In the last two decades, considerable attention has been paid for the value addition of excess glycerol (~10 wt.%), a co-product of transesterification process, for the economic feasibility of biodiesel industry. In the ...

The growing concern on green technology to protect the environment has encouraged the use of alternative ecofriendly formulations for nano-emulsion fuels. Nowadays, diesel engine is the most powerful and widely used internal ...

Some natural seeds contain valuable chemical components, which are used for medicinal purposes to cure various chronic diseases. However, extracting these chemicals in pure natural form is a challenge. This problem can ...

Nitrogenous aromatic compounds such as Congo red, quinoline, aniline, etc. bearing wastewaters have attracted the attention of the scientific communities because of their potential ecotoxicological risks. Due to low ...

Organics present in water reduces dissolved oxygen and creates problem to the aquatic animals and plants for their survival, some toxic organics like phenols etc., are also carcinogenic in nature. Organics mostly enter ...

A bluff body is characterized by an early boundary layer separation from its surface along with the formation of wakes at its rear. Also, the pressure drag for the bluff bodies is much higher than the viscous/friction drag. ...

Over the years, great extent of research efforts are devoted towards the investigation of hydrodynamic characteristics of thermally driven flows and transport processes, due to their fundamental and pragmatic significance. ...

Petroleum industries transform crude oil into useful products such as kerosene, gasoline, and other petrochemical feedstocks. This process consumes large amount of water, consequently significant amount of wastewater ...

Lignocellulosic biomass-derived fast pyrolysis oil (FPO) has found applications within the petroleum refinery in recent years. This thesis investigates the possibility of upgrading FPO along with petroleum-derived fraction, ...

With the increase in industrialization worldwide, industries such as electroplating, leather tanning, textile, paints and pigments discharge toxic effluent, which contains Cr(VI) and organic matter like phenol (Gupta et ...