Application of native and phosphorylated tapioca starches in potato starch noodle

Summary Characteristics of potato starch noodles substituted with native, phosphorylated and commercial phosphorylated (MTS283) tapioca starches were evaluated. Substitution of up to 17% with phosphorylated tapioca starch or up to 35% with MTS283 improved the quality of potato starch noodles. The resulting noodles were transparent and less brittle when uncooked, and were moderately elastic, less sticky and experienced lower cooking loss and less swelling when cooked. Substitution with native tapioca starch of up to 17% was also possible, but the uncooked noodles were less transparent and the cooked noodles swelled more and were less elastic.     

Estimation of Heat Capacity for Liquids

Abstract

Heat capacity of liquid in different temperatures are necessary in most engineering calculations. A general formula has been developed to calculate heat value of nonpolar or slightly polar compounds based on critical properties and molecular weight. This formula is a function of reduced temperature, critical temperature, critical pressure, molecular weight, and acentric factor. It is applied within a wide range of temperatures.     

The optimization of conditions for the production of acid-hydrolysed winged bean and soybean proteins with reduction of 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD)

Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was used to establish the optimum time and temperature for production of acid‐hydrolysed winged bean protein (aHWBP) and acid‐hydrolysed soybean protein (aHSBP). Seven hours of hydrolysis at 125 °C was the optimum condition for producing aHWBP, whereas it was 5 h of hydrolysis at 125 °C for production of aHSBP. Although aHWBP and aHSBP produced using these conditions had favourable sensory qualities, they were found to have up to 25 mg kg^?1 of 3‐monochloropropane‐1,2‐diol (3‐MCPD). This exceeds the maximum level permissible in Commission Regulation (EC) No 466/2001. However, additional alkaline thermal treatment at pH 8.5 for 2 h at 100 °C effectively reduced the 3‐MCPD contents of aHWBP and aHSBP to undetectable levels. aHWBP has a distinctive flavour, which is different from that of aHSBP. The former has higher mean scores for meaty and vegetable attributes but lower mean scores for soy, umami and beany attributes than the latter.     

New Statistical Concepts for Prediction Viscosity, Critical Temperature, and Critical Pressure of Homologous Hydrocarbon Series (CnH2n 2)

A new model for prediction viscosity, critical temperature, and critical pressure for homologous hydrocarbon series C_nH_2n+2 as a function of carbon number only. The new model has a general formula: η or T_c or P = A₁ C^A₂(2+2C)^A₃. This new model provides accurate and computationally reliable prediction for the corresponding properties (η, T_c, and P_c) value.     

A review of the stabilization of tropical lowland peats

The Deep Mixing Method, which involves the formation of in situ stabilized peat columns, is suitable for deep peat stabilization, whereas the mass stabilization technique is used to stabilize the soil of shallow peat deposits instead of the costly and problematic removal and replacement method. The concept of soil-cement stabilization involves the addition of water to cement, resulting in a chemical process known as cement hydration. Stabilization of peat by cement, which requires a significant strength increase in the cement-stabilized peat or organic soil, is attributed largely to physicochemical reactions that include cement hydration, hardening of the resulting cement paste and interactions between soil substances and primary and secondary cementation hydration products. The factors that affect these physicochemical reactions and the interactions of peat soil-cementation products that influence peat stabilization are the amount of solid particles, the water: soil ratio, the quantity of binder, the presence of humic and/or fulvic acids, the soil pH and the amount of organic matter in the peat. With the Air Curing Technique, stabilized peat samples for unconfined compressive strength (UCS) tests were kept at a normal air temperature of 30 ± 2 °C and strengthened by gradual moisture content reduction instead of the usual water-curing technique or water submersion methods that have been common practice in past experiments involving the stabilization of peat with cement. The principle of using the Air Curing Technique to strengthen stabilized peat is that peat soil at its natural moisture content contains sufficient water (water content from 198 to 417 %) that, when mixed with cement, a curing process takes place that causes the stabilized peat soil to gradually lose its moisture content and to become drier and harder throughout the curing period. This process does not require the addition of water.     

Performance Evaluation of Cost-Effective Multicast–Unicast Key Management Method

Group key management is one of the key security issues in multicast networks. The main challenge is to provide a secure group key management method which avoids high key update cost in terms of the number of transmitted keys. In order to achieve low key update cost for group key management, most of the existing methods increase their encryption/decryption cycles which requires a strong cryptographic function. In this paper, a cost-effective key management method is proposed to address the problem of high key update cost without increasing the encryption/decryption cycles. We evaluated our proposed method with existing tree-based methods by using Markov chain and Poisson Arrival Process. Results indicate the efficiency of our proposed method in reducing the key update cost significantly compared to the existing tree-based key management methods.     

Magnetic Properties of Mechanically Alloyed Cobalt-Zinc Ferrite Nanoparticles

In this work, the physical and the magnetic properties of cobalt-zinc ferrite nanoparticles, synthesized via high-energy ball milling (HEBM), were examined. X-Ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FeSEM), and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) were used to study changes of the powder structure and morphology analyses. Hysteresis and permeability measurement were carried out using a BH hysteresisgraph system and an impedance analyzer, respectively. The results suggested improved magnetic properties of Co_0.5Zn_0.5Fe₂O₄ with increasing sintering temperature from 950 °C up to 1200 °C. However, the variations of the magnetic responses were consistent with the varying volume concentration of the ferrite composites. Unlike the highly crystalline pure ferrite which showed magnetic resonance within the measured frequency, the crystallineamorphous composites showed no visible resonance peak. This proved that the resonance peak shifted to higher frequency as a result of the single domain spin behavior in the absence of domain walls movement.     

Performance evaluation of supported ionic liquid membrane for removal of phenol

This work evaluates the performance of ionic liquid in supported liquid membrane (SLM) for the removal of phenol from wastewater. Ionic liquids are organic salts entirely composed of organic cations and either organic or inorganic anions. Due to the fact that the vapor pressure of ionic liquid is not detectable and they are sparingly soluble in most conventional solvents, they can be applied in SLM as the organic phase. In this work, 1-n-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium salts, [C_nMIM]⁺[X]⁻ have been investigated so as to determine an optimal supported ionic liquid membrane. The effect of operational parameters such as pH, stirring speed and the concentration of stripping agent has been studied, and an evaluation of different membrane supports were also carried out. With a minimal amount of the ionic liquid 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogensulfate, 85% phenol removal could be achieved by using polytetrafluoroethylene hydrophobic membrane filter in the SLM.     

Dye-tolerant marine Acinetobacter baumannii-mediated biodegradation of reactive red

The objective of this study was to isolate a potent dye-degrading microbe that can be used to reduce the pollution caused by industrial dyes.Reactive red 198 is an extensively used textile dye and is a major environmental pollutant in water bodies. In this study, a bacterial strain was isolated from sea sediments and identified as Acinetobacter baumannii with 16S rRNA sequencing. The isolated bacteria were immobilized in calcium alginate and decolorization studies were carried out to determine the optimum pH, temperature, dye concentration, inoculum volume,and static/agitated condition using the one factor at a time(OFAT) approach. The Box-Behnken design, a type of response surface methodology,was adopted to improve the degradation efficiency. At 37℃ using an inoculum volume of six beads, 96.20% decolorization was observed in 500 mg/L of reactive red 198 after 72 h. Dye degradation was confirmed with UV-visible spectroscopy and Fourier-transform infrared(FTIR)spectroscopy studies of the dye and degraded metabolites. Microbial toxicity studies using Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and phytotoxicity studies using Vigna radiata proved that the toxicity of the dye was significantly reduced after degradation. We can conclude that the isolated A. baumannii strain is an efficient dye-degrading microbe that can be used to reduce the pollution caused by industrial dyes.