微生物途径发展生物柴油产业

生物柴油实际上就是生物油脂与甲醇或乙醇在酸、碱催化剂的作用下进行脂交换反应而制造的脂肪酸甲酯或乙酯;也可以在常温下由微生物脂酶催化进行酯化反应,其产品是一种可再生燃料,能替代石油柴油。这些生物柴油主要来自植物油或其它生物油脂,也有用废弃食用油为原料通过甲醇的酯交换反应来制造生物柴油的。研发这些生物柴油也可以说是节能的一项重要措施。在我国,对石油的需求量越来越大,石油进口量也随之猛增,显示出我国的能源形势日益严峻。面对这种情况,发展可再生能源或替代能源是个必然趋势,生物柴油便是其中之一。目前我国生物柴油的…     

超临界流体技术制备生物柴油进展及前景

超临界流体技术制备生物柴油不使用催化剂,生产过程清洁环保,是极具发展潜力的绿色可再生能源生产技术。本文首先简述超临界流体的特点及其用于生物柴油制备的物理、化学基础;其次详细分析超临界流体技术制备生物柴油的过程中反应温度、反应压力、醇油摩尔比、低碳醇种类、水、脂肪酸、反应器及反应形式等工艺控制条件对反应的影响和原因,并介绍超临界流体制备生物柴油中的过程强化方法和技术经济性。尽管超临界流体制备生物柴油具有原料适应性好、投资和运行成本低、生产过程清洁等优点,但存在反应条件苛刻、甲醇用量高等问题,从工业化角度指出使用廉价废弃油脂原料降成本、调节原料酸值降低反应苛刻度、连续化和大型化是超临界流体制备生物柴油技术的重点提升方向。     

固定化全细胞催化可再生油脂合成生物柴油的稳定性

酶法合成生物柴油具有反应条件温和、醇用量小、无污染物排放、产物易分离回收等优点,越来越得到关注。全细胞催化剂,无需酶的提取和纯化,减少了酶活损失,有望大幅降低生产成本;Rhizopus oryzae IFO4697全细胞可以有效催化植物油脂合成生物柴油,进一步提高全细胞在催化植物油脂甲醇解制备生物柴油过程中的稳定性,对于工业放大具有重要意义。本实验对固定化全细胞Rhizopus oryzae IFO4697催化植物油脂合成生物柴油的稳定性进行了系统地研究,结果表明:反应体系水含量对于全细胞催化剂的反应活性和催化稳定性有重要影响,5%～15%含水量适宜;研究范围内,载体粒度及干燥方式对稳定性影响不显著;经过戊二醛交联后,全细胞催化油脂甲醇解反应的稳定性显著提高,1200h反应后,仍然可以保持75%的生物柴油得率;真空抽滤直接回用的方式有利于稳定性的保持。在优化条件下,回用20个批次,生物柴油得率可维持在80%。     

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CN101108975:耦合制备蓖麻油生物柴油的方法本发明公开了一种“浸出+反应”耦合法制备蓖麻油生物柴油的方法。以蓖麻籽为原料,在超声条件下或无物理场作用条件下,蓖麻油浸出与酯交换反应耦合制备生物柴油。浸出与酯交换反应一步完成,极大地简化工艺流程,节约生产成本;甲醇既为浸出溶剂又为酯交换剂,有利于循环和节约原料,也有利于后期物料的分离。解决了现有的生物柴油制备方法对油脂的质量要求较高,工艺路线较长,各种原料、试剂及设备消耗较大,试剂污染也比较严重,生产成本比较高的问题。CN101108976:一种生物柴油及其制备方法本发明涉及一种生物柴油及其制备方法。生物柴油在制备过程中,将原料油和预处理剂按一定比例在预处理装置中,加热搅拌反应后,过滤,进入预脂化装置中再添加酸性催化剂和粗甘油,加热、搅拌,循环后进入脂化装置中,加甲醇和碱性催化剂或酸性催化剂,加热,加速循环反应后,回收甲醇,放出甘油和分离出皂化物,得到的生物柴油水洗后蒸馏即可完成。所得的生物柴油产品满足现行德国、美国和我国新实行的《GB/T20802~2007》标准。不仅节约了能源,且甲醇、催化剂等消耗量少,能耗低,适用于各种原料油,经济性价比高,工艺简单...     

生物柴油的研究进展

摘要：生物柴油重要的新型可再生能源。本文阐述了生物柴油的主要特性及开发意义,对生物柴油的原料利用进行了分析,介绍了国内外生物柴油的研究进展,并展望了生物柴油的发展前景。     

固定化脂肪酶催化毛棉籽油制备生物柴油

研究了固定化脂肪酶Lipozyme TL IM和Novozym435催化毛棉籽油和乙酸甲酯制备生物柴油的过程。通过向反应体系中添加甲醇,可减少乙酸的抑制,明显提高生物柴油得率,确定最佳反应条件为:正己烷作溶剂,乙酸甲酯与油摩尔比9:1,添加油重3%的甲醇、油重10%的LipozymeTLIM和5%的Novozym435复合使用,温度55°C,反应8h,生物柴油得率达到91.83%。最后探索了酶催化毛棉籽油合成生物柴油的动力学,得到动力学方程。     

碱性离子液体1-甲基-3-丁基咪唑氢氧化物催化地沟油制备生物柴油的研究

本研究合成了碱性离子液体1-甲基-3-丁基咪唑氢氧化物,通过红外光谱和核磁共振检测与文献报道一致,以此离子液体为制备生物柴油的催化剂,发现具有很高的催化活性.在生物柴油的合成过程中,考察了离子液体的用量、醇与油物质的量比、反应温度和反应时间对酯交换反应的影响.结果显示,以地沟油制备生物柴油的最佳工艺条件为:醇油摩尔比8:1、反应温度70 ℃、反应时间110 min、催化剂用量为原料油质量的3.0 %.在此条件下, 脂肪酸甲酯转化率为95.7 %.由地沟油制备的生物柴油,其低温流动性能好,闪点高,除碘值较高外,其他主要性能符合0# 柴油标准,并且可以和0# 柴油进行调和使用.     

野生木本植物油--光皮树油制取生物柴油的研究

研究了光皮树原料油酯交换反应制取成品生物柴油工艺和技术,并对所得生物柴油的物化性质进行了测定。通过L9(34 )正交试验来确定光皮树油酯交换反应的最优条件,结果表明:其最佳工艺条件是A1 B3C2 D3,光皮树油为原料通过酯化反应制取的生物柴油与0 #柴油燃烧性能相似,是一种安全(闪点>10 5℃)、洁净(灰分<0. 0 0 3)的生物质燃料油。     

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利用废动植物油生产生物柴油的工艺本发明是在酸性催化剂存在的条件下 ,将各种不同酸值的废动植物油脂进行醇解和酯化反应 ;然后再分离出非产品部分的多余成分 ,得粗制产品 ;在粗制产品中加入含纯碱10 %的饱和食盐水进行中和反应 ,得到水洗粗酯 ,最后 ,在水洗粗酯中加入工业纯碱后进行加热蒸馏 ,收集气相温度为2 2～ 32 0℃的馏分 ,得成品生物柴油。本发明具有原料来源广、生产工艺简单、成本低、无污染、使用安全可靠的特点 ,其生产过程中无污水的排放 ,符合目前国内环保要求。采用本发明工艺生产的生物柴油已通过中试验证 ,其使用性能良好…     

我国优势油脂类生物柴油植物蓖麻的种质资源发掘和生物柴油利用

发展可再生生物质能源是解决人类能源危机和环境污染的重要途径。利用边际土地发展油脂类生物质能是生物质能的重要组成部分。蓖麻因为适应性强和油脂成份独特被誉为"理想的生物柴油植物"。蓖麻是我国优势油脂类能源植物,利用边际土地,发展蓖麻产业为我国生物柴油产业化提供原料,是我国现阶段生物柴油产业化发展的相对理想而又现实的选择,而且具有重要的发展前景和巨大的发掘潜力。立足我国现阶段生物柴油产业化的瓶颈问题,着重阐述了蓖麻种质资源发掘的现状、优良品种培育的途径和发展前景,以及利用蓖麻种子油生产商业化生物柴油的现状,以期推动我国利用边际土地发展蓖麻产业以及生物柴油商业化生产。     

A Unique Protease Cleavage Site Predicted in the Spike Protein of the Novel Pneumonia Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Potentially Related to Viral Transmissibility

正Dear Editor,In December 2019, a novel human coronavirus caused an epidemic of severe pneumonia(Coronavirus Disease 2019,COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei, China(Wu et al. 2020; Zhu et al. 2020). So far, this virus has spread to all areas of China and even to other countries. The epidemic has caused 67,102 confirmed infections with 1526 fatal cases     

Curcuminoids as inhibitors of thioredoxin reductase: A receptor based pharmacophore study with distance mapping of the active site

Curcumin is the yellow pigment of turmeric that interacts irreversibly forming an adduct with thioredoxin reductase (TrxR), an enzyme responsible for redox control of cell and defence against oxidative stress. Docking at both the active sites of TrxR was performed to compare the potency of three naturally occurring curcuminoids, namely curcumin, demethoxy curcumin and bis-demethoxy curcumin. Results show that active sites of TrxR occur at the junction of E and F chains. Volume and area of both cavities is predicted. It has been concluded by distance mapping of the most active conformations that Se atom of catalytic residue SeCYS498, is at a distance of 3.56 from C13 of demethoxy curcumin at the E chain active site, whereas C13 carbon atom forms adduct with Se atom of SeCys 498. We report that at least one methoxy group in curcuminoids is necessary for interation with catalytic residues of thioredoxin. Pharmacophore of both active sites of the TrxR receptor for curcumin and demethoxy curcumin molecules has been drawn and proposed for design and synthesis of most probable potent antiproliferative synthetic drugs.     

Comparative morphology of the carpel in the Liliaceae: Hewardieae, Petrosavieae, and Tricyrteae

The young pistils in the melanthioid tribes, Hewardieae, Petrosavieae and Tricyrteae, are uniformly tricarpellate and syncarpous. They lack raphide idioblasts. All are multiovulate, with bitegmic ovules. The Petrosavieae are marked by the presence of septal glands and incomplete syncarpy. Tepals and stamens adhere to the ovary in the Hewardieae and the Petrosavieae but not in the Tricyrteae. Two vascular bundles occur in the stamens of the Hewartlieae and Tricyrtis latifolia. Ventral bundles in the upper part of the ovary of the Hewardieae are continuous with compound septal bundles and placental bundles in the lower part. Putative ventral bundles occur in the alternate position in the Tricyrteae and putative placental bundles in the opposite. position in the Petrosavieae. The dichtomously branched stigma in each carpel of the Tricyrteae is supplied by a bifurcated dorsal bundle.     

Enterovirus 71 3C proteolytically processes the histone H3 N-terminal tail during infection

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1. The N-terminal tail of histone H3 is specifically cleaved during EV71 infection.
2. Viral protease 3C is identified as a protease responsible for proteolytically processing the N-terminal H3 tail.
3. Our finding reveals a new epigenetic regulatory mechanism for Enterovirus 71 in virus-host interactions.     

Detection of EBV and HHV6 in the Brain Tissue of Patients with Rasmussen’s Encephalitis

Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a rare pediatric neurological disorder, and the exact etiology is not clear. Viral infection may be involved in the pathogenesis of RE, but conflicting results have reported. In this study, we evaluated the expression of both Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human herpes virus (HHV) 6 antigens in brain sections from 30 patients with RE and 16 control individuals by immunohistochemistry. In the RE group, EBV and HHV6 antigens were detected in 56.7% (17/30) and 50% (15/30) of individuals, respectively. In contrast, no detectable EBV and HHV6 antigen expression was found in brain tissues of the control group. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in 20.0% (6/30) of individuals. In particular, a 4-year-old boy had a typical clinical course, including a medical history of viral encephalitis, intractable epilepsy, and hemispheric atrophy. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in neurons and astrocytes in the brain tissue, accompanied by a high frequency of CD8⁺ T cells. Our results suggest that EBV and HHV6 infection and the activation of CD8⁺ T cells are involved in the pathogenesis of RE.     

Perinatal Vertical Transmission of Chikungunya Virus in Ruili,a Town on the Border between China and Myanmar

正Dear Editor,Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus in the family of Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus, is transmitted by the A.aegyptii or A. albopictus mosquito, and causes disease in humans characterized by fever, rash, and arthralgia (Silva and Dermody 2017; Suhrbier 2019). It was first reported in 1953 in Tanzania, and caused only a few outbreaks and sporadic cases in Africa and Asia in last century. However, in the epidemic in 2004, CHIKV acquired mutations that conferred enhanced transmission by the A. albopictus mosquito(Schuffenecker et al. 2006). Since then, it has successively caused outbreaks in Africa, the Indian Ocean, South East Asia, the South America, and Europe (Zeller et al. 2016).     

Development of a Novel Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2

In conclusion, the novel visual RT-LAMP assay is a simple, rapid, and sensitive approach for detection of SARS-CoV-2, and it is ready for application in primary care and community hospitals or health care centers, and even patients' own houses in response to the current SARS-CoV-2 epidemic because the assay does not require sophisticated equipment and skilled personnel. Furthermore, it is also ready to be used in fields for screening samples from wild animals and environments to facilitate the identification of potential intermediate hosts that mediate the cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from bats to humans.