DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF A COTTAGE LEVEL STEAM DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT FOR...
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In the world today, there are various plant which are known to have various uses to man. The usefulness of these plants stem from...
AN EVALUATION OF AN ADSORPTION AND KINETIC MODELLING OF HEAVY METALS...
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Adsorption and kinetic modelling of heavy metals uptake from wastewater effluents using indigenous cellulose based waste biomass, such as nipa palm nut (NPN), palmyra...
3D Nanotemplates for Protein Crystallisation
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This thesis presents the first experimental investigations into the combined effect of nanoscale surface porosity, narrow pore size distribution and surface chemistry, on nucleation and crystallisation...
Ab-initio prediction of the melting point of organic solids
The melting point is one of the most fundamental and practically important properties of a compound. For this reason molecular simulation methods have been...
Adsorptive cellulose membranes for fluid separation
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One of the drawbacks of current solvent stable nanofiltration membranes is environmentally harsh preparation methods which are being used to improve the stability of...
Advanced fluidised bed gasification for carbon capture and fuel cell applications
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The rapid global economic and population growth requires consistent supply of energy. Gasification is a promising technology for processing solid fuels. One of the technology options is the...
Advanced multiparametric optimization and control studies for anaesthesia
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Anaesthesia is a reversible pharmacological state of the patient where hypnosis, analgesia and muscle relaxation are guaranteed and maintained throughout the surgery. Analgesics block...
Advanced physical characterisation of milled pharmaceutical solids
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Milling has been the key unit operation in controlling particle size of pharmaceutical powders at scale. The work carried out in this thesis is...
Advances in Experimental Methods for Characterisation of Porous Solids
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This thesis describes work on the development of new integrated methods for the characterisation of porous media. Porous media are of wide importance in...
Advances in multi-parametric mixed-integer programming and its applications
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At many stages of process engineering we are confronted with data that have not yet revealed their true values. Uncertainty in the underlying mathematical...
Amino acid metabolism in Chinese hamster ovary cell culture
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The present thesis focuses on amino acids (a.a.) and their metabolism by Chinese hamster ovary cells, the workhorse of the multibillion dollar biopharmaceutical industry....
ANAEROBIC MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR TECHNOLOGY FOR SOLID WASTE STABILIZATION
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In this study, a simulated Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) was treated in an anaerobic two-stage membrane process. The OFMSW feedstock was...
Analysis of Blood Flow in Patient-specific Models of Type B Aortic...
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Aortic dissection is the most common acute catastrophic event affecting the aorta. The majority of patients presenting with an uncomplicated type B dissection are...
Analysis of carotid wall mechanics based on ultrasound imaging
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Stroke is the third biggest killer and the leading cause of severe disability in the UK. The most common type of stroke is known as an...
Analysis of morphological and blood flow characteristics of the human thoracic...
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The human aorta is often affected by many cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, aneurysm and dissection. There is considerable evidence suggesting that these diseases are...