How slick water and black shale in fracking combine to produce radioactive waste
Research papers explain the transfer of radium during hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas. Study explains how radioactive radium transfers to wastewater in the widely-used method to extract oil and gas. The study, detailed in twin papers appearing in Chemical Geology, is the first research that characterizes the phenomenon of radium transfer in the widely-used method to extract oil and gas. The findings add to what is already generally known about the mechanisms of radium release and could help the search for solutions to challenges in the fracking industry.
Ready-to-use recipe for turning plant waste into gasoline
Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven, Belgium, already knew how to make gasoline in the laboratory from plant waste such as sawdust. Now the researchers have developed a roadmap, as it were, for industrial cellulose gasoline. A chemical process made it possible to convert the cellulose -- the main component of plant fibres -- in the sawdust into hydrocarbon chains. These hydrocarbons can be used as an additive in gasoline. The resulting cellulose gasoline is a second generation biofuel
Commerce and industry minister Suresh Prabhu will next week review sector-specific strategies to increase India’s exports 20% this year amid an uncertain global trade environment and credit availability. The ministry has identified nine sectors, including gems & jewellery, leather, textiles, agriculture and pharmaceuticals, to drive India’s exports to $400 billion in the next five years. These sectors accounted for $242 billion or 80% of the country’s total exports of $302 billion in 2017-18 .
The minister Suresh Prabhu will review the action plans on October 1
Suresh Prabhu to review sector-specific export strategies next week
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