Indian Railways will soon set up plants to extract diesel for mechanical traction with technology patented by scientists at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum (CSIR-IIP) Dehradun, announced Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Science and Technology. The institute is the first of its kind to develop the capability to convert 1 tonne of broken plastic buckets, mugs, toothpaste tubes, bottle ...
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Researchers Extract Biodiesel, Jetfuel from Single Algae with Abundant Potential
A common algae food for fish holds promise as a source of both biodiesel and jet fuel is likely to revolutionize the fuel for transportation in the future, if vested interests do not prevail on the results of two researchers, one of them an Indian origin American. In a new study published in the journal Energy & Fuels, Greg O’Neil ...
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