Rice husk, the hard-protective layer that envelopes the inner grain of rice, constitutes approximately 20%–25% of the entire rice structure and produces a considerable amount of by-products.

Nearly a quarter of that figure, by weight, is the rice husk, or the hard “shell” covering the part we eat—and it usually goes to waste. Why does Michelin care about rice husks? Because if ...

Akron-based Goodyear is embracing a technology that converts the ash that remains from burned rice husks into silica, which has been used in tire production for two decades. When silica is added ...

Husk Power Systems, a startup that turns rice husks into energy, beat out over 1,000 competitors to win the Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco-sponsored Global Business Plan Competition. We first ...

I was awarded a High Flyer Scholarship by the Doctoral College to undertake this PhD research. My current research is focussed on the evaluation of cost and energy performance of buildings ...

Already 60 rice husk power plants are up and running, serving 60 villages and 150,000 people. Now there are plans to run a Husk Power University and an international franchising system.

Rice could be fertile territory for battery development. The silica-rich husks left over when rice is harvested are normally turned into fertiliser additives, but there is a better solution.

and shown how consuming rice husks could prevent or cure it, scientists—including Eijkman—still believed the disease came from a pathogen or toxin, and that whatever was in the brown rice ...