August 2011

Heavy oil spill cleanup using law grade raw cotton fibers: Trial for practical application

  Crude oil released to the marine environment through accidental spillage or drainage from land causes serious damage to the environment and marine life. Treatment of oil spills remains a challenge to environmental scientists and technologists. Sorption is a popular technique applied for treatment of oil spillage. In this paper, the potential of raw law value cotton fibers, to remove used oil was investigated...

Author(s): Hussein, M., Amer, A. A. and Sawsan, I. I.

August 2011

Agricultural waste plastics conversion into high energy liquid hydrocarbon fuel by thermal degradation process

  For worldwide cultivation purposes farmers use numerous plastics. To cultivate watermelon, grapes, pumpkin, cucumber, potatoes, etc. they use polyethylene poly bags or polyethylene sheets. Polyethylene poly bags parts and polyethylene sheets are used to protect Crops from adverse situation such as natural disaster, muddy water and some external parasites insects. After that, the used plastics become...

Author(s):   Moinuddin Sarker, Mohammad Mamunor Rashid and Md Sadikur Rahman