BARC shares Radiation Technology for Sewage Treatment 25/07/2019 – Posted in: Daily News – Tags:

RADIATION TECHNOLOGY FOR SEWAGE TREATMENT

 

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in collaboration with Amdavad Municipal Corporation, Ahmedabad has set up a Technology Demonstration Pilot Project “Sewage Sludge Hygienisation Plant” at Shahwadi, Ahmedabad.

  • The plant loaded with 150 kCi of Co-60 was inaugurated in February 2019 and is in continuous operation since then.
  • Another liquid sludge irradiator; Sludge Hygienisation Research Irradiator (SHRI) is operating at Vadodara for radiation treatment of raw sludge containing 3-4% solids since last 30 years.
  • BARC has not set up any sewage plant in Maharashtra.
  • BARC has given wide publicity to the use of radiation technology for sewage treatment.

 

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha conceived the Nuclear Program in India. Dr Bhabha established the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) for carrying out nuclear science research in 1945. To intensify the effort to exploit nuclear energy for the benefit of the nation, Dr Bhabha established the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) in January 1954 for multidisciplinary research program essential for the ambitious nuclear program of India. After the sad demise of Bhabha in 1966, AEET was renamed Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

 

BARC is the mother of the R&D institutions such as IGCAR, RRCAT, VECC, etc., which carry out pioneering research on nuclear and accelerator technologies and industrial establishments such as NPCIL, NFC, ECIL, etc., spearheading nuclear power production, materials technology, electronics & instrumentation.

 

Source: The Hindu

 

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