{"title":"Feasibility of using trash and straw as a thermal insulator","authors":"A.C. Srivastava, Rajendra Gupta","doi":"10.1016/0269-7483(90)90122-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sugarcane trash, paddy straw and wheat straw are the main farm by-products and are mostly underutilized. A large portion of these farm products goes to waste. These by-products could be successfully utilized as thermal insulators, if used in a high-density, compressed wafer-form.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100177,"journal":{"name":"Biological Wastes","volume":"33 1","pages":"Pages 63-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0269-7483(90)90122-9","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Biological Wastes","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0269748390901229","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Sugarcane trash, paddy straw and wheat straw are the main farm by-products and are mostly underutilized. A large portion of these farm products goes to waste. These by-products could be successfully utilized as thermal insulators, if used in a high-density, compressed wafer-form.