This study aims to determine the effect of roasting temperature on chemical content of coffee beans at various fruit maturity. Robusta coffee was obtained from Karawang Regency, West Java. After picking, sortation, an...
This study aims to determine the effect of roasting temperature on chemical content of coffee beans at various fruit maturity. Robusta coffee was obtained from Karawang Regency, West Java. After picking, sortation, and drying in the sun to 10% moisture content, the coffee beans were roasted at 190°C, 200°C, 210°C for 12 minutes. Physical properties observed were weight loss during the roasting. The chemical content observed were water, caffeine, fat, chlorogenic acid and ash before and after roasting. Chemical content analysis was performed using gravimetric methods, soxhlet extraction, and UV-Vis spectrophotometry. The color, aroma and flavor of roasted bean were conducted by organoleptic test. The results obtained, the ripe coffee bean with roasting temperature of 210°C is the best, which gives the lowest yield. The unripe green beans have the highest water content. The roasting temperature did not provide a significant difference in fat, caffeine, chlorogenic acid, and ash content. Organoleptic test results (color and aroma) showed that the mature beans with roasting temperature of 200-210°C were the most preferred, while the coffee brew most preferred was overripe bean with the roasting temperature of 200°C.
Maintenance and rehabilitation as parts of pavement's life cycle become more important since it's an effort to restore the road condition as planned. This process will produce the emission of greenhouse gases ...
Maintenance and rehabilitation as parts of pavement's life cycle become more important since it's an effort to restore the road condition as planned. This process will produce the emission of greenhouse gases that give an impact to the environment. The Live Cycle Assessment (LCA) was used to estimate the GHG's emissions. With LCA we could identify the unit process that will produce the GHG's emissions during maintenance and rehabilitation of road pavement. This research aimed to identify the unit processes of the maintenance and rehabilitation of rigid and flexible pavement and to analyse the amount of GHG emitted during this process. Four local roads in Indonesia were investigated as case studies. The result indicated the amount of energy of the unit processes as well as the GHG amount. This will lead to the identification of the hotspot of flexible and rigid pavement maintenance process. In rigid pavement maintenance activities, the hotspots included the asphalt transport process to asphalt mixing plant, cement transportation to the batching plant, and cement processing. Meanwhile, in flexible pavement maintenance activities, the hotspots were the asphalt transportation to asphalt mixing plant, transportation aggregate, and transportation to site.
Rhodium oxides, including a misfitlayered structure with alternate stacking of a rock salttype layer and a hexagonal RhO2 layer, are expected to have good thermoelectric properties. Among them, the thermoelectric prop...
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Rhodium oxides, including a misfitlayered structure with alternate stacking of a rock salttype layer and a hexagonal RhO2 layer, are expected to have good thermoelectric properties. Among them, the thermoelectric properties (electrical conductivity (σ), Seebeck coefficient (S), Figure of merit (ZT) and calculated thermal conductivity (κ) by S, σ, ZT, and absolute temperature (T)) of bismuth-based rhodium oxides ((Bi1-x,Pbx) 2Sr2Rh2Oy, x = 0 and 0.02, hereafter BSR and BPSR, respectively) were investigated. In comparison with Bi2Sr2Co2Oy (BSC) at 700°C, S and κ enhanced (increased S, 110 (BSR) and 105 μV K-1 (BPSR) from 85 μV K-1 (BSC) and decreased κ, 0.32 (BSR) and 0.50 W m-1 K-1 (BPSR) from 1.75 W m-1 K-1 (BSC)), whereas σ decreased (15 (BSR) and 31 S cm-1 (BPSR) from 70 S cm-1 (BSC)). BPSR reached the highest ZT value of 0.067 at 700°C, compared to those of 0.056 (BSR) and 0.027 (BSC).
Biogasoline as an alternative fuel from vegetable oil is increasingly being studied by universities, research institutions, governments and others. The fact that the low yield of biogasoline is produced, the length of...
Biogasoline as an alternative fuel from vegetable oil is increasingly being studied by universities, research institutions, governments and others. The fact that the low yield of biogasoline is produced, the length of reaction time, how much energy is needed during the reaction, the high reaction temperature and expensive operating costs is a challenge in the scientific world to improve and develop further research. An appropriate process technology is needed in order to produce biogasoline fuel which is equivalent to the results of petroleum fractionation. Catalytic cracking process is one of the processes that are widely studied to produce biogasoline. Along with the development of biogasoline production, the use of catalysts in the cracking process has become increasingly diverse. It is in this paper that various biogasoline production with cracking processes using catalysts focused on zeolite and zeolite catalysts modified with metals will be reviewed, including an overview of cracking raw materials, types and characteristics of zeolite catalysts, operating conditions, and how the performance of each catalyst. Zeolite catalyst which is a heterogeneous catalyst is considered to have a good ability in selectivity, activity, and ease of modification so it is very influential on cracking results. Some zeolite catalysts modified with metals such as Zn/Zeolite, Au/HZSM-5, Ni-Mo/zeolite, Pd/HZSM-5, Pt/HZSM-5 are reported to be able to provide good performance to increase biogasoline yield and certainly become a useful new catalyst in the scientific world.
In synthetic biology,researchers assemble biological components in new ways to produce systems with practical *** of these practical applications is control of the flow of genetic information(from nucleic acid to prot...
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In synthetic biology,researchers assemble biological components in new ways to produce systems with practical *** of these practical applications is control of the flow of genetic information(from nucleic acid to protein),*** *** is critical for optimizing protein(and therefore activity)levels and the subsequent levels of metabolites and other cellular *** central dogma of molecular biology posits that information flow commences with transcription,and accordingly,regulatory tools targeting transcription have received the most attention in synthetic *** this mini-review,we highlight many past successes and summarize the lessons learned in developing tools for controlling *** particular,we focus on engineering studies where promoters and transcription terminators(cis-factors)were directly engineered and/or isolated from DNA *** also review several well-characterized transcription regulators(trans-factors),giving examples of how cis-and trans-acting factors have been combined to create digital and analogue switches for regulating transcription in response to various ***,we provide examples of how engineered transcription control systems have been used in metabolic engineering and more complicated genetic *** most of our mini-review focuses on the well-characterized bacterium Escherichia coli,we also provide several examples of the use of transcription control engineering in non-model *** approaches have been applied outside the bacterial kingdom indicating that the lessons learned from bacterial studies may be generalized for other organisms.
In this paper, we report the synthesis of K2O/Al2O3 for its application as a catalyst in the transesterification reaction for biodiesel production from rubber seed oil. So far, biodiesel production has been done throu...
In this paper, we report the synthesis of K2O/Al2O3 for its application as a catalyst in the transesterification reaction for biodiesel production from rubber seed oil. So far, biodiesel production has been done through transesterification of vegetable oils through homogeneous catalysts, such as NaOH and KOH. Heterogeneous catalysts are more advantageous because they are easy to separate from the products, have less corrosion, and can be reused. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of potassium oxide alumina-supported (K2O/Al2O3) solid catalysts to convert rubber seed oil into biodiesel. The K2O/Al2O3 catalyst was synthesized by impregnating KOH on the support of Al2O3 through the inception wetness method. The catalysts were characterized by scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDX) to detect surface structure, composition, and active phase of the catalyst. EDX analysis indicated that the catalyst consisted of 36.41% potassium, 32.89%, and 30.7% oxygen. The reaction was conducted in a two-neck glass reactor at a temperature of 65°C, methanol to oil ratios of 10:1, during 1.5 h. The yield of biodiesel was achieved up to 96.9% at the ratio KOH: Al2O3 of 7.5: 2.5.
The following topics are dealt with: battery powered vehicles; finite element analysis; lithium compounds; secondary cells; electric vehicles; hybrid electric vehicles; battery management systems; automobiles; electro...
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The following topics are dealt with: battery powered vehicles; finite element analysis; lithium compounds; secondary cells; electric vehicles; hybrid electric vehicles; battery management systems; automobiles; electrochemical electrodes; optimisation.
Escherichia coli strain LS5218 is a useful host for the production of fatty acid derived products, but the genetics underlying this utility have not been fully investigated. Here, we report the genome sequence of LS52...
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