Agar from South African Seaweeds

Bioethanol a by-product of agar and carrageenan production industry from the tropical red seaweeds, Gracilaria manilaensis and Kappaphycus alvarezii

The two red seaweeds, Gracilaria manilaensis and Kappaphycus alvarezii are cultivated in Malaysia for producing agar and carrageenan, respectively. The residues of these seaweeds after removing agar and carrageenan by dilute acid treatment were subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis using cellulase (Cellic CTec 2). In the optimization of enzymatic hydrolysis, highest glucose concentration was achiev...

Nutritional composition of seaweeds from the Northern

Analysis of Scale from Some South African

Several samples of evaporator scale collected during the 1993 and 1994 milling seasons were analysed using x-ray diffraction, x-ray fluorescence, scanning electron microscopy and optical microscopy. The results were evaluated in terms ofcurrent knowledgeofevaporator foulingand similar trends were found to those published in the literature. From these results, typical evaporator scale profiles c...

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

South African History [Apartheid]

After the Second World War, in 1948, the NP, with its ideology of apartheid that brought an even more rigorous and authoritarian approach than the segregationist policies of previous governments, won the general election. It did so against the background of a revival of mass militancy during the 1940s, after a period of relative quiescence in the 1930s when black groups attempted to foster unit...