The integration of phototrophic microalgal production and anaerobic digestion can recycle excess nutrients across European surplus hotspots to produce protein-rich biomass for nutritional applications. However, the challenging physico-chemical properties of raw digestate constrain microalgal growth and limit digestate valorization potential. This s...
We present a durable superhydrophobic poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)-based nanofibrous membrane to achieve high-performance air filters with reusability. We demonstrate that the additional assembly of silica nanoparticles on an electrospun PVDF nanofibrous membrane and subsequent low-surface-energy treatment enables nonwetting of various probing ...
An enzymatic membrane reactor (EMR) with immobilized dextranase provides an excellent opportunity for tailoring the molecular weight (Mw) of oligodextran to significantly improve product quality. However, a highly efficient EMR for oligodextran production is still lacking and the effect of enzyme immobilization strategy on dextranase hydrolysis beh...
An enzymatic membrane reactor (EMR) with immobilized dextranase provides an excellent opportunity for tailoring the molecular weight (Mw) of oligodextran to significantly improve product quality. However, a highly efficient EMR for oligodextran production is still lacking and the effect of enzyme immobilization strategy on dextranase hydrolysis beh...
Oily wastewater pollution is considered as one of the most serious global environmental problems. Treating oily wastewater is particularly important and challenging because emulsified oil was difficult to be effectively and economically removed from wastewater. In this work, a novel rough poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)-SiO2 nanofibrous membrane b...
Oily wastewater pollution is considered as one of the most serious global environmental problems. Treating oily wastewater is particularly important and challenging because emulsified oil was difficult to be effectively and economically removed from wastewater. In this work, a novel rough poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)-SiO2 nanofibrous membrane b...
We address primary decomposition conjectures for knot concordance groups, which predict direct sum decompositions into primary parts. We show that the smooth concordance group of topologically slice knots has a large subgroup for which the conjectures are true and there are infinitely many primary parts, each of which has infinite rank. This suppor...
In this study, polyethersulfone (PES) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) microfiltration membranes containing polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) with and without support layers of 130 and 150 μm thickness are manufactured using the phase inversion method and then experimentally characterised. For the characterisation of membranes, Fourier transform infrare...
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There exist four typical modes to operate the magnetized fluidized bed (MFB) reactor: magnetization-FIRST, de fluidization, magnetization-LAST, and de-magnetization. This work aimed to compare the bed states obtained under these operation modes for both the MFB with purely magnetizable particles and the MFB with the binary admixture of magnetizable...
