Hevea brasiliensis, un arbre tropical, est la source principale de caoutchouc naturel commercialement viable. La biosynthèse de caoutchouc se passe dans les cellules spécialisées appelées laticifères. Il représente jusqu'à 90% de la matière sèche du latex. Le latex, laiteux, s'écoule de l'encoche faite sur l'écorce de l'arbre jusqu'aux cellules lat...
Published in Tree physiology
Environmental stress can lead to oxidative stress resulting from an increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS) and involves redox adjustments. Natural rubber is synthesized in laticifers, which is a non-photosynthetic tissue particularly prone to oxidative stress. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the ROS production and ROS-scaven...
Charcoal seems one of the most promising bio-reducer because of its high coke replacement ratio in blast furnaces. Nevertheless, biochar materials are subject self-combustion during storage, handling and transport, and need to be studied in order to understand and limit these phenomena. Heat-based methods: were employed to compare and determine the...
Les procédés de gazéification de bois à lits fixes étagés sont adaptés à la production d'électricité de petites puissances. Dans ces procédés, la pyrolyse est opérée dans un réacteur continu à lit fixe descendant. La particularité de ce type de réacteur est son fonctionnement autothermique. L'énergie nécessaire au chauffage, au séchage et à la pyro...
Oxidative pyrolysis of pine wood particles was analysed thermo-gravimetrically. The effects of the concentration of oxygen in the surrounding gas and of particle size were investigated. Three different oxygen concentrations (0%, 10% and 20% v/v) and three different sized cylindrical pine wood samples (4 mm, 8 mm and 12 mm in diameter and 15 mm long...
Published in Oecologia
Though the root biomass of tropical rainforest trees is concentrated in the upper soil layers, soil water uptake by deep roots has been shown to contribute to tree transpiration. A precise evaluation of the relationship between tree dimensions and depth of water uptake would be useful in tree-based modelling approaches designed to anticipate the re...
Published in MicrobiologyOpen
Hydrogen production by microorganisms is often described as a promising sustainable and clean energy source, but still faces several obstacles, which prevent practical application. Among them, oxygen sensitivity of hydrogenases represents one of the major limitations hampering the biotechnological implementation of photobiological production proces...
Torrefaction is a thermal treatment used to improve the properties of biomass in relation to thermochemical processing techniques for energy generation. It is a thermo-chemical treatment method primarily characterized by an operating temperature within the 200-300 ?C range. It is carried out under conditions of atmospheric pressure and in the prese...
The oxidation of ascorbic acid was chosen as a case study to investigate the effect of experimental errors and their propagation on the identification of the parameters of a kinetics law involving both ascorbic acid and oxygen content, on a typical food storage temperature range (8-33 degrees C) and under conditions representing anaerobic storage (...
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