926 results about "Plant Components" patented technology

A method of modifying the content of certain chemical compounds in tobacco materials is provided, the method including treatment of a tobacco plant component with at least one probiotic. For example, the method may modify the asparagine content in tobacco materials, which can result in a modification in acrylamide production when the tobacco material is exposed to elevated temperatures. The type of tobacco plant component treated according to the invention can be a tobacco seed, a tobacco seedling, an immature live plant, a mature live plant, a harvested plant, or a portion thereof. Examples of probiotics include probiotic species of the genera bifidobacterium, lactobacillus, enterococcus, proionobacterium, bacillus, saccharomyces, streptococcus, and mixtures thereof. Smoking articles and other tobacco products including such probiotic-treated tobacco materials are also provided.

Method of operating a wind power plant including the steps of: operating the wind power plant at an current parameter schedule (P_current(v)) performing a wind prediction of wind data (V_w) for a time frame (ΔT) extending to a future time T, determining a desired fatigue load level (F_desired) of a wind power plant component at the future time T, and during operation of said wind power plant generating an updated parameter schedule (P_desired(v)) to provide the desired fatigue load level (F_desired) at time T if exposed to the predicted wind conditions (V_w(t)) during said time frame (ΔT)

Processes for producing cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical active components which comprise: (a) providing a fermentation broth comprising a plant component selected from the group consisting of plant constituents, plant extracts and mixtures thereof; (b) inoculating the fermentation broth with a microorganism; and (c) fermenting the microorganism-containing fermentation broth to produce an active component; are described along with cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical preparations containing such active components and methods of using the same to treat the skin and/or hair.

The effective plant component extracting process includes mechanically crushing the mixture of solid plant material and proper amount of chemical assistant, and the subsequent extraction of the effective component with water or alcohol. The mechanical crushing can produce micro shearing strain in the interface, break cell wall, expose fresh cut surface and produce mutual adsorption and other action between the grain clusters and molecular groups of the chemical assistant and the effective component, so as to alter the microscopic performance of the effective plant component, raise the leached amount by 80-400 %, short the extracting period greatly, raise the extracting efficiency obviously raise the extraction specificity and selectivity, minimize the organic solvent in use, lower the extraction cost and raise the bioavailability of the extracted matter.

A spectroscopic method, preferably Raman scattering, is used to rapidly determine the general health or stress status of living plants and plant products, including agricultural crops, forests, and harvested fruits and vegetables. In the preferred embodiments, carotenoid levels are used to provide an indication of oxidative deterioration. Based upon the results of the analysis, further action may or may not be taken, for example, in terms of choosing, picking, harvesting or sorting the agricultural product in accordance with the carotenoid level. Concentration levels of an analyte substance can be determined relative to an external standard, to each other, or relative to another substance in the item being analyzed. Carotenoids such as lycopene, beta-carotene, lutein, violaxanthin, neoxanthin, antheraxanthin, and zeaxanthin are determined according to the invention, through other plant components may be analyzed such as other terpenes, polyenes, chlorophyll, proteins, starches, sugars, overall nitrogen levels, flavonoids, and vitamins. The hardware associated with the invention may be field portable or mounted on a piece of equipment such as a harvester or sorter.

Systems and methods for implementing benchmarking analysis for power plant operations comprise electronically accessing power plant operational data within at least one type of operation within a power plant, electronically analyzing data from one or more power plant components within one or more different power plant units in one or more collections of multiple power plant units to identify cycles and key events on one or more of a component level, a unit level and a collective level of multiple power plants, generating at least one scorecard summary of calculated power plant operational characteristics on selected levels of operation comprising one or more of a component level, unit level and collective level of power plant units, and providing the at least one scorecard summary as electronic output to a user. Additional optional steps include using the data from the scorecard summary to detect outliers and/or to cluster selected components, units or fleets having similar operational characteristics.

A system and a method are provided that may be used to control the temperature of steam being reheated by a moisture separator reheater (MSR). The temperature of a steam being reheated by a MSR may be sensed, and controller embodiments may use the sensed temperature to control the transfer of heat from various MSR components into the reheated steam. By using such control embodiments, the MSR may provide optimally heated steam to other power plant components, thus increasing the performance, efficiency, and safety of a power plant.

A reactor control interface includes a home screen video display unit (VDU) displaying blocks representing functional components of a nuclear power plant and connecting arrows that connect blocks that are providing the current heat sinking path for the nuclear power plant. Directions of the connecting arrows represent the direction of heat flow along the current heat sinking path. If the current heat flow path of the plant changes, the connecting arrows are updated accordingly. Additional VDUs include: a mimic VDU displaying a mimic of a plant component; a procedures VDU displaying a stored procedure executable by the plant; a multi-trend VDU trending various plant data; and an alarms VDU displaying side-by-side alarms registries sorted by time and priority respectively. If a VDU fails, the displays are shifted to free up one VDU to present the display of the failed VDU, and one display is shifted to an additional VDU.

The hair washing and protecting composition of natural plant components is compounded with tea seed oil or tea cake powder in 75-96 weight portions and ginger powder in 1-30 weight portions as main components, as well as natural vegetable oil in 2-8 weight portions and yolk powder in 1-2 weight portions, with the natural vegetable oil being mint oil, lavender oil, olive oil or sesame oil. It may have different compounding ratio for fitting different hairs. The hair washing and protecting composition of the present invention has functions of eliminating oil and grease, eliminating scurf, stopping itching, improving blood circulation, protecting hair, restoring hair, and improving sleep quality.

The invention relates to an anti-pollution skincare product and a preparation method thereof, in particular to an anti-pollution composition, the anti-pollution composition-containing anti-pollution skincare product, and the preparation method of the anti-pollution skincare product. The anti-pollution skincare product provided by the invention is added with a plurality of natural plant components, such as moringa pterygosperma seed extract, trehalose, tremella polysaccharide and the like, has a protecting effect on skin, repels atmospheric dust with positive charges, conducts complexing of harmful heavy metals, lightens the damage caused by atmospheric pollution, can protect cells and can reduce the injury to the skin caused by dehydration and heat and cold change.

An integrated power plant cooling system for an electrical generating power plant driven by a gas turbine to cool power plant components is provided. The integrated cooling system includes a heat source extracted from the power plant and an absorption chiller utilizing energy from the heat source to cool a chilling medium. An integrated cooling skid includes heat removal devices for a plurality of power plant components. The chilling medium output from the absorption chiller is circulated to the heat removal devices for the power plant components of the integrated cooling skid. Plant cooling water may remove heat from the absorption chiller.

The invention discloses a plant compound gel for treating acne and a preparation method of the plant compound gel. The plant compound gel comprises the following natural plant components in parts by weight: 20-30 parts of radix sophorae flavescentis, 15-25 parts of cortex moutan, 10-20 parts of aloes, 10-20 parts of radix scutellariae and 15-25 parts of liquorice. The plant compound gel for treating acne provided by the invention contains natural plant active ingredients; the gel prepared according to a provided formula and the provided preparation method can be used with any common medicaments for acne treatment, and is applicable to any skins; the gel causes no allergic reactions, and has no toxic and side effects; by using the gel, medicaments can quickly penetrate into skins, thereby achieving the purpose of treating acne; the curative effect is exact, and the acne is difficult to relapse; the gel has functions of removing acne and eliminating cicatrices; and because of integrating active essences of natural plants, the gel can quickly achieve an antibacterial effect, detoxify and treat acne, and can improve the color of skins, restore the skin, and protect the skin.

The invention relates to a method of preparing a vine tea mask capsule. The method comprises the steps of preparing vine tea powder, degreasing, extracting vine tea flavonoid, crystallizing and removing impurities, crushing and disinfecting, preparing mask capsule powder and finally filling the powder into a capsule. The vine tea mask capsule is composed of pure plant components, is antiseptic-free and additive-free, and causes no irritation and harm to skins. When a user is using the capsule, the user opens the capsule, fetches 80ML hot water with 80 DEG C, and slowly and uniformly pours thepowder in the capsule into the hot water while stirring. The user stirs the capsule powder to make the power fully dissolved and then pours into a mold plate. When the dissolved powder is cooled to be a mask, the user applies the mask onto the face for 20 to 30 minutes. The vine tea mask is prepared from pure natural konjac gum andxanthan gum, is crystal clear in appearance, and is fast in penetration and fine in absorption. No non-woven fabric needs to be a medium, and most essences are not liable to be absorbed by mask paper. Furthermore, various masks with beauty treatment efficacies can be prepared based on needs of skin whitening, skin dullness removal, rosy cheek improvement, acne clearance, toxin expelling or the like.

The invention discloses a poultry feed and a preparation method thereof. The poultry feed consists of the following components in part by weight: 50 to 64 parts of corn, 10 to 23 parts of bean pulp, 3 to 25 parts of plant component rich in omega-3 fatty acid, 0.2 to 0.5 part of table salt, 1.0 to 2.0 parts of calcium monohydrogen phosphate, 5 to 12 parts of mountain flour, 0.1 to 1.5 parts of vitamin premix and 0.1 to 1.5 parts of mineral premix. The method adopts plant seeds and fruits rich in omega-3 fatty acid or extract oil thereof as main components in the feed formula to prepare the poultry mixed feed; and after poultry are fed with the feed, high omega-3 fatty acid can be enriched in yolks of eggs, and the produced eggs have fine and smooth mouthfeel and no raw taste. The feed also has the advantages of wide raw material source, low production cost, safe use, no toxic or side effect on animals and human bodies and the like.

The invention relates to a reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine with variable compression, having an actuating unit for changing a variable compression of the reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine, wherein, to change the variable compression, the actuating unit actuates a variable engine component of the reciprocating piston internal combustion engine in the form of a connecting rod with variable length, a piston with variable compression height and/or a crankshaft with variable crankshaft radius, and the actuating unit is arranged at a lower level than the reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine. Also proposed are a method and also an actuating unit for the same.

Described are a vertical garden system and method. A mounting panel includes a plurality of first mounting attachment mechanisms. A planting cell module is positioned on a surface of the mounting panel. The planting cell module has a second mounting attachment mechanism constructed and arranged for removably coupling with a first mounting attachment mechanism. The planting cell module has an interior volume in which a plant component is positioned.

The invention relates to a natural Chinese Eaglewood inducer and a Chinese Eaglewood production method, and belongs to the technical field of plant cultivation. Drug effect components of the natural Chinese Eaglewood inducer are composed of a plant endogenous wounding signal, a natural Chinese Eaglewood condensation inducing molecule, a plant nutrition agent and a plant immunizing agent. The Chinese Eaglewood production method comprises the following steps: boring the trunk of an Aquilaria plant, injecting the natural Chinese Eaglewood inducer to Aquilaria malaccensis by using plant transpiration pull, sealing the obtained pore, carrying out treatment for 3-24 months, cutting the trunk, taking a dark brown oily substance and yellowish-brown allochroic xylem, and drying the dark brown oily substance and yellowish-brown allochroic xylem to form Chinese Eaglewood. The drug effect components of the natural Chinese Eaglewood inducer are safe, are natural plant components, and contain no hormones, chemical drugs or artificial perfumes; the Chinese Eaglewood inducer allows the Chinese Eaglewood to be produced in a high-efficiency, high-quality and high-yield manner, and allows standards of National Formulary 2015 to be reached after 3-month Aquilaria malaccensis condensation; and the inducer substantially improves the content of alcohol-soluble extract, Agarotetrol, volatile oil and sesquiterpene.

The invention discloses a complex enzyme preparation for extracting effective plant components and a method for preparing the complex enzyme preparation. The complex enzyme preparation comprises components of glycanase, cellulase, pectinase, beta-glucanase and alpha-amylase. The activity of the glycanase is 3000IU/g, the activity of the cellulase is 2000IU/g, the activity of the pectinase is 20000IU/g, the activity of the beta-glucanase is 5000IU/g, and the activity of the alpha-amylase is 3000IU/g. The method for preparing the complex enzyme preparation includes symbiotically cultivating, extracting and concentrating bacillus licheniformis, bacillus subtilis, aspergillus niger and trichoderma viride according to certain proportions, then adding expanded plant protein carriers into the bacillus licheniformis, the bacillus subtilis, the aspergillus niger and the trichoderma viride; spraying mist at low temperatures to obtain the complex enzyme preparation. The complex enzyme preparation and the method have the advantages that the effective component recovery rate of complex enzymes can be increased as compared with a method for individually fermenting and producing various enzymes and then combining the various enzymes with one another, production technologies can be simplified, the production cycle can be shortened, the production cost can be lowered, the production efficiency can be greatly improved, the stability of the activity quality of final products can be guaranteed, and plant extraction complex enzyme production can be industrialized.

The invention relates to a sun cream formula based on natural plant components and a preparation method of the sun cream formula. The sun cream formula based on natural plant components is characterized in that the sun cream comprises glycerol, xanthan gum, isopropyl myristate, rutin extract, C14-22 alcohol, bisabolol, green tea extract, methyl glucoside sesqui-stearate, methyl glucoside sesqui-stearate polyoxyethylene (20) ether, vitamin E, titanium dioxide, phenoxyethanol, aloe extract, baicalin, bayberry extract, daily fragrance compound, imidazolidinyl urea and water. The chemical composition is abandoned, and the sun cream is produced from natural, green and safe plant extracts, so that the sun cream does not influence the body, is natural and sun-resistant and can effectively prevent ultraviolet rays from hurting the human body and protect the skin.