Oil, gas and petrochemical markets are growing rapidly in India and Southeast Asia.
The Indian petrochemical market, valued at U.S. $ 70 billion, is one of the petrochemical markets in the world's fastest growing, with more than 10% per year. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IndianOil), flagship of the energy industry in India, built a complex consisting of a Naphtha Cracker very large, adjacent to its existing refinery of 12 mmpta (million metric tons per year), Panipat, near Delhi in northern India. For this project, IndianOil has decided to outsource its requirements for oxygen and nitrogen, under a long-term contract with Air Liquide.
The National Conference of Biology represent a scientific event of excellence in Ecuador, which has grown annually since 1977.
20 to 22 November will be held in the city of Loja. Among the main objectives of the event is, providing a space where the country's scientific community can meet and share the results and progress of its investigations in the various themes proposed for the National Conference of Biology.
One treatment more effective water and used at home and industry is the softening of hard water. This substance is common in places that obtained from wells, and cause a great deterioration of the pipes, faucets, and any element that comes into contact with it.
Hard water treatment is done through softeners, some artifacts are eliminated with the minerality of this type of substance. They include magnesium, calcium, and in some cases, iron. These three elements have a positive ionic charge, which generate the problems stipulated above.