Practical Action Publishing
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Small-scale Lime-burning
A practical guide to the selection, design and operation of lime-burning plants for small-scale operations. Sections on fuels and raw materials, as well as on the physical and chemical background, and guidance on the methods appropriate to a small scale.
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Small-scale Milling
Traditional milling is a time-consuming and laborious task for rural women, and there is a great need to mechanize this operation. However, traditional milling practices have many nutritional advantages for children and women which are not associated with the new milling techniques and instead of be...
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Small-scale Mining
A guide to available equipment on all aspects of small-scale mining, from prospecting and surveying through haulage, handling and transport. It includes safety equipment, as well as world-wide coverage, with particular relevance to the developing world.
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Small-scale Mining, Rural Subsistence, and Poverty in West Africa
This book aims to facilitate a radical change in the way in which policies and support services are implemented for ASM by underscoring the importance of improving understanding of the industry’s population and industry dynamics. Focusing upon the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),...
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Small-scale Papermaking
A technical handbook to assist small-scale producers with alternative production techniques - to help them choose and apply those techniques which are most appropriate to local socio-economic conditions.
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Small-Scale Production
The bleak employment opportunities faced in many developing countries suggest a need for a large contribution by small-scale production units, looked at in this collection of case studies which represent six important dimensions in development contexts.
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Small-scale Production of Cementitious Materials
Cement, or at least some form of cementing material, is an essential ingredient of virtually every type of construction. Two alternative approaches to large scale factory production are considered: firstly, the manufacture of Portland cement, or material of comparable quality, in much smaller kilns,...
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Small-scale Recycling of Plastics
This book looks at how to create employment by recycling plastics. It describes the collection of plastic waste that can be collected and processed for return to the factory and remoulded for a second service life.
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Small-scale Rural Biogas Programmes
Renewable energy is becoming crucially important, as concern over burning fossil fuels is increasing and the price of oil continues to rise. Biogas technology has undergone great developments since the first designs in the 1970s. Large national projects are working very effectively in countries such...
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Small-scale Soapmaking
Making soap in the context of protracted economic difficulties has meant not only the development of a simple method that could meet rural conditions, but one that could survive the temperament of the wildly fluctuating marketplace as well. Peter Donkor’s book describes the development of soapmakin...