German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced that it has initiated a project to convert carbon from steel mill gasses into valuable chemicals. The electricity for this project is to come from renewable sources. ThyssenKrupp said that the ...
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According to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat), in 2013 total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - fell by 2.8 percent year on ...
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Jura Energy Corporation (TSX:JEC) ("Jura" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the first gas production from the Reti-Maru gas fields in the Guddu Block commenced on Thursday, December 26, 2013. Initial production is being controlled to ...
Chinese scientists have cultivated a high-yield salt-resistant rice variety that boasts an output of six tons per hectare. In an experimental program, two professors from Hainan University and additional researchers from the Hunan ...
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Why pallet Inverters? Pallets are quintessential tools in the areas like factories and industries, where works like stacking, loading and unloading is the order of the day. A single pallet, be it of wood or plastic has the ability to ...
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The species historically cited as the most abundant of coral algae that forms rodoliths at the Gulf of California in Mexico is in reality a compound of five different species. This finding was made by Jazmín Hernández Kantun, ...
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The Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC) has in 2013 achieved its highest monthly production of methanol since its inception, which amounted to 1,254 metric tons, GPCI president Abdulrahman Jawahery revealed during the ...
Justus von Liebig's Law of the Minimum is an agronomic theory that states yield is proportional to the amount of the most limiting nutrient - whichever nutrient it may be. As a soils and crops consultant, it means I am going to tell you to ...
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The Indian power sector scenario remains gloomy. Although power reforms started about a decade back, the achievements are only dismal. Financial health of most state electricity boards remains critical, mainly due to the uncontrolled use of ...
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Lifting and material handling equipment holds a lot of importance in almost all the industries, be it the moving industry or warehouses. It not only eases out manual effort, but also enhances the value of the material. There are different ...
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In the January-November period of this year, total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - fell by 3.1 percent year on year to 1.134 billion mt, ...
Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Thenayan Al-Saud, Chairman of SABIC and Chairman of the Royal Commission for Jubail & Yanbu, officially opened the company's state-of-the-art SABIC Technology Center (STC) in Bengaluru, India in a ceremony which ...
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What are the 50 greatest inventions since the wheel? If you ballpark the wheel's innovation at 6,000 B.C., then what are the most significant discoveries that follow? A reasonable list should be agriculture-heavy, and in its "50 Greatest ...
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In what he describes as "the mother of all conspiracy theories," an Arizona-based talk radio host says the powers that be are intentionally destroying large bodies of water in a bid to create a multi-trillion-dollar biofuel industry. ...
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A couple of researchers from the University of Alberta (U-A) in Canada say they have come up with a novel new way to eventually end the practice of having to apply environmentally-harmful fertilizer chemicals to commercial crops. ...
Tags: overuse, agricultural, chemical, fertilizer