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| Yi ZhengSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Kinetic modeling for enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated creeping wild ryegrassYi Zheng
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA
Biotechnol Bioeng 102:1558-69. 2009..Our model can serve as a robust tool for developing kinetic models for system optimization of enzymatic hydrolysis, hydrolysis reactor design, and/or other hydrolysis systems with different type of enzymes and substrates...
Anaerobic digestion of saline creeping wild ryegrass for biogas production and pretreatment of particleboard materialYi Zheng
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Bioresour Technol 100:1582-8. 2009..The results indicated that the integrated process could be a cost-effective and environmentally friendly method for producing bioenergy and particleboard with agricultural residues...
Non-ionic surfactants and non-catalytic protein treatment on enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated Creeping Wild RyegrassYi Zheng
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Appl Biochem Biotechnol 146:231-48. 2008..The addition of additives could be a promising technology to improve the enzymatic hydrolysis by reducing the enzyme activity loss caused by non-productive adsorption...
Influence of moisture content on microbial activity and silage quality during ensilage of food processing residuesYi Zheng
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of California, Davis, Bainer Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 34:987-95. 2011..The results suggest that partial drying followed by ensilage may be a good approach for stabilization of food processing residues for biofuels production...
Evaluation of different biomass materials as feedstock for fermentable sugar productionYi Zheng
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Appl Biochem Biotechnol 137:423-35. 2007..The autoclaved municipal organic solid wastes showed reasonable glucose yield (64%). Of the two wood species evaluated, Athel has higher glucose yield (60% conversion of cellulose) than eucalyptus (38% conversion of cellulose)...
Effects of ensilage on storage and enzymatic degradability of sugar beet pulpYi Zheng
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Bioresour Technol 102:1489-95. 2011..The results suggest that ensiling may be a promising technology for SBP stabilization and pretreatment for bioconversion to products...
Solid-liquid extraction of alkali metals and organic compounds by leaching of food industry residuesChaowei Yu
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Bioresour Technol 101:4331-6. 2010..These results indicate that leaching is a beneficial pretreatment step for improving the quality of food processing residues for thermochemical and biochemical conversion...
Improving the efficiency of enzyme utilization for sugar beet pulp hydrolysisYi Zheng
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 35:1531-9. 2012..The removal of hydrolysis products will further improve enzymatic hydrolysis of SBP for biofuel production...
Evaluation of high solids alkaline pretreatment of rice strawYu Shen Cheng
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Appl Biochem Biotechnol 162:1768-84. 2010..3 mg/g dried biomass (48.5% conversion efficiency of total glucose) in lime-pretreated and unwashed biomass and were 142.3 mg/g dried biomass (39.2% conversion efficiency of total glucose) in NaOH-pretreated and unwashed biomass...
Ensilage and bioconversion of grape pomace into fuel ethanolYi Zheng
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
J Agric Food Chem 60:11128-34. 2012..For this reason, the recovery of ethanol produced during winemaking from FeGP and ethanol produced during storage of FrGP is critical for the economical conversion of grape pomace to biofuel...
Impact of finer grid resolution on the spatial distribution of vehicle emissions inventoriesDebbie A Niemeier
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Environ Sci Technol 38:2133-41. 2004..Our results indicate that the new model improves the precision of the spatial allocation of mobile source emissions, which in turn improves our ability to identify and implement pollutant control strategies...
Virus infection of Chlorella variabilis and enzymatic saccharification of algal biomass for bioethanol productionYu Shen Cheng
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, United States
Bioresour Technol 137:326-31. 2013..This study demonstrated that infection of microalgae with an algal virus resulted in disruption and hydrolysis of algal biomass to generate fermentable sugars...
Particleboard quality characteristics of saline jose tall wheatgrass and chemical treatment effectYi Zheng
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of California, Davis, One Shield Avenue, CA 95616, USA
Bioresour Technol 98:1304-10. 2007..Particleboards made with PMDI showed superior qualities than those made with UF, as shown by the measured contact angle results between the adhesives and JTW...
Rapid quantitative analysis of lipids using a colorimetric method in a microplate formatYu Shen Cheng
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Lipids 46:95-103. 2011..No significant difference was found in lipid determination when lipid content was measured using the new method and compared to results obtained using a macro-gravimetric method...
Novel role for Na,K-ATPase in phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signaling and suppression of cell motilitySonali P Barwe
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Mol Biol Cell 16:1082-94. 2005..Thus, these results demonstrate a new role for Na,K-ATPase in regulating carcinoma cell motility...
Characterization of the interactions between the small GTPase RhoA and its guanine nucleotide exchange factorsYing cai Tan
National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Center for Molecular Biology, Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100101, People s Republic of China
Anal Biochem 310:156-62. 2002..The Michaelis-Menten constants were determined to be around 1micro M, and the rate constants k(cat) were around 0.1s(-1)...
Effect of Mg(2+) on the kinetics of guanine nucleotide binding and hydrolysis by Cdc42Ju Zhao
National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100101, PR China
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 297:653-8. 2002..These results suggest that the intrinsic GTPase reaction mechanism of Cdc42 may differ significantly from that of other subfamily members of the Ras superfamily...
