what are other potentials of cashew shell nuts? (pls ans, nid this for a thesis) thx :)?

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and, whoever knows somethin about cashews, u cud perhaps teach me the processes :)

Answer 1

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/gapp/2006/00000039/00000004/art00001;jsessionid=1qmi1xhy8mtzr.alice
Insecticidal potential of cashew ( Anacardium occidentale L.) for control of the beetles, Callosobruchus subinnotatus
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1315432&dopt=Abstract
The use of biodegraded cashew pomace processed into Flour for Cake Baking.
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http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/ac451e/ac451e07.htm
Cashew has a high potential for commercial cultivation as there is a steady demand for nutritious food items and an expanding market for processed and other value added cashew-based products. Nuts are picked from the ground, separated from the cashew apple, cleaned and dried. In places where cashew apples are "Processed Into Juice, Wine and other Delicacies".
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http://lejpt.academicdirect.org/A09/107_112.pdf
The major by-product of Cashew nut, is the liquid from the pericarp known as cashew nut shell liquid = (CNSL).
A Toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of Benzene, used in Manufacturing, and as a Disinfectant and Antiseptic, that is Poisonous if taken Internally.
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http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2006/06/guineabissau_un.html
Nothing from the cashew goes to waste. We plan to build a generator, where we will burn the cashew nut shells to make our own Electricity,

Answer 2

Burn them for energy or use them as mulching material. Of course both of these ideas would be most cost effective if you are in a country that grows cashews as a crop.

Answer 3

cashew shells are extremely hard. think of a cherry sized cherry pip :)

they will work nicely as fuel, but they decompose leisurely at best....

since they also are irregularly formed and have sharp edges, they would do very well, and are in fact used, if memory serves, in drum grinders.

Answer 4

As a bio-fuel in a bio-mass powered station (corn kernals are used succesfully).
They are quite tough and if they could be flattened would no doubt make a good fabric for contruction.
Jewellery.
Hope that helps.