Planting Seeds of Sustainability
1. Let’s start with a short introduction and your inspiration behind becoming an Agronomist and a Scientist. Since my early childhood, I was inquisitive about how a tree survives in soil and provides us with flowers and fruits. When I grew up, I gradually started gardening on a small scale […]
Climate Change and State of Renewable Energy in Bangladesh: An Environmental Analysis
Abstract and Figures Bangladesh has also specified an unconditional contribution in its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions by 5% by 2030 across different economic sectors, such electric power, transportation and industry. In Bangladesh, these types of wastes are not properly utilized and result in […]
Azolla (Caroliniana): An Aquatic Energy Crop for Remediation of Eutrophic Ecosystems with Prospect of Biofuel Production in Bangladesh
Abstract The Phytoremediation ability of aquatic macrophyte, Azolla as potential biomass, to improve the quality of eutrophic lakes and river water of Bangladesh at lab scale were studied to remove organics, solutes and improving the physicochemical properties of water including pH, DO, EC, TDS, Turbidity and NaCl concentration. In the […]
Phytoremediation to improve eutrophic ecosystem by the floating aquatic macrophyte, water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes L.) at lab scale
Abstract In this investigation, the ability and effectiveness of the aquatic macrophyte, Pistia stratiotes L. to improve the quality of eutrophic waters were studied at a lab scale by testing across four lake water samples. The removal of salts, solids and improving physiochemical properties including pH, DO, EC, TDS, Turbidity […]
Duckweed‑based clean energy production dynamics (ethanol and biogas) and phyto‑remediation potential in Bangladesh
This paper presents an overview of the prospect of biofuel resources in Bangladesh with second-generation (2G) aquatic energy crop—Duckweed. The review sheds light on growing duckweed as a promising feedstock to produce ethanol and biogas, as they can minimize dependence on limited crude oil and natural gas—fossil fuels that Bangladesh […]
Prospect for second generation biofuel crops
Renewable energy is now a burning issue in both developed and developing countries vis-a-vis energy security, climate change and emission mitigation as well as sustainable development. Energy demand and environmental concerns have significantly constrained sustainable development. Biofuels in particular, as an energy source have attracted great attention in the USA, […]