Vegetable oil causes problem when used as fuel in compression ignition engines. This problem is due to high viscosity and low volatility of vegetable oils, which can be minimized by the process of transesterification. The relatively high cost of refined vegetable oils render the resulting fuels unable to compete with petroleum derived fuel. To reduce the cost of biodiesel a relatively low cost ...

Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), which has received much interest in its use and further development for industrial applications, is a method that offers some advantages over conventional methods, especially for the palm oil industry. SC-CO₂ refers to supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) that uses carbon dioxide (CO₂) as a solvent which is a nontoxic, inexpensive, nonflammable, and nonpoll...

Though the Palm is mainly a business tool, many games have been developed for it and more are published daily. This article starts by examining the status of game development on the Palm today. To give an indication on what designing guidelines a game developer for the Palm should take into account, several "rules of thumb" are presented. A description is given of a successful Palm game, "Space...

Abstract. Most plant-available Si in strongly desilicated soils is provided through litter decomposition and subsequent phytolith dissolution. The importance of silicon (Si) cycling tropical soil–plant systems raised the question whether oil-palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) cultivation alters cycling. As oil palms are considered hyper-accumulators, we hypothesized that much stored above-ground bi...

The palm print contains a great deal of information which is of great research and application value. This paper provides palm print research methods, application, and the relationship between the palm print and cancer.

This study aims to investigate the ultraviolet (UV) absorption property of palm fiber and to reveal the mechanism underlying its UV-shielding behavior. The UV spectra of various solvent extracts of palm fiber were investigated. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and UV spectra were used to analyze the treated palm fiber, 100% α-cellulose, and raw palm fiber. The UV absorbances of pa...

1. This document is SS-ORH-02, a series of the Environmental Horticulture Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Publication date: July 1992. Revised: July 2000. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Timothy K. Broschat, Professor; Ft. Lauderdale-REC, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Cooperative Extensio...

By creating a handheld computer that succeeded where so many other palm computers had failed, Palm Computing quickly gained popularity in the personal organizer market in 1996 and 1997. Today the Palm OS accounts for over 80% of all operating systems installed on handheld computers. In the addition, over the past several years, new open documentation standards, freely available Software Develop...