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Commercial sodium sulfite is acceptable for food plants higher grades are used for pharmaceutical and electronic chip manufacturing, but in these higher grades the catalyst is usually changed to sodium erythorbate (at a level of 0.05 to 0.1%, which also provides lower pressure and temperature passivation). 

For transesterification/esterfication, continuous reactors may be more attractive than batch reactors. This is particularly true if a distillation-column reactor can be adopted, as it tends to use a much lower ratio of reactants to drive the reaction to the desired degree of conversion, entailing lower energy lost. Even when metal alcoholates are used these can be recycled, eliminating problems faced in batch plants. Relative process costs may well approach 50% of those in batch plants. Higher purity, less plant down time, better process control, and improved yield are other attractive features of continuous plants (Braithwate, 1995). 

Other Phenolic Antioxidative Compounds from Plants Higher plants are rich in a myriad of phenolic compounds in their secondary metabolite pool. Among these, phenolic acids and polyphenolic derivatives are found to be the most important series of hydrophilic-hydrophobic antioxidative compounds naturally present. In foods, these polyphenolic compounds act as radical scavengers... 

Because of the need to handle large volumes of gas, gas cleaning and product recovery (for particulate solids) becomes a major part of the drying plant. Higher gas temperatures yield better thermal efficiencies subject to product quality constraints. 

The natural abundance of the isotopes of each element is distributed in a given ratio. Plants on the Earth first convert solar energy into biochemical energy the food chain starts from plants. Higher plants fix CO2 by the Calvin-Benson cycle to biosyntiiesize various organic compounds for their constituents. (7) It is known that the enzyme, ribulose-1, 5-diphosphate carboxylase, differentiates a small mass difference between and... 

A typical BWR usually delivers steam at 285°C and has a condenser tenq)erature of - 25°C, hence = 0.47. Due to a less efficient energy cycle, friction, heat losses, pumps, etc., the net efficiency ( ei) of both reactor types is only about 0.32 — 0.35 (net electric output delivered to the grid divided by gross thermal output from reactor). In coal-, oil- and gas-fired power plants higher steam temperatures can be achieved, 500°C with T- 530°C and 30°C, = 0.65... 

L-Phenylalanine and L-tyrosine are formed from chorismic acid (D 8). Two pathways exist for the biosynthesis of L-tyrosine, the 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate and the L-pretyrosine (arogenate) route (Fig. 266). Both pathways occur in microorganisms and plants. Higher animals are unable to synthesize L-phenyl-alanine and L-tyrosine de novo, but hydroxylate L-phenylalanine to L-tyrosine. Certain insects, however, contain colonies of bacteria in the fat body synthesizing L-phenylalanine and L-tyrosine, which may be used by their hosts. 

Contrary to plants, higher animals can not synthesize compounds with benzenoid rings from aliphatic precursors, the very few exceptions include estrone and related phenolic steroids (Singleton, 1981). Plants are the source of nearly all the phenols found in animals. Even the phenols that are essential for animals (such as the catechol amines and phenolic indole amines involved in nerve action and associated effects), the vitamin E tocopherols, the vitamin K napthoquinones or menadiones, the ubiquinone benzoquinones, thyroxine, the tyrosine of proteins, and the tyrosine-DOPA derivatives involved in melanin pigment formation, are all drawn either directly or indirectly from plants or are modified from an essential plant precursor, usually phenylalanine (Singleton and Kratzer, 1969). 

Also the alkaloid profile is very different seeds of L. aschenbornii contain mainly A -formylangustifohne, whereas stems, leaves and flowers contain mainly sparteine. The explanations proposed by the authors for this diversity are (1) one predator, one organ, that is a variability of QAs can confer to lupin plants higher possibility to survive and reproduce in an adverse environment and (2) the transport of QAs through the plant is uneven [52]. 

Allelopathy was originally defined to be biochemical interactions between all plants , both deleterious and advantageous, and to include all plant phyla. However, it has become customary practice to restrict the term to higher plant-higher plant interactions (53), and it is used in this sense here. 

Plants, Higher, Reaction Paths in the Respiration of (James)... XVIII 281... 

Higher-order responses are the result of multi-capacitance processes that contain vessels in series, fluid or mechanical components of a process that are subjected to accelerations causing inertial effects to become important, or tbe addition of controllers to a system. In a chemical plant, higher-order systems that result from a combination of capacities and controllers are very common. Typical examples are reactors in series, heat exchangers and distillation columns. In the case of distillation columns, when controllers are attached to the column, very high-order, nonlinear differential equations result when the system is mathematically modelled. Mechanical conqtonent time constant and natural frequencies are very small relative to the process time constants and frequencies, and, as such, the resultant effects are typically minor. 

C4 plants Higher plants in which the normal photosynthetic carbon cycle is supplemented by another pathway of carbon assimilation. These plants are recognized as having the highest rates of photosynthesis and more production potential. The term C4 derives from the fact that the first stable compounds are four-carbon malic and aspartic acids. C4 plants are more resistant to inhibition by oxygen and have lower photorespiration compared to C3 plants. 

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