Growth Effects as a Function of pH and Temperature of serovar Choleraesuis in In Vitro Tests and Chicken Meat: Prediction and Modeling.

The present study aimed to predict and model the growth of serovar Choleraesuis as a function of pH and temperature in in vitro tests and raw chicken meat. To describe the growth, the data were adjusted by the Modified Gompertz primary model. After comparison, they presented R values > 0.

Ultrasound-assisted lipase-catalyzed transesterification of soybean oil in organic solvent system.

This work reports the transesterification of soybean oil with ethanol using two commercial immobilized lipases under the influence of ultrasound irradiation. The experiments were performed in an ultrasonic water bath, following a sequence of experimental designs to assess the effects of temperature, enzyme and water concentrations, oil to ethanol molar ratio and output irradiation power on the reaction yield. Results show that ultrasound-assisted lipase-catalyzed transesterification of soybean oil with ethanol might be a potential alternative route to conventional alkali-catalyzed method, as high reaction yields (~90 wt.