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Eng T, Banerjee D, Lau AK, Bowden E, Herbert RA, Trinh J, Prahl JP, Deutschbauer A, Tanjore D, Mukhopadhyay A. Engineering Pseudomonas putida for efficient aromatic conversion to bioproduct using high throughput screening in a bioreactor. Metab Eng 2021; 66:229-238. [PMID: 33964456 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2021.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2021] [Revised: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is an emerging biomanufacturing host amenable for use with renewable carbon streams including aromatics such as para-coumarate. We used a pooled transposon library disrupting nearly all (4,778) non-essential genes to characterize this microbe under common stirred-tank bioreactor parameters with quantitative fitness assays. Assessing differential fitness values by monitoring changes in mutant strain abundance identified 33 gene mutants with improved fitness across multiple stirred-tank bioreactor formats. Twenty-one deletion strains from this subset were reconstructed, including GacA, a regulator, TtgB, an ABC transporter, and PP_0063, a lipid A acyltransferase. Thirteen deletion strains with roles in varying cellular functions were evaluated for conversion of para-coumarate, to a heterologous bioproduct, indigoidine. Several mutants, such as the ΔgacA strain improved fitness in a bioreactor by 35 fold and showed an 8-fold improvement in indigoidine production (4.5 g/L, 0.29 g/g, 23% of maximum theoretical yield) from para-coumarate as the carbon source.
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- Thomas Eng
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 5885, Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA, USA; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 5885, Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA, USA; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 5885, Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA, USA; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 5885, Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA, USA; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 5885, Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA, USA; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 5885, Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA, USA; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA, USA; Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA, 5885, USA
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- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA, USA; Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA, 5885, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 5885, Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA, USA; Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA, USA; Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Banerjee D, Eng T, Lau AK, Sasaki Y, Wang B, Chen Y, Prahl JP, Singan VR, Herbert RA, Liu Y, Tanjore D, Petzold CJ, Keasling JD, Mukhopadhyay A. Genome-scale metabolic rewiring improves titers rates and yields of the non-native product indigoidine at scale. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5385. [PMID: 33097726 PMCID: PMC7584609 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19171-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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High titer, rate, yield (TRY), and scalability are challenging metrics to achieve due to trade-offs between carbon use for growth and production. To achieve these metrics, we take the minimal cut set (MCS) approach that predicts metabolic reactions for elimination to couple metabolite production strongly with growth. We compute MCS solution-sets for a non-native product indigoidine, a sustainable pigment, in Pseudomonas putida KT2440, an emerging industrial microbe. From the 63 solution-sets, our omics guided process identifies one experimentally feasible solution requiring 14 simultaneous reaction interventions. We implement a total of 14 genes knockdowns using multiplex-CRISPRi. MCS-based solution shifts production from stationary to exponential phase. We achieve 25.6 g/L, 0.22 g/l/h, and ~50% maximum theoretical yield (0.33 g indigoidine/g glucose). These phenotypes are maintained from batch to fed-batch mode, and across scales (100-ml shake flasks, 250-ml ambr®, and 2-L bioreactors).
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- Deepanwita Banerjee
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Advanced Biofuel and Bioproduct Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Advanced Biofuel and Bioproduct Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- QB3 Institute, University of California-Berkeley, 5885 Hollis Street, 4th Floor, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University Denmark, 2970, Horsholm, Denmark
- Synthetic Biochemistry Center, Institute for Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies, Shenzhen, China
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA.
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
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Curran SC, Hagen A, Poust S, Chan LJG, Garabedian BM, de Rond T, Baluyot MJ, Vu JT, Lau AK, Yuzawa S, Petzold CJ, Katz L, Keasling JD. Probing the Flexibility of an Iterative Modular Polyketide Synthase with Non-Native Substrates in Vitro. ACS Chem Biol 2018; 13:2261-2268. [PMID: 29912551 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In the search for molecular machinery for custom biosynthesis of valuable compounds, the modular type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) offer great potential. In this study, we investigate the flexibility of BorM5, the iterative fifth module of the borrelidin synthase, with a panel of non-native priming substrates in vitro. BorM5 differentially extends various aliphatic and substituted substrates. Depending on substrate size and substitution BorM5 can exceed the three iterations it natively performs. To probe the effect of methyl branching on chain length regulation, we engineered a BorM5 variant capable of incorporating methylmalonyl- and malonyl-CoA into its intermediates. Intermediate methylation did not affect overall chain length, indicating that the enzyme does not to count methyl branches to specify the number of iterations. In addition to providing regulatory insight about BorM5, we produced dozens of novel methylated intermediates that might be used for production of various hydrocarbons or pharmaceuticals. These findings enable rational engineering and recombination of BorM5 and inform the study of other iterative modules.
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- Samuel C. Curran
- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
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- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
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- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
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- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint Bioenergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville California 94608, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Hørsholm, Denmark
- Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Institute for Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies, Shenzhen, China
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Won SG, Lau AK. Effects of key operational parameters on biohydrogen production via anaerobic fermentation in a sequencing batch reactor. Bioresour Technol 2011; 102:6876-6883. [PMID: 21530239 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.03.078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2010] [Revised: 03/22/2011] [Accepted: 03/23/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In this study, a series of tests were conducted in a 6L anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR) to investigate the effect of pH, hydraulic retention time (HRT) and organic loading rate on biohydrogen production at 28°C. Sucrose was used as the main substrate to mimic carbohydrate-rich wastewater and inoculum was prepared from anaerobic digested sludge without pretreatment. The reactor was operated initially with nitrogen sparging to form anaerobic condition. Results showed that methanogens were effectively suppressed. The optimum pH value would vary depending on the HRT. Maximum hydrogen production rate and yield of 3.04 L H(2)/L reactor d and 2.16 mol H(2)/mol hexose respectively were achieved at pH 4.5, HRT 30 h, and OLR 11.0 kg/m(3)d. Two relationships involving the propionic acid/acetic acid ratio and ethanol/acetic acid ratio were derived from the analysis of the metabolites of fermentation. Ethanol/acetic acid ratio of 1.25 was found to be a threshold value for higher hydrogen production.
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- S G Won
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2360 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Yazdanpanah F, Sokhansanj S, Lau AK, Lim CJ, Bi X, Melin S, Afzal M. Permeability of wood pellets in the presence of fines. Bioresour Technol 2010; 101:5565-5570. [PMID: 20223658 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.01.096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2009] [Revised: 01/14/2010] [Accepted: 01/21/2010] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Broken pellets and fines are produced when pellets are handled. The resistance to air flow was measured for clean pellets and for pellets mixed with 1-20% broken pellets (fines). A pellet diameter was 6mm. The lengths ranged from 6 to 12 mm. Clean pellets were defined as particles that remained on a 4mm screen. A typical sieve analysis showed 30% of the mass of particles that passed through the 4mm screen was smaller than 1mm. The airflow rates used in the experiment ranged from 0.004 to 0.357 ms(-1). The corresponding pressure drop ranged from 1.9 to 271 Pam(-1) for clean pellets, from 4.8 to 1100 Pam(-1) for 10% fines content, and from 7.9 to 1800 Pam(-1) for 20% fines content. Coefficients of Hukill and Ives' equation were estimated for clean pellets and a multiplier was defined to calculate pressure drop for pellets mixed with fines.
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- F Yazdanpanah
- Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, 2360 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3
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Lau AK, Cheuk WW, Lo KV. Degradation of greenhouse twines derived from natural fibers and biodegradable polymer during composting. J Environ Manage 2009; 90:668-671. [PMID: 18440121 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2007] [Revised: 02/24/2008] [Accepted: 03/08/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Commercial composting operations generally do not accept organic wastes with plastic twines from the greenhouse vegetable industry and the bulk of the waste materials ends up in landfills. The objectives of this paper are to identify environmentally compatible substitutes that could replace the current use of petrochemically derived plastic twines in greenhouse vegetable production, thus diverting them from landfills, and to assess the extent of their degradation via composting. Physical properties of the twines, including linear density, percent weight loss and tensile strength were monitored for the biodegradation tests. A pilot-scale composting trial was conducted in an in-vessel composting system. Results showed that the three biodegradable twine materials (cotton, jute and EcoPLA) could degrade readily in a composting environment within a reasonable time frame. Specifically, at the end of 105 days of composting, 85.3%, 84.8% and 81.1% of weight loss was observed for cotton, jute and EcoPLA, respectively. Furthermore, EcoPLA exhibited a slower decline in tensile strength with time, when compared to jute and cotton.
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- A K Lau
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2360 East Mall, 6250 Applied Science Lane, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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- A K Lau
- Biochemistry Group, The Heart Research Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Step tracer tests were carried out on lab-scale biofilters to determine the residence time distributions (RTDs) of gases passing through two types of biofilters: a standard biofilter with vertical gas flow and a modified biofilter with horizontal gas flow. Results were used to define the flow patterns in the reactors. "Non-ideal flow" indicates that the flow reactors did not behave like either type of ideal reactor: the perfectly stirred reactor [often called a "continuously stirred tank reactor" (CSTR)] or the plug-flow reactor. The horizontal biofilter with back-mixing was able to accommodate a shorter residence time without the usual requirement of greater biofilter surface area for increased biofiltration efficiency. Experimental results indicated that the first bed of the modified biofilter behaved like two CSTRs in series, while the second bed may be represented by two or three CSTRs in series. Because of the flow baffles used in the horizontal biofilter system, its performance was more similar to completely mixed systems, and hence, it could not be modeled as a plug-flow reactor. For the standard biofilter, the number of CSTRs was found to be between 2 and 9 depending on the airflow rate. In terms of NH3 removal efficiency and elimination capacity, the standard biofilter was not as good as the modified system; moreover, the second bed of the modified biofilter exhibited greater removal efficiency than the first bed. The elimination rate increased as biofilter load increased. An opposite trend was exhibited with respect to removal efficiency.
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- D H Lee
- Department of Chemical and Bio-Resource Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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A lab-scale experiment was performed using two different pore-size ultrafiltration membranes to investigate the removal efficiency of Tomato Mosaic Virus (ToMV), retainability of pollutant and nutrients, and flow characteristics. From the experiment, it may be concluded that ultrafiltration can be used effectively to eliminate ToMV. Tests with a 30K pore-size ultrafiltration membrane achieved 99% virus removal efficiency and a 5K membrane practically removed 100% of the virus in greenhouse wastewater. Nutrient analysis indicated that all the essential nutrients could be retained and re-utilized.
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- M Liu
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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The optimal timing of I-123 MIBG scintigraphy in the evaluation of pheochromocytoma is unknown. Although some centers perform early imaging, many delay imaging until 24 hours after injection. The authors describe the case of a bony metastasis in the left femur that was detected 5 hours after injection, but which was not visualized at 24 hours.
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- A K Lau
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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Bivins P, Lau AK, San Andres-Robles C, Lee-Lin F, Chan N, Maddock PG. The influence of culture in a Chinese woman with a craniopharingioma receiving radiation therapy. Cancer Pract 1995; 3:8-11. [PMID: 7704065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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