Essential oils are used in a wide variety of consumer goods such as detergents, soaps, toilet products, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, perfumes, confectionery food products, soft drinks, distilled alcoholic beverages (hard drinks) and insecticides. The world production and consumption of essential oils and perfumes are increasing very fast. Production technology is an essential element to improve ...

Describes field experiments to determine the effects of previous organic waste composts, using different types and application rates, on sunflower yield. Oil, carbohydrates and metal content were evaluated. Experiments were conducted in the Nuclear Research Centre Farm, in sandy, infertile soil. Results show a remarkable increase in dry matter and seed yields, due to previous single compost add...

Increased nutrient concentrations have been linked to water quality impairments across the world. In Lake Victoria, second largest freshwater lake in world, decades of eutrophication challenged management and led conditions with compromising levels cyanobacteria cyanotoxins. Our study focuses on Winam Gulf, where a resurgence hyacinth has renewed challenges navigation anoxia, but also may prese...

Water resources are increasingly getting contaminated day by day due to the ignorance lent to the wastewater management.Most of the textile dyes or effluents are a major reason for the pollution of water resources.Although many methods are adopted to treat these textile effluents,but there is a dire need to come up with an eco-friendly,cost effective method for the removal of contaminants from ...

Two wet biomass gasification processes, supercritical water gasification and biomethanation, were evaluated from energy, environmental, and economic aspects. Gasification of 1 dry-t/d of water hyacinth was taken as a model case. Assumptions were made that system should be energetically independent, that no environmentally harmful material should be released, and that carbon dioxide should be re...

Black Soldier Fly (BSF) larvae have cellulosic activity in the presence of bacteria their intestines. Generally, organisms that play a role bioconversion process are bacteria, and Hermetia illucens as agent for fermented water hyacinth combined with fruit waste used growth medium. The purpose this study was to determine increase larva mass weight, feed conversion efficiency, reduction index fro...

Water hyacinth as a weed plant is type of biomass with fast growth rate. This condition causes problems in the environment and has negative impact on life, including health economic problems. To provide added value to utilization water hyacinth, synthesis characterization porous carbon from been carried out which used sulfur cathode matrix lithium batteries. From results N 2 adsorption-desorpti...