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Plant growth, water quality, carbon and nutrient flows in rural-urban cropping systems of Bengaluru, India
(2024)
The global urban population is expected to reach 5.2 billion by 2030 and by mid-2023 approximately 4.6 billion out of more than 8 billion population were living in towns or cities. This represents approximately 57% of the total global population and is set to reach 60% by 2030. India’s urban population is expected to reach 607 million by 2030 and by mid-2030 40% of the total population will be living in urban areas. Growing urban population has multi-sectoral and dimensional implications in the rural, peri-urban, and ...
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Effects of biochar application on anaerobic digestion processes
(2024)
The use of biochar as an additive in anaerobic digestion (AD) is a potential pathway to enhance AD while promoting biomass-to-biochar value chain within a circular bioeconomy. Biochar, a novel biomaterial, serves for managing residual biomass following the cascading use principle, prioritizing material use over sole energy generation. AD, as a well-established method for biogas production and organic substance management, plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. Therefore, this thesis investigated the ...
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Lignocellulosic biorefinery with a thermo-biological pretreatment concept
(2023)
There is great interest, not only in technologically advanced societies, in developing innovative sources of raw materials, especially lignocellulosic biomasses such as cereal straw, which do not interfere with food production. In Germany, 4 – 9 million tons of cereal straw, mainly wheat, are utilized annually, corresponding to an energy potential of 57 – 129 PJ/a. Lignocellulose, found in plant cell walls, consists of hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin, and it requires complex fractionation to enable its polymers ...
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Investigation of drying behavior and color development of beef slices for development of non-invasive monitoring approaches
(2021)
Meat drying has a long tradition worldwide and technically dried meat is increasingly valued as a low-fat snack or high-protein food product. Convection drying is widely used in industrial food preservation and has to provide high process efficiency and high product qualities, which can be contradictory. Therefore, it is important to understand the changes that occur in the product in order to develop drying strategies that consider process and product efficiency each at an acceptable level. The objective of this ...
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Effects of climate change on fungal community structure and organic matter turnover in soil profiles along elevation gradients in alpine ecosystems
(2019-10)
Although elevation patterns of diversity for plants and animals are well known, understanding of variations in fungal community structure along elevation gradients is limited. Soil fungi play an important role in soil microbial communities, where they improve soil organic matter (SOM) turnover and nutrient circulation. Hence, any change in fungal community structure will have strong effects on soil and ecosystem functioning. The main purpose of this thesis is therefore to investigate how climate induced shifts in ...
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Technical and Environmental Assessment of Energy and Material Production from Rural and Urban Residual Biomass
(2020-04)
Die vorliegende Arbeit umfasst Studien zur Untersuchung technischer und ökologischer Aspekte bei der Nutzung von Restbiomassen in den Nutzungspfaden Energieerzeugung und Aktivkohleproduktion. Im Mittelpunkt der jeweiligen Untersuchung stand das Verfahren zur integrierten Erzeugung von Festbrennstoff und Biogas aus Biomasse (IFBB) und dessen Einfluss auf technische und ökologische Aspekte bei der Verwertung von Restbiomassen. Im Zuge von Naturschutz- und Landschaftspflegemaßnahmen auf extensiv bewirtschafteten ...
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Towards crop communities: exploring wheat diversity, wheat-pea species mixtures and farming practice in a food system context
(2022-06)
This thesis combines experimental work on heterogeneous crop populations (HP) and species mixtures (SM) with a social scientific and participatory approach. Chapter 1 introduces crop communities as a concept to integrate multiple approaches to diversify farming systems. HPs provide intraspecific and SM interspecific diversity in crop communities. A key challenge for the genetic improvement of HPs, especially for root traits is to combine effective selection to improve HPs while maintaining intraspecific diversity. ...
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Analysis of key pungent compounds in mustard products: A comparison of sensory and chemical–analytical determinations
(2020)
The consumption of mustard, horseradish and wasabi is characterized by a pungent sensation and lachrymatory effect primarily induced by allyl isothiocyanate (AITC). This study aimed to check the possible correlation between sensory-perceived pungency and the quality-determining pungency-inducing ingredients of mustard.
Primarily, the detection thresholds of sinigrin in a water-based matrix and AITC in water- and oil-based matrices were determined in a prestudy and a main study. In the prestudy, the resulting value ...
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Untersuchungen und Modellierungsansatz zum Einfluss der Stärkesorte und Stärkemenge auf die strukturellen Eigenschaften von Biskuitmassen
(2019)
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird der Einfluss verschiedener Stärkesorten und Stärkemengen auf die Struktur von Biskuitrohmassen und der gebackenen Produkte untersucht. Dabei wird der Faktor Sorte in sieben Stufen untersucht: Kartoffel, Mais, Wachsmais, Reis, Wachsreis, Weizen und Tapioka. Der Faktor Stärkemenge wird in drei Stufen (60g / 75g / 90g) untersucht. Die Herstellung der Massen erfolgt zum einen nach traditioneller Rezeptur und zum anderen im modernen All-In Verfahren mit der Zugabe von Emulgator.
Die ...
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Methodenentwicklung für die Trennung verschiedener Proteinhydrolysate in Peptidfraktionen per Crossflow Diafiltration & sensorische Bewertung der Fraktionen
(2019)
Bestimmte Peptidverbindungen besitzen Geschmacksqualitäten, welche sie für einen Einsatz in Lebensmitteln qualifizieren. Neben einer chemischen Synthese bestimmter Verbindungen können Peptide auch durch Hydrolyse intakter Proteine gewonnen werden. Zur Trennung und Aufreinigung stellt die Crossflow-Filtrationstechnik eine skalierbare Alternative zu chromatographischen Trennverfahren dar.
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde ein Crossflow-Diafiltrationsverfahren unter Verwendung hydrophilisierter Polysulfon-Membranen (MWCO: ...