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An Eco-Friendly Method to Disrupt Pheromone Perception in Ostrinia nubilalis: Helping Hand to Farmers

BACKGROUND European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, is a very serious pest of grain corn, sweet corn, and other crops. O. nubilalis accounts for about 5.5 to 8.5 million tons of corn loss per year in Europe and other countries. Introduced to the United States in the 1900s, this pest accounts for 20% of yield loss in North America with damages estimated...

Published: 5/31/2023 | Inventor(s): Smita Mohanty, Viswanath Nukala, Shine Ayyappan

Keywords(s): Agriculture & Food Science, Animal Health, Chemistry

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Animal Health, Technology Classifications > Chemistry, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Food Science

Software for Real-Time Monitoring and Fault Detection of Chemical Distillation Process

BACKGROUND In recent decades, the chemical, refining, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and agrochemical process industries have actively adopted distributed control systems (DCSs) to digitally monitor and control their plant operations. These commercial DCSs can provide process monitoring, control, and limited alarm management capabilities. In particular,...

Published: 4/26/2023 | Inventor(s): Zheyu Jiang

Keywords(s): Biotech & Pharmaceutical, Chemistry, Engineering: Chemical, Petroleum, Engineering: Electrical & Computer, Sensors, Software

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software, Technology Classifications > Engineering > Chemical Engr, Technology Classifications > Engineering

Photobiodegradable Plastics via PPDvSOP improvement

BACKGROUND At first plastics were welcome as blessings. Specifically, their durability, high strength per weight and low cost have made them the ideal packaging materials. However, the last seven decades have proved, those same attributes combined with improper waste management, led to a plastic pollution problem. An estimated 6300 million metric tons...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Ali Kalkan, Linqi Zhang, Nishan Khatri

Keywords(s): Chemistry, Energy & Environment, Material Science & Engineering

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Environment & Energy, Technology Classifications > Material Science & Engr

A Method for Dissolved Gas Separation

BACKGROUND Liberation of gases from liquids is of primary importance to numerous natural and industrial processes such as boiling, cloud formation, volcanic eruption, food and beverage production, biological, mineral, nuclear, pharmaceutical, electrochemical, and petroleum production and refining. Natural gas evolution in saturated oil reservoirs and...

Published: 10/19/2022 | Inventor(s): Prem Bikkina

Keywords(s): Chemistry, Energy & Environment, Engineering, Engineering: Chemical, Petroleum

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Chemical Engr, Technology Classifications > Environment & Energy

Preparation of Conductive Organic Threads as Non-metallic Interconnects

Abstract The preparation of organic conductive threads comprised of highly conjugated polymer/carbon nanotube nanocomposites on a fiber thread like cotton, wool, etc, for electrical interconnects in smart clothing for enhanced reusability and comfort. The organic conductive fiber/thread is unique in that it opens the door for all textile-based devices...

Published: 10/19/2022 | Inventor(s): Santosh Adhikari, Toby Nelson

Keywords(s): Chemistry

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Chemistry, Technology Classifications > Biotech & Pharmaceutical

A Method for Improving Critical Heat Flux

BACKGROUND Boiling is a phenomenon of vital importance in a broad range of industries such as power generation, desalination, chemical processing, refrigeration, and electronics thermal management. Nucleate boiling is an efficient way of transferring heat, for a given difference between the heat transfer surface and the fluid temperatures (the so-called...

Published: 5/31/2023 | Inventor(s): Prem Bikkina

Keywords(s): Chemistry, Energy & Environment, Engineering, Engineering: Chemical, Petroleum

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Environment & Energy, Technology Classifications > Material Science & Engr