Suncoke Technology and Development Corp.

The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund Office of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Development

The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund

Katie Russell

John Francis Quanci

Milos J Kaplarevic

Peter Chun

Parthasarathy Kesavan

Sharla Evatt

Rakshak Khanna

Jack Ziegler

Mike Muhlbaier

Kim O'Connor

Kim O'connor

Milos Kaplarevic

The present technology is generally directed to integrated control of coke ovens in a coke plant in order to optimize coking rate, product recovery, byproducts and/or unit lime consumption Optimization objectives are achieved through controlling certain variables (called control variables) by manipulating available handles (called manipulated variables) subject to constraints and system disturbances that affect the controlled variables.

Integrated coke plant automation and optimization using advanced control and optimization techniques

The present technology, is generally directed to integrated control of coke ovens in a coke plant in order to optimize coking rate, product recovery, byproducts and/or unit lime consumption Optimization objectives are achieved through controlling certain variables (called control variables) by manipulating available handles (called manipulated variables) subject to constraints and system disturbances that affect the controlled variables.

Variations in the differentiation and lineage potential of stem cells, including mesenchymal stem cells, currently limit their therapeutic use. The ability to identify, isolate, and specifically amplify stem cell populations with desired differentiation potential would contribute the use of stem cells in research and therapy. The present invention discloses a method of assessing differentiation potential of stem cells by measuring the differential expression of antigens CD 146 and NG2 on the stem cells. The correlation between CD 146 and NG2 expression and differentiation and trilineage potential is explored. The invention also discloses methods to specifically amplify or enrich stem cells with desired differentiation potential, monitor the differentiation potential of a heterogeneous stem cell population, quantify the heterogeneity in differentiation potential of a stem cell culture, and remove stem cells with specific differentiation potentials from a heterogeneous cell culture.

Method for identification and culture of multipotent mesenchymal stem cells with high proliferation potential

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