Background: D-Phenylglycine aminotransferase (D-PhgAT) is highly beneficial in pharmaceutical biotechnology. Like many other enzymes, D-PhgAT suffers from low stability under harsh processing conditions, poor solubility of substrate, products and occasional microbial contamination. Incorporation of miscible organic solvents into the enzyme’s reaction is considered as a solution...

Using a thermal-lattice Boltzmann model, we examine the rich phase behavior that develops when partially miscible fluids evolve in the presence of a vertical temperature gradient, which encompasses the critical temperature T(c) of the mixture. In particular, a binary AB fluid is confined between two plates in a gravitational field. The upper plate is fixed below T(c) and hence, the nearby fluid...

The structural basis of immiscibility of stearic acid (SA) in two unsaturated lipids at room temperature was examined. A 5% SA mixture in octadec-9-enoic acid (OA) is cloudy; a 5% SA solution in the methyl ester of OA (MeOA) is fully miscible. At 10% SA in MeOA, a clear and immiscible phase formed. The composition of this immiscible phase however was not 10% SA, but 25% SA. Adding additional SA...

We propose a description for transient penetration simulations of miscible and immiscible fluid mixtures into anisotropic porous media, using the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method. Our model incorporates hydrodynamic flow, advection-diffusion, surface tension, and the possibility for global and local viscosity variations to consider various types of hardening fluids. The miscible mixture consists o...

Unlocking oil from tight reservoirs remains a challenging task, as the existence of fractures and oil-wet rock surfaces tends to make recovery uneconomic. Injecting gas in form foam is considered feasible technique such for providing conformance control reducing gas-oil interfacial tension (IFT) that allows injected fluids enter matrix. This paper presents modeling strategy aims understand beha...

Primal discontinuous Galerkin methods with interior penalty are proposed to solve the coupled system of flow and reactive transport in porous media, which arises from many applications including miscible displacement and acid-stimulated flow. A cut-off operator is introduced in the discontinuous Galerkin schemes to treat the coupling of flow and transport and the coupling of transport and react...