We estimate the profitability of producing biochar from crop residue (corn stover) for two scenarios. The first employs slow pyrolysis to generate biochar and pyrolysis gas and has the advantage of high yields of char (as much as 40 wt-%) but the disadvantage of producing a relatively low-value energy product (pyrolysis gas of modest heating value). The second scenario employs fast pyrolysis to...

Traumatic optic neuropathy (TON) refers to any insult to the optic nerve secondary to trauma. The incidence of TON after traumatic head injury in various studies ranges from 0.5-2.3%. An impact injury to the optic nerve often resulting in significant visual loss and even blindness.The vast majority of TON cases are seen in males,around thirty years of age. TON can be classified depending on the...

A field experiment was conducted during Summer season of 2020 at Agronomy Instructional Farm, Chimanbhai Patel College Agriculture, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar, to study the “Effect organic sources on growth, yield attributes and summer clusterbean under farming”. The comprised nine treatments viz. T1: 5.0 t/ha FYM, T2: 1.0 castor cake, T3: 2.5 FYM + 0...

The quality characteristics of selected black gram varieties viz., T9, VBN 5, CO 6, ADT 3 and VBN 7 were evaluated for their suitability to prepare idli. The foaming stability and foaming capacity was found to be maximum in VBN 5 and T9. The arabinogalactan was also found to be high in VBN 5 (80.9 mg/g) and T9 (73.6 mg/g). The physico-chemical properties of idli batter for the selected varietie...

A techno-economic analysis was performed for a 100 dry-ton/day (90,719 kg/day) fast pyrolysis transportable plant. Renewable Oil International® LLC provided the life cycle cost of operating a 100 dryton/day fast pyrolysis system using southern pine wood chips as feedstock. Since data was not available from an actual large-scale plant, the study examined data obtained from an actual 15 dry-ton/d...

This paper presents a comparison of dry anaerobic digestion reactors fed with differently sorted municipal organic solid wastes. One reactor was fed with source sorted organic wastes and a second reactor was fed with mixed organic wastes consisting of grey wastes, mechanically selected municipal solid wastes and sludge. The two reactors utilised the same process (Valorga) and operational condit...

The antimycobacterial activities of a new rifampin (RIF) derivative, 3-(4-cinnamylpiperazinyl iminomethyl) rifamycin SV (To), against 20 susceptible and multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and 20 Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) strains were investigated. The radiometric MICs of T9 for M. tuberculosis were significantly lower than those of RIF. The MICs of T9 and RIF at w...

The study on linseed aimed to investigate the effectiveness of fertilizer and organic spray banana pseudostem sap or vermiwash yield, quality, uptake economics crop was conducted at College Farm, N. M. Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, during rabi season 2019-20. experiment laid out in Randomized Block Design with four replicates. experimental field fairly leveled uniform. treatment...

The Study was carried out at Department of Sericulture, UAS, GKVK, Bengaluru under irrigated condition during the 2020-21 to study effect soil application liquid organic manures in mulberry and its on larval cocoon traits silkworm, V-1 variety planted 90+150 × 60 cm spacing. Three different were tested against recommended dose fertilizer (control), leaf quality assessed via feeding silkworm. Si...