Biodiesel obtained through the transesterification in methanol of vegetable oils, such as soybean oil (SO) and waste cooking (WCO), cannot be used a biofuel for automotive applications due to presence polyunsaturated fatty esters, which have detrimental effect on oxidation stability (OS). A method upgrading this material is catalytic partial hydrogenation acid methyl ester (FAME) mixture. The t...

The discovery of itaconic acid as a product citric pyrolytic distillation in 1837 opened the possibility using it polymer building block. Itaconic acid, featuring two carboxylic acids and an unsaturated group, can potentially be used block several chemical syntheses, with particular emphasis on manufacture. elucidation biochemical pathways originating from first Aspergillus terreus and, recentl...

Polyester based particle reinforced composites were developed using varying weight fractions (ranging from 0 to 30 wt%, at 5 wt% interval) of microcrystalline wood charcoal powder (75µm). Quantitative, qualitative and functional characterization (WC) particles polyester matrix was carried out successfully energy dispersive x-ray spectrophotometer (EDXRF), Fourier transform infrared spectrometer...

This study has endeavored to develop an Al2O3-filled natural fiber reinforced polymer composite which is intended substitute the most widely used synthetic E-glass material. To attain desired objective of work, 0, 5, 10, and 15 wt% chopped flax/unsaturated polyester resin have been developed by conventional hand-lay-up method followed a compression molding process. Consequently, characterizatio...

Temperature-sensitive, unsaturated fatty acid (fabB) auxotrophs of Escherichia coli can grow at the restrictive temperature in the absence of unsaturated fatty acid in a medium with a high osmotic pressure. If a mutant culture was starved for unsaturated fatty acids and harvested just before the lysis started, the fatty acid composition of the cells was the same as that of cells grown until lat...

Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 gene CA_C0359 encodes a putative unsaturated rhamnogalacturonyl hydrolase (URH) with distant amino-acid sequence homology to YteR of Bacillus subtilis strain 168. YteR, like other URHs, has core structural homology to unsaturated glucuronyl hydrolases, but hydrolyzes the unsaturated disaccharide derivative of rhamnogalacturonan I. The crystal structure of the...

Drcarboxylic aciduria is a condition sometimes encountered during routine urine screening for inborn errors of metabolism [l] and may be due to ketosrs, a transient condition m some neonates [2] or a number of enzyme deficiencies mainly involving fatty acid metabolism or transport. Unsaturated dicarboxylic acids have also been reported m some of these conditions. These compounds are usually det...

A new type of unsaturated poly ester-amide was prepared by melt polycondensation and characterized completely. Influence of heat treatment conditions and cross-linking content on mechanical and degradation properties of unsaturated polyester-amide were studied. Results suggested that the newly synthesized unsaturated poly(ester-amide) possessed good heat stabilization properties. Mechanical...