The company has a plant to manufacture hydrochloric acid which was set up in 1973. VCL had initially set up a project to manufacture beta naphthol (BN) in 1987 at Tarapur Maharashtra. But it faced ...

(UCIL) built the Bhopal plant in the late 1960s to manufacture an insecticide called carbaryl using a reaction of methyl isocyanate (MIC) with 1-naphthol. MIC is a highly toxic compound.

It was a formulation factory for UCC's Sevin brand of pesticides, produced by reacting methyl isocyanate and alpha naphthol, he said. In 1975, the UCC decided to manufacture ingredients of Sevin ...

A Bhopal lawyer, Shahnawaz Khan, warned Union Carbide in 1983 about the risks of toxic gas leaks from its pesticide plant, but his concerns were dismissed, leading to the catastrophic gas tragedy in ...

School of Chemical Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China ...

THE thermal decomposition of ammonium sulphate appears to have received little attention since the recorded observations of Jänecke in 1921 1. Consequently it has become accepted that ...

Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Narashino, Chiba 275-8575, Japan ...