Browsing School of Materials Engineering (FYP) by Subject "Agricultural waste"
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Agricultural residues as Precursors for activated carbon production (coconut waste)
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisSchool of Materials Engineering, 2008-05)Coconut meal and coconut shell were characterized to know the suitability to become the activated carbon precursors. Besides the low cost and decrease the market waste, this attempt was made to produce an alternative ... -
Agricultural residues as Precursors for activated carbon production (rice husk)
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisSchool of Materials Engineering, 2008-04)Rice husk because of low cost raw material and it activated form can be used as carbon precursor as a solution to reduce the agricultural waste. An effort was made to produce an activated carbon precursor from the rice ... -
Mango seed peel for zinc removal
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-05)Zinc is a major element, which is discharged from many industries to the environment. A mango seed peel is the major waste produced from agricultural and processing industries. The purpose of this study is to investigate ... -
Preparation of high purity SiO2 from Rice Husk
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisSchool of Materials Engineering, 2008-04)A high purity silicon dioxide (97.08%) was obtained by atmosphere thermal decomposition of the acetic acid leached rice husk at 800°C for 15 minutes. Leaching process parameters such as pH of the acid solution, leaching ... -
Silica extraction from agricultural waste as corrosion inhibitor
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2016-06)Rice husk and rice straw are found abundant as by-product of the the rice milling industry. Both of the agricultural wastes have a great potential to be used as raw material in industry. Rice husk and rice straw normally ...