Refrigerants Current Affairs, GK & News
India bans import of refrigerators, Air Conditioners completely
India recently banned the import of refrigerants and air-conditioners completely tightening norms on “non-essential” imports. This has been done to reduce imports from China and tighten local manufacturing. This says that an importer cannot fill in the refrigerant outside India. Thus, he will have to create assembly units using the local work force. This will ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2020
Topics: Air conditioning • Chinese Imports • Directorate General of Foreign Trade • imports • Refrigerants • Television
Researchers of South Korea develop a system that can produce electricity and hydrogen fuel from carbon dioxide
Scientists from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea have developed a system that can produce electricity and hydrogen fuel from carbon dioxide. The Hybrid Na-CO2 system can continuously produce electrical energy and hydrogen through efficient carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion with stable operation for over 1,000 hours. The key to this ..
Topics: Carbon dioxide • Chemical substances • Chemistry • Gaseous signaling molecules • Greenhouse gases • Hydrogen • PH • Physical sciences • Refrigerants
Environmental impacts of HCFC versus HFCs
HFCs are used as refrigerants and coolants in refrigerators and air-conditioners, in fire extinguishers, furniture making, as solvents for cleaning, and other purposes. CFCs and later HCFCs were being used for everything that HFCs are used now for, but it was found that these were depleting the ozone layer, which protects life on earth from ..
Topics: Air conditioning • Chlorofluorocarbon • Environmental treaties • Greenhouse gases • Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning • High-fructose corn syrup • Law by country • Montreal Protocol • Ozone depletion • Ozone layer • Politics by country • Refrigerants
Basic Chemistry Questions & Answers
Click Here to Visit all updated Chemistry Questions 1. Which among the following methods can be used to remove the permanent hardness in water due to calcium or magnesium sulphates? [A]Sulphonate method [B]Nitrate method [C]Zeolite method [D]None of these Zeolite method Show Answer 2. Which among the following is the main constituent of Biogas? [A]Methane ..
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Topics: Industrial gases • Inorganic solvents • Natural sciences • Nitrogen • Nitrous oxide • Oxide • Physical sciences • Refrigerants