The management and control of food waste is currently seen as a growing concern; anaerobic digestion promising alternative for the valorization waste. This study evaluates effect application three pretreatments (grinding, pH control, thermal treatment) organic load employing high alkalinity inoculum methane production through BMP tests, using Taguchi L8 experimental design 4 factors 2 levels, r...

Abstract Corncobs are composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Cellulose hemicellulose monomeric sugars that can be utilized as carbon sources for microbial growth bioproduct formation. However, corncobs present several challenges due to their complex recalcitrant nature. Addressing these increased enzymatic accessibility requires pretreatment methods break down resistant structures, t...

The effect of pulsed electric field (PEF) and/or mild thermal processing at 60 °C (T60) on the cooking behaviour potato tissue in media with different Ca 2+ concentrations (0–0.5%) was investigated. rate constant for texture degradation during seemed to decrease after pretreatments order Untreated > T60 PEF PEF-T60, but only a significant (α = 0.05) could be found case combination pretreatment ...

An innovative nanophotonic sensor using bioengineered nanobodies as receptors enables ultrasensitive COVID-19 detection and viral load determination in a 15 min assay without sample pretreatments.

and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) are collaborating to understand how biomass pretreatments with much different deconstruction patterns impact the chemical and ultrastructural features of biomass and its biological conversion to sugars. Dilute sulfuric acid (DA), ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX), and ionic liquid (IL) pretreatments are applied to the same source of corn stover by the BESC,...

Pretreatment is among the most costly steps in the overall biological conversion of cellulosic biomass to fuels and chemicals. Pretreatment also has a profound effect on all other operations from choice and preparation of feedstock all the way to final product recovery and use of process residues. Yet, because cellulosic biomass is naturally resistant to breakdown to release the sugars containe...

Wood drying, such as boxed-heart square timber, often involves surface checks, which spoils the appearance of wood products and reduces their market value. Pretreatments are performed to avoid but detailed information about strain during timber drying remains unclear. In this study, detections were using two types sensors (strain gauge optical fiber sensor) understand dimensional changes a seri...