Takashi Akehata

TL;DR: It appears that surfactants help the enzyme to desorb from the binding site on the substrate surface after the completion of saccharification at that site, and the free enzyme quantity and the conversion both increased.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared three light source models, i.e., radial, specular, and diffuse line source, for light intensity profile, overall rate of reaction, and radial scale-up ratio of annular photochemical reactors, with the assumptions of constant absorption coefficient and constant quantum efficiency.

TL;DR: In this article, a temperature-sensitive polyvinylmethylether gel (PVMEG) was used to analyze the behavior of a temperature sensitive water-absorbing gel, which swelled and shrank respectively below and above the transition temperature.

TL;DR: An engineering calculation of the proposed dewatering process, which was called “gel dewatered process,” revealed that the process was promising for concentrating/dewatering microbe‐rich slurries in the respect that it would be composed of compact and simple apparatuses and be an energy saving system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the diameter of a spherical particle by using a small optic fiber probe and showed that the relationship between the characteristic length and diameter can be determined from model calculation and is represented by an approximate equation.