Blar i Master's theses (TN-IMN, 2007-2017) på tittel
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Anaerobic treatment of glycol contaminated wastewater for methane production
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)Glycols are usually used in the offshore gas industry as hydrate inhibitor in gas pipelines laid deep under the sea. Glycols, in its use, are contaminated by dissolved salts from formation water together with scaling and ... -
Anaerobic Treatment of Industrial Wastewater under Psychrophilic Conditions (10 °C ) using Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactor, Lab Studies.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-15)The main objective of this study was to investigate the performance of UASB reactors for their efficiency of removing COD and producing methane gas at psychrophilic temperature, 10 °C by treating high strength municipal ... -
Anaerobic treatment of industrial wastewater with a pilot scale UASB reactor
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-07-13)The focus of this study was to investigate the performance of anaerobic treatment with a UASB pilot reactor for removal of COD in industrial wastewater at ambient temperatures at Grødaland wastewater treatment plant in ... -
Analysis of by-products from XLPE Production for cable insulation
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2009;, Master thesis, 2009)Polyethylene is used in the manufacturing of cables. Because of the amount of high voltages which is transmitted through the cables at elevated temperatures, crosslinking of PE is necessary for stabilizing the insulation. ... -
Analysis of ceulluar events in a cell model for neurodegenerative diseases involving mitochondrial damage
(Master thesis, 2017-06-09)Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles, with an essential role in proper cell function. Increasing evidence points towards a key role of mitochondria and its bioenergetic state for pathogenesis of neurodegenerative ... -
Analysis of corrosion resistance property of cold bended 316L and 6Mo stainless steel pipes
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-06-16)The variation in mechanical properties after cold deformation (bending) of pipes is one of the interesting subjects in material science. One major quality the material should possess is high corrosion resistance after ... -
Antibacterial effect of chitosan in relation to active food packaging
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)Food safety has a high priority in the food industry. In order to be able to give the consumers safe products, the producers continuously work with methods to inhibit growth of bacteria in the foods during storage. Recently, ... -
Aspects of X-Ray Diffraction Using Mathematica
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)A specialised Mathematica package has been launched, which is intended to become a valuable tool in our line of work. Old and new code has been compiled to a single, organised and flexible package, featuring a neat ... -
Base excision repair of N4,5-dimethylcytosine in DNA
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-07-13)5-Methylcytosine (m5C) replaces cytosine (C) in DNA in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells to execute a number of important cellular functions, but damage to m5C have received little attention. For instance, almost no studies ... -
Biochemical and molecular analysis of LC-PUFA biosynthesis in the microalga Nannochloropsis
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-06-17)The present research project comprised both basic research and biotechnology and focused on investigating the role of peroxisomes in lipid metabolism in the lipid-rich microalgae, Phaeodactylum and Nannochloropsis, and on ... -
Biodegradation and chemical characterization of petroleum diesel hydrocarbons in seawater at low temperatures
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2010;, Master thesis, 2010-06)Petroleum hydrocarbons are a major source of marine contamination. Biodegradation, which is fundamental for the natural attenuation of these hydrocarbons in nature, involves mineralization or transformation of organic ... -
Biodiesel by acid-catalyzed transesterification with butanol
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2011;, Master thesis, 2012-07-11)Jatropha oil and Rapeseed oil was transesterified with n-butanol by the use of H2SO4. Before conducting the experiments a review of the effect of alcohol type was preformed. Alcohols from methanol to butanol, branched and ... -
Biogas potential of high strength municipal wastewater treatment in laboratory scale up-flow anaerobic slugde blanket (UASB) reactors
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)The main focus of this study is investigating the effectiveness of anaerobic treatment of municipal wastewater for converting organic matter to methane production in anaerobic granular sludge reactors. In-house designed ... -
Biogas potential of municipal sludge, industrial waste, livestock manure, and preliminary study of Røysland farm biogas plant
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-15)Anaerobic digestion involves a series of metabolic reactions in which complex substrates in the feed are reduced to a mixture having as main products methane and carbon dioxide. Biochemical methane potential (BMP) of ... -
Biological effects in fish and mussels of oil spill pollution in northern areas
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)The oil and gas activities in the northern region have showed an increase over the last years. This year a new field, Skrugard, was discovered in the Barents Sea and the two parliaments in Norway and Russia confirmed the ... -
Biological treatment of industrial wastewater for biogas production
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)Anaerobic biodegradation is a method of degradation that converts approximately 90% of the available chemical energy (in the form of organic material), into gas methane. Apart from the economic value of the methane gas ... -
Biomarker responses in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) exposed to PAHs: data treatment, data interpretation and communication of results
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-16)The evaluation of multivariate statistical analysis to provide a simplified output based on biomarker responses is presented in this study. Biomarker responses obtained from two separate exposures on the effects of PAH ... -
Carbide formation on carbon steels in CO2 corrosion by use of applied anodic current
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)The present study aims to validate the method in enriching of iron carbide surface from carbon steels in CO2 corrosion. Applying an anodic current to carbon steel electrodes by galvanostatic measurement was a selected ... -
Characterization of ranomafana lake water quality - antsirabe madagascar
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2009, Master thesis, 2009)Analyses of water quality parameters in Ranomafana Lake showed that the lake is hypereutrophic. It receives untreated wastewater from Antsirabe municipality by three main inlets: the North West inlet, the North inlet and ... -
Characterization of the Lil3 protein during deetiolation of Hordeum vulgare
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMN/2009, Master thesis, 2009)Angiosperm plants growing in darkness are free of chlorophyll and develop etioplasts instead of chloroplasts the characteristic organelles of green plants. Upon illumination, chlorophyll and the chlorophyll binding proteins ...