The adoption and integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) have become essential for the advancement of many industries, unlocking purposeful connections between objects. However, the surge in IoT adoption and integration has also made it a prime target for malicious attacks. Consequently, ensuring the security of IoT systems and ecosystems has emerged as a crucial research area.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study performed bench scale studies on anaerobic co-digestion of cheese whey and septage mixed with biochar (BC) as additive at various dosages (0.5 g, 1 g, 2 g and 4 g) and total solids (TS) concentrations (5%, 7.5%, 10%,12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA trophic model was constructed for the Poonthura Estuary, a small, anthropogenically impacted estuary along the south-western coast of India. An Ecopath with Ecosim based trophic modelling approach, based on observations made between 2016 and 2020, revealed that the Poonthura Estuary had a low total system throughput (3044.2 t km year), low ascendancy (15%), high Finn's cycling index (17.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFood waste (FW) is one of the major biomasses produced in large quantities in urban areas, which contributes to more than one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. FW must be properly managed to minimize its environmental consequences. Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of FW is a promising technology compared to conventional methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLactose in cheese whey wastewater (CWW) makes it difficult to degrade under normal conditions. The effect of ultra-sonication (US), ozonation and enzymatic hydrolysis on increasing the bioavailability of organic matter in CWW and biogas production were evaluated. The pre-treatment conditions were: specific energy input varied from 2130 to 8773KJ/KgTS for a sonication time of 4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDefining the ecological quality of estuaries is challenging because of the inadequacy of available methods and indices to characterise the ecosystem. In Indian estuaries, there are no scientific attempts to establish multi-metric fish index to determine the ecological status. A multi-metric fish index (EMFI) was customised for twelve predominantly open estuaries on India's western coast.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLactose in cheese whey is increasingly challenging to metabolise under normal conditions. The hydrolysis of whey lactose into glucose and galactose using enzymatic methods has been acclaimed to confer benefits like enhanced substrate availability for better degradation in anaerobic digestion. In the present study, whey lactose was subjected to hydrolysis using the enzyme β-galactosidase derived from fungus to reduce the difficulty of lipid and fat transformation in anaerobic digestion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCheese whey is an industrial waste generated from the cheese processing unit of the dairy industry and requires treatment before its disposal. The present study investigated the possibilities of improving the digestibility from anaerobic digestion of lipid rich dairy by-product, cheese whey using septage as the co-substrate with different inoculum. Biochemical methane potential assays were conducted under mesophilic temperature conditions and results were validated using Modified Gompertz Model.
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