{"id":5532,"date":"2015-07-07T10:32:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T10:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2015-07-07T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T10:43:15","slug":"application-of-seaweed-as-substrate-additive-in-green-roofs-enhancement-of-water-retention-and-sorption-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/application-of-seaweed-as-substrate-additive-in-green-roofs-enhancement-of-water-retention-and-sorption-capacity.html","title":{"rendered":"Application of Seaweed as Substrate Additive in Green Roofs: Enhancement of Water Retention and Sorption Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from India and Singapore conducted an experiment to incorporate a brown seaweed <em>Turb<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5533 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Turbinaria-conoides-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Turbinaria conoides\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Turbinaria-conoides-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Turbinaria-conoides-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>inaria conoides <\/em>in green roof growth substrate to enhance the run-off quality from green roofs.\u00a0 The green roof substrate was prepared using perlite, vermiculite, sand, crushed brick, coco peat and 10% of <em>Turbinaria conoides<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed that the green roof substrate had favourable characteristics such as low bulk density, high water holding capacity and hydraulic capacity. In addition, they acted as a sink for various metal ions and produced runoff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0169204615001310\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from India and Singapore conducted an experiment to incorporate a brown seaweed Turbinaria conoides in green roof growth substrate to enhance the run-off quality from green roofs.\u00a0 The green roof substrate was prepared using perlite, vermiculite, sand, crushed brick, coco peat and 10% of Turbinaria conoides. The results showed that the green roof substrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[553,615,59,576],"tags":[136,403,568],"class_list":["post-5532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-products-and-applications","category-research-2","category-seaweed","category-university-research","tag-algae-research","tag-brown-algae","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5535,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions\/5535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}