The world is confronted with the twin crises of fossil fuel depletion and environmental degradation. The indiscriminate extraction and consumption of fossil fuels have led to a reduction in petroleum reserves. Alternative fuels, energy conservation and management, energy efficiency and environmental protection have become important in recent years. The increasing import bill has necessitated th...

As federal, state, and local regulations regarding waste disposal become more stringent, the need to address current disposal practices for waste aircraft engine lubricants and other fluid wastes has become a major issue. The purpose of this Air Force sponsored study [ I ] is to examine recycling as an alternative to current disposal methods and the steps required to implkment and monitor recyc...

In this paper, we demonstrate the functionality and functionalisation of waste particles as an emulsifier for oil-in-water (o/w) and water-in-oil (w/o) emulsions. Ground coffee waste was chosen as a candidate waste material due to its naturally high content of lignin, a chemical component imparting emulsifying ability. The waste coffee particles readily stabilised o/w emulsions and following hy...

In Estonia there is the largest industrially-used oil-shale basin in the world. This review addresses the environmental hazard of the waste streams of oilshale industry via solid wasteand water-path, mainly focusing on ecotoxicological risk due to open semicoke deposition inducing hazard to surrounding soils and groundwater. This is the first comprehensive ecotoxicological review of available d...

INTRODUCTION The ARO Corporation based in Bryan, Ohio is part of worldwide Ingersoll-Rand and manufactures industrial fluid power and fluid handling equipment of world class design, function and durability. Their piston and diaphragm pumps are air operated, of rugged construction, and their broad material compatibility insure long, dependable service life. The pumps are used in a variety of app...

In this paper the extraction of oils from trout waste is investigated. Trout heads, viscera and spine, obtained from a fish-processing company, have been separately freeze-dried and then extracted. Two different solvent extraction techniques have been utilized and compared: the common soxhlet extraction, which utilizes n-hexane at atmospheric pressure as solvent, and the supercritical CO2 extra...

This study deals with artificial neural network (ANN) modeling a diesel engine using waste cooking biodiesel fuel to predict the brake power, torque, specific fuel consumption and exhaust emissions of engine. To acquire data for training and testing the proposed ANN, two cylinders, four-stroke diesel engine was fuelled with waste vegetable cooking biodiesel and diesel fuel blends and operated a...

Rice bran oil is unique among edible oil due to its rich source of commercially and nutritionally important phytoceuticals such as, oryzanol, lecithin, tocopherols, and tocotrinols. However, most of these phytoceuticals are removed from the rice bran oil as waste byproducts during the refining process. γ-oryzanol is one of such component having the potential to be used in nutraceutical, pharmac...

Novel biosurfactant-producing strains were isolated from hydrocarboncontaminated environments that exclusively utilize agro-waste as their primary carbon source for the expression of biosurfactants. These were quantified using various standardized methods. Among the agro-waste screened, Beta vulgaris (Beetroot) proved to be the most suitable substrate, for which the biosurfactants produced by t...