Metals are necessary for plants and animals to function biologically, but presence of massive quantities can disrupt the metabolic activities in an organism's systems. Chromium has been classified between the top 20 harmful ...

The present study encompasses the first ever attempt of the usage of cow dung as a reductant in the reduction roasting of an Indian iron ore slime containing 56.2% Fe. The resultant reduced mass generated a concentrate of ...

To maintain a balance between sustainable development in the industries and natural environment, recycling of metal values is essential part of the ecosystem. In this aspect recycling of waste aluminium dross is of great ...

To address the carbon dioxide (CO2) and other green-house gas (GHG) emission issues and combat climate change, various world summits have taken place starting with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ...

The biogeochemical characteristics of Mahanadi estuarine system in eastern India were investigated to understand the seasonality in carbon parameters and their influence on sea-air CO2 gradient. In general, the stations ...

Andaman Islands (AI) of India is a biodiversity hotspot of mangroves but biogeochemical dynamics of AI is less understood. We collected sediment samples from four AI mangrove sites and one site without mangroves for nutrients ...

In order to establish the natural and anthropogenic processes and factors responsible for enrichment of hydrological features, R-mode factor analysis and cluster analysis are applied for three different sets of data i.e. ...

Use of liquid/solid fluidization techniques for size classification is a common practice in mineral processing operations. Extending its application in gravity separation for finer feed particles (-0.5 mm) is not straightforward ...