... include: To develop an immobilized- cellhollowfibermembranebioreactortoalleviateinhibitors in lignocellulosic hydrolysate To investigate the performance of immobilized- cellhollowfibermembrane ... potential of the Immobilized- CellHollowFiberMembraneBioreactor in lignocellulosic bioethanolproduction The membranes barrier for cells could alleviate inhibitory effects of the toxic compounds ... of Immobilized- CellHollowFiberMembraneBioreactortoalleviate most of the critical problems encountered in lignocellulosic bioethanolproduction The membranes provided a barrier for cells to...
... thesis was to apply hollowfiber membrane- based technology to design novel hollowfibermembrane photobioreactors to simultaneously perform aerobic wastewater treatment and microalgal biomass production ... HFMP can be modified to a submerged hollowfibermembrane photobioreactor (SHFMP) to retrofit existing activated sludge treatment system In this configuration, the hollowfibermembrane bundles can ... 43 3.2 Membrane Contactor and Fiber Bundle Fabrication 43 3.2.1 Gas exchange hollowfibermembrane 43 3.2.2 Hollowfibermembrane contactor 44 3.2.3 Fiber bundle ...
... of dual-layer hollowfiber DCMD 219 9.1.2 Design of lotus-root-like multi-bore hollowfibermembranefor DCMD 220 9.1.3 Highly asymmetric multi-bore hollowfibermembranefor VMD 220 ... measurements for dual-layer hollowfiber D1 68 Figure 4.5 DCMD Permeation fluxes obtained for PVDF hollow fibers 70 Figure 4.6 Temperature profile for PVDF hollowfiber D1: Tf ... development of suitable hollowfiber membranes for MD process has gained great interest in recent year In this thesis, the micro-morphology and macro-geometry of the hollowfiber membranes are investigated...
... the Torlon® PAI NF hollowfiber membranes are listed in Table 2.2 Figure 2.1 Schematic diagram of a hollowfiber spinning line Table 2.2 Spinning conditions of Torlon® PAI NF hollowfiber membranes ... vs their Stokes radii) for Torlon® PAI NF hollow fibers spun at different take-up speeds 26 Figure 2.6 Cumulative pore size distribution curves of the Torlon® PAI NF hollowfiber membranes ... NF hollowfiber membranes spun at different take-up speeds 31 Figure 2.11 Polarized FTIR spectra of Torlon® PAI NF hollowfiber membranes 33 Figure 3.1 Zeta potential of Torlon® NF membrane...
... factor for the formation of defect-free gas separation hollowfiber membranes [17, 21] 1.1.3 The effects of air-gap on hollowfiber formation Air-gap distance is an important parameter forhollow ... impetus formembrane scientists to search for a comprehensive understanding of membrane formation from molecular level to design membranes with desirable configuration and separation performance ... hollowfiber membranes for separation decades ago, synthetic polymeric hollowfiber membranes have become an important apparatus in separation technologies Compared to the flat sheet membranes, hollow...
... Technique 8CSHF Chitosan hollowfiber membranes made from wt% dope solution 12CSHF Chitosan hollowfiber membranes made from 12 wt% dope solution Blend I Blend chitosan hollowfibermembrane made ... wet hollowfibermembrane before drying Wd Weight of dried hollowfiber membranes ρw The density of water ρ CS The density of the chitosan A Adsorption density or capacity of the hollowfiber membranes ... immobilization on hollowfiber membranes and wet beads Table 5.1 Spinning conditions, resultant hollowfiber membranes and adsorption performance Table 5.2 Mechanical properties of the hollowfiber membranes...
... than 20MPa for commercial hollowfiber membranes To utilize chitosan with hollowfibermembrane configuration, chitosan has been coated on other mechanically stronger hollowfibermembrane supports ... CA hollowfiber membranes and CS/CA blend hollowfiber membranes 0.5-26.5-OH and 1-26-OH 64 Figure 3.4 XRD diffractograms of CS and Pure CA hollowfiber membranes and CS/CA blend hollowfiber ... with chitosan Appropriate co-solvents to obtain chitosan and cellulose acetate blend was identified and the process to spin the blend hollowfiber membranes were developed The hollowfiber membranes...
... PBI/POSS-PAN/PVP hollowfiber membranes Fig 3.13 46 Effects of PVP concentration on the NF performance of dual-layer hollowfiber membranes Fig.3.14 Effects of APS concentration on FO performance of hollow fibers ... fabrication In terms of membranes, both hollowfiber and flat sheet membranes can be used for PRO applications Although the Statkraft's pilot plant uses flat sheet membranes, hollowfiber membranes and ... easy to fabricate a hollowfibermembrane module with this configuration (2) The hollowfibermembrane is self-supporting and does not require membrane spacers on both sides In addition, the hollow...
... asymmetric membranes, however the research is lacking in the area of hollowfiber membranes especially as pervaporation dehydration membranes The development of novel hollowfiber pervaporation membranes ... heat treatment on P84 hollowfiber membranes morphology and performance of pervaporation dehydration of IPA To develop BTDA-TDI/MDI (P84) / PES dual-layer hollowfiber membranes using a triple-orifice ... conditions and membrane s intrinsic properties on system performance Therefore, this intermingled effect creates difficulties formembrane scientists to compare membrane materials for pervaporation...
... cholesterol to the inner mitochondrial membrane [11] In contrast, the factors and processes responsible for the intracellular supply of cholesterol to the outer mitochondrial membrane are poorly understood ... were subjected to Western blot analysis with Igs against the following organelle marker proteins: 3-PGK for cytosol, Pma1p for the PM, the 40-kDa protein for the ER and porin for mitochondria The ... ergosta-5-eneol from esterified forms in steroid-producing cells with the same efficiency as observed for ergosterol in wild-type yeast cells In addition, Tgl1p overproduction leads to an increase of free...
... rubber for a H2/CO mixture For an uncoated hollow fiber, the surface porosity must be less than x 10-9 to achieve a satisfactory result for gas separation However, for a RM type composite hollowfiber ... spinning parameters, performance of hollowfiber membranes at different shear rates in the spinneret for batch Table 3-4 The spinning parameters, performance of hollowfiber membranes at different ... Selection of high performance membrane materials for the formation of separating layer • Study on the formation, modification and performance of single-layer asymmetric hollowfiber membranes • Design...
... of hollowfibermembrane contactors is simple, compact and occupies minimal space Due to the cylindrical form of hollow fibers, they provide the highest surface area to volume ratio compared to ... parameters to obtain uniform distribution of TOPO within the thickness of hollowfiber membranes 2) Characterization of the EIHFMs developed to determine TOPO distribution and changes in membrane ... for helping out with forms, equipments and other necessities Special thanks to Ms Ng Sook Poh for providing the glass modules for system setup and to Mr Ng Kim Poi for providing brass studs for...
... rates above 50% is necessary to optimize these cell based screening assays forinhibitors of PCV2 replication. Cell Based Screening Assay forInhibitors of Porcine Circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) Replication ... California USA, www.graphpad.com). One‐way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) with Bonferroni’s post‐test was performed for data obtained forCell ELISA. Cell Based Screening Assay forInhibitors of Porcine Circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) Replication ... Culture medium was harvested and subjected to either IFA for titration or for PCV2‐specific PCR. Infected cell lysates were resolved in SDS‐PAGE and blotted onto nitrocellulose membranes for detection of PCV2 Rep proteins. Cell ...
... viral replication occurs normally after mitosis (Tischer et al., 1987). To expedite infection, cells have to be infected prior to mitosis, preferably before S phase. Alternatively, infected cells could be treated to glucosamine to ... PCV2 replication. Screening assays in drug discovery are generally divided into cell based and cell free formats. In this study, a whole cell approach was chosen for development primarily because of availability of materials; cell lines ... result to low cell confluence at the time of assay; doing so at excessive density would result to very high Cell Based Screening Assay forInhibitors of Porcine Circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) Replication Page | 63 4. DISCUSSION density of cells growing on top of each other. Infection at excessively high MOI would result to greater ...
... a cascade from full (approach to the SIM) to partially relaxed (close to the SIM) and, eventually, to fully relaxed (close to the equilibrium) In this sense, SIMs form the backbone on which the ... the trajectories onto a SIM In those cases, the QSSA manifolds are poor approximations to the SIMs that are outlined by trajectories; this is to be expected because the condition s0 >> etot does ... to perform well; indeed, the sequence of manifolds ZDP0, ZDP1, limits to a SIM and hence serves to approximate an exact constraining relation with arbitrary accuracy [31] To gain insight into...
... 100 415 For future work, integrating SEPA into the reranking process seems a promising direction for enhancing overall parser performance Acknowledgement We would like to thank Dan Roth for his ... below) In order to minimize visual clutter, for the filter f-score measure we use the maximum recall (MR) baseline rather than the minimum length (ML) baseline, since the former outperforms the latter ... the total number of sentences with such a parse in the whole test set We did not introduce separate notations for these values Figure (top) shows average f-score results where SEPA is applied to...
... expected market return for electricity generated are fundamental considerations for investors With respect to this issue it is possible for governments to create the right conditions to encourage investment ... order to connect wind energy into the grid some 4,000 – 5,000km of new transmission lines will need to be built27 Another factor to be considered is the potential for an interconnection to Europe ... expected return on investment, and connected to this, limited access to capital for such investments Continued efforts are therefore required to inform businesses of the sensible investments in...
... autocorrelation matrix, h(k) is predictor coefficient vector, and rx (k) is autocorrelation vector The autocorrelation Rx (k) is defined as E[x(l − k)x(n − k)] = Rx(k − 1), k = to p − 1, l = to ... Therefore, the performance is poor PSMF has slightly improved performance but its noise removing capacity is very poor at higher noise densities AMF exhibits improved performance but due to its ... The most commonly used forward one step Finite Impulse Response (FIR) linear predictor of order p − is given by rx (k) is defined as rx (k + 1) = E[x(n + 1)x(n − k)] for k = to p − It is assumed...