This article describes the calibration of a spectroscopic scanning instrument for the measurement of selected contaminants in a complex biological process stream. Its use is for the monitoring of a process in which contaminants are to be removed selectively by flocculation from yeast cell homogenate. The main contaminants are cell debris, protein, and RNA. A low-cost instrument has been develop...

We constructed a novel cell-surface display system, using as a new type of cell-wall anchor 3,297 or 4,341 bp of the 3' region of the FLO1 gene (FS or FL gene, respectively), which encodes the flocculation functional domain of Flo1p. In this system, the N terminus of the target protein was fused to the FS or FL protein and the fusion proteins were expressed under the control of the inducible pr...

The main aim of this work was to study the removal efficiency of Pb from synthetic and industrial wastewaters by using biomass fly ashes. The biomass fly ashes were produced in a biomass boiler of a pulp and paper industry. Three concentrations of Pb(2+) were tested in the synthetic wastewater (1, 10 and 1000 mg Pb/L). Moreover, two different wastewaters were collected in an industrial wastewat...

A bioflocculant-producing bacterial strain with highly mucoid and ropy colony morphological characteristics identified as Bacillus spp. UPMB13 was found to be a potential bioflocculant-producing bacterium. The effect of cation dependency, pH tolerance and dosage requirement on flocculating ability of the strain was determined by flocculation assay with kaolin as the suspended particle. The floc...

Some antigen-antibody reactions as they are observed in the testtube may be divided, for convenience of study, into two phases: (i) combination, and (2) the secondary aggregation which results in flocculation or agglutination. When strong concentrations of the reactants are mixed--potent hemagglutinin or precipitin and its homologous antigen--the second phase becomes immediately visible and obv...

Industrial wastewater contains a lot of pollutants and therefore needs special treatment processes. The treatment process may contain mechanical, biological, chemical, physical and physiochemical such as Coagulation – Flocculation process. The goal of this experimental work was to investigate the effects of coagulationflocculation and dissolved air flotation as a hybrid process of industrial wa...

Membrane filtration is one of the alternatives suggested for the future drinking water production. Worldwide, the total number of ceramic membrane usage for water treatment is increasing swiftly and this is the first ceramic filtration study which is applied to a surface water treatment in a tropical region. This study was conducted to investigate the removals of natural organic matter and path...

The principal focus of this paper is to present a critical review of current approaches to modelling the inter-related hydrodynamic, physical and chemical processes involved in the flocculation of water using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The flows inside both laboratory and full scale mechanically-mixed flocculators are complex and pose significant challenges to modellers. There exists a...

1. The effect of adding pure proteins to bacterial suspensions at different H ion concentrations has been studied. 2. The zone of flocculation of protein-treated bacteria bears a significant relationship to the isoelectric point of the protein used. With the higher concentration of protein, agglutination occurs at or near the isoelectric point of that protein; at reactions acid to this, the bac...