Characterization of pressmud: A sugar industry waste

Fuel

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 389-394

  Gupta, Neha ^a   Tripathi, Sumit ^a   Balomajumder, Chandrajit ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Energy; Pressmud; SEM analysis; Sugar industry waste; Thermo gravimetric analysis

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATE FUELS; BIOLOGICAL DEGRADATION; ENERGY; ENERGY GENERATIONS; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; ORGANIC WASTES; PRESSMUD; PROXIMATE ANALYSIS; SEM ANALYSIS; SUGAR MILLS;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BYPRODUCTS; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONVERSION; FIELD EMISSION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; METHANE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEWAGE; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGAR FACTORIES; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

SUGAR INDUSTRY;

EID: 78449294633     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2010.08.021     Document Type: Article

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