Developing efficient and cost effective solar dryer with thermal energy storage system for continuous drying of agricultural food products at steady state and moderate temperature (40-75 °C) has become potentially a viable substitute for fossil fuel in much of the developing world. Solar...

The biomass to liquid refineries need to build on the need for sustainable chemical products through modern and proven green chemical technologies such as bioprocessing including pyrolysis, Fisher Tropsch, and other catalytic processes. This review focuses on cost effective technologies and the...

Jatropha fruit, presently dehulled manually in the absence of a suitable mechanical device. Manual decortications of Jatropha fruit for the purpose of extracting seeds is a time consuming and tedious operation. A small, continuous, hand-operated machine, specially designed and constructed for...

Sustainable economic and industrial growth requires safe, sustainable resources of energy. For the future re-arrangement of a sustainable economy to biological raw materials, completely new approaches in research and development, production, and economy are necessary. The 'first-generation'...

Biodiesel is gaining more and more importance as an attractive fuel due to the depleting fossil fuel resources. Chemically biodiesel is monoalkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from renewable feed stock like vegetable oils and animal fats. It is produced by transesterification in...