Bio-Tec Environmental Introduces Their New Plastic Additive Showing 45% Biodegradation of Plastics in Just 14 Days

... passed ASTM International's strictest test for anaerobic biodegradation of plastic materials and far ... passed ASTM International's strictest test for anaerobic biodegradation of plastic materials and far ... in time. As validated by the ASTM method of anaerobic biodegradation, the accelerated rate of action ...

Bion Outlines Differences between its Patented Comprehensive Livestock Environmental Treatment Technology and Anaerobic Digesters

... environmental treatment technology compared to anaerobic digesters. anaerobic or methane digestion (AD) has been used to ... Trust of Oregon. Dairy farms that install anaerobic digesters can receive cash incentives to turn ...

White Paper Details New Techniques for Isolating, Identifying Anaerobic Bacteria and Organisms

... free white paper titled "Effectively Culturing anaerobic Bacteria" is now available from Spiral Biotech, ... new techniques for isolating and identifying anaerobic bacteria in organisms. To obtain clinical ... accurate, timely isolation and identification of anaerobic bacteria and related organisms. While traditional ...

Free White Paper Available for Clinical Laboratory Managers: 'Effectively Isolating Anaerobic Bacteria'

... managers titled: "Effectively Isolating anaerobic Bacteria" is now available from Spiral Biotech, ... The free, whitepaper, "Effectively Isolating anaerobic Bacteria," discusses anaerobic chambers and gas bags as the traditional ...

Microtest Labs Expands Clean Room, Contamination Testing Services

... Viable sampling , including evaluating for contamination of aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms, surface testing and analysis, active air sampling and ... nonviable air particulate testing; compressed air testing for aerobic, anaerobic and fungal organisms; and testing for hydrocarbons and water vapors. ...

Environmental Power Corporation and Organix, Inc. Establish Alliance to Produce High Value Soil Amendment Products

... peat alternative, RePeet(TM), using solids recovered from selected Microgy anaerobic digestion facilities. "This is a very exciting alliance," said Rich ... working with Microgy to expand RePeet(TM) and other byproducts from their anaerobic digestion projects." ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL POWER CORPORATION ...

Environmental Power Holds Ground Breaking Ceremony for Renewable Natural Gas Facility at Rio Leche Estates

... million gallons of oil. The facility will use a thermophilic, codigestion anaerobic digestion process to generate methane-rich biogas, condition the gas to ... in North America for the development and deployment of a proprietary anaerobic digestion technology for the extraction of methane gas from animal wastes ...

Making gas out of crude oil

... that the dominant process is, in fact, fermentation. It is caused by anaerobic bacteria that live in oil reservoirs and dont use oxygen. This is the ... experiments and oilfield case studies, the team demonstrated the anaerobic degradation of hydrocarbons to produce methane. The findings offer the ...

Successful Field-Trial Remediation of 1,2-DCA and VC Contaminated Groundwater in Northern Italy

... 1,2-DCA in the environment, initial laboratory tests evaluated various remedial technologies: two different chemical oxidants (ISCO) and biochemical anaerobic reduction (ISCR). Of the two oxidants tested, only the activated persulfate was effective; RegenOx showed no activity whatsoever. Although the ISCR ...

Marriott Resort Magically Turns Brown Grease "Green" With The Cost-Cutting Hydrologix GRS

... Local authorities across the USA charge hefty fines for overflows, since this grease trap wastewater if untreated, contains potentially harmful anaerobic organisms such as salmonella, as well as methane and hydrogen sulfide gases. The Hydrologix GRS's innovative aerobic treatment system hosts a ...

Spiral Biotech to Introduce New Autoplate Spiral Plating System at ASM General Meeting in May

... and analytical steps involved with traditional microbial enumeration with a product line that includes colony counters, plating systems, anaerobic workstations, susceptibility test software, air samplers and sample prep tools. For more information, contact Spiral Biotech on the web at ...

Rib-X Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase 2 Study Results for Delafloxacin and a $25 Million Financing

... as an intravenous formulation, delafloxacin has also been shown to be more potent than existing quinolones against a range of Gram-positive, anaerobic and Gram-negative organisms. Rib-X is interested in developing both IV and oral formulations of delafloxacin for use in surgical prophylaxis and ...

ECBC's Environmental BioMonitoring Laboratory Focuses on the Future

... of cellular fatty acid methyl esters using the Microbial Identification System (MIDI). Routine identification of over 1,500 species of anaerobic and aerobic bacteria, to include six major bacterial bioterrorism agents, using the Sherlock Bioterrorism Library. In less than 10 minutes, the ...

Environmental Power Announces Opening of New Corporate Headquarters in Tarrytown, NY

... Its principal operating subsidiary, Microgy, Inc., holds an exclusive license in North America for the development and deployment of a proprietary anaerobic digestion technology for the extraction of methane gas from animal wastes and other organic waste for its use to generate energy. For more ...

Targanta Therapeutics to Have Significant Presence at 47th Annual ICAAC Meeting

... against a CDT Broad Spectrum of Aerobic and anaerobic Bacterial Pathogens E-1613 Poster Grover In Vitro Activity Profile ...

Dairy Farm Buys Technology to Turn Manure into Renewable Energy

... will purchase a digester system based on Microgys anaerobic digestion technology, which processes the manure produced by their dairy operations. anaerobic digestion is a method of producing renewable ... farms in the Green Bay area of Wis. to build an anaerobic digester system on each site. The systems, which ...

Glossary for The BioPharm Guide to Fermentation and Cell Culture

... to form proteins in living things. anaerobe An anaerobic organism grows in the absence of air or oxygen. Some anaerobic organisms are killed by brief exposure to oxygen, whereas ...

Alliant to add 100 megawatts of wind power by 2005, raise gas prices

... in the state through 2010. This includes 300 megawatts of natural gas simple-cycle generation, 200 megawatts of coal power, and 15 megawatts of anaerobic digesters. The wind generation is intended to complement the natural gas plant proposed for Sheboygan Falls, according to Kim Zuhlke, Alliant's ...

Five remaining firms vie for Tech Transfer award

... at this year's Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Conference in Milwaukee. The finalists are: GHD Inc. , Chilton, a company that designs and installs anaerobic digestion systems for dairy farms that converts manure and other organic wastes into electricity, biosolids for cow bedding and non-odorous liquid ...

FERMENTATION BASICS

... grow in the absence of oxygen. These microorganisms are referred to as anaerobic . Microorganisms can be classified according to the lowest ... of the thermodynamics of the overall microbial activity. Apart from anaerobic digestion and some other thermophilic microbial activity, the amount of ...

Examples of Electro-Transfected Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Cells

... Serpula hyodysenteriae Spiroplasma citri Treponema hyodysenteriae Other Cell Types anaerobic bacteria Chicken, HD11, macrophage Chicken, primary hepatocytes Chicken, TS34 a6 L1, [LSCC HD2], erythroblast ...

Quantitation of RNA for Hybridization Blots Using the VersaFluor Fluorometer

... total RNA with a VersaFluor fluorometer (Bio-Rad). Materials and Methods Total RNA was isolated from the strictly anaerobic ruminal bacterium, Prevotella bryantii, using an acid-phenol extraction procedure. 1 All solutions, tubes, and pipets were ...

Purification of Two Isoforms of Pyruvate Kinase from Nordic Krill Using an UNO Q1 Column, Rev A

... of phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to pyruvate and the phosphorylation of ADP to ATP. In addition to the role of PK in aerobic and anaerobic energy metabolism in invertebrates, regulation of PK activity in response to changes in temperature and oxygen regimes was found to ...

Two-dimensional Optimization of a Semi-nested PCR for Detecting Listeria monocytogenes

... the actual detection reactions. Among the problem bacteria is Listeria monocytogenes, a gram-positive, rod-shaped, facultative anaerobic bacterium. L. m. is ubiquitous and normally enters foodstuffs during processing and packaging. Milk and milk products are ...

Propionibacterium freudenreichii

... and incubate for 2.5-3 h at 30 C. Plate cells onto selective SLB plates; incubate 5-7 days at 30 C under anaerobic conditions. Expected Results: Transformation efficiency up to 1 x 10 8 ...

Propionibacterium freudenreichii

... and incubate for 2.5-3 h at 30 C. Plate cells onto selective SLB plates; incubate 5-7 days at 30 C under anaerobic conditions. Expected Results: Transformation efficiency up to 1 x 10 8 ...

Isolation of Microorganisms

... present in low numbers can also be examined. In addition to aerobic microorganisms, it is also possible to isolate anaerobic microorganisms (with the appropriate accessories). The electronic control of the micro-manipulator and the high-resolution ...