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For production of bacterial biosurfactants, it is recommended to add sterile oil to the culture broth (MSM or LB). While the medium can simply be autoclaved, how can the oil be sterilised prior to...
17 December 2021 4,273 3 View
I have tried to vary various reaction conditions, including surfactant concentration, oil/water ratio and temperature.
14 December 2021 6,542 2 View
Explaining the role of the structural directing agent
13 December 2021 2,910 4 View
In my electrospinning setup, I used to produce fibers from PCL (polycaprolactone) on a rotating drum. My solvent is made up of Dimethylformamide (DFM) and Tetrahydrofuran (THF). Recently, whatever...
13 December 2021 1,494 8 View
I am undertaking a time series experiment to follow the biodegradation of oil compounds over several time points. I would be interested to know if only freezing the sample at -20C would be...
11 December 2021 693 2 View
viscosity index available for lubricant oil explaining the quality of lubricant oil . Likewise any possibilities for viscosity index of edible oil relate quality of edible oil
11 December 2021 777 1 View
How to select compound for bioremediation by bacteria by its genome analysis?
11 December 2021 4,124 3 View
I am simulating gasification of biomass in aspen plus using RCSTR but facing the following problem. ´´ THE E-BAL LOOP FAILED ON THE FIRST ITERATION BECAUSE THE M-BAL LOOP DID NOT CONVERGE IN...
09 December 2021 296 1 View
I have been testing 2 types of oil with this surfactant but did not managed to get a one phase mixture even after adding water with small concentrations. I tried using Tween 80 as the surfactant...
27 November 2021 9,151 8 View
Mentionable that, I have got the quarterly data of both Brent and WTI in nominal USD. However, I am not able to manage the data in real USD; adjusted for inflation. I would be thankful if anyone...
26 November 2021 4,494 7 View
Hope that everyone will be quite fine sir I am working on Self nanoemulsyfying drug delivery of low orally bioavailable drugs but em facing some problem my formulation have zeta potential of -10...
25 November 2021 921 3 View
I have been anaerobically fermenting biomass for a week and measuring the pressure in the bottles every day. Over the first couple of days pressure increased due to hydrogen production - but now...
24 November 2021 9,199 2 View
I have mutation data of several genes and want to determine the association among their mutation status (variable has only two values 0 for not mutated and 1 for mutated for all the genes. I wish...
24 November 2021 4,414 4 View
Is it possible to get a theoretical biogas yield if you change the retention time in an anaerobic process? This is assuming that I have actual data from using say, 40 days retention time and I...
18 November 2021 2,548 3 View
I am working on a mushroom to cheek for any anti-cancer properties. the water extracts were the most significant for the MTT assay, while for the IC50 the ethanol extracts had the lowest values,...
11 November 2021 8,554 3 View
after doing a GCMS analysis i didn't get any informations about the compositions of the essential oil i'm working with, so i think that my essential oil still mixed with the solvent so what are...
30 October 2021 2,323 6 View
I recently solved a crystal structure of a drug exporter bound to methylviologen (paraquat). When I was placing the substrate into the binding pocket, I realized that the two phenyl rings can...
27 October 2021 7,628 1 View
I want to extract the oil from pepper seeds through Soxhlet since I don't have Clevenger apparatus for hydrodistillation. But I'm confused onto how to obtain just the oil after the Soxhlet...
26 October 2021 1,588 3 View
If a new mining venture (oil or gas wells) are developed in an area, the new economic activity will cause a number of economic and social changes in nearby settlements where workers may be housed...
25 October 2021 7,872 3 View
I have been dealing with rapeseed oil extraction by soxtec. sometime when oil content is high, over 40%, there would be oil residue on the thimble, leading inconsistency of the data. Has anyone...
21 October 2021 9,198 1 View
Anyone can suggest whether can I work at higher and lower pH with LUDOX HS/TM-40? I know that they are at pH 9.2 as a suspension but will they still be stable at pH 4 and pH 11?
04 October 2021 3,162 1 View
I am extracting betel essential oil from fresh leaf and the essential oil is less in amount which is floating above water. How could I separate the oil and collect the same from oil water mixture....
02 October 2021 9,047 1 View
Currently, my research is focused on biodiesel from waste lubricant oil using biocatalyst.
02 October 2021 8,549 8 View
High internal phase emulsions are made with more than 75% of the oil phase. I want to use whey protein or soy protein as the emulsifier in the water phase, but it seems that I can’t make high...
01 October 2021 2,106 3 View