Energy
- Future Prospects of BIOMASS FOR ENERGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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Future Prospects of BIOMASS FOR ENERGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Ashwini Kumar Energy Plantation Demonstration Project Centre Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur- 302 004. India Phone: 0091-141-654100 Fax: 0091-141-565905 Email: msku4@hotm ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 28 2009 - 10:53am
- Jatropha Curcas: High Yielding Accessions And Improvement
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Jatropha curcas has now being extensively grown in India under the Department of Biotechnology supported micro mission projects with an object to identify, characterize and multiply high yielding strains and study their growth and productivity under differ ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 29 2009 - 10:49am
- PRODUCTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF HYDROCARBONS IN LATICIFER PLANTS
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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 1 2009 - 2:58am
- Productivity Of Calotropis Procera And Its Use In Renewable Energy
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India has over 180 million of wasteland out of which 90 million ha is uncultivable. The degraded and denuded lands arise due to soil erosions as well as secondary salinizations. However Calotropis procera is a potential plant for bioenergy and biofuel prod ...
Article - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 2 2009 - 1:57pm
- Some Potential Biofuel Plants For Semi-Arid And Arid Regions
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Concern over the growing levels of greenhouse gases and climate change has been building up for the last decade. Any measure or project reducing the release of greenhouse gases would get a “credit”, regardless of the location of such measure or project sin ...
Article - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 2 2009 - 1:54pm
- Food vs. fuel and climate change
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Food vs. fuel But critics of biofuels are as vocal as their advocates. One concern is that, globally, there will be a trade-off between using land to grow food and using it to grow fuel. "If biofuels take off, they will cause a global humanitarian dis ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 2 2009 - 6:00pm
- Biotechnological Approaches To Conservation And Improvement Of Biodiversity In Rajasthan
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Arid and semi-arid regions: Arid and semi arid lands occupy one third of the earth's surface. Indian arid zone occupies an area of about 0.3 million sq. km. 90 percent of which about 2,70,000 sq. km.) is confined to north west Indian covering most of ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 2 2009 - 10:28pm
- BIO-ENERGY POTENTIAL OF SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF RAJASTHAN
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BIO-ENERGY POTENTIAL OF SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF RAJASTHAN Ashwani Kumar and Vijay Rani Kumar Energy Plantation Demonstration Project Centre Department of Biotechnology Project Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan Jaipur- 302 004 India Fax: 0091-141-5 ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 2 2009 - 9:26pm
- Jatropha curcas and EU
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1. The Jatropha plant; 2. The Jatropha activities (1987 – 2007) of Mr. Henning; 3. High yielding plants; 4. Ecology Aspects; 5. Economic Aspects; The objective of the presentation of Mr. Henning, besides introducing the plant and worldwide Jatropha activi ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 5 2009 - 8:12am
- Discussion on R&D needs in Jatropha and need or possibility for an EU role.
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Discussion on R&D needs in Jatropha and need or possibility for an EU role. First Hans-Joerg.Lutzeyer lined out the reasons why the EU might be interested to link or to support R&D activities in Jatropha. Next, a round was made in which participant ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 5 2009 - 8:17am
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