[Eric Friedrich] needed to keep the wort warm enough for yeast to ferment it into beer. To solve the problem he built his own fermentation temperature controler using a microprocessor to turn some ...

The quality and quantity of organic matter control its rate of degradation in marine sediments (Arnosti et al., 1998; Thamdrup and Fleischer, 1998). Temperature is also a major regulating factor ...

Many of today’s pharmaceuticals, biofuels, and other chemicals are produced by microbial fermentation. But the churning metabolism of bacteria in a bioreactor raises the cells’ temperature, which in ...

The teaching and research winery at the University of California, Davis is using an RFID sensor system to measure the temperature and sugar content of its wine mixes. The system enables the school to ...