During the last 50 years, ion exchange membranes have evolved from a laboratory tool to industrial products with significant technical and commercial impact. Today ion exchange membranes are receiving considerable attention and are successfully applied for desalination of sea and brackish water and for treating industrial effluents. They are efficient tools for the concentration or separation o...

Nowadays use of edible films and coatings is increasing due to their biodegradability properties. Fish gelatin obtained from fish skin wastes can be used as an appropriate protein compound for preparing the edible films. It can be also replaced pork gelatin. In this study, films were prepared from fish gelatin and phenolic compound caffeic in four levels of 0%, 1%, 3% and 5% at pH>10, temperatu...

Microbial biosurfactants with high ability to reduce surface and interfacial surface tension and conferring important properties such as emulsification, detergency, solubilization, lubrication and phase dispersion have a wide range of potential applications in many industries. Significant interest in these compounds has been demonstrated by environmental, bioremediation, oil, petroleum, food, b...

Currently, much of our biodegradable wastes such as kitchen wastes, agricultural wastes & animal wastes are used to produce Biogas, a powerful greenhouse gas. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a treatment that composts these wastes in the absence of oxygen, producing a biogas that can be used to generate Heat & Power. Producing renewable energy from our biodegradable wastes helps to tackle the energy...

Amylase is one of the most important enzymes widely used in paper, textile, pharmaceutical industries etc. In the present investigation a thermostable, alkalophilic amylase was isolated from underlying soil samples of domestic wastes, and was screened on starch agar medium. The amylase activity was measured using colorimetric method at 540nm. Among forty five isolates, thirteen demonstrated cle...

Pectinases, a cocktail enzyme consists of group of enzymes that degrade the pectin substances that is present in the middle lamella of plants. The Pectin mainly constitutes Dgalacturonic acid based on α1, 4 glycosidic linkages and forms a macromolecule. This Pectinases enzyme breakdown the complex polysaccharides into simple molecules like galacturonic acids. As the global trend was increased t...

Contaminant hydrology is the study of processes that affect both ground and surface water pollution. It draws on the principles of hydrology and chemistry. Contaminant hydrology and water quality research seeks to understand the role of soil properties and hydrologic processes on ground and surface water pollution and develop strategies to mitigate their impacts. Research is done at all scales ...

The growing interest on the replacement of synthetic antioxidants with natural ones has directed many research toward the plant-derived raw materials. The special attention is focused on inexpensive or residual sources from food agricultural industries. Fruit peels are valuable wastes obtained from domestic and industrial sources. The potential of fruit wastes as sources of natural antioxidants...

pharmaceutical industry is currently undergoing a transient phase with new orientation. loss of financial resources, presence of new therapeutic agents and increasing cost of research and development have called for a full.scale restructuring within the pharmaceutical industry to retain even the most basic competitiveness. the development of new technologies has been as one way out of the dilem...