Many of the industries use nylons mainly for engineering applications for several reasons. Basically nylon provide a combination of toughness, rigidity and lubrication free performance of products, which leads to mechanical ...

Rice is the staple diet of Sri Lankans and mainly consumed as steamed rice. In addition to this pre gelatinized milled rice flour is used by some food industries, for the production of rice noodles, instant hoppers and ...

Composting of the organic Municipal Waste (MW) is one of the sustainable answers for the management of MW. The bulky nature of the loose compost is one of the main drawbacks in promoting the use of compost in agriculture ...

This study focuses sugar factory evaporators in Sri Lanka. Multiple effect evaporators are employed in concentrating the clarified cane juice in sugar factories in Sri Lanka. Scale formation on heat transfer surfaces in ...

Chitin and chitosan are renewable natural biopolymers having extensive applications in food and many other industries due to their low toxicity, biocompatibility, biodegradability, etc. The main industrial raw material for ...

Drying process has been identified as one of the most important preprocessing techniques in cinnamon oil production industry. Drying at closed and controlled environment was selected as a solution to mitigate the drawbacks ...

Copra is one of the major traditional products processed from coconuts and is used primarily as a source of coconut oil. It is the kernel of coconut after reducing the moisture content from 50% (wet basis) to 6% (wet basis) ...

Contamination of water streams due to discharge of dye containing wastewater is a worldwide problem. Adsorption is an effective and efficient method for removing dye stuff from waste water. However high cost of commercial ...

This research is based on synthesizing an air drying long oil alkyd resin using a blend of semi drying soya bean (Glycine max -Pb I) oil and fast drying karawila (Momodica charantia -MC43) seed oil. The alkyd resin was ...

Synthetic resins are used as binders in protective coatings. An alkyd/melamine resin mixture is the usual composition for the preparation of coating called Baking enamel or Stoving enamel cured through functional groups ...