Analytical chemistry laboratory manual was developed for the student in the Division of Enviromental Science and Technology Faculty of Science and Technology Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon with the aim of promising the laboratory skill of the student in the preparation and standardize the solution gravimetric analysis volumetric analysis and finally spectroscopy analysis. Traditionally in the analytical laboratory pricey analytical grad of the reagent with large amounts and quantities is required. Moreover some of them are toxic and harmful to the environment. These can cause a problem for the university in which the budget is limited. In this work the idea of the small but powerful experiment was conducted. All the chemical and reagent was reduced to 50%. In the final laboratory instead of costly and toxic reagent some substances were replaced with the natural material such as water extraction from purple cabbage. According to the results the developed experiments were accurate enough for practicing the student except for the precipitation titration experiment. In order to evaluate the understanding a mini-project was assigned to the student in the group. By using the developed manual the student can overcome the problem in the lab and the awareness of the environment was also improved.

Silica is an amorphous and nanometer scale voids and porous form of silicon dioxide. As long known for its high specific surface area synthetic silica has been used to adsorb water readily and applied for keeping many biological products dry protecting equipment from moisture damage. In the study the researchers have interested in making the tentative eco-friendly dehumidifying products based on the silica extract from bamboo leaves. The extraction procedures were performed by boiling dry bamboo leaves with various concentrated hydrochloric acid (HCl) at 1 2 3 and 4 M then burning them at 650oC for 4 hr before analyzing the purity of the biosilica with the X-ray Fluorescence Method. The results showed that the highest purity of the biosilica sample at 96% could be obtained after treated with 4 M HCl comparing with the control commercial silica. By hygroscopic test the extracted biosilica with 2 M HCl showed the highest moisture absorption properties close to the commercial silica. While the highest adsorption capacity was found in the biosilica sample treated with 3 M HCl. The dehumidifying efficiencies of all HCl treated biosilica power were not much different comparing to the commercial silica gel. Instead of using synthetic silica therefore this high environmentally friendly and cheaper biosilica from bamboo leaves can preferably be decent and further applied in green industry.

This research studies the potential for using waste ash from industrial and agricultural by-products as a plastering material. This paper presents a study of the water requirement compressive strength flexural strength normal consistency setting time and air content of plastering material containing classified fly ash (FA) and ground rice husk ash (RHA). Fine fly ash and fine rice husk ash have a high potential to be used as a good pozzolanic material. The use of finer pozzolan results in a stronger and denser mortar which is due to better Q!spersion and filling effect as well as an increase in the pozzolanic reaction. Fine fly ash and fine rice husk ash can be incorporated into mortar as replacement of the mortar mix cement for the plastering. Mortar mix cement containing 20% fine fly ash and fine rice husk ash can be used to make plastering materials.