Krishna, C; Dr.Chandrasekaran,M(Cochin University of Science and Technology, August , 1995)
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A critical survey of the fruits and vegetable
markets of the towns and cities in South India reveals that
banana fruit stalk wastes share a dominant proportion among
the solid wastes generated. In the light of the review of
literature presented in the foregoing section, few reports are
available on the utilisation of banana waste for the
production of alcoholic beverages, biogas, and single cell
protein. However, it is not yet tried for the production of
industrial enzymes. Moreover, preliminary fermentation
studies conducted under uncontrolled conditions revealed that
banana fruit stalk could be aptly utilised as solid substrate?
for the industrial production of microbial amylases and
cellulases at a cheaper cost. Therefore, it was proposed to conduct a detailed study towards the development of a suitable fermentation process for the production of industrial enzymes using banana fruit stalk wastes, which is rich in carbohydrate, as solid substrate, employing bacteria, under SSF.
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Department of Biotechnology, Cochin University of
Science & Technology,
Krishnamurthy,V; Dr.Samuel, C T(Cochin University of Science and Technology, July , 1985)
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The thesis deals with the bacterial flora of the Cochin backwaters. Sediment and the prawns
caught from these backwaters in quantitative and qualitative terms, their growth in relation to temperature, their susceptibility to various antibiotics, their role in terms of food for juvenile prawns and the presence of bacteria of public health significance. According to the researcher such a comprehensive study would be of some relevance to shell-fish processing industries apart from its academic value. The effect of antibiotics on the bacteria and the utility of bacteria as food for the juvenile prawns are studied and presented in different chapters.
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School of Marine Science, Department of Industrial fisheries, Cochin University of Science and Technology
Rathna Kala, R; Dr.Chandrika, V(Cochin University of Science and Technology, 2000)
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The present study on "Microbial production of antibiotics from mangrove ecosystem” was carried out for a period of one year in four selected Stations, Mangalavana, Narakkal, Puthuvyppu and light house area of Puthuvyppu (9°55' — 10°10'N and 76°10‘ - 76°20'E) from January to December 1991. Though much emphasis has been given to occurrence and distribution of actinomycetes, an attempt was also made to understand the distribution patterns of other micro flora in the sediments. Data on physico-chemical parameters were also collected to find out their relationship if any with the microflora. The principle interest of the present investigation is to determineseasonal variations of antagonistic actinomycetes in selected mangrove ecosystem. The microbial interrelationship in mangrove sediments was found out by constructing the ratio between bacteria and actinomycetes, bacteria and fungi, fungi and actinomycetes. In addition temperature, pH, salinity, dissolved oxygen and organic carbon were determined seasonally and their possible relationship was statistically analyzed and the results are presented. Isolated actinomycetes were subjected to cross streak assay to know their nature of antibiotic activity against test fish pathogens and crude antibiotics were extracted from selected isolates and their inhibitory activity is studied and the results are discussed.
Jayachandran, K; Dr.Chandrasekaran,M(Cochin University of Science And Technology, August 28, 1998)
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Many of the existing methods for the treatment of rubber latex centrifugation
eflluent are not only unsatisfactory in their efliciency to effect near perfect treatment in
bringing down the COD to optimum level, but also time consuming and need a large
landspace. As the rate of effluent generation is extremely high (20 litres for kilogram of
rubber) there is a need for development of efficient system,capable of rapid reduction of
COD and BOD.
Though the organic load of the rubber efiluent is very high, it does not contain
much processed chemicals and therefore it can be considered as a ‘biological eflluent’.
Further, the ratio of the Chemical Oxygen Demand to Biological Oxygen Demand
(COD/BOD) of this effluent remain almost as a constant value. According to
Montgomery (1967), estimation of BOD is not ideally suited for studies on process
design, treatability, control of treatment plants, setting standards for treated effluents and
assessing the effect of polluting discharges on the oxygen resources of receiving waters.
Hence in the present study COD was measured to determine the impact of treatment
system on the effluent.
In the present study, attempts were made to evaluate the efficiencies of certain
methods such as packed bed reactor using immobilized microbial cells, rotating biological
contactor (RBC) and activated sludge process, for rapid and efficient treatment of
natural rubber latex centrifugation effluent. In addition, studies were also carn'ed out to develop a suitable bioprocess for the coagulation of skim latex, as an alternative to the
presently used acid coagulation process towards reducing the pollution load, besides
recovering quality rubber
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Department of Biotechnology, Cochin
University of Science and Technology
Lathika Cicily, Thomas; Bijoy Nandan, S(Cochin University of Science And Technology, February , 2015)
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The overall attempt of the study was aimed to understand the
microphytoplankton community composition and its variations along a highly
complex and dynamic marine ecosystem, the northern Arabian Sea. The data
generated provides a first of its kind knowledge on the major primary
producers of the region. There appears significant response among the
microphytoplankton community structure towards the variations in the
hydrographic conditions during the winter monsoon period. Interannually,
variations were observed within the microphytoplankton community associated
with the variability in temperature patterns and the intensity of convective
mixing. Changing bloom pattern and dominating species among the
phytoplankton community open new frontiers and vistas towards more intense
study on the biological responses towards physical processes. The production
of large amount of organic matter as a result of intense blooming of Noctiluca
as well as diatoms aggregations augment the particulate organic substances in
these ecosystem. This definitely influences the carbon dynamics of the
northern Arabian Sea. Detailed investigations based on time series as well as
trophodynamic studies are necessary to elucidate the carbon flux and
associated impacts of winter-spring blooms in NEAS. Arabian sea is
considered as one among the hotspot for carbon dynamics and the pioneering
records on the major primary producers fuels carbon based export production
studies and provides a platform for future research. Moreover upcoming
researches based on satellite based remote sensing on productivity patterns
utilizes these insitu observations and taxonomic data sets of phytoplankton for
validation of bloom specific algorithm development and its implementation.
Furthermore Saurashtra coast is considered as a major fishing zone of Indian
EEZ. The studies on the phytoplankton in these regions provide valuable raw
data for fishery prediction models and identifying fishing zones. With the
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baseline data obtained further trophodynamic studies can be initiated in the
complex productive North Eastern Arabian Seas (NEAS) ecosystem that is still
remaining unexplored.
Subin Thomas; Dr. K. Rajeev Kumar(Cochin University of Science and Technology, November 11, 2015)
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The semiconductor industry's urge towards faster, smaller and cheaper
integrated circuits has lead the industry to smaller node devices. The integrated
circuits that are now under volume production belong to 22 nm
and 14 nm technology nodes. In 2007 the 45 nm technology came with
the revolutionary high- /metal gate structure. 22 nm technology utilizes
fully depleted tri-gate transistor structure. The 14 nm technology is a
continuation of the 22 nm technology. Intel is using second generation
tri-gate technology in 14 nm devices. After 14 nm, the semiconductor industry
is expected to continue the scaling with 10 nm devices followed by
7 nm. Recently, IBM has announced successful production of 7 nm node
test chips. This is the fashion how nanoelectronics industry is proceeding
with its scaling trend.
For the present node of technologies selective deposition and selective removal
of the materials are required. Atomic layer deposition and the
atomic layer etching are the respective techniques used for selective deposition
and selective removal. Atomic layer deposition still remains as
a futuristic manufacturing approach that deposits materials and lms in
exact places. In addition to the nano/microelectronics industry, ALD is
also widening its application areas and acceptance. The usage of ALD
equipments in industry exhibits a diversi cation trend. With this trend,
large area, batch processing, particle ALD and plasma enhanced like ALD
equipments are becoming prominent in industrial applications. In this
work, the development of an atomic layer deposition tool with microwave
plasma capability is described, which is a ordable even for lightly funded
research labs.
Terry Mechado; Dr.Seralathan, P(Cochin University Of Science And Technology, April 12, 1995)
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Continental shelf is of particular significance in marine geology ,
because it links the two basically different structural zones in the earth's crust; the
continents and ocean basins. The shelf area has much wider importance in many
fields of activity such as scientific, economic, social, political and strategic. The
pace of development has ultimately put pressure on mankind to look for exploitable
resources and accessibility to the continental shelf area and beyond. Added to the
above, the developmental activities in the coastal area would readily and directly
influence the innershelf sediments. This situation demands a thorough geological
knowledge of the continental shelf area. Moreover, a successful management of
the continental shelf zone requires an optimum data base on the physico-chemical
nature of the shelf sediments. Although sedimentological studies were carried out
along the western continental shelf of India, a well documented systematic study
of the inner shelf off Trivandrum coast is still found to be lacking. Considering the
physiographic settings and the vicinity of two renowned placer deposits at Chavara
and Manavalakurichi, such a sedimetological inventory has become all the more
vital.
In view of the above, a research programme has been drawn up to
account the salient sedimentological and mineralogical aspects of the innershelf
and beach sediments between Paravur and Kovalam, Trivandrum district, Kerala
(latitudes 8° 7'00" to 8° 47'45" and longitudes 76°43'00" to 77° 40'45"). The
findings are presented in six chapters formatted to address the aim of this
research.
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Marine Geology Division
School of Marine Sciences
Cochin University of Science And Technology