Lignocellulosic residues were tested as artificial log to mushroom production of Lentinula edodes. Three isolates of L. edodes were grown in substrates based on corn bog, and sawdust or bark of eucalypt, enriched with rice bran 20%. The biological efficiency (BE) were higher when corn borg and sawdust was used and the isolate UFV 73 was that presented well shaped mushrooms and higher productivi...

Abstract Due to its widespread consumption, paracetamol (PCT) has emerged as one of the leading contaminants that pollute water. Herein, a PCT removal 99.6% was achieved using chemically activated carbon (CAC), derived from bamboo sawdust KOH/FeCl3 an activating agent, at optimal conditions (20 mg/L), CAC (0.5 g/L), contact time (90 min), and pH (8). Kinetic study revealed adsorption process fo...

Production of agriculture and timber commodities leads generation of enormous quantity of wastes. Improper disposal of these agroindustrial wastes pollutes the environment. This problem could be reduced by adding value to them. Therefore, a study was carried out to analyse and compare the nutrients content of RS, RH, SD, and EFB of composts and crude humic substances; furthermore, their effect ...

Untreated Pinus radiata sawdust was investigated for the removal of Cu+2 ions from aqueous solutions. The biomass characterized by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass (ICP-MS) spectrometry and Scanning Electron Microscopy with an Energy Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX), X-Ray crystalline powder Diffraction (XRD) Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, before after adsorption. influen...