Technoeconomic analysis (TEA) is an approach for conducting process design and simulation, informed by empirical data, to estimate capital costs, operating mass balances, energy balances a commercial scale biorefinery. TEA serves as useful method screen potential research priorities, identify cost bottlenecks at the earliest stages of research, provide data needed conduct life-cycle environment...

Microalgae covers an extremely diverse type of unicellular microorganisms that use light and efficiently fix CO2 through the process photosynthesis [...]

Sumac is the common name for a genus (Rhus) that contains over 250 individual species of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae. These plants are found in temperate and tropical regions worldwide, often grow in areas of marginal agricultural capacity, and have a long history of use by indigenous people for medicinal and other uses. The research efforts on sumac extracts to date indicate a...

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Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) produce intracellular organelles called magnetosomes which are magnetic nanoparticles composed of magnetite (Fe3O4) or greigite (Fe3S4) enveloped by a lipid bilayer. The synthesis of a magnetosome is through a genetically controlled process in which the bacterium has control over the composition, direction of crystal growth, and the size and shape of the mineral cry...

On the basis of the developed approaches and mathematical model (MM) of the bioactive products drying block is carried out the optimization problem of the equipment choice and its operation modes in view of deleted binary mixture an ethanol water composition changes. The analysis of the problem with engaging of the Pontryagin’s maximum principle has revealed optimal control structure. There is ...

1 Institute of Agricultural Sciences (ICA), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Montes Claros, MG, Brazil 2Department of Bioengineering, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering, Bornim, Potsdam, Germany 3Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE), Campinas, SP, Brazil 4Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD...