Utah State University

Ronald C Sims

Charles D Miller

Elisabeth Linton

Ishwar P Murarka

Yehor Pererva

Benjamin J Mason

A gas-liquid-solid separator can include a separator body having a vertical outer wall and a gas collector having a vertical gas collector wall surrounded by the outer wall, with a gas inlet opening at a bottom of the gas collector. An annular volume between the gas collector wall and the outer wall can contain a plurality of inclined flow channels. The flow channels can have a channel inlet opening at the bottom and can slope upward following a helical path between the gas collector wall and the outer wall. A gas-liquid-solid mixture inlet opening can be in a floor of the separator body. The mixture opening can be positioned below the gas inlet opening and the mixture inlet opening can have a top-down profile that fits within a top-down profile of the gas inlet opening.

Gas-liquid-solid separator

Methods of producing a bioplastic are disclosed. Furthermore, chimeric polypeptides useful to transport polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are disclosed, as are polynucleotides that code for the chimeric polypeptides, cells harboring the chimeric polypeptides and methods of transporting PHAs.

Methods, chimeric polypeptides, polynucleotides and cells for producing bioplastics

A process for removing contaminants from a soil sample including the steps of removing fine soil particles from the soil sample, reducing the amount of contaminants in the fine soil particles by applying a solvent to the fine soil particles to dissolve the contaminants carried by the fine soil particles and radiating the surface layer of the fine soil particles to ultraviolet light having a wavelength selected to degrade the contaminants in the surface layer of the fine soil particles, and separately treating the coarse soil particles to reduce the level of contaminants in the coarse soil particles.

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Logan, UT, United States of America

Ronald C Sims