oil industries

A quick count of industries based on forest produce reveals timber, paper, resin and gum, lac, natural oils, minor foods products, medicines, sports equipment. Industries consider the forest as merely a source of raw material for their factories. They neither are int..

Oil and oil wastes enter rivers and other water bodies from different sources such as oil refineries, storage tanks, petro-chemical plants, industrial effluents, oil tanker spillage and automobile waste oil. Normal tanker operations and s..

Recent discoveries of oil and gas - both off shore and on shore - in eastern coast, western coast, river belts of Cauvery, Godavari, Mahanadi as well as traditional oil wells of north eastern states have been of great utility to national economy. India has been found to have gr..

Agriculture is a very important human activity in any country. Agriculture is a primary activity - serving as the basis of many other activities. Agriculture supports food production, textile industries, food - based industries, agro - processing industries, oil..

Colloids have uses in our daily life as well as in various industrial processes. Some of the applications where colloids are present are listed below. 1) Pharmaceutical industry makes use of colloidal solution preparation in many medicines. A wide variety of medicines..

Uses of Benzene - As an industrial solvent for fats and oils, rubber, resins etc. As a starting material for dyes, drugs, perfumes and explosives and polymers For dry-cleaning of woollen clothes. As a motor fuel along with petrol, under the name benzo..

It is the most important oxoacid of sulphur and is known from ancient times. It is called 'oil of vitriol' because in early days it has been prepared from ferrous sulphate crystals (green vitriol) and has an oily appearance. It occurs in certain minerals and springs. Because of its large ..

Propane-1,2,3-trial (Glycerol) - A trihydric alcohol, glycerol is a constituent of oils and fats. Oils and fats are tri esters of long chain fatty acids. On hydrolosys in presence of an alkali, the tri esters yield glycerol and the fall of the carboxylic acids. Glycerol is obtai..

A trihydric alcohol, glycerol is a constituent of oils and fats. Oils and fats are tri esters of long chain fatty acids. On hydrolosys in presence of an alkali, the tri esters yield glycerol and the fall of the carboxylic acid..

India is well placed in her deposits of coal, iron and aluminum. She is also vigorously developing her off shore oil reserves in Gujarat and Maharashtra. These basic ores are needed in most spheres of industry, infrastructure and power and for making domestic products. Coal dep..