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crops (SRWC) and thus offer an opportunity to initiate a new form of prairie forestry. Increasing SRWC productivity, reducing production costs, and improving SRWC quality will be required, however, to realize this opportunity. 13 refs.

1484316 NTIS Accession Number: DE90013143/XAB Discussions in biotechnology and separations science.

Foreign trip report, April 17, 1987-May 2, 1987 Scott, T.C. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN. Corp. Source Codes: 021310000; 4832000 Sponsor: Department of Energy, Washington, DC. Report No.: ORNL/FTR-2549 14 May 87 7p Languages: English Journal Announcement: GRAI9023; ERA9046 Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC. Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche

products. NTIS Prices: PC A02/MF A01 Country of Publication: United States Contract No.: AC05-840R21400 The traveler visited two research installations in West

Germany to discuss biotechnology and separations science research and to attend and present an invited paper at the Second International Conference on Separations Technology and Schloss Elmau. The visit to the Juelich Nuclear Research center centered around discussions of biotechnology research with Professor M. Kula. The most interesting of these focused on contributions which could be carried out at ORNL and would involve interfacial transport phenomena in two-phase-polymer/aqueous extraction systems. Discussions at the Institute fur Heisse Chemie (Karlsruhe) centered around separations science applications of high-intensity electric fields. The most important topic was definition of operating parameters useful for evaluation of the emulsion- phase-contactor concept developed at ORNL. The Second International Conference on Separations Technology provided a forum for exchanging ideas in the general area of separations science with internationally prominent scientists and engineers.

1484314 NTIS Accession Number: DE90013141/XAB Adsorbents in bioseparations. Foreign trip report, April

17, 1987-May I, 1987 Scott, C. D.

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Oak Ridge National Lab., TN. Corp. Source Codes: 021310000; 4832000 Sponsor: Department of Energy, Washington, DC. Report No.: ORNL/FTR-2551 ii May 87 7p Languages: English Journal Announcement: GRAI9023; ERA9046 Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC NTIS Prices: PC A02/MF A01 Country of Publication: United States Contract No.: AC05-840R21400 The traveler presented an invited paper on dispersed-phase

adsorbents for bioseparations at the Second International Conference on Separation Technology. Useful discussions were also held with Dr. J. Klein and his co-workers at the Biotechnology Research Institute in Braunschweig, FRG. An invited seminar on recent work at ORNL on biotechnology was also presented at Braunschweig.

1484152 NTIS Accession Number: DE90012378/XAB Bioprocessing and applications. Foreign trip report, July

15-31, 1988 Scott, C. D. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN. Corp. Source Codes: 021310000; 4832000 Sponsor: Department of Energy, Washington, DC. Report No.: ORNL/FTR-2979 3 Aug 88 9p Languages: English Document Type: Conference proceeding Journal Announcement: GRAI9023; ERA9046 Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC. Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche

products. NTIS Prices: PC A02/MF A01 Country of Publication: United States Contract No.: AC05-840R21400 The traveler presented a paper on advanced bioreactors for

ethanol production at the 8th International Biotechnology Symposium and participated in the meeting. An invited seminar on advanced biotechnology concepts was presented at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquees in Toulouse. Extensive discussions on bioprocessing applications were also carried out at the Institute.

1484097 NTIS Accession Number: DE90012312/XAB Photosynthesis and biotechnology. Foreign trip report,

November i, 1987-November 25, 1987