จากการวิจัยเรื่องการหมักเปลือกทุเรียนแบบกึ่งแห้งเพื่อผลิตไบโอเอทานอล เป็นการอนุรักษ์ทรัพยากรธรรมชาติ และประยุกต์ใช้ของเสีย (Residue/waste) ที่ได้จากการเกษตร เป็นจุดเริ่มต้นของความจำเป็นเร่งด่วนในการพัฒนาเพื่อให้ทรัพยากรที่มีอยู่ให้เกิดประโยชน์สูงสุด โดยการนำประโยชน์ของเปลือกทุเรียนที่เป็นของเหลือ ทิ้งทางการเกษตรที่มีในท้องถิ่น เพื่อนำมาแปรรูปหมักเพื่อให้ได้แอลกอฮอล์เพื่อใช้ประโยชน์เป็นพลังงานเชื้อเพลิงทดแทนน้ำมัน อันก่อให้มีมูลค่าเพิ่มสูงขึ้น เพื่อลดปริมาณสารที่จะต้อง กำจัดก่อนปล่อยออกจากโรงงานอุตสาหกรรม

Dehydration of ethanol to ethylene was investigated over Mn- and Ni-containing mordenites. The synthesized catalysts were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) BET method and temperature programmed desorption of ammonia. The performances on dehydration of ethanol to ethylene for these catalysts were compared at temperature range 250-450°oC WHSV (weight hourly space velocity) of 1 h-1 time on stream of 30-240 min and catalyst weight of 1.0 g. The results showed that conversion of ethanol of the Mn-MOR and Ni MOR was quite similar but selectivity to ethylene of the Mn-MOR catalyst was much higher. The Ni-MOR showed high selectivity to ethane due to its hydrogenation ability.

During fermentation process yeast cells are often exposed to ethanol. Although the toxicity of ethanol to budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has widely been studied the ethanol stress signaling is still unknown. The growth of the mutants lacking genes involved in the mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways was examined under ethanol stress condition. Our results revealed that the STE3 and AKR1 genes involved in the pheromone signaling pathway and the BCK1 MPK1 SWI4 SWI6 and MBP1 genes involved in the cell wall integrity pathway were required for tolerance to ethanol. In addition to the mutants of the cell wall integrity pathway the Δste3 and Δakr1 mutants were sensitive to a cell wall perturbing agent calcoflour white suggesting the role of these signaling molecules in maintaining cell wall during ethanol stress.

Here we present an experimental study of the single-effect adsorption cooling system using activated carbon-methanol working pair. The test unit was comprised of an adsorber a condenser and evaporator in vertical alignment. Heating and cooling of adsorber was mainly done by hot and cold water circulating through the water jacket. The evaporator and condenser was heated or cooled by flows of water through the internal coil. The adsorber was analyzed for its cooling rate when cooling was done by two approaches either cooling water and/or three thermosyphon heat pipes which both methods gave shortest cooling time. The investigated heat source and sink temperatures are; hot water temperature supplied to adsorber (70 80 90 oC) and cooling water temperature supplied to condenser (5 10 15 oC). An ultrasonic wave generator was attached to the bottom end of the evaporator to generate wave frequency varied by 8 10 and 14 kHz during evaporation phase. The ultrasonic wave can obviously reduce the evaporation time of methanol as well as to improve the system performance in terms of COP SCP and VCP. The system performance was considerably comparable to those from literatures. The highest COP and SCP obtained from this system was 0.718 and 248.90 W/kg respectively.