Question: Where did the Indian Oil Research & Development Campus foundation has been laid by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on June 29, 2020?
(a)Faridabad
(b)Dibrugarh
(c)Jamnagar
(d)Bhilwada
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Dharmendra Pradhan and Haryana Chief Minister Shri Manohar Lal laid the foundation stone of Indian Oil’s state-of-the-art Technology Development & Deployment Centre as its second R&D Campus at IMT, Sector-67, Faridabad on June 29, 2020.
- An investment of Rs. 2282 crore will be done for this campus covering an area of about 59 acres.
- The new campus would focus on demonstration & deployment of various technologies developed by IndianOil R&D.
- Research infrastructure of the campus:
- The research infrastructure at the new campus includes state-of-the-art laboratories and pilot plants in the domains of alternative & renewable energy, e.g., fuel cell, Hydrogen, gasification & solar energy research, semi-commercial nano-material production unit, scale-up/pilot plants in petrochemicals, etc.
- This new extension of Indian Oil’s R&D Centre is going to focus on non-conventional energy domains aiming at indigenisation of several frontline and sunrise technologies such as Petrochemicals, Batteries/Energy Storage Devices, Bio-Energy- Greenhouse gas (CO2) capture etc.
By : Himanshu Shukla
Links:
https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1635087