Les travaux de thèse présentés dans ce mémoire s’inscrivent dans le cadre du projet ANR BARPPRO. Ce programme de recherche vise à étudier l’influence d’une barrière de protection face à une explosion en régime de détonation. L’objectif est d’établir des méthodes de calcul rapides de classement des zones d’effets pour aider les industriels au dimensionnement des barrières de protection. L’une à partir d’abaques, valable pour des configurations en géométrie 2D, sur des plages spécifiées de paramètres importants retenus, avec une précision de +/- 5%. L’autre à partir d’une méthode d’estimation rapide basée notamment sur les chemins déployés, valable en géométrie 2D et en géométrie 3D, mais dont la précision estimée est de +/- 30%. Afin d’y parvenir, l’étude s’appuie sur trois volets : expérimental, simulation numérique et analytique. La partie expérimentale étudie plusieurs géométries de barrière de protection à petites échelles pour la détonation d’une charge gazeuse (propane-oxygène à la stoechiométrie). Les configurations expérimentées servent à la validation de l’outil de simulation numérique constitué du solveur HERA et de la plateforme de calcul TERA 100. Des abaques d’aide au dimensionnement ont pu être réalisés à partir de résultats fournis par l’outil de simulation (3125 configurations de barrière de protection, TNT). L’étude des différents phénomènes physiques présents a également permis de mettre en place une méthode d’estimation rapide basée sur des relations géométriques, analytiques et empiriques. L’analyse de ces résultats a permis d’établir quelques recommandations dans le dimensionnement d’une barrière de protection. Les abaques et le programme d’estimation rapide permettent à un ingénieur de dimensionner rapidement une barrière de protection en fonction de la configuration du terrain et de la position de la zone à protéger en aval du merlon. / This thesis is a part of the ANR BARPPRO project. This research program studies this influence of the protection barrier during an explosion detonation. The goal of this project is to establish fast-computation methods of area classification effects to help the industrial to design the protection barrier on the SEVESO sites. One from abacus, for configurations in 2D geometry on specified parameters used, with an accuracy of +/- 5%. The other from a fast-running method based on broken lines for configurations in 2D and 3D geometries, but the accuracy is +/- 30%. This study includes three approaches: experimental, numerical simulation and analytical approaches. The experimental part studies several geometries of the protection barrier for a gaseous explosion (stoichiometric propane-oxygen mixture) at small scales. The experimental configurations used to validate the numerical simulation tool constituted of the HERA software and the TERA 100 supercomputer. The overpressure charts were able to generate from the numerical results (3125 configurations of the barrier for a TNT charge). The analysis of these results allows to establish different recommendations in the design of the protection barrier. The study of the different physical phenomena present has also helped to set up a fast-running method based on the geometrical, empirical and analytical relations. All these tools will enable an engineer to analyze and estimate the evolution of overpressure around the barrier as a function of the site’s dimensions.

S'appuyant sur une approche historique, cette thèse interroge le processus de formation et de transformation de la capitale du Mozambique, et pour ce faire analyse les liens qui se sont noués, au cours des XIXème et XXème siècles, entre changements économiques, transformations institutionnelles et évolutions des formes urbaines. Située en position excentrée par rapport au reste du Mozambique, et proche de l'Union Sud-Africaine, Lourenço Marques passe successivement du statut de factorerie, à celui de bourg, puis de ville portuaire. La création, au cours du XIXème siècle, des axes de liaison, routier puis ferroviaire, avec le Natal fait de Lourenço Marques le débouché maritime des produits miniers d'Afrique du Sud et explique le développement économique de la ville. Pendant toute la période de sa formation, ce sont les plans d'urbanisme, élaborés par des ingénieurs militaires puis des architectes venus de Lisbonne, qui encadrent les extensions de la ville devenue capitale de la Province du Mozambique. Comme de nombreuses villes coloniales, Lourenço Marques devient le terrain d'expérimentation de méthodes de planification (tracés viaires, lotissement, zonage), élaborées dans différents pays européens, dont le Portugal. Pendant toute la période coloniale, ingénieurs et architectes portugais réussissent tant bien que mal à maîtriser la croissance de la ville européenne, restreignant l'accès des « africains » à cette dernière. La création à proximité du centre-ville d'un quartier « indigène » témoigne d'une volonté de séparation raciale de la part des colonisateurs. L'accession en 1975 du Mozambique à l'indépendance se traduit par l'exode des portugais et l'ouverture des portes de la ville aux africains. Cette décision soudaine produit une sorte d'appel d'air pour la population des campagnes et amorce un processus de croissance démographique rapide de Lourenço Marques devenue Maputo. Multipliant les plans d'urbanisme (qui ne sont jamais approuvés), les autorités du Mozambique indépendant rencontrent de plus en plus de difficultés à maîtriser un processus de développement qui se traduit notamment par de nombreux quartiers informels (lotissements, bidonvilles) et peinent à développer les activités économiques garantissant des emplois stables aux nouveaux habitants. / This thesis is based on a historical approach. It addresses the process whereby the capital city of Mozambique was shaped and transformed, and analyses the links that appeared during the 19th and 20th centuries between economic change, institutional transformations and the evolution of urban morphology. The location of Lourenço Marques is peripheral in Mozambique. The city is close to the Union of South Africa, and was originally a trading outpost. It later became a feitoria, small town, then a coastal city. The creation of road and, later, of rail networks with the Transvaal in the 19th century meant that Lourenço Marques became the maritime gateway for South African mining products, which explains the city's economic development. During the period in which the city was shaped, its extensions were managed through plans drawn up by engineers and army officials, and, later, by architects who came from Lisbon. It is at this point in time that the city became the capital of the Province of Mozambique. Like many other colonial cities, Lourenço Marques was subject to a wide range of planning experiments (street patterns, subdivisions, zoning) designed in various European countries, including Portugal. During the entire colonial period, Portuguese engineers and architects somehow managed to contain the growth of this European town, by restricting African people's access to it. The fact that a quarter was created near the city centre for the “indigenous population” reflects the fact that colonizers wanted racial separation. When Mozambique became independent in 1975, the Portuguese exodus took place and the city was opened up to African people. This sudden decision generated mass immigration from the countryside and initiated the rapid demographic growth of Lourenço Marques, whose name then became Maputo. The authorities of Mozambique came up with many town planning documents (which were never approved), and found it increasingly difficult to manage the development process – many informal quarters appeared (subdivisions and shanty towns) – and to generate economic activities that would give permanent jobs to the new population.

Cette contribution, en s’appuyant sur expérimentation et modélisation numérique, vise à une meilleure compréhension du comportement de structures en maçonnerie. Nous traitons tout d’abord le cas des murs soumis à un chargement hors plan de type pression uniforme. Les applications en ingénierie sont multiples, par exemple le cas de la maison individuelle construite en montagne en zone bleu, zone où les structures sont susceptibles de subir un impact de type avalanche de neige ; ou encore le cas de la maçonnerie soumise à une pression latérale induite par une charge accidentelle telle qu’une explosion dans une zone Seveso ou plus généralement en ville suite à l’explosion d’une conduite de gaz. Notre étude se confine au cas quasi-statique, l’objet étant une meilleure compréhension du comportement d’un mur en maçonnerie soumis à pression latérale uniforme. Nous avons aussi testé différentes configurations de renforcement par matériau composite. Puis nous évaluons pas à pas, les possibilités de la modélisation via la méthode des éléments discrets (DEM). Des essais judicieusement choisis, maçonnerie à joint sec ou mortier, nous permettent d’en évaluer les pertinences et les limites. Nous abordons ensuite sur maquettes, les essais sous charge ponctuelle hors plan en quasi-statique et le cas de l’impact en dynamique, puis nous traitons des essais vibratoires et des sollicitations dynamiques harmoniques. La modélisation DEM est aussi évaluée dans certains cas tels que les vibrations et les sollicitations modales, voir l’application d’une sollicitation sismique unidirectionnelle. L’étude des sollicitations dynamiques est limitée à la vibration et l’impact, plus facile à gérer en laboratoire que les essais dynamiques de « type souffle », non ici abordés mais que nous mettons en perspective. / The study, based on experiments and numerical modeling, discusses the behavior of masonry walls in the loading case of a uniform out of plane pressure. Engineering applications are multiple, for example the case of detached house built on mountain in blue area, where structures are liable to undergo an impact of snow avalanche type; or the case of masonry subjected to lateral pressure induced by accidental load such as an explosion in Seveso area or more generally in city following the explosion of a gas pipeline. Our study allows, first to quantify the bearing capacity in the case of uniform pressure in quasi-static loading case, and thus to highlight the associated modes of rupture, and secondly to estimate the improvements in terms of global behavior when the structure is reinforced by Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) layers. Then, discrete element method (DEM) is illustrated by applications to various masonry problems from simple to more complicated, where in plane loading, out of plane loading, or both, are considered. This modeling allows us to evaluate the pertinence and limitations of DEM in masonry structure. Finally we discuss the dynamic tests, with the case of impact, easier to manage in laboratory than the testing dynamic "blast type" that we will put into perspective.

L’objectif de cette thèse consiste à déterminer l’influence d’une pression ambiante comprise entre 100 à 600 KPa sur l’évaporation d’une goutte, puis sur l’évaporation d’un spray soumis aux mêmes conditions. La première étape consiste à étudier l’influence de la pression ambiante sur l’évolution de la forme, du diamètre, de la vitesse et du débit d’évaporation d’une goutte de liquide en chute libre. Pour cela, une technique de mesure optique a été utilisée et une méthodologie a été développée pour calibrer cette technique de mesure et ainsi minimiser les erreurs de mesures sur la taille des particules. En parallèle, un modèle analytique d’évaporation de gouttes en chute libre a été développé : une attention particulière a été portée sur la détermination d’une corrélation adaptée au calcul du coefficient de traînée afin de tenir compte de l’évolution de la forme des gouttes au cours de leur chute. Ce modèle d’évaporation de gouttes est comparé à un modèle d’évaporation de spray (prenant en compte l’entrainement d’air, la concentration de vapeur au loin de la goutte et l’influence de la pression ambiante) pour montrer les limites du modèle d’évaporation de gouttes lors de son application à l’évaporation d’un spray. La deuxième étape de l’étude a consisté à appliquer les techniques de mesure et d’analyse mises au point précédemment à l’étude de la granulométrie d’un spray pour caractériser l’influence de trois paramètres : la pression ambiante, la pression d’injection du liquide et la nature du liquide. L’analyse des résultats a permis de développer un modèle statistique pour déterminer la granulométrie de ces sprays. / The objective of this thesis is to determine the influence of ambient pressure between 100 and 600 KPa on the evaporation of a drop, and on the evaporation of a spray in the same conditions. The first step is to study the influence of ambient pressure on the evolution of the shape, the diameter, the speed and the evaporation rate of a drop of liquid in free fall. Then, an optical measurement technique has been used and a methodology was developed to calibrate this measurement technique and minimize measurement errors on the particle size. In parallel, an analytical model of evaporation of falling drops has been developed: a particular attention was paid to the determination of an appropriate correlation for the drag coefficient to take into account changes in the shape of drops during their fall. This model of evaporation of drop is compared with a spray evaporation model (taking into account the training of air, the vapor concentration away form the drop and the influence of the pressure to show the limits of this drop evaporation model when applied to the evaporation of a spray. The second phase of the study was to apply the measurement techniques and analysis developed previously to study the drop size of a spray to characterize the influence of three parameters: ambient pressure, injection pressure of the liquid and nature of the liquid. The analysis of the results allowed developing a statistical model to determine the size of the drops of these sprays.

We have investigated processes of ionization, energy absorption and subsequent explosion of atomic and molecular clusters under intense laser illumination using numerical as well as analytical methods. In particular, we focused on the response of composite clusters, those consisting of different atomic elements, to intense light pulses. Another major theme is the effect of the molecular structure of clusters on their Coulomb explosion. The action of intense laser pulses on clusters leads to fundamental, irreversible changes: they turn almost instantaneously into nanoplasmas and subsequently disintegrate into separate ions and electrons. Due to this radical transformation, remarkable new features arise. Transient cluster nanoplasmas are capable of absorbing enormous amounts of laser energy. In some cases more than 90 % of incident laser energy is absorbed by a gas of clusters with a density much smaller than that of a solid. After the efficient absorption, the energy is transformed into production of energetic ions, electrons, photons, and even neutrons. Composite clusters show especially interesting behavior when they interact with intense laser pulses. Nanoplasmas formed in composite clusters may absorb even more laser energy, than those formed in homogeneous clusters, as we demonstrate in this work. One of the most important results of this thesis is the identification of a novel type of plasma resonance. This resonance is enabled by an unusual ellipsoidal shape of the nanoplasma created during the ionization process in a helium droplet doped with just a few xenon atoms. In contrast to the conventional plasma resonance, which requires significant ion motion, here, the resonant energy absorption occurs at a remarkably fast rate, within a few laser cycles. Therefore, this resonance is not only the most efficient (like the conventional resonance), but also, perhaps, the fastest way to transfer laser energy to clusters. Recently, dedicated experimental studies of this effect were performed at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg. Their preliminary results confirm our prediction of a strong, avalanche-like ionization of the helium droplet with a small xenon cluster inside. A conventional plasma resonance, which relies on the cluster explosion, also exhibits interesting new properties when it occurs in a composite xenon-helium cluster with a core-shell geometry. We have revealed an intriguing double plasma resonance in this system. This was the first theoretical study of the influence of the helium embedding on the laser- driven nanoplasma dynamics. Our results demonstrate the important role of the interaction between xenon and helium parts of the cluster. Understanding this interaction is necessary in order to correctly interpret the experimental results. We have elucidated several important properties of Coulomb explosion in atomic and molecular clusters. Specifically, it was found that the kinetic energy distribution of ions after the Coulomb explosion of an atomic cluster is quite similar to the initial potential energy distribution of ions and is only weakly influenced by ion overtake effects, as was believed before. For the case of molecular hydrogen clusters, we have shown that the alignment of molecules inside the cluster affects its Coulomb explosion. Investigation of the dynamical processes in composite and molecular clusters induced by intense laser pulses is a step towards understanding them in more complex nano-objects, such as biomolecules or viruses. This is of great interest in the context of x-ray diffractive imaging of biomolecules with atomic resolution, which is one of the main goals of new x-ray free electron laser facilities.:1. Introduction 1 2. Interaction of clusters with intense laser pulses 5 2.1. Cluster formation and structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.1. Cluster formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.2. Cluster structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.3. Composite clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2. Matter in intense light fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2.1. Laser sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2.2. Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3. Clusters under intense laser pulses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3.1. Three stages of intense laser-cluster interaction . . . . . 12 2.3.2. Pathways of cluster ionization and energy absorption . . 13 2.3.3. Composite clusters in intense laser fields . . . . . . . . . 14 2.4. Scenarios of cluster explosion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.4.1. Coulomb explosion vs. quasi-neutral expansion . . . . . 15 2.4.2. Anisotropic explosion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.5. Comparison between experiment and theory . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3. Theoretical methods for intense laser-cluster interaction 21 3.1. The Hamiltonian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.2. Survey of simulation methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.2.1. Quantum methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.2.2. Classical methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3.3. Our method: classical microscopic molecular dynamics . . . . . 24 3.3.1. Initial configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.3.2. Integrating the equations of motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3.3.3. Observables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3.4. The role of quantum effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4. Cluster nanoplasma: a statistical approach 33 4.1. Vlasov-Poisson formalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.2. Nanoplasma electrons at quasi-equilibrium . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 4.2.1. Self-consistent potential and electron density . . . . . . . 34 4.2.2. Energy distribution of nanoplasma electrons . . . . . . . 36 4.3. Harmonic oscillator model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 4.3.1. Derivation from kinetic equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 4.3.2. Comparison with the molecular dynamics results . . . . 44 4.4. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 5. Ionization and energy absorption in helium droplets doped with xenon clusters 47 5.1. Local ignition and anisotropic nanoplasma growth . . . . . . . . 48 5.1.1. Cluster size dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 5.1.2. Nanoplasma resonance during its anisotropic growth . . 51 5.1.3. Range of laser frequencies and intensities . . . . . . . . . 55 5.1.4. Plasma resonance for circular polarization . . . . . . . . 56 5.1.5. Summary and future work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 5.2. Electron migration and its influence on the cluster expansion . . 59 5.2.1. Charging dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 5.2.2. Explosion dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 5.3. Interplay between nanoplasma expansion and its electronic response 63 5.3.1. Single pulse: time-dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 5.3.2. Two pulses: a pump-probe study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 5.4. Conclusions and outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 6. Coulomb explosions of atomic and molecular clusters 75 6.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 6.2. Analytical treatment of the Coulomb explosion . . . . . . . . . . 76 6.2.1. Steplike density profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 6.2.2. Kinetic approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 6.2.3. Gradually decreasing initial density . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 6.3. Coulomb explosions of atomic and molecular hydrogen clusters: a molecular dynamics study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 6.3.1. Kinetic energy distributions of ions (KEDI) . . . . . . . 85 6.3.2. Information loss during the explosion . . . . . . . . . . . 87 6.3.3. Ion overtake processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 6.3.4. Non-radial motion of ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 6.3.5. Three-body effects in Coulomb explosion . . . . . . . . . 93 6.4. Conclusions and outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 7. Conclusions and outlook 97 7.1. Physical conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 7.2. Methodological conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 7.3. Research perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 A. Suppression of the cluster barrier 101 B. Structure determination for Xen@Hem clusters 103 C. Calculation of the time-dependent phase shift 107 D. Potential of a uniformly charged spheroid 109 E. On the possibility of molecular alignment inside hydrogen clusters 111 Bibliography

Underwater explosions pose a significant threat to waterborne infrastructure though destructive pressure waves that can travel significant distances through the water. However, the use of bubble screens can attenuate the peak pressure and energy flux created by explosions to safe levels. This study investigates the prediction of pressure wave characteristics based on accumulated data, the damage potential of underwater explosions based on applied loads and effective material strength, and the bubble screen parameters required to prevent damage. The results were compiled to form a procedure for the design and implementation of a bubble screen the protection of waterborne infrastructure.

La plupart des sites industriels abritent des équipements et des réservoirs sous pression. Pour des raisons diverses (suppression, impact mécanique, surchauffe ou autre), ils peuvent être endommagés et même éclater. Cette explosion peut engendrer de nombreux projectiles. Au cours de leur vol, ces derniers peuvent impacter d'autres équipements, tels que des réservoirs sous pression ou d'autres installations sensibles (poste de commande, par exemple). Si une des cibles impactées subit une ruine mécanique, elle peut exploser et générer une nouvelle série de projectiles. Ces projectiles menacent, à leur tour, d'autres installations et ainsi de suite. Ce type d'enchaînement accidentel catastrophique est connu sous le nom d'effet domino ou de suraccident. Dans ce document, l'effet domino pouvant se produire sur des sites industriels est analysé au travers des projections produites par l'accident initial. Une approche probabiliste globale est ainsi développée dans laquelle le calcul de la probabilité d'occurrence du phénomène requiert le passage par quatre étapes : - Analyse des termes sources : les projectiles générés par l'explosion d'un réservoir ont différentes caractéristiques, à savoir le nombre de projectiles, la forme, la masse, la vitesse de départ et les angles de départ. Toutes ces grandeurs sont modélisées par des variables aléatoires. A l'aide du principe du maximum d'entropie et des données existantes, des distributions probabilistes sont développées pour toutes ces variables. On se limite, cependant, au cas de l'explosion d'un réservoir cylindrique ou sphérique. - Analyse de l'impact ou analyse du mouvement : la trajectoire d'un projectile (ou fragment de structure), en fonction de ses caractéristiques de départ, est décrite par une combinaison des effets d'inertie, de gravitation et d'aérodynamique. Une approche simplifiée faisant l'hypothèse de constance des coefficients aérodynamiques permet d'identifier analytiquement la trajectoire du projectile tandis qu'une solution numérique est obtenue par une approche complète où toutes les valeurs de ces coefficients sont prises en compte.Les mouvements de translation et de rotation sont également étudiés. A l'aide de l'analyse complète et des conditions d'impact, la probabilité d'impact est déterminée. L'étude est restreinte à des projectiles en forme de fond de réservoir, fond oblong de réservoir et plaque. Les formes des cibles de l'étude sont restreintes au cas ellipsoïdal, cylindrique et cubique. - Analyse de l'état des cibles impactées : dans un premier temps, des modèles simplifiés d'impact sont utilisés afin d'étudier l'interaction mécanique entre les projectiles et les réservoirs impactés. Un modèle mécanique complet comprenant une loi de comportement élasto-plastique et un modèle de rupture est également proposé. Ce modèle est ensuite implémenté dans un code de calcul sans maillage de type SPH, i.e. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Afin d'estimer la probabilité de rupture des réservoirs impactés, les modèles simplifiés sont mis en œuvre, ce qui permet de réduire le coût de calcul. - Occurrence du sur-accident : selon l'état mécanique résiduel de la cible et son état physique (conditions thermodynamiques, niveau de remplissage, etc.), l'impact de projectiles peut conduire à la poursuite du pnénomène. Ce dernier point n'est pas traité dans le document présenté

Devido às crises ocorridas no setor petroleiro, além do interesse em reduzir a emissão de gás carbônico (CO2), vários países buscam o desenvolvimento de novos combustíveis. Atualmente, mais de 80% da frota de veículos no Brasil rodam ou somente com etanol ou com uma mistura de etanol e gasolina. Desta forma, o bioetanol é considerado um combustível renovável alternativo com grande potencial para substituir os combustíveis oriundos do petróleo. Para atender a crescente demanda de etanol, sem competir com áreas cultiváveis voltadas para produção de alimentos, fontes de materiais lignocelulósicos podem ser utilizadas com o intuito de se aproveitar a fração celulósica para obtenção de açúcar fermentável para produção de bioetanol. Neste trabalho, o objetivo foi avaliar o efeito de tecnologias de pré-tratamento (convencionais e não convencionais) dos subprodutos sucroalcooleiros (bagaço e palha de cana), seguida ou não de uma etapa de deslignificação, sobre a conversão enzimática da celulose de cada biomassa vegetal, além de testar e avaliar o efeito que a mistura das duas biomassas (antes do pré-tratamento), em diferentes proporções, pode causar na produção de etanol 2G. Em uma primeira parte do trabalho, a palha de cana foi submetida ao pré-tratamento hidrotérmico e ao pré-tratamento por ultrassom, seguido de uma etapa de deslignificação alcalina. Para o pré-tratamento hidrotérmico, foram testadas três temperaturas (160, 170 e 180°C) nos tempos de 10, 20, 30, 40 e 50 min para cada temperatura. Para o teste com ultrassom, os experimentos foram conduzidos em três meios diferentes (ácido, alcalino e meio aquoso - controle) nos tempos de 1 a 30 minutos para cada condição. As amostras pré-tratadas por ultrassom e pelo método hidrotérmico foram deslignificadas com solução de NaOH 1%(m/v) por 1 hora. Após pré-tratamento e deslignificação, os ensaios de hidrólise enzimática foram realizados empregando Celluclast 1.5L (15 FPU/g de amostra) e ?-Glucosidase (12,5 UI/g de amostra). A condição de pré-tratamento hidrotérmico mais promissora para a palha foram a 170°C por 10 min, mostrando que a palha não necessita de tratamentos mais severos para obter uma maior digestibilidade no processo de hidrolise enzimática. Já o método por ultrassom provocou o aumento da recalcitrância do material lignocelulósico tanto para o agente deslignificante como para as celulases. Em uma segunda parte do trabalho, palha e bagaço de cana foram pré-tratados por explosão a vapor catalisado por SO2 nas seguintes condições para cada biomassa: 190, 195 e 200°C, por 5 min e 3% de SO2 (m/m). Após encontrar a condição ideal para ambas biomassas (190°C, 5 min, 3% SO2), três proporções diferentes de misturas de palha e bagaço foram testadas: 90% de palha / 10% de bagaço, 90% bagaço / 10% de palha e 50% de palha / 50% de bagaço e estas misturas foram prétratadas na condição otimizada. Em todas as etapas, a hidrólise enzimática foi realizada. Observou-se que a recuperação mais elevada de açúcar foi encontrada na amostra 50% bagaço/50% palha. Curiosamente, quando comparado com uma biomassa tratada isoladamente, todas as três misturas apresentam uma maior recuperação de açúcar. / Due to the crises in the oil sector, in addition to interest in reducing the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2), many countries seek to develop new fuels. Currently, over 80% of the vehicle fleet in Brazil only run on ethanol or a mixture of ethanol and gasoline. Thus, bioethanol is considered an alternative renewable fuel with great potential to replace petroleum derived fuels. To meet the growing ethanol demand, without competing with cultivable areas focused on food production, lignocellulosic materials sources can be used in order to take advantage of the cellulosic fraction to obtain fermentable sugar for bioethanol production. In this study, the objective was to evaluate the effect of pretreatment technologies (conventional and unconventional) of sugar and alcohol byproducts (bagasse and straw) followed or not by a delignification step on the enzymatic conversion of each biomass, besides test and evaluate the effect that mixing of the two biomasses (before pretreatment), in different proportions, can cause in the production of 2G ethanol. In the first part of the study, sugarcane straw was submitted to the hydrothermal pre-treatment and pre-treatment by ultrasound, followed by an alkaline delignification step. For the hydrothermal pretreatment, three temperatures were tested (160, 170 and 180°C) in the times of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 min for each temperature. For the test with ultrasound, the experiments were conducted in three different enviroments (acid, alkaline and aqueous medium - control) in the times of 1-30 minutes for each condition. The pretreated by ultrasound and by hydrothermal method samples were delignified with NaOH solution 1% (w/v) for 1 hour. After pre-treatment and delignification, the enzymatic hydrolysis assays were performed using Celluclast 1.5L (15 FPU/g of substrate) and ?-glucosidase (12.5 IU/g of substrate). The hydrothermal pretreatment condition most promising for the straw was at 170°C for 10 min, showing that the straw doesn\'t require more severe treatments to obtain a higher digestibility of the enzymatic hydrolysis process. Yet the ultrasound method led to increased recalcitrance of lignocellulosic material for both the delignificant agent as for cellulases. In a second part of the study, straw, and bagasse were pre-treated by steam explosion catalyzed by SO2 under the following conditions for each biomass: 190, 195 and 200°C for 5 min and 3% of SO2 (m/m). After finding the optimal condition for both biomasses (190°C, 5 min, 3% SO2), three different ratios of mixtures of straw and bagasse were tested: 90% straw / 10% bagasse, 90% bagasse / 10% straw and straw 50% / 50% bagasse and these mixtures were pretreated in the optimized condition. At all stages, the enzymatic hydrolysis was carried out. It was observed that the higher sugar recovery was found in the sample 50% bagasse / 50% straw. Interestingly, when compared with a treated biomass separately, all three blends exhibit a greater sugar recovery.

Crude oil causes both lethal and sublethal effects on marine organisms, but the impact upon sensory function remains unexplored. Elasmobranchs rely upon the effective functioning of their sensory systems for use in feeding, mating, and predator avoidance. The objective of this study was to test the effect of crude oil upon the olfactory and electroreceptive sensitivity of the Atlantic stingray, Dasyatis sabina. The magnitudes of the electro-olfactogram (EOG) responses were significantly depressed by 26% (Glutamic Acid) to 157% (Cysteine) for all amino acids when stingrays were exposed to crude oil. The shapes of the EOG responses when exposed to oil were also significantly different, exhibiting a more protracted response compared to un-exposed stingrays. Oil exposed stingrays exhibited a significant decrease in orientation distance to prey-simulating electric fields. This study is the first to quantify the effects of crude oil on olfactory and electrosensory sensitivity of marine predators. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill., 1998. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-130).