Microalgae have increasingly gained research interest as a source of lipids for biodiesel production. The wet way processing of harvested microalgae was suggested and evaluated with respect to the possible environmental impacts and production costs. This study is focused on the three key steps of the suggested process: flocculation, water recycling, and extraction of lipids. Microalgae strains ...

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We entrapped lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia in polyallylamine-mediated biomimetic silica, and then applied entrapped lipase to the synthesis of biodiesel with soybean oil or waste cooking oil as a feedstock. The effects of reaction temperature, substrate molar ratio (methanol/oil) and n-hexane content (w/w of oil) were evaluated using response surface methodology (RSM) combined with Box-Behnke...

The antibacterial activity of Citrus karna fruit peel extracts was evaluated on bacteria strains like Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis. Hexane, chloroform and methanol were used for extraction and the antibacterial activity was performed by agar well diffusion method. The results were compared with ampicillin, a commercial antibacterial agent...

The title compound, C(20)H(30)O(2), {systematic name: (4aR,6aS,7R,11aS,11bR)-4,4,7,11b-tetra-methyl-1,2,3,4,4a,5,6,6a,7,11,11a,11b-dodeca-hydro-phenanthro[3,2-b]furan-4a-ol}, is a cas-sane furan-oditerpene which was isolated from the roots of Caesalpinia pulcherrima. The absolute configurations at positions 4a, 6a, 7, 11a and 11b are R, S, R, S and R, respectively. The mol-ecule has four-fused ...

In vitro antibacterial activities of hexane, chloroform and methanolic crude extracts of Abrus precatorius seeds were tested against ten clinical isolates using the agar well diffusion technique. Hexane, chloroform and methanolic extracts were obtained using the soxhlet extractor on A. precatorius seeds. To measure the MIC values, various concentrations of the stock, 500, 250, 100, 75, 50, 35, ...

The ethanolic extract of Aloe vera leaf skin was fractionated by liquid-liquid partition using hexane, ethyl acetate, chloroform-ethanol and butanol. The total phenolic content of the four different fractions were determined by Folin-Ciocalteu method and their antioxidant activity was essayed through some in vitro models such as the antioxidant capacity by phosphomolybdenum method, β-carotene b...

The mixed solvated salt 4-(2-chloro-dibenzo[b,f][1,4]oxazepin-11-yl)piperazin-1-ium acetate-acetic acid-cyclo-hexane (2/2/1), C17H17ClN3O(+)·C2H3O2 (-)·C2H4O2·0.5C6H12, crystallizes with one mol-ecule of protonated amoxapine (AXPN), an acetate anion and a mol-ecule of acetic acid together with half a mol-ecule of cyclo-hexane. In the centrosymmetric crystal, both enanti-omers of the protonated ...

In West Africa and Nigeria in particular, many virgin plants are still waiting to be evaluated for their medicinal importance. Claims of plants with folk medicinal applications need to be evaluated and verified. Gomphrena celosioides (family – Amaranthaceae) is a weed grown in lawns and the biological activity of the extract had earlier been established. In the present study, the plant was coll...

In West Africa and Nigeria in particular, many virgin plants are still waiting to be evaluated for their medicinal importance. Claims of plants with folk medicinal applications need to be evaluated and verified. Gomphrena celosioides (family - Amaranthaceae) is a weed grown in lawns and the biological activity of the extract had earlier been established. In the present study, the plant was coll...