The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of the extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) physical state on the kinetics of oxidative reactions. To this purpose, EVOO was stored at increasing temperatures from 3 to 60 degrees C and the oxidation was followed by measuring both primary and secondary oxidation products. Results highlighted that crystallization plays an important role in determining...

Three competing mathematical fitting models (a point-by-point estimation method, a linear fit method, and an isoconversion method) of chemical stability (related substance growth) when using high temperature data to predict room temperature shelf-life were employed in a detailed comparison. In each case, complex degradant formation behavior was analyzed by both exponential and linear forms of t...

A small bundle-sheath conductance (g bs) is essential for the C4 CO2-concentrating mechanism to suppress photorespiration effectively. To predict the productivity of C4 crops accurately under global warming, it is necessary to examine whether and how g bs responds to temperature. We investigated the temperature response of g bs in maize by fitting a C4 photosynthesis model to combined gas excha...

The respiration rate of green capsicum cv. ‘Swarna’ fruits harvested at mature green stage were determined under closed system at 10, 15 and 20 oC temperatures. A simple Michaelis-Menten kinetic model coupled with Arrhenius-type equation, which describes temperature as a function of respiration rate, was used to model the respiration rate of capsicum. The respiration rate model parameters at de...

Useful lifetime evaluation of railpads were very important in design procedure to assure the safety and reliability. It is, therefore, necessary to establish a suitable criterion for the replacement period of rail pads. In this study, we performed properties and accelerated heat aging tests of rail pads considering degradation factors and all environmental conditions including operation, and th...

The majority of recent temperature studies which have been made on enzyme systems indicate that their rate, like that of chemical reactions, increases exponentially with the absolute temperature in accordance with the Arrhenius equation. With enzymes, however, this temperature activation ceases above the inactivation temperature of the enzyme. For a specific enzyme system the energy of activati...

The rate of most chemical reactions increases exponentially with temperature in accordance with the Arrhenius equation. The older literature on enzyme-catalyzed reactions (for references cf. Haldane (1930), Tauber (1937)) indicates that these do not. conform, since the activation energy decreases with rise in temperature instead of being invariant. More recent studies do not confirm this genera...

Long-term thermal energy storage balances the seasonal variations in renewable supply and demand, but applied concepts require improved performance efficiency, reliability capacity. In principle, supercooling cold-crystallization offer a way to store heat for an extensive amount of time. this approach, crystallization behaviour material governs performance, as it directly relates optimal length...

Solid polymer electrolytes based on chitosan NaCF 3 SO 3 have been prepared by the solution cast technique. X-ray diffraction shows that the crystalline phase of the pure chitosan membrane has been partially disrupted. The fourier transform infrared (FTIR) results reveal the complexation between the chitosan polymer and the sodium triflate (NaTf) salt. The dielectric constant and DC conductivit...

An investigation of detonation diffraction through an abrupt area change has been carried out via a set of two-dimensional numerical simulations parametrized by the activation energy of the reactant. Our analysis is specialized to a reactive mixture with a perfect gas equation of state and a single-step reaction in the Arrhenius form. Lagrangian particles are injected into the flow as a diagnos...