Rice straw is a major biomass residue from rice cultivation, which reaches to a world average of 740 million tonnes/year generation. Open burning of rice straw in paddy fields is the common practice, which could result ...

The present studies examine the performance of cementitious capillary crystalline waterproofing coating(CCCW) with Saltwater. As Sri Lanka is a developing country, many underground constructions are being built in ...

Biomass torrefaction is a thermochemical pretreatment process at a temperature range of 200-3000C in an inert environment. Moisture and hemicellulose are released during the process resulting in an energy densified ...

Lab-scale packed bed reactive distillation column was utilized to evaluate the performance of reactive distillation for the reaction between isopropyl alcohol and acetic acid. Two different packing materials and different ...

The adsorbent fly ash-clay composite was tested for the treatment of automobile service station wastewater. Batch experiments were conducted to establish the adsorption column parameters which were optimum fly ash to ...

Textile dyes in wastewater can be removed by several methods including adsorption. In this study, batch experiments were conducted to determine the possibility of the removal of Basic Red 18 (BR18) textile dye from ...

Mineral carbonation of CO2 using coal fly ash (CFA) is identified as a promising way of mitigating carbon emissions safely and permanently with a low material cost. However, the available literature has been limited ...

Antioxidant capacity (AC) and total phenolic content (TPC) are two major areas of studies on noni juice due to their correlation with therapeutic value. In this study, the variation of antioxidant capacity using DPPH ...

Microbial fuel cells (MFC) have been gained a considerable attention during past few decades due to its ability to treat wastewater effluents while generating bioelectricity. In this study anode to cathode area ratio was ...

Anaerobic digestion is a key area in wastewater treatment. Especially in treating high concentration wastewater such as dairy wastewater. It is crucial because dairy waste water can change in COD and BOD values drastically. ...