This brief commentary reviews the concept of nest fouling, and advances the view that a different approach to giving expert testimony (that of impartially assisting the court) will largely negate nest-fouling issues.

Cereal Chem. 83(3):311–314 Dry-grind corn processing facilities produce ethanol, carbon dioxide, and distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS). To produce DDGS, drygrind corn processors concentrate thin stillage in multieffect evaporators. Concentration of thin stillage uses large amounts of energy, and efficient operation is important for long-term economic stability of the industry. Little...

A thermal fouling study was undertaken using three sour Canadian crude oils. Experiments were carried out in a recirculation fouling loop, equipped with an annular (HTRI) electrically heated probe. Fluids at pressures of about 10001340 kPa under a nitrogen atmosphere were re-circulated at a velocity of 0.75 m/s for periods of 48 hours, and the decline in heat transfer coefficient followed under...

The concept of establishing direct correlations between the operating flux, represented by the conversion, and fouling potential of membrane systems has always been of tremendous interest to membrane technology researchers, plant end-users and membrane manufacturers since the advent of membrane technology’s commercial applications worldwide some forty years ago. Several attempts were made to ef...

one of the barriers during whey filtration using uf membrane is the fouling phenomenon of the membrane, which is caused by whey proteins. in this work, the uf membranes were prepared using polysufone (psf), dimethyl formamide (dmf), 1 wt.% poly vinyl pyrrolidone (pvp) and different concentrations of licl via phase inversion induced by immersion precipitation. the prepared membranes were charact...