Experimental Kinetic Evaluation of Carbon Dioxide Hydrate-Based Concentration for Grape, Pineapple, and Bitter Melon Juices.

Hydrate-based technology has emerged as a promising approach to address the industry's energy demands and product quality challenges in the food industry. Despite reported successes in the literature where higher dehydration ratios were achieved, technological problems like slow formation rates and poor process scale-up economics need to be addressed. Moreover, with little hydrate formation data available, the major focus is on the technology's ability to remove water content, but studies on the kinetics of hydrate formation are scarce.

Experimental Hydrate Phase Equilibrium Data Relevant to Bitter Melon, Pineapple, and Grape Juice Concentration.

One of the major challenges experienced by the fruit juice industry is the steady rise in energy costs. Hence, it is of industrial interest to find possible environmentally friendly measures that reduce energy consumption while cost-effectively maintaining the quality of manufactured products. Hydrate-based juice concentration technology can be used to overcome this challenge.

Mineral carbonation process of carbon dioxide using animal bone.

Carbon dioxide has been identified as one of the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Several carbon capture and storage technologies have been developed to mitigate the large quantities of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, but these are quite expensive and not easy to implement. Thus, this research analyses the technical and economic feasibility of using calcium leached from cow bone to capture and store carbon dioxide through the mineral carbonation process.

Toward a Robust, Universal Predictor of Gas Hydrate Equilibria by Means of a Deep Learning Regression.

Due to offshore reservoirs being developed in ever deeper and colder waters, gas hydrates are increasingly becoming a significant factor when considering the profitability of a reservoir due to flow disruptions, equipment, and safety hazards arising from the hydrate plug formation. Due to low-dosage hydrate inhibitors such as kinetic inhibitors competing with traditional thermodynamic inhibitors such as methanol, accurate information regarding the hydrate equilibrium conditions is required to determine the optimal hydrate control strategy. Existing thermodynamic models can prove inflexible regarding parameter adjustment and the incorporation of new data.

Chemical modifications of castor oil: A review.

The necessity of using petrochemicals for the development of polymers has been deteriorating because of the depletion in fossil fuels and environmental concerns such as the effect of greenhouse gases, global warming, and increasing population. Research has shown a shift from petroleum-based fuels to plant oil-based fuels in order to shift to renewable resources. Natural oils such as castor oil have shown competitive physical and chemical properties as compared to fossil fuels.