Soilless cultivation is extensively used in the greenhouse industry. Recently, hydroponic of capia pepper has become popular among growers. Capia harvested at red maturity stage, and intensive mineral fertilizers are usually for soilless cultivation. This study was performed a during spring under Mediterranean climatic conditions. The effects bacteria mycorrhiza on plant growth, yield, fruit qu...

Robust statistical tools were applied on the water quality datasets with the aim of determining the most significance parameters and their contribution towards temporal water quality variation. Surface water samples were collected from four different sampling points during dry and wet seasons and analyzed for their physicochemical constituents. Discriminant analysis (DA) provided better results...

Considerable research is focused on understanding the functionality of starch hydrolysis products (SHP) consisting of glucose, maltose, maltooligosaccharides (MOS), and maltopolysaccharides (MPS). A confounding factor in this research is the high molecular dispersity of commercially available SHP. The study presented herein characterizes a flexible fractionation approach for lowering the disper...

The treatment of poultry slaughterhouse wastewater (PSW) with an Expanded Granular Sludge-Bed Bioreactor (EGSB) is hindered by the washout activated sludge, and difficulties associated operation three-phase separator determination optimum up-flow velocity for sludge-bed fluidization. This results in a poor reactor functionality, thus performance due to pollutants such as fats, oil grease (FOG) ...

Chitosan, a cationic carbohydrate polymer manufactured from chitin in shrimp and crab wastes, coagulated suspended solids in cheese whey as effectively or more so than ten commercial synthetic polymers. Concentrations of suspended solids after settling were reduced over 90% by coagulation at pH 6.0 with a ratio of chitosan to suspended solids of 2.15% (1:46.5). The yield of coagulated solids wa...

Algae biomass has been recognized as a potential and promising feedstock for biodiesel production. However, the expenses associated with overall downstream processing steps question sustainability of algae biodiesel. With an aim to improve this, sustainable approach explored using lipid extracted (LEB) Spirulinaplatensis biogas generation. The alternate use LEB generation showed maximum 400 cm3...

The present investigation is based on the idea of intensifying the gas-solids contact in a circulating fluidized bed by introducing obstacles into it. Such obstacles may effectively suppress radial inhomogeneities in the solids flux and concentration, increase the dynamic solids hold-up, and break up solids clusters. This article (Part I) deals with the hydrodynamics (pressure drop and solids h...

To better understand how airways produce thick airway mucus, nonvolatile solids were measured in liquid secreted by bronchi from normal pig, cystic fibrosis (CF) human, and non-CF human lungs. Bronchi were exposed to various secretagogues and anion secretion inhibitors to induce a range of liquid volume secretion rates. In all three groups, the relationship of solids concentration (percent nonv...