A biomass power plant using rice husk and woodchips as fuel was inaugurated on April 25 in Thuan An ward, Long My township, the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang. The project was developed by Hau ...

A Malaysian scientist says she has discovered a cheap way to turn discarded rice husks into a high-tech material that could reduce electricity bills, protect buildings from bomb blasts, and make ...

Thanjavur: The state govt is mulling a project to extract high-value silica from rice husk, a byproduct of rice milling.This was stated by agriculture and farmers' welfare minister M R K ...

Chandigarh: Punjab rice millers are confronting a new challenge this season owing to plummeting rice husk prices. As paddy straw is increasingly utilised as fuel for biogas plants and industrial ...

Rice Husk Ash: A Potential Game-Changer. Researchers have identified rice husk ash (RHA) as a potential substitute for a portion of the cement in concrete. Rich in silica, RHA exhibits chemical ...

Rice husk ash (RHA), which is rich in silica, has favourable chemistry as supplementary cement-like material for use in concrete. The use of RHA in concrete results in its chemical reaction with ...

Tons of rice are grown every year—670 million metric tons to be more exact. Nearly a quarter of that figure, by weight, is the rice husk, or the hard “shell” covering the part we eat—and ...

Rice husk, the hard-protective layer that envelopes the inner grain of rice, constitutes approximately 20%–25% of the entire rice structure and produces a considerable amount of by-products. In ...

The innovations include a rice husk-based granular activated carbon (Granular Activated Carbon) for point-of-use water treatment system and a zeolite-based nanocomposite filters for drinking water.

The first mix was made from 14% newspaper, 9% rice husk, 15% borax, and 62% glue. In the other two compositions, the amount of rice husk was increased, while the amount of newspaper was decreased.

Although various uses for post-harvest rice husk waste are being explored, the stuff is still usually incinerated, dumped in landfills, or composted. Soon, however, rice husks may be combined with ...

A Gujarat-based start-up Brisil Technologies Pvt Ltd has found a solution to the problem of rice husk ash by producing silica and other products from it. A Gujarat-based start-up Brisil ...