R. Maciel Filho

TL;DR: Poly-lactic acid (PLA) is at present one of the most promising biodegradable polymers for this purpose and has convincingly demonstrated the proof of concept for using in bioabsorbable polymer as bone fixation devices, owing to its mechanical property profile, thermoplastic possibility and biological properties, such as biocompatibility and biodegradation.

TL;DR: Evaluation of four different biofuel production scenarios has shown that 63-65% of the energy that would be produced by bagasse incineration can be recovered by combining ethanol production with the combustion of lignin and hydrolysis residues, along with the anaerobic digestion of pretreatment liquors, while only 32-33% ofThe energy is recovered by bioethanol production alone.

TL;DR: It was shown that the proposed ANN-SS was able to adequately infer the polymer viscosity, in such a way so as this soft-sensor could be used in the real-time process control strategy.

TL;DR: In this article, a continuous biodiesel plant was designed and simulated in HYSYS simulator using castor oil as feedstock and the developed process was capable of producing biodiesel at high purity using an alkali catalyst.

TL;DR: In this paper, two pretreatments agents, lime and alkaline hydrogen peroxide, were compared in their performance to improve the susceptibility of sugarcane bagasse to enzymatic action.