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Cooling A Flask?

So, you have a flask (maybe it contains some chemical) and you want to cool the flask. The obvious answer is to place it in a refrigerator. However, you want to keep it on a magnetic stir plate, which every well stocked kitchen has on hand. You do have a few options, the first is…

Fuel Tracking – January 2016

January Gasoline Use and Statistics: *Assumes 10% ethanol for 17.68 lbs-CO2/gallon.

Fuel Tracking – December 2015

December Gasoline Use and Statistics: *Assumes 10% ethanol for 17.68 lbs-CO2/gallon.

Fuel Tracking – November 2015

November Gasoline Use and Statistics: *Assumes 10% ethanol for 17.68 lbs-CO2/gallon.

Excel Automation – VBA to Help Make Surface-Plots

Imagine that you have a complicated excel spreadsheet that might have more than one variable and calculates a numerical output. And, you would like to make a surface plot of the result as the two variables change. Surface plots are useful for displaying complicated data that tend to change a function of 2 or more parameters.…

Publication – Lowering the cost of cellulase

There is a new publication that was just accepted for print regarding the production of cellulase. This article is entitled “Nutrient control for stationary phase cellulase production in Trichoderma reesei Rut C-30″ and will appear in the journal Enzyme and Microbial Technology. Cellulase is normally produced by a fungus, Trichoderma ressei. Most of the time the cells continually grow…