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Microbes and Sustainable Agriculture covers recent spate of research, highlighting the major role of microbes in agriculture sustainability. It explains the role of bacteria, cyanobacteria and fungi in diverse facets of agriculture to preserve the sustainability including arbuscular mycorrhizal association, microbial biopesticides, heavy metal resistant bacterial strains, herbicides for weed management, biochar and its role in soil fertility management and plant ...
Environmental Microbiology highlights the interrelatedness of microbes with life and the environment. It explores the beneficial impact that microbes have on agriculture and food processing, as well as the environment. Further, it goes on to discuss some of the negative impacts that microbes have on our world, such as their role in causing diseases. With its focus and coverage, this text is an essential reading for undergraduate, postgraduate and research ...
The volume spread into three parts in 13 chapters deals with the present status of wastelands, and technology adopted for its developments. It explicitly defines the wastelands, their nature, extent and also gives reasons for their formation. The nine land use categories viz. forests, area under non-agricultural uses, barren and unculturable lands, permanent pasture and other grazing lands, lands under miscellaneous tree crops and grooves, culturable wastelands, ...
This book covers the fundamentals and concepts of the below mentioned topics in full detail, along with fine graded short numerical problems, multiple choice questions. Also previous years questions of GATE examinations are given with their solutions/ answers. This book will be boon for each and every student of Chemical Engineering of all Technical Universities doing their undergraduation in Chemical Engineering Technology and will further help them in any type ...
This is a comprehensive both with definitions of terms used in Chemical of Engineering for quick reference and over 3000 objective type multichoice questions which have been methodically selected and presented starting from basic fundamentals to the current tipics. For all types of competitive examinations, this book will be primarily helpful for fresh graduates of Chemical Engineering and Technology who have to prepare for various competitive examinations.
Petroleum Refining Technology provides a sound and comprehensive introduction to the various aspects of the petroleum refining industry, such as transportation of waxy crude oils, chemistry of crude oil, petroleum products, refining processes, corrosion and pollution problems, and design of petroleum processing equipments. This book will be valuable to under-graduate as well as post-graduate chemical engineering students. This book will also be a useful reference ...