The House of Quinn is the graduate collection of Julius Quinn Arthur, whose career I could see taking off after setting my sights on this collection.
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Effects of enzyme feeding strategy on ethanol yield in fed-batch simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of spruce at high dry matter
Background:
To make lignocellulosic fuel ethanol economically competitive with fossil fuels, it is necessary to reduce the production cost. One way to achieve this is by increasing the substrate concentration in the production process, and thus reduce the energy demand in the final distillation of the fermentation broth. However, increased substrate concentration in simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) processes has been shown to result in reduced ethanol yields and severe stirring problems. Because the SSF medium is being continuously hydrolyzed, running the process in fed-batch mode could potentially reduce the stirring problems and lead to increased ethanol yields in high-solids SSF. Different enzyme feeding strategies, with the enzymes either present in the reactor from start-up or fed into the reactor together with the substrate, have been studied, along with the influence of the enzyme feeding strategy on the final ethanol yield and productivity.
Results:
In the present study, SSF was run successfully with 10% and 14% water-insoluble solids (WIS) in batch and fed-batch mode. The mixing of the material in the reactor was significantly better in fed-batch than batch mode, and similarly high or higher ethanol yields were achieved in fed-batch mode compared with batch SSF in some cases. No general trend in the dependence of ethanol yield on enzyme feeding strategy was found.
Conclusions:
The optimum enzyme feeding strategy appears to depend on the conditions during SSF, such as the WIS concentration and the concentration of inhibitory compounds in the SSF medium.
BP is burning rare sea turtles alive, blocking efforts to save them
By now, almost everyone is aware of the out-of-control oil spill down in the Gulf of Mexico that seems to be getting exponentially worse with each passing day. But what people may not know is that BP's efforts to control the oil by burning it are actually burning alive a certain rare and endangered species of sea turtle.
For several weeks now, rescue crews have been feverishly trying to save Kemp's Ridleys sea turtles, as well as four other endangered varieties, from being caught in the oil corral areas that are being intentionally burned by BP, but according to Mike Ellis, one of the boat captains involved in the project, BP has now blocked all such rescue efforts from taking place.
"They ran us out of there and then they shut us down, they would not let us get back in there," he explained in an interview with Catherine Craig, a conservation biologist.
According to Dr. Brian Stacy, a veterinarian with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there are five different endangered sea turtles living in the Gulf that are all at risk, but the type being found "dead or covered in oil" the most is the Kemp's Ridleys variety, which is the rarest species of them all. Read more...
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Ice Ice Iceland baby
So here I am in Iceland ready for a week of relaxation hiking geothermal pools puffins and perhaps a ride on a pony. I'm drawn to the clean air and promise of fun people who consider sarcasm something of a sport. I left for the airport 5 hours before my flight curse you G20 and got here from the Beach in 25 minutes which is pretty much unheard of. The traffic at 430 on a Friday was like 4
Nakalele
Seems like every Hawaiian word we come across has an extraordinary amount of vowels. Wheel of Fortune would make a killing here selling vowels by the dozen. We are on Maui for the wedding of Cathleenrsquos niece. It is quite beautiful here in paradise and while it is hot and humid it seems there is always a cool breeze. Today we spent the morning hiking to the Nakalele blowholes. The sma
PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES
Today we were in transit. We decided not to drive back to Cape Town after a chap told us that a flight was available out of East London which was about 2 and a half hours away. Roger didn't fancy the long drive to Cape Town even though the route is stunning.Well what can I say never believe distances told over a drink. This journey took us 4 hours. We disbelieved the Sat Nav and ended up lost. F
SHREK AND THE WINNER IS
The auction is now closed......................and the final bid of 66 was made by David Penfold. Thank you so much and to all those who also bid for Shrek. Shrek and his photos will soon be off to a new home with tales to tell of his travels. David while you await his arrival there is a nice picture of him in The Sun today in the football pull out He too has World Cup fever.It is great that the
Day Ten Eleven Twelve
After we returned from our mini adventure we spent two days recovering from our big trip catching up with family and packing for our next mini trip and we rode our bikes into Nijmegan and were finally able to shop for some decent clothes fashion at the moment includes fluro coloured jump suits....yeah no...Today day 12 we depart Bemmel to spend the day in Amsterdam looking at the Ann Frank
Day 16 Homeward Bound
And so the day has arrived when I have to head home. All packed I wait outside the Hotel for Anna. There is a hive of activity as people are heading to work and there is Police activity in the area apparently due to a high profile case at the nearby Court. Mind you the police weren't that interested in the public I saw a policeman on his motorbike riding down the road almost two abreast with a
learning the language
out cold by 945pm last night it was still light out. One of the things we were going to do here is observe the night crier apparently the tradition is that some costumed guy blows a horn to warn people that nght is coming do they have to be warned and they've been doing it for hundreds of years. missed it. stupid chinese buffet. now that it's almost over i'm getting really good at
LATE SHREK BID
A late bid in keeping with the World Cup interest and the big game tomorrow is for 66.There is 1 hour left to bid............the auction closes at 8am UK time today.
Day Nine
On day nine we found ourselves in the town of Cochem in Germany it was a really awesome place really German. After breakfast we went our separate ways with Opa and Oma Riet heading off to do some shopping and mum and i off to the market square to catch the bus to the castle. On the way we did a fair bit of shopping bought a bit of local wine. All the wine came in really cool shaped or coloured
Unique Berlin
Berlin was bliss.We stayed with Dan's friend Matt from auckland and his girlfriend Becky. They were the best hosts we loved being in somebody's home again after all the hostelling. Being able to wash your clothes when you want not having to learn everything about your surroundings and eat home cooked meals is something we didnt realise we were missing so much Becky is an absolutely awesome cook
Day 12 Gondola Rides and Flat Tires
Well good morning Montrose Colorado It's bright and early and Tim is chomping at the bits to get on the road. He's always like this when we have one of those days that consist of mostly driving and a little sightseeing. We were up and ready to pull out of Wally World by 900 am. He found a place called The Black Canyon of the Gunnison in the book so he plotted out our route and off we went to
Friday June 25 2010
Woke up this morning and Daniele headed off early to Gladstone to get some errands done. There is some bird in the area that has a call that sounds like someone is whistling so I want to try and figure out what it is because it is such a cool sound. The girls and I lounged around for a bit and as the weather was gorgeous we decided to walk to town. It is a bit of a distance but we had nothi
Thursday June 24 2010
We woke up today to a pretty gross day. We thought we might be able to go out on the water but it was raining and windy. Daniele went out real early and bought one bed for the house. He wanted us to come with him to pick out the rest of the stuff so early afternoon he picked us up and we all went to the red cross. We left with two more twin beds and mattresses a few bureaus and a sofa couc
Wednesday June 23 2010
I woke up 6 hours later in Rockhampton a larger city south of Airlie beach. It reminded me so much of home with a greyhound station McDonalds Subway Pizza Hut Dominos and other American stores and restraints. We waited in McDonalds as Daniele was flying into Rockhampton at 730. Soon enough he arrived and we all piled into the car for the 45minute ride to Yeppoon. The area is very arid
Tuesday June 22 2010
We had to check out of the hostel by 10 in the morning so we got up had breakfast and packed. Luckily we could leave our bags at the hostel for the day as we were taking a bus to Rockhampton at 12 midnight. In town I picked up my advanced open water dive card Anna got her hair cut and we wandered the shops for a bit. While we were away for the weekend Daniele was flying to his University to
Conspiracy Yes There Is One
The message you are about to read is top secret. Do not share this with the general public. Do not let anyone see you reading this. Do not share this file with the FBI. Do not pass go. Do not collect two hundred dollars.You are holding in your hands a secret. A terrible secret. A secret so grim so warped in its bearing that I can scarcely bring myself to tell you of its existence. It's a
Homeward Bound and arrived to storms
We left Sundance thinking we might stop somewhere in the eastern part of South Dakota. We did stop but only for a few fireworks. The weather was fine until we hit Windom and then the clouds thickened darkened and the wind picked up. We turned on the radio to a Mankato station as the kids said there were tornado sirens going off in Mankato. We ended up pulling off into St. James and parking i