Chemical process route selection is one of the main design decisions that needs to be taken during the preliminary stages of chemical plant design and development. A chemical process route is considered as the raw materials ...

In Sri Lanka the Dye sludge production from textile industry is large. The large amount of produced dye sludge needs to be properly managed otherwise it will cause lot of environmental problems. Currently textile industries ...

Isobutylene ~Isoprene Rubber ( IIR) which is also known as Butyl Rubber is widely used in tire inner tubes & curing membranes due to its unique properties: impermeability to gas & stability at elevated temperatures ...

The present research was pursued to develop breathable plastic packaging suited for desired level of moisture permeable application. The monolayer plastic films differed by resin composition were extruded by blown film ...

The energy utilization and the time required to dry RSS using conventional type smoke house are significantly high. Also the conventional type smoking-room used for producing RSS gives large differences oftemperature and ...

This study was carried out to investigate a promising application area of coconut water that is discharged in desiccated coconut industry as a waste. Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a highly hydrated, pure, extra-cellular ...

Bacterial cellulose (BC), an exo-polysaccharide produced by Acetobacter xylinum, shows numerous properties such as purity, nano size, higher mechanical strength, absorbancy, crystallinity and mouldability than plant ...

Anaerobic digestion is commonly used for waste water treatment. Technologies have been introduced and new technologies are being developed to generate biogas by anaerobic digestion oforganic waste,as an integrated solution ...

Anaerobic co-digestion, ACD, is regarded as a key environmental technology in industrial, agricultural and domestic sectors for integrated solid and liquid waste treatment and renewable energy production. The main objective ...

Parboiling is a widely used paddy processing method where paddy is soaked in water to hydrate before the subsequent steaming, drying and milling operations. A significant amount of water is used in this soaking operation ...