Textile and apparel industry produces huge quantities of wastewater with unfixed dyes, which generate colour and toxicity in discharged water, creating environmental pollution. Physical and chemical effluent decolourization ...
Microalgal lipids have become a potential candidate for biofuel production in recent years. High lipid accumulation and shorter doubling time enabling higher growth rate are foremost factors in microalgae to compete with ...
The marine microalga Tisochrysis lutea is renowned for its ability to synthesize fucoxanthin and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which are nutritionally valuable high- value compounds. Although numerous studies in literature ...
Natural rubber latex (NRL) is the primary resource in developing thin film products including NRL gloves. These comprehensive applications of NRL are lead to the widespread formation of discarded solid material. Majority ...
About 75% of Municipal solid waste (MSW) collected around the country is organic biomass which mainly includes food waste, wood, paper, saw dust and paddy husk. Urban councils in Colombo city and nearby suburbs collect ...
Improving properties of cement-based skim coat through controlling water absorption using a Vinyl Acetate-Ethylene copolymer
This study aims to describe and complement the existing knowledge on the effect of re-dispersible ...
The purpose of this research is to study the effect of modification of incorporation sequence of accelerator and activators on cure characteristics, physical properties, mechanical properties and dynamic properties of solid ...
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The Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) can be identified as a large group of organic
compounds. These organic compounds have two or more fused aromatic rings that contain only
carbon and hydrogen atoms. These PAHs ...
Two types of latex are used in disposable gloves manufacturing as natural latex and synthetic latex. Calcium nitrate (calcium ion) is used as the coagulant and calcium carbonate or calcium stearate is used as the former ...
Biomass combustion is used as basic technology to generate heat by humans for millennia. With the incremental needs of modern man, biomass combustion still plays a major role in heat and power generation. In Sri Lankan ...
Industrial glove industry is a glooming industry which focuses performance enhancement with lowest possible cost. Abrasion resistance is one of the main performance indicators of an industrial glove. Abrasion resistance ...
The aim of this research is to model the moving grate combustion process by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method by OpenFOAM software. Kinetic data for heterogeneous reactions, specific to local fuel types is essential. ...
Solid tire industry is a rapidly growing industry all over the world with a very high demand for different kinds of material handling equipment manufacturing companies. In this case, resilient tires are playing a major ...
Cure characteristics of solid tyre middle compounds are critical as it combines the heel and the tread compounds. Also middle compound is subjected to have high heat build-up due to continuous deflection. In this study ...
In this study, as the first step, the effect of partial replacement of CaCO3 with unmodified fly ash on the curing characteristics of the solid tire middle compound and the properties of its vulcanizate was investigated. ...
The performance and the life-time of a solid tyre depend on the properties of the solid tyre tread compound. Abrasion resistance and rebound resilience are the key parameters of the solid tyre tread compound. Carbon black ...
Water is the most vital natural resource that sustains all living organisms on the earth and access to safe and clean water has become a crisis due to intense water pollution by anthropogenic activities, over-pumping of ...
Rice husk is particularly known as one of the most common agricultural waste and the usage of rice husk in energy applications is typically via the combustion process. Using agricultural waste for combustion application ...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) as the most vital greenhouse gas in the earth’s atmosphere plays a major role in maintaining the global temperature. Higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere, increases amounts of heat entrapped ...