This paper presents simultaneous integration of different technologies such as the traditional dry-grind process to obtain ethanol from grain with the gasification of the corn stover followed by either syngas fermentation or catalytic mixed alcohols synthesis. The best integrated process when using the entire corn plant (18 kg/s of grain and 10.8 kg/s of stover) is the one in which the dry-grin...

Newer herbicides are required to reduce the losses cause by weeds in maize crop. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted during kharif 2019 at Research Farm, AICRP on Forage Crops, Department of Agronomy, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) study effect different weed management practices productivity Maize (Zea mays L.). The randomized block design with eigh...

Steam explosion pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass presents a promising technology for agricultural residues before anaerobic degradation. This study aimed to assess biogas production in continuously stirred tank reactors using steam-exploded maize stover mono-digestion. The continuous digestion tests were carried out four fermenters with capacity 150 L under mesophilic and thermophilic co...

Background: Maize popularly known as “Queen of cereals”. Weeds resulted in the highest crop loss (33%), followed by pathogens (26%), insects (20%), storage pests (7%), rodents (6%) and others (8%) India. Application herbicides will affect various soil microbial processes enzymatic activities soil, whose activity is very important for maintaining fertility. Methods: The present field experiment ...

With a high potential to generate biomass, maize stover arises as an outstanding feedstock for biofuel production. Maize presents the added advantage of being multiple exploitation crop source food, feed, and energy. In this study, contrasting groups recombinant inbred lines (RILs) from multiparent advanced generation intercross (MAGIC) population that showed variability saccharification effici...

Spring harvested corn stover was used for direct combustion in a 146 kW dual chamber boiler designed for wood logs. Stover had a very low moisture content (6.83 ± 0.17%), a gross calorific value (GCV) of 18.57 MJ/kg of dry matter (±0.32 MJ/kg DM) and an ash content of 5.88% (±1.15%). Small stover bales (8.83 ± 0.90 kg) were placed manually in the upper combustion chamber at a rate of 10.5 to 12...

In Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, at the Crop Research Farm of Naini Agriculture Institute Sam Higginbottom University Agriculture, Technology, and Sciences, Department Agronomy, during Kharif season 2022, field experiment titled "Response zinc nano urea on growth yield maize (Zea mays L.)" was carried out. The results showed that application Zinc 30 kg/ha + Nano 4 ml/l considerably increased parame...

Cellulose is an attractive candidate as a feedstock for sustainable bioenergy because of its global abundance. Pretreatment of biomass has significant influence on the chemical availability of cellulose locked in recalcitrant microfibrils. Optimizing pretreatment depends on an understanding of its impact on the microscale and nanoscale molecular architecture. X-ray scattering experiments have b...

The field study was carried out at the Department of Agronomy, Eastern Block Farm in Tamil Nadu Agriculture University Coimbatore, to effect Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs) on yield attributes and hybrid maize. Total fourteen treatment were followed which twelve treatments ZnONPs 50,100,200 300 ppm administered two stages viz., knee height stage (30-35 DAS) tasseling (46-56 one foliar spray 0...

Two feeding trials were conducted to study the combined effects of (i) varying degrees of selective consumption and (ii) supplementation with cowpea (Trail 1) or groundnut haulms (Trial 2), on intake of organic matter (IOM) from sorghum stover, and total intake of digestible organic matter (IDOM). In both trials, 36 rams were allocated to 36 different treatments: six levels of feeding sorghum s...