Plastic food packaging represents 40 % of the plastic production worldwide and belongs to the 10 most commonly found items in aquatic environments. They are characterized by high additives contents with >4000 formulations available on the market. Thus they can release their constitutive chemicals (i.e. additives) into the surrounding environment, c...
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Rolling bearings are important supporting components of large-scale electromechanical equipment. Once a fault occurs, it will cause economic losses, and serious accidents will affect personal safety. Therefore, research on rolling bearing fault diagnosis technology has important engineering practical significance. Feature extraction with high price...
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Data redundancy and data loss are relevant issues in condition monitoring. Sampling strategies for segment intervals can address these at the source, but do not receive the attention they deserve. Currently, the sampling methods in relevant research lack sufficient adaptability to the condition. In this paper, an adaptive sampling framework of segm...
Hydrogels were prepared at high solid contents (70-100 g/L) with cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and very short xyloglucans (XGs). At 70 g/L, CNCs form cholesteric liquid crystals regularly spaced by a distance of 30 nm. This structure was preserved after adsorption of XG with a molar mass (Mw) of 20,000 g/mol (XG20) but was lost at 40,000 g/mol (XG40...
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An increasing number of professional drone flights require situational awareness of aerial vehicles. Vehicles in a group of drones must be aware of their surroundings and the other group members. The amount of data to be exchanged and the total cost are skyrocketing. This paper presents an implementation and assessment of an organized drone group c...
This work investigates the drying of yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius), a source of fructooligosaccharides and inulin, two prebiotic compounds. Experiments were performed using an in-house device consisting of a magnetic suspension balance coupled to a drying chamber and an in-situ shadowgraphy system. This allowed the continuous acquisition of mass...
The future European Partnership on Sustainable Food Systems asks for specific insights in food science and technology and a strong participation of its scientists. Key principles to be taken into account are diversity, circularity, adaptability, scalability, next to robustness, performance, accessibility, fairness, one health and safety. These prin...
Developing reliable methodologies for detecting and quantifying allergens in processed food commodities iscrucial to support food business operators in allergen risk assessment and properly implementing precautionaryallergen labels whenever required to safeguard the health of allergic consumers. Multiple Mass Spectrometry(MS) methods have been deve...
Condensed tannins (i.e. polymerized procyanidins) were quantified in crude samples of rapeseed meal and hullsusing two acidolysis methods. When it was applied directly on crude material, the colorimetric butanol-HCl assayallowed an estimation of two grams of tannins per kilogram of dried hulls. Interestingly, the estimation was morethan double afte...
Published in Journal of Biosciences
The world is currently facing the COVID-19 pandemic, for which mild symptoms include fever and dry cough. In severe cases, it could lead to pneumonia and ultimately death in some instances. Moreover, the causative pathogen is highly contagious and there are no drugs or vaccines for it yet. The pathogen, SARS-CoV-2, is one of the human coronaviruses...
