Crop optimization and pre-steps standardization to get a Bipolaris euphorbiae-based bioherbicide

Making bioproducts available to the market requires finding appropriate processes for mass production and formulation of biological agents. This study aimed at evaluating the Bipolaris euphorbiae production in a solid medium (fermentation in solid substrate) and in a biphasic system (growth in a liquid medium followed by growth in a solid medium), as well as determining the processes for collecting and drying conidia, under laboratory conditions. The influence of the incubation period and inoculum quantity were also investigated. The conidia were dried by using an oven (30ºC, 35ºC, 40ºC, 45ºC, 50ºC, 55ºC and 60ºC), and laminar flow, continuous air flow and aseptic chamber at room temperature. Dry conidia were obtained by sieving and grinding in a ball mill, hammer mill or grain grinder. The conidia viability and sporulation efficiency were evaluated in the solid medium and in the biphasic system. For growth period, the best sporulation on solid medium was obtained after 10 days of incubation, reaching 8.3 x 10(7) conidia g-1 of substrate. The biphasic system did not increase the B. euphorbiae sporulation (4.5 x 10(7) conidia g-1 of substrate), after 14 days, and the amount of liquid inoculum used in this system was not an important factor for increasing its production. The continuous air flow and laminar flow preserved the conidial viability (94.6% and 99.1%, respectively), while promoting a great moisture loss (62.6% and 54.0%, respectively). All the grinding processes reduced the conidia germination (86.2%, 10.5% and 12%, respectively), while sieving allowed the collecting of powdered conidia with high viability (94.8%).

Estudo de adobes melhorados com cimento e adição de resíduos de concreto

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Civil - FEIS

Análise termodinâmica, termoeconômica e econômica de uma usina sucroalcooleira para diferentes mix de produção

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEIS

Avaliação dos aspectos hídricos relacionados ao desenvolvimento da cultura da cana-de-açúcar na Bacia São José dos Dourados

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Civil - FEIS

Avaliação do potencial pozolânico da cinza de lodo de águas residuárias por meio de técnicas instrumentais

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Civil - FEIS

Estudo de geopolímeros utilizando cinzas residuais do bagaço de cana-de-açúcar

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Civil - FEIS

Efeitos do fogo sobre comunidades de aves no Pantanal Mato-Grossense

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Digestibilidade e tempo de retenção dos grãos de sorgo processados durante a ensilagem em equinos

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Ontogenia das trilhas físicas em Atta capiguara Gonçalves 1944 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Estudo eletroquímico e computacional de inibidores voláteis de corrosão adsorvidos sobre zinco

Pós-graduação em Química - IQ

Efeito da sazonalidade nos parâmetros ecofisiológicos de Copaifera langsdorffii Desf. (Fabaceae-Caesalpinoideae) em Floresta Estacional Semidecídua

Os fatores ambientais podem causar estresse nas plantas acarretando alterações no metabolismo ou desenvolvimento, consequentemente modifica as condições ótimas que afetam o ciclo de vida e induz respostas em todos os níveis funcionais do organismo. A seca é um fator que tem grande influência nas plantas. Algumas espécies arbóreas desenvolveram mecanismos morfológicos, fisiológicos e bioquímicos para superar eventual suprimento inadequado de água. A espécie estudada, Copaifera langsdorffii Desf. está presente em formações vegetais de transição do cerrado stricto senso para a floresta semidecídua. Essa característica possibilita analisar respostas fisiológicas perante os efeitos sazonais da seca presente nestas formações florestais. O objetivo do trabalho foi comparar as respostas fisiológicas de Copaifera langsdorffii Desf. Em relação ao contraste hídrico característico de floresta estacional semidecídua. Para compreeender os efeitos desta sazonalidade avaliamos alguns parâmetros ecofisiológicos como Condutância Estomática (gs), Conteúdo Relativo de Água (Relative Water Content –RWC), Déficit Pressão de Vapor (DPV), potencial água foliar (Ψw) e fluorescência da clorofila. As avaliações foram feitas ao final da época úmida (FEU), final da época seca (FES) e início da época úmida (IEU) ao longo de 3 períodos do dia 5:00h (Predawn – PD), 12:00h (Midday – MD) e 17:00h (Afternoon – AF). Após as análises observamos queda de gs e aumento do DPV, valores constantes de RWC e Ψw foliar no FES. Mesmo em condições de déficit hídrico as plantas não apresentaram mecanismos de fotoinibição

Vitrocerâmicas porosas via conformação e consolidação com amidos

The search for new methods of manufacture of glass-ceramics with controlled porosity and permeability is interesting of the industrial and commercial point of view, and a challenge of great complexity. Porous glass-ceramics produced by sintering and crystallization of glasses can find applications, for example, as filters, materials with bactericidal properties, bio-implants, as catalytic and enzymes supports, among others. An alternative and low cost method of ceramic manufacture reaching different levels of porosity, for diverse purposes, is the conformation assisted by addition of starch, known as consolidation with starch. The objective of this project is to study the process of conformation with starch for making porous glass-ceramics from a commercial glass in the system Na2O-CaO-SiO2, whose kinetics of sintering by viscous flow and surface crystallization are known. The method of conformation with starches is innovative for glass-ceramics and its development opens the way for obtaining a new class of materials. We found a possible route for the production of porous compacts of glass particles, from the powder preparation to the removal of starch. It was observed that a glass powder obtained by dry milling in a ball mill with alumina balls for 24 h, afterwards mixed with water in an eccentric ball mill for 2 h, without the addition of a deflocculant, and subsequently mixed with starch also in an eccentric ball mill for 5 min resulted in slurries stable against sedimentation

Obtenção de forma farmacêutica sólida de extrato etanólico de Casearia sylvestris Swartz

A espécie vegetal Casearia sylvestris é uma planta nativa do Brasil e de uso tradicional, sendo utilizada popularmente para combate de doenças do trato digestório. Seus extratos e mesmo substâncias purificadas apresentaram diversas atividades farmacológicas, sendo a mais eficaz a ação antiulcerogênica. Neste trabalho, desenvolveram-se granulados a partir do extrato etanólico de folhas de C. sylvestris. A metodologia envolve métodos de extração de droga vegetais, granulação via úmida e ensaios de caracterização do perfil micromerítico dos granulados

Preparação de substratos de carbeto de silício para fins aeroespaciais

This conclusion thesis has the objective of produce substrates of Silicon Carbide from the powder of SiC for aerospace use. The powder of SiC was pressed in cylindrical form by the process called “wet way”. For the inicial pressing process was used a uniaxial squeezer and after that was used a isostatic squeezer, after that the samples were synthesized. The next step was the machining and polishing to improve the features of the surface of the sample. Then the roughness was measured, as also the Arquimedes method and optical microscopy and scanning eletron microscopy. Some innovations were done, in one of the lots little vacancys were done with organic material or silicon to reduce the weight of the sample; and the other innovation were the use of a slip film of SiC on the surface of the sample, that were after synthesized with LASER to reduce the roughness, in this samples the roughness were reduce in 50 % if compared with the other samples

Recuperação de resíduos plásticos provenientes dos processos de injeção

The competitiveness among global markets, the constant need for reducing manufacturing costs and also the growing environmental commitments are fueling the development of techniques for recovery residual parts generated by industrial processes. Among the various areas of a company, we highlight those that involve the processing of raw materials derived from oil, such as polymers (resins), which may take centuries to decompose in the environment and also present as a economic and environmentally strategic point. Thus, this study would examine the recovery of waste polypropylene, from the injection process of a major multinational in the field of home appliances through the recycling by a process comprising the milling, extrusion and chipping of waste material. Easy to deploy, this proposal aims to reduce levels negligible disposal (scrap) of these residues as well as the reintegration of the production process into pieces no visual and no structural importance, aimed at cutting costs and reducing environmental impacts caused. After the survey data in kilograms of waste material generated in a given period of time, and the study of changes in material properties, it would enable the reuse steadily in the injection process