Production of Nitro-Humic Compounds from Coal Residues by Iranian Researchers
Researchers of the Agricultural Technology Department of the University of Tehran, under the supervision of professor Mohammad Hossein Kianmehr, and Ehsan Sarlaki, a Ph.D. student in biosystem mechanical engineering, succeeded in developing a completely environmental and physicochemical method for the production of nitro-humic compounds from solid organic waste for the first time in the country.
At present, this product has been made on a laboratory scale but it can be mass-produced with different uses (multi-functional product) from renewable biomass with the growth of the used technology.
The project was the result of 3 years of cooperation among the University of Tehran's Agricultural Technology Department, University of Tehran's Science and Technology Park, and Technical University of Denmark.
Production of nitro-humic compounds based on renewable resources, including agricultural biomass, is currently being carried out in collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark.
The findings of the project have been published in the prestigious Elsevier, Chemical Engineering Journal, with an impact factor of 16.74.
Biomass is a clean, renewable energy source. Its initial energy comes from the sun, and plants or algae biomass can regrow in a relatively short amount of time.
Trees, crops, and municipal solid waste are consistently available and can be managed sustainably.
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