As a part of R&D initiative of Numaligarh Refinery Limited, a Memorandum of Agreement was signed with Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati to develop technology for production of marketable Grade Green Activated Carbon from bamboo dust.
Bamboo dust will be generated while preparing bamboo chips for the 2nd Generation Bio-Refinery being set up by NRL through its JV company Assam Bio-Refinery Private Limited. As part of the project, a plant of capacity 5 MT/batch will be set up to produce green activated carbon by pyrolyzing bamboo dust. This R&D project is also aimed towards development of technology for production of very high grade chemically activated carbon having application in pharmaceutical, electronics and mining industries.
