Biochar and its twin benefits: Crop residue management and climate change mitigation in India

A Anand, V Kumar, P Kaushal - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Crop residue management remains a major problem in the Indian agriculture sector. The in-
situ firing of crop residues has been linked to air pollution, global warming, soil fertility …

Management of crop residues with special reference to the on-farm utilization methods: A review

R Shinde, DK Shahi, P Mahapatra, CS Singh… - Industrial Crops and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Crop residues (CRs) are defined as the plant parts left in the field after harvesting the
economic part of the agricultural crops. Every year a huge quantity, more than 5 billion mega …

Enhancing methane production in anaerobic digestion through hydrogen assisted pathways–A state-of-the-art review

TC D'Silva, A Isha, R Chandra, VK Vijay… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion has been widely accepted for energy and resource recovery from
biomass residues. However, the produced biogas from the process mainly composed of …

Suitability of rice straw for biochar production through slow pyrolysis: Product characterization and thermodynamic analysis

AK Sakhiya, A Anand, I Aier, VK Vijay… - Bioresource Technology …, 2021 - Elsevier
The main objective of the present study is to turn the wheel from waste to wealth by
sustainable rice straw management practices over field burning in India. For that, slow …

Biochar production from crop residues, its characterization and utilization for electricity generation in India

A Anand, S Pathak, V Kumar, P Kaushal - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Post COP-15, the push is to reduce coal dependence for electricity generation and GHG
emissions from the national electrical grid. Phasing out coal-based thermal power plants …

Optimum features of wood-based biochars: A characterization study

N Boraah, S Chakma, P Kaushal - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Research on biochar is in current trend due to its vast applicability in various fields and has
garnered everyone's attention due to its unique physicochemical properties and surface …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal decomposition of rice straw from rice basin of India to improve energy-pollution nexus: Kinetic modeling and thermodynamic analysis

AK Sakhiya, A Anand, VK Vijay, P Kaushal - Energy Nexus, 2021 - Elsevier
Sustainable rice straw management in Northern India is a significant issue for farmers.
Pyrolysis is one of the suitable options to create value addition and contributes to the circular …

A review on recent eco-friendly strategies to utilize rice straw in construction industry: pathways from bane to boon

A Rajput, S Gupta, A Bansal - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
With the growing demand, a large amount of paddy has been harvested by growers leaving
behind the stubble (left over rice straw), which is being a big burden on the farmers for its …

Sustainable utilization of bamboo through air-steam gasification in downdraft gasifier: Experimental and simulation approach

U Kakati, AK Sakhiya, P Baghel, A Trada, S Mahapatra… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This study presents a detailed analysis to utilize bamboo which is a widely available
feedstock in North-Eastern states of India, via air-steam gasification with an estimated …

Rapid synthesis of carbon nanotubes from Prosopis Juliflora biochar using microwave irradiation

P Baghel, P Kaushal - Materials Science and Engineering: B, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Biochar, prepared from Prosopis Juliflora (PJ) through slow pyrolysis, was used as
biological precursor material for Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) synthesis. Microwave assisted …