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The
CSIR technology awards 1999 were presented to five
laboratories at the fifth Foundation Day of the CSIR
in new Delhi on September 26,1999.
The
carbon group of National Physical
Laboratory(NPL)bagged the award for the development of
advanced carbon products having industrial, strategic
and socail importance. In the engineering technology,
two teams- from the Central Road Research
Istitute(CRRI),Delhi and the Structural Engineering
Reseach Centre(SERC),Chennai jointly won the
award.(The CRRI has developed innovative ways to
utilise fly-ash for the road and embankment
construction while the SERC was awarded for the
development of advanced computational methodologies
and modelling techniques, which are recognised
nationally and internationally).
The
award for the biology sciences and technolgy was
bagged by a team from Central Institute of Medicinal
and Aromatic Plant,Lucknow for the development of an
early maturing variety of mint.In the chemical
Technology, a team of reserachers from Indian
Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun and Engineerr India
L.t.d., Delhi was awarded for developing propane
deasphalting of petroleum residues which is being used
by several refineries.
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