Effect of fermentation parameters such as c/N ratio, specific growth rate, phosphate limitation, and plasmid instability on enhancing isoprene production is the focus of the current study. Isoprene productivity in the...
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Effect of fermentation parameters such as c/N ratio, specific growth rate, phosphate limitation, and plasmid instability on enhancing isoprene production is the focus of the current study. Isoprene productivity in the recombinant Escherichia coli K12_MVA strain showed a bell-shaped relationship with specific growth rate in bioreactor studies with isoprene volumetric productivity peaking at 0.35/h. This behavior was depicted by a production inhibition kinetic model which envisaged a serious competition between the cellular growth, acetic acid production, and isoprene biosynthesis. The model equation derived showed a reasonable fit with the experimental values. Judicious control of the growth rates and acetate accumulation by optimizing c/N ratio, phosphate concentration, and intermittent feeding strategy resulted in maximizing the carbon flux towards isoprene. Plasmid instability caused by metabolic burden posed by the presence of dual plasmids on the bacteria was simulated using first-order degradation kinetics. The experimental plasmid loss trend was in accordance with the model simulated trend, where higher plasmid loss correlated with higher specific growth rates. Modulating the growth rate, acetate accumulation, and plasmid instability resulted in achieving maximum isoprene volumetric productivity of 1.125 g/l/h with 46.67% of carbon flux towards isoprene and a isoprene titre of 18 g/l in 16 h fermentation run.
Increasing interest is being shown in the use of Java for scientific applications. The Java Grande benchmark suite was designed with such applications primarily in mind. The perceived lack of performance of Java still...
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Increasing interest is being shown in the use of Java for scientific applications. The Java Grande benchmark suite was designed with such applications primarily in mind. The perceived lack of performance of Java still deters many potential users, despite recent advances in just-in-time and adaptive compilers. There are, however, few benchmark results available comparing Java to more traditional languages such as c and Fortran. To address this issue, a subset of the Java Grande benchmarks has been re-written in c and Fortran allowing direct performance comparisons between the three languages. The performance of a range of Java execution environments, c and Fortran compilers have been tested across a number of platforms using the suite. These demonstrate that on some platforms (notable Intel Pentium) the performance gap is now quite small. copyright (c) 2003 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.
The unsafe features of c make it a big challenge to ensure memory safety of c programs, and often lead to memory errors that can result in vulnerabilities. Various formal verification techniques for ensuring memory sa...
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The unsafe features of c make it a big challenge to ensure memory safety of c programs, and often lead to memory errors that can result in vulnerabilities. Various formal verification techniques for ensuring memory safety of c have been proposed. However, most of them either have a high overhead, such as state explosion problem in model checking, or have false positives, such as abstract interpretation. In this article, by innovatively borrowing ownership system from Rust, we propose a novel and sound static memory safety analysis approach, named SafeOSL. Its basic idea is an ownership-based intermediate language, called ownership system language (OSL), which captures the features of the ownership system in Rust. Ownership system specifies the relations among variables and memory locations, and maintains invariants that can ensure memory safety. The semantics of OSL is formalized in K-framework, which is a rewriting-logic based tool. c programs to be checked are first transformed into OSL programs and then detected by OSL semantics. Experimental results have demonstrated that SafeOSL is effective in detecting memory errors of c. Moreover, the translations and experiments indicate that the intermediate language OSL could be reused by other programming languages to detect memory errors.
Fecl3/c was used as an efficient and convenient promoter for glycosylation through Ferrier-type rearrangement of 3,4,6-tri-O-benzyl-D-glucal, which is a relatively unreactive substrate for this type of reaction. The m...
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Fecl3/c was used as an efficient and convenient promoter for glycosylation through Ferrier-type rearrangement of 3,4,6-tri-O-benzyl-D-glucal, which is a relatively unreactive substrate for this type of reaction. The method was applicable to a wide range of alcohols, especially phenols. A series of 2,3-unsaturated-O-glucosides were prepared efficiently (47-92%) by this method under mild conditions.
Disposal of animal carcasses by co-composting with animal waste usually selected conventional carbon to nitrogen (c/N) ratio around 25:1, in which the compost is widely used throughout the world. In this study, the pi...
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Disposal of animal carcasses by co-composting with animal waste usually selected conventional carbon to nitrogen (c/N) ratio around 25:1, in which the compost is widely used throughout the world. In this study, the pig carcass tissue blocks were sampled for composting at a laboratory scale to evaluate the effect of c/N ratio on the pig carcass compost. The time of thermophilic phase between 60 degrees c - 70 degrees c at a lower c/N ratio of 20:1 was significantly longer than that at the conventional c/N ratio, and it was the only one with the temperature beyond 70 degrees c that lasted for 2 days. Germination index and T value (the final c/N ratio / the initial c/N ratio) of the treatment with a c/N ratio of 20:1 were 94.67% and 0.69, respectively, meeting the standards of animal carcass compost. The degradation rate was 75.67%, and no significant difference was obtained as compared to the conventional c/N ratio groups. Organic fertilizer produced from the treatment with a c/N ratio of 20:1 was selected to evaluate the fertility by pot experiment of cayenne pepper compared with chemical fertilizer. The results showed that organic fertilizer from this treatment could significantly improve the growth of cayenne pepper. Overall, the use of the lower c/N ratio of 20:1 in the disposal of pig carcass by co-composting with swine manure could achieve the similar degradation rate as well as the maturity and stability of organic fertilizer as compared with the traditional c/N ratio at lab scale.
BAcKGROUND Nitrogen and sulfur pollutants have become an urgent problem in surface and groundwater. Short-cut denitrification coupled with anaerobic ammonia oxidation (ANAMMOX) is an economical and efficient biologica...
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BAcKGROUND Nitrogen and sulfur pollutants have become an urgent problem in surface and groundwater. Short-cut denitrification coupled with anaerobic ammonia oxidation (ANAMMOX) is an economical and efficient biological nitrogen removal process. However, single heterotrophic denitrification and autotrophic denitrification face the problems of high treatment cost and high secondary sulfate pollution, respectively. Moreover, in real environments, single nutrient conditions are less common. Therefore, this work aims to study the process of mixotrophic short-cut denitrification coupled with ANAMMOX to achieve simultaneous nitrogen and sulfur removal. RESULTS Mixotrophic short-cut denitrification was successfully initiated on day 20, while the nitrite accumulation rate (NAR) was 81.47%. The optimal performance of the mixotrophic denitrification system was achieved when the ratio of sulfur to nitrogen to carbon (S/N/c) was 3/4/9, with S2--S, NO3--N, and cOD removal reaching 100%, 94.48%, and 95.48%, respectively, with a NAR of 94.24% and only 11.73 mg L-1 of SO42--S production. Modified Boltzmann and Gompertz models were found to be suitable to describe the removal of NO3--N, with both models exhibiting good data fitting (R-2 > 0.99). In addition, no distinctly dominant genus was found in the mixotrophic denitrification systems. Autotrophic, heterotrophic, and facultative denitrifying bacteria (such as Thiobacillus Pseudomonas and Halomonas) were found to coexist and synergistically perform denitrification. cONcLUSION Mixotrophic short-cut denitrification can achieve the efficient accumulation of NO2--N and reduce the amount of SO42--S production at the same time. Mixotrophic short-cut denitrification coupled with ANAMMOX can deeply remove sulfide, nitrogen, and organiccarbon. (c) 2022 Society of chemical Industry.
Selective hydrogenation of benzophenone to benzhydrol is industrially relevant. In the current work, selective hydrogenation of 3,4-dimethoxybenzophenone (3,4-DMBP) to 3,4-dimethoxybenzhydrol (3,4-DMBH) was investigat...
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Selective hydrogenation of benzophenone to benzhydrol is industrially relevant. In the current work, selective hydrogenation of 3,4-dimethoxybenzophenone (3,4-DMBP) to 3,4-dimethoxybenzhydrol (3,4-DMBH) was investigated over 5% w/w Pd/c and 5% w/w Pt/c as catalysts in a slurry reactor. The effects of hydrogen partial pressure (0.2-1MPa), catalyst loading (2.0x10(-4) to 8.0x10(-4)g/cm(3)), initial concentration of 3,4-dimethoxybenzophenone (5.0x10(-6) to 1.5x10(-4)mol/cm(3)) and temperature (40-70 degrees c) on rate of reaction and selectivity were studied. Effect of solvent such as methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol and tetrahydrofuran (THF) was also investigated. 5% w/w Pd/c was the better catalyst with THF as the best solvent, which gave 100 % conversion and 80 % selectivity in 1h for 0.5MPa hydrogen pressure at 60 degrees c. The Langmuir-Hinshelwood-Hougen-Watson model was fitted. The intrinsic kinetics and mechanism of hydrogenation were established.
Bicyclol is a synthetic drug for hepatoprotection in clinic since 2004. Preliminary clinical observations suggest that bicyclol might be active against hepatitis c virus(HcV) with unknown mechanism. Here, we showed th...
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Bicyclol is a synthetic drug for hepatoprotection in clinic since 2004. Preliminary clinical observations suggest that bicyclol might be active against hepatitis c virus(HcV) with unknown mechanism. Here, we showed that bicyclol significantly inhibited HcV replication in vitro and in hepatitis c patients. Using bicyclol as a probe, we identified glycolipid transfer protein(GLTP) to be a novel restrictive factor for HcV replication. The GLTP preferentially bound host vesicle-associated membrane protein-associated protein-A(VAP-A) in competition with the HcV NS5 A, causing an interruption of the complex formation between VAP-A and HcV NS5 A. As the formation of VAP-A/NS5 A complex is essential for viral RNA replication, up-regulation of GLTP by bicyclol reduced the level of VAP-A/NS5 A complex and thus inhibited HcV replication. Bicyclol also exhibited an inhibition on HcV variants resistant to direct-acting antiviral agents(DAAs) with an efficacy identical to that on wild type HcV. In combination with bicyclol, DAAs inhibited HcV replication in a synergistic fashion. GLTP appears to be a newly discovered host restrictive factor for HcV replication, Up-regulation of GLTP causes spontaneous restriction of HcV replication.
A novel Ti-Ni-Si brazing filler metal was designed and fabricated to braze the c/ccomposite and c/ccomposite, and c/ccomposite and TiAl intermetallic alloy at 1060 degrees c for 10 min. The interfacial microstructu...
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A novel Ti-Ni-Si brazing filler metal was designed and fabricated to braze the c/ccomposite and c/ccomposite, and c/ccomposite and TiAl intermetallic alloy at 1060 degrees c for 10 min. The interfacial microstructures and mechanical properties were investigated, and the enhancing mechanism of the joint strength was elucidated. The results showed that a perfect interface joint was achieved by using TiNiSi to braze the c/ccomposite. Ductile Ti3Sic2 carbide was formed at the interface, which is beneficial to the joint bonding effect. The direct joining between the c/ccomposite and TiAl alloy using TiNiSi filler metal was unsuccessful, which was attributed to the high content of intermetalliccompounds and hard-brittle phases in the brazed joint. The addition of a cu interlayer to the joint can adjust the interfacial structure and reduce the content of brittle compounds, leading to a complete connection between the c/ccomposite and TiAl alloy. The interfacial transition layer on the c/ccomposite side mainly consisted of Ti3Sic2, Ti3Alc ductile ceramic phases, and Tic phase, which enhanced the performance of the brazed joint. The average shear strength at room temperature was 18.8 MPa, with the maximum value of 23.6 MPa, and the average shear strength at 600 degrees c was 25.8 MPa.
A series of LiFePO4/ccomposites are prepared under the conditions of pH = 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 via biosynthesis method. The X-ray diffraction demonstrates that all of well-crystallized LiFePO4/ccomposites can be successful...
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A series of LiFePO4/ccomposites are prepared under the conditions of pH = 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 via biosynthesis method. The X-ray diffraction demonstrates that all of well-crystallized LiFePO4/ccomposites can be successfully prepared by adjusting the pH value. The images of scanning electron microscopy show that the structure and size of different samples have obvious changes. Besides, the LiFePO4/ccomposite prepared at the value of 8 delivers a best discharge capacity of 158.7 mAh/g at 0.1 c. The results show that the electrochemical performance of LiFePO4/ccomposites is governed by pH value.
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