Cashew nut shells as liquid biofuel
By CSHINE
@SHAMRACK (8576)
India
September 17, 2020 1:25am CST
Recently I attended a seminar on cashew by products. In this something I really got interesting is that about the Cashew nut shells that are biomass wastes that can provide energy through different ways. They can either be submitted directly to any thermo chemical conversion process to generate energy or used to generate a bio crude, known as cashew nut shell liquid and a solid cake.Cashew nut shell liquid is found as an important and powerful bio-oil whose calorific value is comparable to that of petroleum oils.
May be in future this bio fuel could be seen as an alternative
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@oahuwriter (26780)
• United States
17 Sep 20
Sounds good! Natural fuel wave if the future.
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@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
20 Sep 20
@oahuwriter many thrown away are most ways can be turned to useful products
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@psanasangma (5884)
• India
17 Sep 20
In Meghalaya, Western part of Garo Hills, is suitable to grow cashew plantation and profitable however in the Northern and Eastern part of Garo Hills Meghalaya, Cashew nut is not suitable because of soil difference. So,many of farmers focus on Rubber plantation, Orange and Bettelnut and leaves plantation.
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@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
20 Sep 20
@psanasangma Meghlaya I had heard is a very beautiful place.... how is the soil and climatic conditions there.....
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@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
17 Sep 20
For extracting Cashew nut Shell liquid processing units or factories are much needed. May be it is comething that could take much of by products from cashew. I feel every place climatic and other conditions give favourable to certain crops and fruits that are suitable to that specific conditions.
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@psanasangma (5884)
• India
17 Sep 20
@SHAMRACK you are correct.. no matter how much you it never grows well when climatic condition and soil is not suitable
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@amitkokiladitya (171936)
• Agra, India
17 Sep 20
That is really a good thing and a way of preserving our natural resources
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@amitkokiladitya (171936)
• Agra, India
17 Sep 20
@SHAMRACK but humans are making the resources deplete because of their careless usage
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@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
17 Sep 20
@amitkokiladitya may be humans don't learn from the lessons that nature give us... those cylones, eathquates, floods, etc... still humans go on expoliting/ hurting nature... still nature goes on giving its resources... but there is a limit for everything beyong that it could be unpredictable
@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
17 Sep 20
A raw Cashew nut shell may contain over 20% shell oil.By using expellers for extraction, it is possible to extract a further quantity of about 10% more from the shells. Thus,it could be assumed that from 1 tonne of shells upto 100 liters of good quality of cashew nut shell oil could be extracted by using oil expellers.
@Lavanya15 (12888)
• Chennai, India
17 Sep 20
Yes my friend, due to this we safe our nature lol.
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