Pectin methylesterase (PME) was extracted from bananas and purified by affinity chromatography. The thermal-high-pressure inactivation (at moderate temperature, 30-76 degrees C, in combination with high pressure, 0.1-900 MPa) of PME was investigated in a model system at pH 7.0. Under these conditions, the stable fraction was not inactivated and isobaric-isothermal inactivation followed a fracti...

We investigate the problem of free convection heat transfer near an isothermal stretching sheet. This has been done under the simultaneous action of buoyancy, radiation, and transverse magnetic field. The governing equations are solved by the shooting method. The velocity and temperature functions are represented graphically for various values of the flow parameters: radiation parameter F, free...

Abstract A boundary layer analysis is presented for the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics of an incompressible micropolar fluid flowing over a plane moving surface in parallel or in reverse to the free stream. The isothermal boundary condition has been treated in this paper. The resulting system of non-linear ordinary differential equations is solved by the multi-stage continuous Run...

An isothermal process [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isothermal_process] is one which occurs at a constant temperature. In order for such a process to occur there should be a heat reservoir [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_reservoir], a large body in thermal contact with the system which has a temperature that will not significantly change as heat is exchanged with it. We will consider a quasi...

The thermodynamic principle of virtual dissipation is given a formulation with variations of the field components freed from any constraints. Application of the principle and the introduction of a new state variable called heat content leads to the integro-differential field equations of thermorheology. Rigorous Lagrangian equations are also obtained which avoid the use of the entropy produced ...

Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) is a technique used to determine the thermodynamic properties of a chemical or physical equilibria. While the most abundant applications lie in the field of biochemical characterization, its use has increased in other fields because of minimal sample and buffer restrictions. The foundation of this technique is based on the simple measurement of heat, q. Be...

a series of tialon coatings were synthesized in a gaseous mixture of argon, nitrogen and oxygen by cathodic arc evaporation method using a ti–al mosaic target. oxidation of coatings was carried out by heating the coated samples at the temperatures of 500, 600, 700, and 800°c for 1 h in air atmosphere. it was found that heat treatment changed the microstructure and composition of the coating. th...

reaction constants and heat release during thermophilic aerobic digestion of typical secondary and mixed sludges were determined. maximum reaction constant, determined by measuring the amounts of biodegradable volatile suspended solids (bvss) removed, occurred in the temperature range of 55-60 ºc. measurement of heat releases were carried out, at the same range, by the aid of a temperature prog...

The scale up of an isothermal micro-trickle bed reactor operated under radio frequency (RF) heating has been performed. The effect of the reactor length, tube diameter and number of parallel tubes on the temperature non-uniformity parameter has been studied. The axial and radial temperature profiles were calculated using a 2D convection and conduction heat transfer problem with heat transfer pr...

Corresponding Author: Mehdi Zeyghami Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: A similarity solution for laminar boundary layer in a buoyancy induced flow over an isothermal, vertical wall in the presence of radiation is developed. Radiation heat transfer is taken into account by application of the Rosseland approx...