Agricultural Residues
IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURAL RESIDUES (CORN COB AND RICE HUSK ASH) TO CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA: A REVIEW
... some agricultural residues that can be used for partial replacement of cement in construction ...industry. Agricultural residues are facing problems of disposal, thereby causing ...recycling ...
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Agricultural Residues for Future Energy Option in Sudan: An Analysis
... Biomass energy includes fuelwood, agricultural residues, animal wastes, charcoal and other fuels derived from biological sources. It is currently accounts for about 14% of world energy consumption. Biomass ...
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Physico-Chemical Characterization of Agricultural Residues as Precursors for Activated Carbon Preparation
... leaves presented values close, ranging 42-45%. The present finding also support Nieto-Delgado et al. (2011) study which concluded that a good precursor of activated carbons should have a share of carbon in the range of ...
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Production of Wood Products from Particleboards Manufactured from Agricultural Residues
... various agricultural residues or fibres can be utilized for particleboard ...these residues could satisfactorily be used to produce furniture and other wood ...the agricultural residue will ...
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Characterization of biochars produced from pyrolysis of pelletized agricultural residues
... Biochars produced from pelletized grape vine (GV) and sunflower husk (SFH) agricultural residues were studied by pyrolysis in a batch reactor at 400 and 500°C. Chemical and physical evolution of the biomass ...
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Anaerobic Co-digestion of Swine Manure and Agricultural Residues for Biogas Production.
... Another simple model that has been largely used to model methane generation is the first-order model. This model considers substrate availability as the limiting factor, and assumes that hydrolysis governs the overall ...
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A sustainable biorefinery to convert agricultural residues into value-added chemicals
... Therefore, to convert animal wastes into a high-value chemical—chitin, this paper developed a sustainable biorefinery concept integrating AD, EC and fungal fer- mentation (Fig. 1). Animal wastes were first treated by an ...
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Disseminating Biomass Briquetting Technology in Nigeria: A case for Briquettes Production Initiatives in Katsina State
... of residues from agriculture, harvests from forest (in the form of firewood, charcoal, residues), crop residue, energy crops, animal manure, residues from agro-industrial and food processes, ...
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Methane Production By Anaerobic Co-Digestion Of Sewage Sludge And Wheat Straw Under Mesophilic Conditions
... crop residues and buffalo dung, the result showed that the maximum biogas production was obtained from co digestion with wheat ...crop residues (corn stalks, oat straw, and wheat straw), and reported that ...
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Optimization of Citric Acid Production Using Aspergillus niger Isolated from the Leaf Litter Soil of Sathuragiri Hills
... Abstract Soil samples were collected from the different locations in Sathuragiri Hills (Western Ghats, Tamilnadu). The Total Fungal Counts in the soil samples of the different locations were analyzed. The percentage ...
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Conversion of agricultural biomass corn residues: impact on power generation and sustainable emissions reduction in Nigeria
... especially agricultural residues for power generation is largely ...(maize) residues for power generation is conducted for the geo-political zones in the ...corn residues (stalk, cob, and ...
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Bioconversion of agricultural lignocellulosic residues into branched-chain fatty acids using Streptomyces lividans
... lignocellulosic agricultural residues, sunflower stalks and rape straw, were investigated as poten- tial low-cost, non-food substrates for the production of triacylglycerols by the oleaginous, ...
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Adsorption isotherm and kinetics studies of cadmium (II) ions removal using various activated carbons derived from agriculture bark wastes: A comparative study
... This paper reports the feasibility of using various indigenously prepared activated carbons (IPACs) derived from agricultural residues viz., Eucalyptus Bark (Eucalyptus Globules), Neem Bark (Azadirachta ...
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Development Of Water Resistant Particleboards From Rice Husk
... of agricultural residues for particleboard manufacturing is a goal for both environmental and ...the agricultural residue increases their value-add and also help meet the growing demand of raw ...
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Characterisation of biomass resources in Nepal and assessment of potential for increased charcoal production
... Throughout Nepal, the total amount of charcoal from the agricultural residues tested and found to be suitable that could be produced is 4,725,500 tonnes of firewood equivalent, providing[r] ...
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Comparative Alterations in the Compositional Profile of Selected Root and Vegetable Peels Subjected to Three Pretreatments for Enhanced Saccharification
... by agricultural residues and woody biomass or dedicated crops such as switchgrass or coastal Bermuda grass [4, 6], there is also in increasing contribution from processing wastes resulting from enhanced ...
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Thermostable α-amylase from Lignocellulosic Residues Using Bacillus amyloliquefaciens
... different microbial species, especially B. amyloliquefaciens in submerged fermentation. This study is among the first works which report the production of α-amylase from hydrolysate of agricultural residues ...
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BIOMASS ENERGY CONVERSION TECHNOLOGIES
... include agricultural residues; animal manure; wood wastes from forestry and industry; residues from food and paper industries; municipal green wastes; sewage sludge; dedicated energy crops such as ...
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Investigation of Agricultural Biomass Residues in Liquefaction Process
... Agricultural residues have large differences in their physical and chemical properties than wood. As a result, the optimum conditions that can be applied to the liquefaction of wood may be not suitable for ...
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COMPARISON OF PESTICIDE RESIDUE LEVELS IN THE SURFACE WATER OF BERTAM RIVER IN CAMERON HIGHLANDS, PAHANG
... chlorpyrifos residues could have reached the aquatic environment through surface runoff due to careless and indiscriminate disposal of empty pesticide containers, washing of spraying equipment and other ...
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