate that the first-order hydrolysis mo...