Effects of water immersion, natural ageing in sunlight and natural ageing under the shade on non-dry flax fibre reinforc...
status: published
High-Throughput Phenotyping Methods in Processing Solanaceae
Agricultural food crop production must increase 100-110% by 2050 in order to meet the predicted global population and production demands. In order to meet the increasing food demands from the growing population, as a society we are looking for ways to increase food yield without needing to further exploit land and water resources. Plant breeders lo...
The potential to produce safe textiles in a phytoattenuation strategy: The fate of Cd and Pb during industrial treatment...
Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is getting increased attention as a sustainable alternative to synthetic fibers and cotton in the textile industry, as well as a candidate for phytoremediation, as it has been shown to tolerate stress from heavy metal-contaminated soil and experiences no or only little decrease in yields. With the EU Soil Strate...
Creating an Automatic Lowering Function for Quarter-Scale Tractor Pulling Sled
As the agricultural industry works to continuously integrate innovative technology and improve production efficiency, improved on-board data acquisition and transmission will be necessary for all agricultural machines. To make this a reality, the utilization of controller area network (CAN) technology will be crucial. Therefore, it is important for...
Anaerobic membrane bioreactor for hygiene wastewater treatment in controlled ecological life support systems: Degradatio...
The treatment and reuse of hygiene wastewater is crucial to "close the loop" in the controlled ecological life support system (CELSS), and to guarantee longer space missions or planetary habitation. In this work, anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) was applied for hygiene wastewater treatment, focused on surfactant degradation and microbial commu...
Aerodynamic properties of harvested perennial ryegrass: Effects of particle mass, size and moisture content
status: published
Microalgae harvesting using flocculation and dissolved air flotation: selecting the right vessel for lab-scale experimen...
Flocculation combined with dissolved air flotation (DAF) is a promising technology for harvesting microalgae; therefore, optimisation of flocculant-DAF operating conditions are frequently explored in laboratory experiments. DAF systems have jars of differing volumes, height to diameter ratios, shapes and materials used to manufacture the jars; thus...
Review of explainable machine learning for anaerobic digestion
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a promising technology for recovering value-added resources from organic waste, thus achieving sustainable waste management. The performance of AD is dictated by a variety of factors including system design and operating conditions. This necessitates developing suitable modelling and optimi-zation tools to quantify its o...
Review of explainable machine learning for anaerobic digestion
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a promising technology for recovering value-added resources from organic waste, thus achieving sustainable waste management. The performance of AD is dictated by a variety of factors including system design and operating conditions. This necessitates developing suitable modelling and optimi-zation tools to quantify its o...
Efficient ultrasound-assisted enzymatic method for extraction of immunostimulant QS-21 from Quillaja saponaria Molina
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QS-21 from the bark of Quillaja saponaria Molina is a triterpene glycoside saponin, a new alternative immunoadjuvant. However, its application is limited because its primary source is the bark of adult trees and current extraction methods result in low yields. Therefore, this work aimed at extracting QS-21 from Q. saponaria Molina using a novel and...
