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Integrated constructed wetlands treating industrial wastewater from seed production
(IWA Publishing, 2021)The performance of an integrated wastewater treatment system composed of horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland (HSSFCW), floating constructed wetland (FCW), and anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) was studied for ... -
Integrated Process for Sustainable Agro-process Waste Treatment and Climate Change Mitigation in Eastern Africa
(International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), 2011-11)Eastern Africa countries are faced with similar development challenges including high population growth rate, low agricultural productivity, increasing number of agro-processing industries, pollution and contamination ... -
Integrating reverse electrodialysis with constant current operating capacitive deionization
(Elsevier Ltd., 2014-12-15)The presence of a salinity gradient between saline water streams may result in the production of electricity via either reverse electrodialysis (RED) or forward osmosis. While the former system generates electricity because ... -
Interactions Between Sodium Ion and Constituents of Chitosan: DFT Study
(Science Publishing Group, 2015-09-03)Glucosamine and acetylglucosamine are the constituents of chitosan and chitin natural biopolymers. In the present study, the structure and properties of the D-glucosamine monomer (A), N-acetylglucosamine monomer (B), and ... -
Invasive weeds with pesticidal properties as potential new crops
(Elsevier, 2017-12-30)Plants with pesticidal properties have been investigated for decades as alternatives to synthetics, but only a handful have been commercialised and developed as non-food cash crops. One of the reasons why pesticidal plants ... -
Invasive weeds with pesticidal properties as potential new crops
(Elsevier, 2017)Plants with pesticidal properties have been investigated for decades as alternatives to synthetics, but only a handful have been commercialised and developed as non-food cash crops. One of the reasons why pesticidal plants ... -
Investigating Cutoff Technique for Improved Water Saving and Productivity in Furrow Irrigation System
(Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 2021-10-04)The cutoff technique has not been adequately investigated despite being the most practiced among smallholder farmers. This study aimed at scenarios of improving water application efficiency, distribution uniformity, and ... -
Investigation of Aloe lateritia Gel as Corrosion Inhibitor for Mild Steel in 2 M HNO3 and 1 M H2SO4 Media
(Scientific Research, 2016-01-15)Corrsion inhibition of Aloe lateritia gel for Mild steel in 2 M HNO 3 and 1 M H 2 SO 4 solutions was in- vestigated by potentiodynamic polarization, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Foutier transform infrared ... -
Investigation of functional performance of treatment systems for textile wastewater in selected textile industries in Tanzania
(IWA Publishing, 2023-02-01)Textile industrialization is an integral part of the economic growth in Tanzania. However, the corresponding wastewater from textile treat ment processes consists of dyes and auxiliaries associated with acute toxicological ... -
Investigation of optoelectronic properties of triphenylamine-based dyes featuring heterocyclic anchoring groups for DSSCs’ applications: a theoretical study
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2020-08-05)Design and synthesis of new potent sensitizers are of interest for realization of high-efficiency Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs). Modification of the triphenylamine-based dyes by introducing suitable anchoring groups ... -
Investigation of Rheological Behavior of Untreated and Microwave-Assisted Alkaline Pretreated Sugarcane Straw for Biofuel Production
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2020-07-05)Purpose Biomass slurries, such as those subjected to microwave-assisted alkaline (MAA) pretreatment, will become common substrates for the production of biofuels in the future. While the rheology of acid and ionic liquid ... -
io-Oil Upgrading over ZSM-5 Catalyst: A Review of Catalyst Performance and Deactivation
(wiley, 2023-12-27)Due to population explosion and industrialization, waste biomass and polymer conversion into biofuel has attracted the interest of researchers. The application of the ZSM-5 catalyst for bio-oil upgrading into renewable ... -
Ionic liquids based on 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium cation and anions of tetrafluoroborate and bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide: Structural and thermodynamic properties by DFT study
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-02-01)The theoretical study of neutral ion pairs of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([EMIM][BF4]) and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ([EMIM][NTf2]) has been performed. The formation ... -
Ionic species in vapour over barium diiodide: Quantum chemical study of structure and thermodynamic properties
(Elsevier B.V., 2017-10-01)The cluster ions Ba2I3+, Ba3I5+ and Ba4I7+ were detected earlier in saturated vapour over barium diiodide using high temperature mass spectrometric technique. In this work the structure and thermodynamic properties of the ... -
Isolation and characterization of nitrogen fixing rhizobia from cultivated and uncultivated soils of northern Tanzania
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-12-18)Soil bacteria1 called rhizobia are gram-negative capable to colonize the soil immediately surrounding roots under the influence of the plant “rhizosphere” and reduce atmospheric nitrogen into the form available to plants ... -
Isotopic and hydrogeochemical characterization of groundwater and surface water from a mine site in Tanzania
(IWA Publishing, 2021-12-04)This study used the hydrochemical properties of water to reveal the causes of water quality degradation. The results showed that most samples located downstream of the mine tailings dam were slightly acidic with pH as low ... -
Kinetic analysis of anaerobic sequencing batch reactor for the treatment of tannery wastewater
(Academic Journals, 2017-06-30)A pilot scale anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR) was operated at different organic loading rate (1.03, 1.23, 1.52 and 2.21 kg.m-3.d-1) in order to determine the chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal and methane ... -
Kinetics and optimization modeling of Fenton-mediated photocatalysis of dye effluent with novel PANI/AK-TiO2 nanocomposites
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2024-04-05)The quest for the application of a high solar-photon sensitive photocatalysts for rapid photodegradation of recalcitrant dye molecules with deleterious environmental impacts remains a major setback for the adoption of ... -
Land Use and Environmental Gradients Influence on Riparian Woody Plant Diversity and Structure in Lake Manyara Watershed Ecosystem, Tanzania
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2023-09-12)Riparian vegetations are important in supporting ecological connectivity between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The structure and species composition of riparian woody plants have been subjected to multiple forces ... -
Land-Use and Land Cover Changes on the Slopes of Mount Meru-Tanzania
(Current World Environment, 2018-12)Environmental transitions analysis was done in part of the land on the slopes of the foothills of Mount Meru in thirty (30) years’ time from 1986 to 2016 using satellite-derived land use/cover maps and a Cellular Automata ...