The raw materials of the nuclear industry (mainly uranium) are radioactive, its useful transmuted products, primarily plutonium but also specific radioisotopes, are more active, but the bulk of activity it has to handle is produced as an inevitable consequence of nuclear fission (i.e. fission products) and by the neutron activation of associated materials such as power reactor components. Table 7.2 [...]
The following article will guide you about how to treat wastewater from pesticides industry. Existing Treatment Facilities: The flow diagrams of wastewater treatment adopted in some of the industries are shown in Figs. 16.18 through 16.24. Pesticides industries have adopted generally two schemes of pollution control as given below: (i) The first scheme is evaporation system which further includes the [...]
India rank today as the fourth largest Nitrogenous fertiliser producer in the world. For producing nitrogenous fertilisers a variety, of feed stocks may be used—lignite, coal, coke oven gas, electrolysis of water, natural gas, associated gas, naphtha, fuel oil, etc. Considering the size of the country and diversity of the resources fertiliser plants have been located at the point nearest [...]