Centrifugation is an efficient, economical and environmentally friendly method to remove undesirable water content from oil and water mixtures and separate out the desired oil content. Moreover, the disc stack centrifuges ...

The process ofmanual saw dust briquette making was tested with different binding agents in the laboratory with 1.5 ton hydraulic jack. Dry cow dung, wheat flour and paper pulp were selected as binding agents. This briquette ...

Studies on Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) as Power production units are of increasing interest, because it can convert a variety of bio-degradable organic compounds into electricity. In a MFC; biological, chemical and ...

Traditional fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil are still major candidates to fulfill the energy requirement but their depletion at sharp rate due to increase in demand is at alarming condition. High prices and environmental ...

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 ...

There is an increasing demand for biodiesel, because of its environmental friendly nature and especially due to the depletion of petroleum reserves. Currently, most of the biodiesel is produced from edible oils under base ...

The utilization of fossil fuels has enabled large-scale industrial development and largely supplanted water-driven mills, as well as the combustion of wood or peat for heat. The burning of fossil fuels by humans is the ...

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 ...

Bhasmas (ashes) are complex compound forms of metals, minerals or gemstones obtained after a series of ayurvedic pharmaceutical preparation processes; purification (shodhana), trituration (bhavana) and incineration (marana) ...

Different sizes of biogas systems were analysed using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in order to find the effectiveness of biogas system as a renewable energy source for domestic use. As a pre requisite for the LCA, sample ...