The degradation of wine distillery wastewaters by aerobic biological treatment has been investigated in a batch reactor. The evolution of the chemical oxygen demand, biomass and total contents of polyphenolic and aromatic compounds was followed through each experiment. According to the Contois model, a kinetic expression for the substrate utilization rate is derived, and its biokinetic constant...

Identification of mathematical models is an important task for the design and the optimization of biokinetic processes. Monod or Tessier growth-rate models are often chosen by default, although these models are not able to represent the dynamics of all bacterial growth processes. This imperfect representation then affects the quality of the model prediction. This paper introduces an alternative...

This review aims to highlight some aspects regarding anthocyanins bioavailability. Although there is a considerable variability in the values for the biokinetic parameters, anthocyanins appear to be rapidly absorbed and eliminated, reaching low maximal concentrations in plasma and urine. Nevertheless, some works have reported a high content of intact anthocyanins in plasma, possibly resulting f...

In this study, cometabolic biodegradation of chloroform was experimented with mixed cultures in the presence of various organic solvents like methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, acetone, acetonitrile and toluene as these are predominant discharges in pharmaceutical industries. Toluene and acetone showed higher specific chloroform degradation rate when compared to other compounds. Cometabolic degrad...

The feasibility of treating municipal wastewater by a combined ozone-activated sludge continuous flow system was studied. Lab-scale experiments of both single activated sludge and combined ozone-activated sludge processes were carried out to determine the kinetic coefficients of the biological stage. The results obtained indicated a clear improvement in the kinetic parameters of the aerobic oxi...

Immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors Pembrolizumab shows potential to be used as a first-line in cancer treatment. A biodistribution study could maximize efficacy and minimize the risk of Therefore, it is necessary describe 89Zr-Pembrolizumab. This aims create mathematical model explain how 89Zr-pembrolizumab distributed body. Biodistribution data from Biokinetic 89Zr-Pembrolizumab NSG mice...

In this work, an optimization-based approach is presented which recognises the switching to new parameters or even to a different model at a certain growth rate improving the quality of model prediction for different time horizon lengths. For the dynamic automatic adjustment to changing kinetics, a moving horizon estimator (MHE) is used. Experimental data from cultivation of Ustilago maydis are...

A biokinetic modelling approach, able to simulate dynamically the uptake and turnover of radionuclides by biota, was applied to the eastern Irish Sea coast case study which has recently been assessed using the non-dynamic, concentration factor (CF)-based ERICA methodology (Hosseini et al., 2007). An additional case study of short-term pulsed discharges has also been used to demonstrate the usef...