Research was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of producing methane gas from combined segregated municipal and agricultural waste. The combination of the two wastes resulted in sufficient nutrient value and bacterial diversity to improve the biodegradability of cellulose and increase the efficiency of gas production from the combined wastes. The feedstock included municipal solid waste with...

*Correspondence: Gulnihal Ozbay, The Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Related Sciences, Delaware State University, 1200 North DuPont Highway, Dover, DE, USA e-mail: [email protected] The world’s population continues to increase at record rates along with corresponding nutritional needs and related agricultural consequences. In the United States, food was...

The consumption of petroleum products has been significantly increasing year by year. Petroleum offers a tremendous convenience for our life, and our daily life would be quite different without it. However, the depletion of petroleum is creeping under our foot. Lignocellulosic biomass has unlimited potential because it is possible to substitute for petroleum as energy and chemical sources. Rece...

Lignocellulosic biomass, which contains cellulose (40-50%), hemicellulose (25-50%) and lignin (10-40%), is the most abundantly available raw material on Earth [1]. Broadly, it is classified into three categories: virgin biomass, waste biomass and energy crops. Owing to the rapid growth of global population and corresponding agricultural activities, the amount of lignocellulosic waste biomass is...

Composting is a natural biological process which results in the degradation of organic waste to a stable end product, commonly referred to as compost, which can be utilized for various agricultural purposes. Increasing landfill costs and regulations which limit many types of waste accepted at landfills has increased interest in composting as a component of waste management (Goldstein and Spence...

the silica gel waste (sgw), after its collection from a local factory (kolkata, india) was modified with cationic surfactant and was utilized as an adsorbing media for the removal of 2,4- dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-d) from agricultural runoff of a tea garden. characterization of base adsorbent and modified adsorbent was carried out. the efficacy of the adsorbent was evaluated through both ...

The authors wish to thank the following faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) for their time and valuable contributions in reviewing the manuscript for this publication: Dr. Eldridge Collins, Agricultural Waste Specialist, Department of Biological Systems Engineering; Dr. Darrell Bosch, Assoc. Professor, Department of Agricultural and A...

one of the major obstacles of bt production as a biopesticide is its expensive bioprocess and fermentation. therefore, the objective of the present study was to optimize growth condition and develop a low-cost bioprocess for mass production of a native coleopteran-effective bacillus thuringiensis (bt) strain (kh4) based on agricultural wastes, at incubator and batch fermenter level. preliminary...

Marine biomass including fishery products are precious protein resources for human foods and are an alternative to livestock animals in order to reduce the virtual water problem. However, a large amount of marine waste can be generated from fishery products and it is not currently recycled. We evaluated the metabolism of digested marine waste using integrated analytical methods, under anaerobic...