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Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur

The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) was established on 12th June 1964 at Hyderabad. The University was formally inaugurated on 20th March 1965 by Late Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India. Another significant milestone was the inauguration of the building programme of the university by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi,the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India on 23rd June 1966. The University was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on 7th November 1996 in honour and memory of an outstanding parliamentarian Acharya Nayukulu Gogineni Ranga, who rendered remarkable selfless service for the cause of farmers and is regarded as an outstanding educationist, kisan leader and freedom fighter. HISTORICAL MILESTONE Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) was established under the name of Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) on the 12th of June 1964 through the APAU Act 1963. Later, it was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on the 7th of November, 1996 in honour and memory of the noted Parliamentarian and Kisan Leader, Acharya N. G. Ranga. At the verge of completion of Golden Jubilee Year of the ANGRAU, it has given birth to a new State Agricultural University namely Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University with the bifurcation of the state of Andhra Pradesh as per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014. The ANGRAU at LAM, Guntur is serving the students and the farmers of 13 districts of new State of Andhra Pradesh with renewed interest and dedication. Genesis of ANGRAU in service of the farmers 1926: The Royal Commission emphasized the need for a strong research base for agricultural development in the country... 1949: The Radhakrishnan Commission (1949) on University Education led to the establishment of Rural Universities for the overall development of agriculture and rural life in the country... 1955: First Joint Indo-American Team studied the status and future needs of agricultural education in the country... 1960: Second Joint Indo-American Team (1960) headed by Dr. M. S. Randhawa, the then Vice-President of Indian Council of Agricultural Research recommended specifically the establishment of Farm Universities and spelt out the basic objectives of these Universities as Institutional Autonomy, inclusion of Agriculture, Veterinary / Animal Husbandry and Home Science, Integration of Teaching, Research and Extension... 1963: The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) Act enacted... June 12th 1964: Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) was established at Hyderabad with Shri. O. Pulla Reddi, I.C.S. (Retired) was the first founder Vice-Chancellor of the University... June 1964: Re-affilitation of Colleges of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Hyderabad (estt. in 1961, affiliated to Osmania University), Agricultural College, Bapatla (estt. in 1945, affiliated to Andhra University), Sri Venkateswara Agricultural College, Tirupati and Andhra Veterinary College, Tirupati (estt. in 1961, affiliated to Sri Venkateswara University)... 20th March 1965: Formal inauguration of APAU by Late Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India... 1964-66: The report of the Second National Education Commission headed by Dr. D.S. Kothari, Chairman of the University Grants Commission stressed the need for establishing at least one Agricultural University in each Indian State... 23, June 1966: Inauguration of the Administrative building of the university by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India... July, 1966: Transfer of 41 Agricultural Research Stations, functioning under the Department of Agriculture... May, 1967: Transfer of Four Research Stations of the Animal Husbandry Department... 7th November 1996: Renaming of University as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University in honour and memory of an outstanding parliamentarian Acharya Nayukulu Gogineni Ranga... 15th July 2005: Establishment of Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (SVVU) bifurcating ANGRAU by Act 18 of 2005... 26th June 2007: Establishment of Andhra Pradesh Horticultural University (APHU) bifurcating ANGRAU by the Act 30 of 2007... 2nd June 2014 As per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014, ANGRAU is now... serving the students and the farmers of 13 districts of new State of Andhra Pradesh with renewed interest and dedication...

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Subject: Agricultural Engineering × Author: LAVANYA, PURAMSHETTI × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2017 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    CHARACTERIZATION OF FUEL BRIQUETTES FROM MAIZE COBS AND COTTON STALKS
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2017) LAVANYA, PURAMSHETTI; BHASKARA RAO, D
    Agriculture waste management during processing is one of the most serious rural-urban environmental problems in India. The disposal of this agriculture waste in the fields is being done mostly by burning, thereby causing health hazards and air pollution. Adequate means of disposing these wastes are lacking. Hence, converting them to other useful products such as briquettes for fuel is highly essential. In Andhra Pradesh, large quantities of maize cobs and cotton stalks are produced annually and are the two most commonly available agricultural residues that can be utilized for the production of briquettes. In this study, briquettes were produced from these two raw materials using high pressure briquetting machine operated at 118 MPa. Briquettes were produced with the maize cobs and cotton stalks in the ratio of 100M:0C, 50M:50C, 75M:25C, 25M:75C and 0M:100C combinations with and without binders. Briquettes with these combinations were prepared by adding banana peel and molasses as binders at 10% and 15% level (w/w basis). Proximate analysis of briquettes was done in terms of moisture content and per cent ash. The effects of raw material combination, binder type and its proportion on physical properties like compressed density, relaxed density, relaxation ratio, moisture content, diametral expansion, longitudinal expansion, shatter resistance, water absorption and compressive strength were evaluated. Calorific values of the briquettes were also found out to test the suitability of briquettes as fuel. Briquettes with binders had more positive attributes than briquettes without binders. The compressed density and relaxed density of briquettes produced from different treatments ranged from 688.62-1631.48 kg m-3 and 595.04-1495.81 kg m-3 respectively. Relaxation ratio of briquettes produced from these treatments ranged from 0.82 and 1.57. The moisture content of briquettes ranged from 2.69% to 19.23% (w.b.). Shatter resistance of briquettes produced from different treatments ranged from 29.44% Name of the Author : P. LAVANYA Title of the thesis : “CHARACTERIZATION OF FUEL BRIQUETTES FROM MAIZE COBS AND COTTON STALKS” Degree to which it is submitted : Master of Technology Faculty : Agricultural Engineering Major field of study : PROCESSING AND FOOD ENGINEERING Major Advisor : Dr. D. BHASKARA RAO University : Acharya N.G Ranga Agricultural University Year of Submission : 2017 to 100%. Compressive strength and water absorption of briquettes ranged from 644.87- 3965.31 kPa and 32.96% to 190.57% respectively. The ash content and calorific value of different combinations were 2.1% to 4.42% and 1749.89-3606.09 kcal kg-1 respectively. Among all treatments in terms of all the properties, briquettes prepared from 100% cotton stalks and 75C:25M were rated as best. Briquettes prepared from 75M:25C ranked last. Cotton stalks briquettes had good strength properties compared to maize cobs briquettes. Net cost of production for maize cobs and cotton stalks were Rs.3840 tonne-1 and Rs. 3340 tonne-1 , respectively. Key words: Binder, banana peel, molasses, ash, calorific value, compressed density, compressive strength, shatter resistance and cost economics.