abstract：:Eleven test runs (including two replicates) were carried out to explore the interaction of shear stress and chlorine concentration on the growth of heterotrophic microorganisms. Experimental results revealed that influent chlorine concentration and shear stress had no interaction on biofilm formation. Biofilm bacteria...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Tsai YP

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-composting of pig manure with sawdust was studied in order to characterize the organic transformation during the process, using both chemical and spectroscopic methods. Humic acids (HA) and fulvic acids (FA) were fractionated from immature and mature pig manure compost, and characterized. After 63 days of compostin...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Huang GF,Wu QT,Wong JW,Nagar BB

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to determine the effects of lactic acid bacteria (LAB, Lactobacillus salivarius) inoculation on the microbial, physical and chemical properties of food waste mixture (FWM) stored at ambient temperature (25 degrees C) for 10 and 30 days. A complete pig diet including restaurant food waste, bake...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Yang SY,Ji KS,Baik YH,Kwak WS,McCaskey TA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to approximately 20% ash, shrimp processing by-products contain 64% protein and chitin, both of which can be used to generate several valuable products. Chitin and chitosan production is currently based on several crustacean wastes, and at the present time the protein fraction is not being used. This paper...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Coward-Kelly G,Agbogbo FK,Holtzapple MT

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A packed cage rotating biological contactor (RBC) system was applied to treat wastewater containing Cl2 residue with concentration even up to 20 mg/L. However, Cl2 exhibited a negative effect on the efficiency of the system as evidenced by the decrease in the growth of bio-film. It could be concluded that the removal ...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Sirianuntapiboon S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia suppressants are applied to chicken litter to decrease ammonia levels. And mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) producers use poultry litter to increase the nitrogen in the compost. To determine the influence of ammonia suppressants used in poultry litter on compost preparation and mushroom production, four mushroom c...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： González-Matute R,Rinker DL

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corn stover is a major crop residue for biomass conversion to produce chemicals and fuels. One of the problems associated with the supply of corn stover to conversion plants is the delivery of feedstock at a low cost. Corn stover has low bulk density and it is difficult to handle. In this study, chopped corn stover sa...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Mani S,Tabil LG,Sokhansanj S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicken feather keratin was treated with lime (calcium hydroxide) to obtain a liquid product rich in amino acids and polypeptides that can be used as an animal feed supplement. The effect of treatment conditions and the properties of the soluble keratin were studied. At high temperatures (150 degrees C), 80% of feathe...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Coward-Kelly G,Chang VS,Agbogbo FK,Holtzapple MT

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, a three-level Box-Behnken factorial design was employed combining with response surface methodology (RSM) to optimize the medium composition for the production of the mycelial biomass and exo-polymer in submerged cultures by Grifola frondosa GF9801. A mathematical model was then developed to show the eff...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Cui FJ,Li Y,Xu ZH,Xu HY,Sun K,Tao WY

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of batch anaerobic hydrogen production by mixed anaerobic cultures was systemically investigated in this study. Unstructured models were used to describe the substrate utilization, biomass growth and product formation in the hydrogen production process. The relationship between the substrate, biomass and ...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Mu Y,Wang G,Yu HQ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi belonging to Aspergillus, Mortierella, Paecilomyces, Penicillium, Pythium, Rhizopus and Trichoderma, isolated from serpentine soil of Andaman (India) were screened for cobalt-resistance. Eleven out of total 38 isolated fungi which tolerated > 6.0 mM Co(II) were evaluated for cobalt biosorption using dried myceli...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Pal A,Ghosh S,Paul AK

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The removal efficiency of activated carbon prepared from coir pith towards three highly used reactive dyes in textile industry was investigated. Batch experiments showed that the adsorption of dyes increased with an increase in contact time and carbon dose. Maximum de-colorisation of all the dyes was observed at acidi...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Santhy K,Selvapathy P

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) to remove a phosphorus pesticide ethion were investigated. The disappearance rate constants of ethion in culture solutions were 0.01059, 0.00930, 0.00294, and 0.00201 h-1 for the non-sterile planted, sterile planted, non-sterile unplanted, and sterile unplanted tr...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Xia H,Ma X

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial reduction of selenium (Se) oxyanions (Se[VI] and Se[IV]) to elemental Se (Se[0]) is one of the major biogeochemical processes removing Se from agricultural drainage water and depositing Se in the sediment. This study was conducted to characterize Se-reducing bacterial populations in Lost Hills evaporation po...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Siddique T,Zhang Y,Okeke BC,Frankenberger WT Jr

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the microbiology of dinitrogen (N2)-fixing bacteria in compost rich in de-inking paper sludge (DPS) is limited. Dinitrogen (N2)-fixing bacteria from DPS composts were isolated and studied for their N2-fixing activity in vitro and in vivo. Two Gram-negative N2-fixing isolates were identified as Pseudomonas...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Beauchamp CJ,Lévesque G,Prévost D,Chalifour FP

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of low cost agro-based materials namely, Tamarindus indica seed (TS), crushed coconut shell (CS), almond shell (AS), ground nut shell (GS) and walnut shell (WS) were evaluated for Cr(VI) removal. Batch test indicated that hexavalent chromium sorption capacity (q(e)) followed the sequence q(e)(TS) > q...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Agarwal GS,Bhuptawat HK,Chaudhari S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanosarcina barkeri DSM-804, a methanogenic bacterium, when exposed to microwave radiation of frequencies ranging from 13.5 to 36.5 GHz, showed faster growth in comparison to the unirradiated bacterial culture. Methane concentration in the biogas generated from the irradiated culture was higher than that from unirr...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Banik S,Bandyopadhyay S,Ganguly S,Dan D

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using micorfauna to reduce excess sludge is a potentially effective ecological technology and scaling the rate of sludge reduction rate is the first step. A method to scale the rate of sludge reduction caused by microfauna was proposed, and comparison of sludge reduction rates induced by four microfaunas was carried o...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Liang P,Huang X,Qian Y,Wei Y,Ding G

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was an investigation of the role of important parameters influencing pyrolysis yields from soybean cake. Experiments were carried out at temperatures ranging from 400 to 700 degrees C, for various nitrogen flow rates, heating rates and particle sizes. The maximum liquid yield was 42.83% at a pyrolysis tempe...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Uzun BB,Pütün AE,Pütün E

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory-scale experiments were carried out to test a mathematical model of the nitrogen dynamics in a composting process. The main ingredients of composting materials were wheat straw and dairy manure. The influence of (a) two carbon amendments, i.e. molasses and office paper, and (b) two chemicals forming buffer s...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Liang Y,Leonard JJ,Feddes JJ,McGill WB

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of a highly alkaline and thermostable pectinase of Bacillus pumilus was optimized in submerged fermentation using Plackett-Burman design and response surface methodology. Three fermentation variables (C:N ratio, K(2)HPO(4), and pH), which were identified to significantly affect pectinase production by P...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Sharma DC,Satyanarayana T

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ni2+ biosorption by aerobic granular sludge was studied at various initial pH values of 2-7. Results showed that the initial pH would play an important role in the Ni2+ removal by aerobic granules and affected the zeta potential of aerobic granules. A thermodynamic equilibrium isotherm previously developed can fit...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Xu H,Liu Y,Tay JH

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central composite rotatable design was used to study the effect of methanol quantity, acid concentration and reaction time on the reduction of free fatty acids content of mahua oil during its pretreatment for making biodiesel. All the three variables significantly affected the acid value of the product, methanol bei...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Ghadge SV,Raheman H

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agaric basidiomycete Nematoloma frowardii has been suggested as a good alternative for production of the extracellular ligninolytic enzyme, manganese-dependent peroxidase (MnP). Some cultural and environmental factors influencing the enzymatic activity in shaken flasks and aerated fermenter cultures were evaluated...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Rogalski J,Szczodrak J,Janusz G

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reports on the immobilization and performance of a hydrocarbon-degrading microorganism on polyurethane foam (PUF) in the bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons. The ability of four different microorganisms to immobilize on PUF and to degrade various petroleum products (Arabian light crude (ALC), Al-Shaheen...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Quek E,Ting YP,Tan HM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Batch scale activated sludge kinetic studies were undertaken for the treatment of pet food wastewater characterized by oil and grease concentrations of up to 21,500 mg/L, COD and BOD concentrations of 75,000 and 60,000 mg/L, respectively as well as effluent from the batch dissolved air flotation (DAF) system. The cond...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Nakhla G,Liu V,Bassi A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Converting poultry feather biomass into useful products presents a new avenue of utilization of agricultural waste material. However, not much is understood about the poultry feather structure or methods to process it. In this study, formic acid vapor is systematically allowed to penetrate the feather fiber structure,...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Barone JR,Schmidt WF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production and properties of a biosurfactant, synthesized by Bacillus subtilis LB5a strain, using cassava wastewater as substrate were investigated. The microorganism was able to grow and to produce surfactant on cassava waste, reducing the surface tension of medium to 26.6 mN/m and giving a crude surfactant conce...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Nitschke M,Pastore GM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five pretreatment processes (dilute acid, hot water, ammonia fiber explosion (AFEX), ammonia recycle percolation (ARP), and lime) for the liberation of sugars from corn stover are compared on a consistent basis. Each pretreatment process model was embedded in a full bioethanol facility model so that systematic effects...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Eggeman T,Elander RT

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The waste tea fungal biomass produced during black tea fermentation was investigated as a dietary ingredient in poultry feeds. A small portion of fungal mat was used as starter culture for the next cycle while the major portion is discarded as waste. Hence a trial study was carried out to utilize the waste fungal biom...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Murugesan GS,Sathishkumar M,Swaminathan K

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flame retardancy of medium density fiberboard (MDF) made from mixture of rubberwood fibers and recycled old corrugated containers was studied. Aluminum trihydroxide (ATH) was used as a fire retardant additive and mixed with the fibers to manufacture experimental MDF panels using wet process. Phenol formaldehyde (P...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Hashim R,How LS,Kumar RN,Sulaiman O

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work was to determine the hydrogen production from paper mill wastes using microbial consortia of solid substrate anaerobic digesters. Inocula from mesophilic, continuous solid substrate anaerobic digestion (SSAD) reactors were transferred to small lab scale, batch reactors. Milled paper (used as...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Valdez-Vazquez I,Sparling R,Risbey D,Rinderknecht-Seijas N,Poggi-Varaldo HM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study reports the effects of irrigation of a sodic soil with post methanation effluent (PME) of a distillery. Impact of long term effluent irrigation in the field (10 years) and short term effluent irrigation using different doses of PME in the laboratory (30 days) was studied in combination with three bioamendmen...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Kaushik A,Nisha R,Jagjeeta K,Kaushik CP

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium and cobalt adsorption from aqueous solution onto calcium alginate, sodium alginate with an extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) produced by the activated sludge bacterium Chryseomonas luteola TEM05 and immobilized C. luteola TEM05 was studied. In addition, solutions containing both of these ions were prepared an...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Ozdemir G,Ceyhan N,Manav E

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of using several agricultural by-products as supplements of sawdust substrate for the production of edible mushroom Hericium was evaluated using seven Hericium species. All the tested supplements (rice bran, wheat bran, barley bran, Chinese cabbage, egg shell, and soybean powder) were found to be suitabl...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Ko HG,Park HG,Park SH,Choi CW,Kim SH,Park WM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seaweed Sargassum sp. biomass proved to be useful for the recovery of ionic copper from highly concentrated solutions simulating effluents from semiconductor production. In the case of solutions containing copper in the form of chloride, sulphate and nitrate salts, the best pH for the recovery of copper was 4.5. It wa...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Padilha FP,de França FP,da Costa AC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoric acid (H(3)PO(4)) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH) treated rice husks, followed by carbonization in a flowing nitrogen were used to study the adsorption of malachite green (MG) in aqueous solution. The effect of adsorption on contact time, concentration of MG and adsorbent dosage of the samples treated or carboni...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Rahman IA,Saad B,Shaidan S,Sya Rizal ES

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nematicidal potential of culture filtrates of the blue-green alga, Microcoleus vaginatus (Cyanobacterium) was tested against Meloidogyne incognita on tomato in pots under greenhouse conditions. Prior to the transplantation of tomato seedling, roots were dipped in different concentrations (0.2%, 0.5%, 1%, 2%, 10%, ...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Khan Z,Park SD,Shin SY,Bae SG,Yeon IK,Seo YJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of nine different antibiotics (chloramphenicol, ampicillin trihydrate, kanamycin A monosulfate, neomycin sulfate, erythromycin, thiostrepton, tetracycline, apramycin sulfate and streptomycin sulfate) on growth and laccase production from Cyathus bulleri and Pycnoporus cinnabarinus has been investigated. All...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Dhawan S,Lal R,Hanspal M,Kuhad RC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the land disposal of biosolids and municipal sewage have focused largely on the potential pollution of the soil with pathogens, toxic compounds or heavy metals. Little is known about the impact of sludge amendment on carbon source and sink concentrations in soils. In this study gas concentrations in Scottis...

journal_title：Bioresource technology

authors： Sheppard SK,Gray N,Head IM,Lloyd D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00