Kontinuierliche Reaktionsführung mit löslichen Enzymen

Continuous processes with soluble enzymes. This paper surveys the use of continuously operating enzyme-membrane reactors with enforced flow where the retention of soluble enzymes in the reaction vessel is achieved by means of an ultrafiltration membrane. This technique has been commercialized in the acylase process for the synthesis of L -amino acids on a 200 ton/year level. It is especially useful for the application of multi-enzyme systems with cofactor regeneration. The synthesis of L -tert-leucine from the corresponding α-keto acid has been achieved on a kilogram scale. Coenzymes coupled to water soluble polymers are retained in the membrane-reactor together with the enzymes. Use of suitable conditions prevents loss of enzyme and coenzyme by passage through the membrane or by deactivation. Therefore the costs of enzymes and coenzymes are no longer limitations for economic processes. In the continuously operating enzyme-membrane reactor regeneration of the coenzyme up to 600 000 times was achieved. In continuous peptide synthesis space-time yields of 25 kg/(l d) were obtained. To suppress side reactions very high catalyst concentrations are possible, yielding residence times below 4 min.     

Image coding using wavelet transform

A scheme for image compression that takes into account psychovisual features both in the space and frequency domains is proposed. This method involves two steps. First, a wavelet transform used in order to obtain a set of biorthogonal subclasses of images: the original image is decomposed at different scales using a pyramidal algorithm architecture. The decomposition is along the vertical and horizontal directions and maintains constant the number of pixels required to describe the image. Second, according to Shannon's rate distortion theory, the wavelet coefficients are vector quantized using a multiresolution codebook. To encode the wavelet coefficients, a noise shaping bit allocation procedure which assumes that details at high resolution are less visible to the human eye is proposed. In order to allow the receiver to recognize a picture as quickly as possible at minimum cost, a progressive transmission scheme is presented. It is shown that the wavelet transform is particularly well adapted to progressive transmission.     

Aluminium nitride coatings on silicon carbide fibres,prepared by pyrolysis of a polymeric precursor

Metallic aluminium was anodically dissolved in an organic electrolyte. A viscous solution, containing a polyiminoalane precursor was obtained. Nicalon (SiC) fibres were thermally pretreated and then coated with this fluid. The coated fibres were dried and calcined at 900 ° C in anhydrous ammonia. Thermal pretreatment of the fibres in nitrogen at 1400 ° C and dip coating with solutions of relatively low aluminium concentrations resulted in dense, nearly uncracked aluminium nitride layers.