Processes, Volume 3, Issue 1

Fibrous materials are prominent among novel chromatographic supports for the separation and purification of biomolecules. In this work, strong anion exchange, quaternary ammonium (Q) functional fibrous adsorbents were evaluated with regards to their...

In this study, we present a novel modeling approach which combines ordinary differential equation (ODE) modeling with logical rules to simulate an archetype biochemical network, the human coagulation cascade. The model consisted of five differential...

A system is differentially flat if it is Lie–Bäcklund (L-B) equivalent to a free dynamical system that has dimensions equal to that of the input of the original system. Utilizing this equivalence, the problem of nonlinear model predictive control of...

Cell-free systems offer many advantages for the study, manipulation and modeling of metabolism compared to in vivo processes. Many of the challenges confronting genome-scale kinetic modeling can potentially be overcome in a cell-free system. For exam...

Performance assessment and retuning techniques for proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers are reviewed in this paper. In particular, we focus on techniques that consider deterministic performance and that use routine operating data (that...

Silver nanoparticles supported on hierarchically porous silica and cobalt oxide monoliths have previously been shown to be catalytically active for the hydrogenation of common organic dyes in batch studies. This work presents a detailed investigation...

The Special Issue “Feature Papers” of the journal Processes aims to establish the scope of this new open access journal in chemical, biological, environmental, pharmaceutical, and material-process engineering, as well as the development of general pr...

The kinase Syk is intricately involved in early signaling events in B cells and isrequired for proper response when antigens bind to B cell receptors (BCRs). Experimentsusing an analog-sensitive version of Syk (Syk-AQL) have better elucidated its rol...

Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a systemic inflammatory mediator that triggers the human body’s acute phase response to trauma or inflammation. Although mathematical models for IL-6 signaling pathways have previously been developed, reactions that describe t...

Tissue engineering and, more broadly, regenerative medicine is moving into a phase where we are seeing potential therapies moving ‘slowly but surely’ from the laboratory into the clinic, i.e., from research to the clinic and into manufacturing. The n...

The editors of Processes would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2014:[...]

This paper gives an analysis of the efficacy of PFC strategies. PFC is widely used in industry for simple loops with constraint handling, as it is very simple and cheap to implement. However, the algorithm has had very little exposure in the mainstre...

Inflammation is a beneficial mechanism that is usually triggered by injury or infection and is designed to return the body to homeostasis. However, uncontrolled or sustained inflammation can be deleterious and has been shown to be involved in the eti...

Reaction-oriented research in flow chemistry and microreactor has been extensively focused upon in special journal issues and books. On a process level, this resembled the “drop-in” (retrofit) concept with the microreactor replacing a conventional (b...