G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology

About: G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology is a education organization based out in Haldwani, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Agriculture. The organization has 3154 authors who have published 3244 publications receiving 43741 citations. The organization is also known as: Govind Ballabh Pant Krishi Evam Praudyogik Vishwavidyalaya & Pantnagar University.

Host genotype dependency and growth enhancing ability of VA-mycorrhizal fungi for Eleusine coracana (finger millet).

Abstract: Inoculation of finger millet (Eleusine coracana Gaertn.) plants with one of six different vesicular, arbuscular, mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi increased plant biomass, height, leaf area and absolute growth rate; however, effectiveness of the various VAM fungi varied significantly. Maximum root colonization and mycorrhizal efficacy was observed with plants inoculated with Glomus caledonicum. Among five host genotypes tested for mycorrhizal dependency against G. caledonicum, genotype HR-374 gave the highest plant biomass, mycorrhizal efficacy and root colonization, the inoculation resulting in increased mineral (phosphate, nitrogen, Zn2+ and Cu2+) content and uptake in shoots.

Drying kinetics and ANN modeling of paneer at low pressure superheated steam

Abstract: Drying characteristics, selection of analytical model and development of artificial neural network (ANN) models of 1 cm3 paneer at low pressure superheated steam drying (LPSSD) were studied. Effects of steam temperature and pressure on drying rates were determined. Page’s model was selected as the best predictive model. Second degree polynomial, non linear regression analysis resulted in a good agreement of defined model by changing the values of temperature and corresponding pressure. Optimized ANN models were developed for all data set. The correlation coefficient for all data set was >0.98 in all cases.

Process Optimization of Catalyst Removal and Characterization of Waste Water After Alkali-Catalyzed Transesterification of Jatropha Oil

Abstract: Raw jatropha oil was transesterified in the presence of different alkaline catalyst solutions. A solution of 3-wt% KOH with methyl alcohol was found to be optimum for producing ester with lowest viscosity. Methyl alcohol was also found to be more effective over ethyl alcohol for converting raw oil to corresponding esters. After separation of the glycerol layer from ester under room temperature, three consecutive washings were carried out using single distilled water in the ratio of 5 to remove catalyst from the produced ester. Nearly 75% catalyst removal from ester was recorded within 30 min of contact period. Among the chemical characteristics of the waste water, its pH, chemical oxygen demand, and concentrations of oil and grease, and phenol were measured. Waste water was found to be alkaline in nature, and its chemical oxygen demand ranged from 684 to 792 mg/l. The phenol concentration varied between 103 and 163 mg/l, while oil and grease concentration ranged from 1433 to 1640 mg/l, representing a significant pollutant load in biodiesel waste water.

A new development in quantum field equations of dyons

Abstract: In this study, we describe a novel approach to quantum phenomena of the generalized electromagnetic fields of dyons with quaternionic analysis. Starting with quaternionic quantum wave equations, we have established a quantized condition for time coordinate that transforms microscopic to macroscopic fields. In view of the classical electromagnetic field equations, we propose a new set of quantized Proca–Maxwell’s equations for dyons. Furthermore, a quantized form of four-current densities and the quantized Lorentz gauge conditions for electric and magnetic potentials, respectively, of dyons are obtained. We have established the new quantized continuity equations for electric and magnetic densities of dyons, which are associated with a torque density result from the two spin states. The quantized Klein–Gordon-like field equations and the unified quaternionic electromagnetic potential wave equations for massive dyons are demonstrated. Moreover, we investigate the quaternionic quantized relativistic Dirac fie...