Nowadays, applying soil amendments is one of the most important ways to cope with water shortages and improve soil physical properties. In this regard, a greenhouse experiment was conducted to study the effect of different levels of irrigation water and wheat straw biochar on physical and chemical properties of a sandy loam soil, after harvesting faba bean. The experiment was performed with 5 b...

soil hydraulic properties such as soil water characteristic curve are necessary prerequisite for modeling water movement and solute transport. direct methods of estimating these hydraulic properties are time consuming and costly. indirect methods, such as pedotransfer functions, estimate the hydraulic parameters using easy-to-measure soil properties like particle size distributions, bulk densit...

the possibility of using water insoluble fraction from biomass pyrolysis oil as additive in synthesis of wood-plastic novolac has been proved by using differential scanning calorimetry (dsc) and fourier transformed infra red (ft-ir) spectroscopy. synthesis of novolac with different concentrations (10, 20 and 30 wt %) of water insoluble fraction were performed. it was found that mechanical prope...