Written sources and iconographic evidence suggest that honey beehive products, used in culinary, medicinal, technological functions since pre-Neolithic times, were likely known Phoenician Punic Sardinia. The role of these resources is nonetheless poorly understood because no direct survives on a macroscopic level. Significant advances the knowledge about beeswax products processing past have be...

This work reviews two mechanical separation technologies (screw press and decanting centrifuge) which could be used in the dairy, beef, pig anaerobic digestion sectors nutrient-vulnerable zones order to improve sustainability of manure digestate management by decreasing agricultural phosphorus loss reducing environmental impact on water quality. Capital operating costs, efficiency throughput, p...

In this paper, centrifuge-based microfluidic platforms are reviewed and compared with other popular microfluidic propulsion methods. The underlying physical principles of centrifugal pumping in microfluidic systems are presented and the various centrifuge fluidic functions, such as valving, decanting, calibration, mixing, metering, heating, sample splitting, and separation, are introduced. Thos...

The production of olive oil in Morocco has recently grown considerably for its economic and nutritional importance favored by the country's climate. After the extraction of olive oil by pressing or centrifuging, the obtained liquid contains oil and vegetation water which is subsequently separated by decanting or centrifugation. Despite its treatment throughout the extraction process, this olive...

The systematic generation of process alternatives for multicomponent heterogeneous or homogeneous distillation systems is described. Alternatives based on distillation and decanting alone must generally be expanded by mixing and occasionally by recycling to provide highpurity products. For azeotropic mixtures, systematic considerations of recycles further expand those alternatives to meet the a...

Sludge management accounts for approximately 60% of the total wastewater treatment plant expenditure and laws for sludge disposal are becoming increasingly stringent, therefore much consideration is required when designing a solids handling process. A membrane thickening aerobic digestion process integrates a controlled aerobic digestion process with pre-thickening waste activated sludge using ...

This performance study focuses on sommeliers, delving into what constitutes their work and the process of achieving this title. Sommeliers are wine specialists tasked with responsibility ensuring that beverages served properly in combination food. Similar to other craft persons, sommelier’s is connected knowledge products, primarily beverages, products’ relation different foods. The art tasting...

A new dispersant for stabilization of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in water that simultaneously utilizes three different dispersion or stabilization mechanisms: surfactant adsorption, polymeric wrapping, and Coulomb repulsive interaction, has been demonstrated. The new dispersant, a charged rod-like nanoparticle (cROD), is a cylindrical micelle wrapped by negatively charged polymers whi...

Many studies have shown that mycorrhizal inoculations enhance the growth and nutrient uptake by plants. However, in Nepal, the focus of study is being given to the leguminous plants. To study the effect of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM) in the biomass production of wheat, common VAM fungus Glomus microcarpum was inoculated in four varieties of wheat (Triticum aestivum) (i.e. WK 810, WK 1...

The aim of this study was to optimize the conditions for the passive adsorption of polyclonal antibody onto plain surface polystyrene latex particles and its performance in a slide latex agglutination test for rotavirus antigen detection. Cleaning of latex particles by washing through repetitive centrifuging, decanting and resuspending in distilled water was adequate in removing surfactants fro...