Sunflower stalks

Sunflower Stalks. Were suggested as an ingredient of low d Dynamites, the other ingredients being NG, AN, Na nitrate, Na chloride, combustibles, etc... 

The chief sources of potash i are (1) The deposits of soluble potash minerals at Stassfurt (Germany), Alsace (France), Galicia (Austria), Catalonia (Spain), Punjab (India), and Atacama (Chili). (2) Sea water, brines, and many lake deposits contain appreciable quantities of potash associated with the sodium salts. (3) The ashes o vegetation—e,g, wood ashes, beet-root residues, seaweeds, sunflower stalks, hedge trimmings, etc. (4) The soapy water used for washing the grease from wool. 

In the field of animal science, FT-IR microspectroscopy has been used to Unk animal feed performance (ruminant digestion) to locaUzed chemical distributions within specific corn, barley and canola varieties [43, 44]. A potential solution for remediating chemicals encountered environmentaUy in contaminated soil is to grow plants capable of mining such chemicals. As an example, sunflower stalks grown hydroponically were imaged by IMS to first locate, and then determine the relative uptake of, these materials [45]. The same group also reported selected... 

Ashori and Nourbakhsh [ 16] obtained tensile, flexural and impact property increases as high as 50% of corn stalk, sunflower stalk and bagasse fiber-reinforced polypropylene composite due to incorporation of maleic anhydride polypropylene compatibilizer. 

Birehwood and wheat bran Tobacco stalk, cotton stalk. Sunflower stalk and wheat straw Barley husks... 

Biosorption is an efficient and economical method that can be used for the removal of heavy metals from wastewaters. The majority of recent biosorption smdies were conducted with low-cost agricultural waste such as sunflower stalks [14,15], orange peel [16], coconut cash [17,18], ohve stone [19, 20], steel-making slag [21], tree fern [22], olive tree pruning [23], rice husk [24], peanut hull pellets [25], and grape stalk [26,27], and all of them have been identified as potential biosorbents for heavy metal removal. 

Hashem A, Abou-OkeU A, El-Shafie A, El-Sakhawy M. Grafting of high a-cellulose pulp extracted liom sunflower stalks for removal of Hg (II) from aqueous solution. Polym Plast Technol Eng 2006 45 135—141. 

Sunflower stalk HjSO, HCl, CHjCOOHand maleic acid 0.5-20% w/w Temperature 50-150°C Maximum (19 wt. %) sugar yield at 120°C in 60 min with solid to acid ratio of 1 30. Duetal. (2012)... 

Sunflower stalk HjSO 0.7-7.3% Temperature 87-153°C Optimum reaction conditions for maximum sugar recovery were 120°C, 30 min and 4% H SO concentration. Akpinar etal.(2011)... 

Du, W., Ren, X., Xu, M., Zhou, A. Influencing factors in hydrolysis of sunflower stalks by using dilute acid. Energy Procedia 2012,17,1468-1475. 

Gang, S., Weixing, S. Sunflower stalk as adsorbents for the removal of metal ions from waste water. Ind. Eng. Ghent. Res. 1998, 37,1324-1328. 

Wood ashes.—The ash of wood, not coal, contains about 30 per cent, of potassium carbonate. Prior to the exploitation of the Stassfurt salts about the middle of the nineteenth century, the chief source of potash was wood ashes, and the process is still used in certain localities where wood-fuel is employed and where much waste wood is available—e.g. in some parts of Canada, United States, Russia, Spain, etc. The ash of trees, hedge-cuttings, sawdust, etc., can be made to yield potash.5 In the Caucasus, the sunflower is grown on waste land for the sake of its seed. The stalks, leaves, etc., are a by-product and are burnt the ash is used as a source of potash. Nearly 7000 tons per annum of crude potash from this source were exported from Novorossik in Russia. The residues in the manufacture of olive oil and almond shells are also stated by G. l Abate to be exceptionally rich in potash salts F. W. F. Day claims that the roots of the water hyacinth (eiehornia crassipes) have... 

To most people, sunflower conjures an image of a domestic plant with a large stalk crowned by a single large flower. The wild sunflower, or annual sunflower, however, exhibits a branched growing form with numerous smaller flowers at each branch tip. The average diameter of wild sunflower is about 1 cm, unlike cultivated forms, which commonly reach 30 cm. 

Orellana, R.G., Photoperiod influence on the susceptibility of sunflowers to Sclerotinia stalk rot, Phytopathology, 65, 1293-1298, 1975. 

In sunflowers, insecticides have been an effective means of control, though the larvae population within the stalk must be quite high (above 80) before a significant effect on yield is realized (Rogers and Jones, 1979). At present, stem weevil does not pose a production problem for Jerusalem artichokes. 

Attains a height, when mature m August, of from three to sixteen feet, the stalk a thickness of from one-half inch Co twoinches. Stalk has four ridges running lengthwise, and usually a well marked node by each branch, these appearing at intervals of from four to twenty inches. A leaf appears immediately under each branch. Green plant has a peculiar narcotic odor, is sticky to the touch, and covered with fine hair barely visible to the naked eye. Often hidden in fields of com or sunflowers. 

Herbaceous and agricultural biomass Grasses, flowers, straws, green, and residues Alfalfa, arundo, bamboo, bana, brassica, cane, cynara, barley, bean, flax, com, mint, oat, rape, rice, rye, sesame, sunflower, wheat, fruits, shells, husks, huUs, pits, pips, grains, seeds, coir, stalks, cobs, kernels, bagasse, food, fodder, pulps, cakes, etc. 

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