Energy
Biomass currently supplies about a third of the developing countries’ energy varying from about 90% in countries like Uganda, Rawanda and Tanzania, to 45 percent in India, 30 percent in China and Brazil and 10-15 percent in Mexico and South Africa. The crucial questions are whether the two billion or more people who are now dependent on biomass for energy will increase. The fact that 90 percent of the worlds population will reside in developing countries by about 2050 probably implies that biomass energy will be with us forever.
Planting of more trees in forest reserves for reducing…
EFFECT OF LOCATION ON THE GROWTH AND HYDROCARBON
YIELD OF CALOTROPIS PROCERA: A CASE STUDY
Ashwani Kumar, V.P.S. Shekhawat, Anupma Singh
Bio-Technology Lab Department of Botany
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur-302 004, India.
Energy Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center
E-mail: msku31@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT: India is divided into several agroclimatic zones which differs in environmental, nutritional and edaphic
conditions affecting plant growth and productivity. The Calotropis procera and Calotropis gigantea prefers their
distribution and growth pattern in India. Detailed…
The Naval Research Laboratory's Ion Tiger has set an unofficial record for flight endurance by a hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle, staying out for 23 hours and 17 minutes. The test flight took place on October 9th through 10th at Aberdeen Proving Ground. The Ion Tiger fuel cell development system team is led by NRL and includes Protonex Technology Corporation, the University of Hawaii, and HyperComp Engineering.
The electric fuel cell propulsion system onboard the Ion Tiger has the low noise and signature of a battery-powered UAV, while taking advantage of hydrogen, a high-…
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The Climate Change Act requires the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) to report annually to the Parliament on emissions reductions relative to the UK’s carbon budgets. The first report of the commttee was published yesterday. "A step change is required in the pace of UK emissions reduction to meet carbon budgets," concluded the CCC and that "in some areas, new policy approaches will be required to deliver the Government’s Low Carbon Transition Plan." It turns out emissions data are not yet available for the initial…
IMPROVING THE BIOFUEL UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY IN THE RURAL VILLAGES BY MODIFYING THE FIRE STOVE 'CHULHA
Anupam Tewari and Ashwani Kumar*
Kautalya Institute of Technology and Education, Sitapura, Jaipur, India.
*Bio-Technology Lab Department of Botany
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur - 302 004, India.
Energy Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center
ABSTRACT : Around 70 percent of the rural population of India relies on burning the bio-fuel in the form of fire
wood, cow dung cakes, saw dust, crop residues, sugarcane remnants, coconut shell in various forms. The
fireplace or the…
STUDIES ON LATICIFER DEVELOPMENT IN CALOTROPIS PROCERA AN IMPORTANT PLANT YIELDING HYDROCARBON AND IMPROVEMENT OF ITS GROWTH POTENTIAL
Ashwini Kumar and Neetu Vijay
Bio-Technology Lab, Department of Botany
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur - 302 004, India.
Energy Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center
E-mail: msku31@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT: The non articulated laticifer cell present in C.procera (Asclepiadaceae) are distributed in cortex,
phloem region, pith and among parenchyma cells present in the stem. The transverse and longitudinal sections
of the plants treated with plant…
JATROPHA CURCAS: A POTENTIAL PLANT FOR BIO-FUEL
Shikha Roy and Ashwini Kumar
Bio-Technology Lab Department of Botany
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur - 302 004
Energy Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center.
Email. msku31@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT: Jatropha curcas L. (Euphorbiaceae) popularly called Ratanjot is a small tree bearing oil-seed grown on
wastelands or hedges in India and tropical America. It is thought to have originated in either Peru (where the only
fossils have been found) or Mexico and has become naturalized throughout semi arid Asia and Africa. The oil can
therefore…
A company called Yellow Diesel B.V. says they have succeeded in producing biodiesel in a continuous fixed-bed micro plant based on heterogeneous catalysis, which provides pure biodiesel plus a cosmetics/food grade glycerol with much lower waste streams.
Their process eliminates all the aqueous waste streams that stem from using the conventional homogeneous acid/base catalyst technology. Combined with integrated process design, they claim the process saves up to 40% of the capital costs and 30% of the operating costs compared to a conventional plant.
Yellow Diesel has produced…
If you were following actual science during the alternative energy debate of the 1990s and early 2000s, you were probably concerned about the irrational zeal of activists and politicians like Al Gore who wanted to embrace anything that meant fewer fossil fuels - specifically, ethanol.
Billions of dollars in subsidies since 2005 and mandates on its usage have shown us that ethanol was wrong all along. And it is apparently only beginning to be realized how wrong.
Even more of the fertilizers and pesticides used to grow corn would find their way into nearby water sources if ethanol demands…
Jatropha curcas grows wild in Udaipur division in Rajasthan. Chattisgarh state and several other nothern states of India Under the micromission programme of Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India under chairmanship of Professor A.K. Sharma and Dr Renu Swarup, Director, and Dr Meenakshi Munshi Senior scientific officer work is being carried out in different states of the country regarding selection of eltie mateiral, its propagation, yield evaluation, genetic characterisation and developing proper agrotechnology.
Under a Department of Biotechnology research project sanctioned to Professor…