The paper and board industry strives to become more environmentally friendly by utilizing new eco-friendly raw materials that can improve production processes at the same time. One solution for the board producing paper product segment is the utilization of nano fibrillated fiber...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2025/v26i31321
Klaus Dölle, Lauren Purvis, Mingyu Cai, Chengyu Jin & Puxi Qiu·Advances in Research·2025
The review paper gives a brief overview of the historical use of carbon materials like graphite and charcoal and graphene and its production. It reviews the application of graphene for industrial application such as energy storage, electronics, biomedical, and environmental field...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2025/v26i11255
This review paper gives an overview Hemp known as Cannabis Sativa, which has been cultivated and used as an agricultural crop centuries before the Common Area. Hemp has been described as the billion-dollar plant in 1938 but has lost its value in the U.S. and the World due to regu...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2024/v25i21037
Process steps of flocculation, filtration and centrifugation are investigated to better utilizing existing storage capacity of agriculturally based effluents and at the same time minimize the environmental impact of agricultural operations. As flocculant Ca(OH)2 as a 20% solution...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2023/v23i3470
Growing population and industrial complexes require municipalities to initiate costly upgrades of their wastewater treatment facilities in order to protect the environment and nearby water bodies. This research project explores if a process combination of centrifugation, floccula...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2023/v17i9525
A laboratory biotower septic tank system was designed, installed, started up with unfiltered wastewater during a 9-day start-up phase, and operated at a hydraulic retention time of 5-, 15-, and 20 days with filtered waste water and 5-, 10-, and 15 days for liquid cow manure. The...
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Research Article10.9734/ajarr/2022/v16i930494
This review paper gives an overview of Cannabis Sativa, also known as hemp, which has been cultivated and used century's B.C. due to its medical, hallucinogenic and agricultural properties. Cannabis has been described in 1938 as the billion-dollar plant but has lost its value in...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2019/v20i330161
Aims: The aim of the study was to investigate if spruce wood flour can be an alternative cellulosic-based wood additive for papermaking. Place and Duration of the Study: This study was conducted at the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry in...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2019/v6i118989
This laboratory handsheet and Fourdrinier pilot paper machine study examine the suitability of willow as a commercial hardwood pulp replacement including utilizing recycled pulp for paper production. The hand sheet study contains 16 different and the pilot paper machine study eig...
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Research Article10.9734/ajocs/2018/v5i218980
A multi-functional bleaching equipment for laboratory use was developed. The setup allowed the bleaching of four pulp samples at the same time. The bleaching setup works for traditional oxygen and ozone bleaching, using caustic soda and calcium hydroxides as bleaching additive. T...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOCS/2018/40620
Algae species Cladophora glomerata and Vaucheria are growing in a trickling filter in the secondary treatment process at a Waste Water Treatment Facility. This study investigates the role of the algae and its potential application a as biomass feed source for renewable energy pro...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2015/19185
The aim of this work was to study the diesel fuel savings in dual fueling a small diesel powered genset with a small Imbert style downdraft gasifier fueled with hardwood wood chips. Eight different runs were conducted, five with the engine fueled with diesel alone to characterize...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2018/39431
Syngas is a comparatively low energy fuel gas that can be utilized in spark ignition and compression ignition (diesel) internal combustion engines manufactured to run on gasoline or diesel fuels to reduce or eliminate the petroleum fuel requirement for the engine. Syngas can be p...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/32896