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DESCRIPTION:\nBioresource\nEngineering Senior Seminar Series\n10 a.m.\, Thu
 \, 10 Sep.\, 2009\, Raymond\n2-046\nEveryone is welcome and strongly encou
 raged to attend the BREE\nSenior Seminars.\nMake them part of your regular
  weekly schedule!\n\nProteomic Monitoring of Ethanol Fermentation\nEric Hu
 ang\nEthanol fermentation is part of our daily life: it is the active\ning
 redient in hand sanitizer\, the oxygenated agent in gasoline\, and\nthe se
 nsational feeling in alcoholic beverages. However\, even today\nwe are sti
 ll using very similar fermentation technology as\nthousands of years ago t
 o make ethanol. Today we can improve and\nmonitor ethanol fermentation usi
 ng our knowledge of biochemistry\nand microbiology. However\, with new tec
 hnology in mass spectrometry\nand proteomics\, we can now look at the thou
 sands of proteins\nexpressed inside of cells. With this new idea of proteo
 mic\nmonitoring\, we can possibly optimize ethanol fermentation and make\n
 this ancient technology more efficient.\nReviewers: Felexce Ngwa\, Mr\; Ca
 ndice Young\; Zhao Li\; Kumaran\nSivagnanam\n\nAutomated Monitoring of Bio
 gas from Swine\nManure\nDavid Giard\nAn air tight cover can transform manu
 re storage tanks into\nanaerobic digesters. Previous laboratory studies ha
 ve indicated\nthat the microbial consortium in the tanks can effectively p
 roduce\nmethane gas even at low temperatures. This project consisted of th
 e\ndesign\, building\, and testing of an automated system to\ncontinuously
  monitor the biogas production of a covered swine\nmanure tank. The accura
 cy of the system was tested in the\nlaboratory.\nReviewers: Vincent Martin
 eau\, Sébastien Cordeau\n\nImproved Rice Processing for Food Security in W
 est Africa\nStephanie Dumais\, Stéphanie Mayer\, and Audrey\nYank\nRice pr
 oduction is an important part of agricultural activities\nin West Africa. 
 The Africa Rice Center (WARDA)\, an international\nNGO\, works with local 
 farmers on the improvement of production and\npost-harvest technologies. M
 cGill University and WARDA developed a\nthree-year project on post-harvest
  technologies. One of the\nobjectives in this project was to reduce the qu
 antity of energy\nused in rice parboiling activities. Three undergraduate 
 projects\nwere defined as part of this project: the construction of a more
 \nenergy-efficient stove\; the development of better\, less expensive\npar
 boiling equipment\; and the utilization of milling by-products as\nan alte
 rnative fuel. Those three projects were conducted this\nsummer in Benin un
 der the supervision of Dr. Robert Kok (91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ)\nand Dr. Aliou Diagne (WARD
 A). The results and future development of\nthose projects will be presente
 d.\n
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SUMMARY:Bioresource Engineering Senior Seminar Series
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