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1	Modelling heat pump grain drying systems Theerakulpisut, Somnuk January 1990 (has links) Drying is a common process in a number of industries. Products such as furs, wools, textiles, clay, timber, grains, fruits, and vegetables, at some stage, require drying. Review of the literature reveals that commercial dryers are highly inefficient due to various factors. One such factor is that commercial dryers are generally not equipped with heat recovery facilities. Heat pumps can provide a very efficient means of recovering both sensible and latent heat, hence energy loss can be substantially reduced. Furthermore, a heat pump always delivers more heat than the work input to the compressor. These two salient features render heat pump drying a premium alternative for efficient use and conservation of energy in drying industries.
2	Designing Cell-Free Protein Synthesis Systems for Improved Biocatalysis and On-Demand, Cost-Effective Biosensors Soltani Najafabadi, Mehran 06 August 2021 (has links) The open nature of Cell-Free Protein Synthesis (CFPS) systems has enabled flexible design, easy manipulation, and novel applications of protein engineering in therapeutic production, biocatalysis, and biosensors. This dissertation reports on three advances in the application of CFPS systems for 1) improving biocatalysis performance in industrial applications by site-specific covalent enzyme immobilization, 2) expressing and optimizing a difficult to express a mammalian protein in bacterial-based CFPS systems and its application for cost-effective, on-demand biosensors compatible with human body fluids, and 3) streamlining the procedure of an E. coli extract with built-in compatibility with human body fluid biosensors. Site-specific covalent immobilization stabilizes enzymes and facilitates recovery and reuse of enzymes which improves the net profit margin of industrial enzymes. Yet, the suitability of a given site on the enzyme for immobilization remains a trial-and-error procedure. This dissertation reports the reliability of several design heuristics and a coarse-grain molecular simulation in predicting the optimum sites for covalent immobilization of a target enzyme, TEM-1 ?-lactamase. This work demonstrates that the design heuristics can successfully identify a subset of favorable locations for experimental validation. This approach highlights the advantages of combining coarse-grain simulation and high-throughput experimentation using CFPS to efficiently identify optimal enzyme immobilization sites. Additionally, this dissertation reports high-yield soluble expression of a difficult-to-express protein (murine RNase Inhibitor or m-RI) in E. coli-lysate-based CFPS. Several factors including reaction temperature, reaction time, redox potential, and presence of folding chaperones in CFPS reactions were altered to find suitable conditions for m-RI expression. m-RI with the highest activity and stability was used to develop a lyophilized CFPS biosensor in human body fluids which reduced the cost of biosensor test by ~90%. Moreover, an E. coli extract with RNase inhibition activity was developed and tested which further streamlines the production of CFPS biosensors compatible with human body fluids. Mehran Soltani cell-free protein synthesis cell-free CFPS in vitro TEM-1 ?-lactamase antibiotics unnatural amino acid protein engineering site-specific covalent immobilization site-directed mutagenesis design heuristics coarse-grain simulation biosensor cell-free biosensor RNase inhibitor murine RNase inhibitor m-RI RNase inhibitor RNase A human body fluids saliva serum urine glutamine lyophilized point of care GroEL/ES folding chaperones E. coli extract Extract with RNase inhibition activity Engineering

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Modelling heat pump grain drying systems

Designing Cell-Free Protein Synthesis Systems for Improved Biocatalysis and On-Demand, Cost-Effective Biosensors