Experimental research involving Arabidopsis thaliana often involves the quantification of phenotypic traits during cultivation on compost or other growing media. Many commercially-available growing media contain peat, but peat extraction is not sustainable due to its very slow rate of formation. Moreover, peat extraction reduces peatland biodiversity and releases stored carbon and methane into ...

Using a hand lay-up approach, both orange peel and coconut coir fibres are used in particulate form with an epoxy matrix to create partly green biodegradable composites. The findings indicate great opportunities for employing these natural fibres. thermal conductivity of coconut-coir composites was measured experimentally various volume fractions experimental show that as fibre concentration in...

Natural fibrehas a good capacity as acoustic insulation materials because of its characteristics, and therefore it is widely used in many applications. This research aims to explore biomass waste from the palm oil mill coconut production materials. Fibre wastes for this study included empty fruit bunch (EFB), mesocarp fibre (MF) coir (CF), which were treated using sodium hydroxide (NaOH) elimin...

Sawdust and coconut coir dust are agro-wastes/by-products which suitable for use as raw materials to manufacture unfired clay blocks due their excellent physical mechanical properties. A limited number of studies have been conducted on the utilisation these agro-wastes in block production, they mostly devoted investigating physicomechanical properties, with less attention given thermal Moreover...

Hospital liquid waste has the potential to pollute environment and harm health if not processed properly because it contains high enough organic inorganic compounds, pathogenic microorganisms, toxic chemicals radioactive substances. Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah (RSUD) Kefamenanu is only hospital owned by Government of Kabupaten Timor Tengah Utara located in middle community settlements uses wastewat...

Natural fibers investigated in this study are mainly waste from agro industry. The importance of natural building composites is increasing, as they partially replace nonrenewable resources acting reinforcement composite materials such concrete, mortar and earth bricks. Their recycling requires a detailed analysis the physical, chemical, mechanical characteristics fibers. In study, tropical i.e....