Giant bamboo Dendrocalamus asper is recommended in environmental and livelihood programs in the Philippines due to its various ecological, economic and social benefits. However, there are limited data on the ecology of giant bamboo litterfall production, which contributes to soil nutrient availability. Bamboo also contributed in carbon sequestration. The study was conducted within the ...

earth pressure balance tunnel boring machines (epb-tbms) are favorably applied in urban tunneling projects. despite their numerous advantages, considerable delays and high maintenance cost are the main disadvantages these machines suffer from. reliability, availability, and maintainability (ram) analysis is a practical technique that uses failure and repair dataset obtained over a reasonable ti...

this paper discusses the performance evaluation and availability analysis of ammonia synthesis unit of a fertilizer plant. the fertilizer plant is a complex and repairable engineering system comprises of various units viz. shell gasification and carbon recovery, desulphurization, co-shift conversion, decarbonation, nitrogen wash and ammonia synthesis etc. one of the most important functionaries...

Cross-linked poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) is a heterogeneous and polymeric support that has been widely used in the preparation of numerous reagents and catalysts because of its commercial availability, stability, reasonable high loading capacity, good physicochemical structure and facile functionalization. Beside various applications in industry such as stabilizer, sugar coating and film coati...

Cross-linked poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) is a heterogeneous and polymeric support that has been widely used in the preparation of numerous reagents and catalysts because of its commercial availability, stability, reasonable high loading capacity, good physicochemical structure and facile functionalization. Beside various applications in industry such as stabilizer, sugar coating and film coati...