India, Feb. 4 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
(a)
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), through its constituent laboratories namely, CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CSIR-CRRI), New Delhi and CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum (CSIR-IIP), Dehradun, has jointly developed an indigenous technology to produce bio-bitumen from agricultural residue (notably rice straw) by pyrolysis. The process converts crop residue into bio-oil via pyrolysis which is subsequently upgraded through chemical processing and blended/modified to produce a bio-binder suitable for use in bituminous roads.
(b)
Bio-bitumen developed indigenously has the potential to partially replace conventional petroleum-based bitumen without co...