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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe battery\u2019s lifetime decreases if\nyou recharge it every now and then without checking whether it has come down 20\nper cent,\u201d Prof. Das said while delivering the keynote speech at the\ninauguration of the National Conference on \u2018Trends in Minerals and Materials\nTechnology\u2019 held at the SOA Deemed to be University here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nThe Battery Management Software\n(BMS) controlled charging of the cell phone battery and it was not advisable to\nspeak on the phone when it was being recharged, he said adding few accidents\nhad been reported about the phone exploding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut such mishaps have been very few\nwhile incidents of lightning strikes have been more frequent in comparison,\u201d he\nsaid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof. Amit Banerjee, Vice-Chancellor\nof SOA, presided over the program which was also addressed by Prof. Damodar\nAcharya, eminent academician and Chairman of the SOA Advisory Board and Prof.\nPradipta Kumar Nanda, SOA\u2019s Dean (Research and Development). The conference, organised\nby the Biofuels and Bioprocessing Research Centre (BBRC), one of the 13\nresearch centres being run by the SOA Deemed to be University, was attended by\nresearch scholars, scientists, industrialists and academicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof. Acharya said 20 different rare\nminerals were used in mobile phones the availability of which was extremely\nlimited. For example, the cell phones used Lithium Ion battery but Lithium was\nin short supply while the consumption was very high. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even the power back-up system used widely at present to\nrecharge mobile phones was a \u2018dangerous\u2019 device and the European Union was\nthinking of banning its use, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof. Das said the search was on for\nnon-energy minerals to replace the energy minerals and work was on to develop\nMetal Air battery, Redox Flow battery and Lithium Sulphur battery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In India, he said, non-renewable\nenergy sources contributed to only 16 per cent of total energy generation\ncompared to 92 per cent in Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof. Banerjee stressed on judicious\nexploration and use of natural resources as the process to harness such minerals\nwas often considered hazardous. He said block chain technology could bring in a\nparadigm shift in the way the mining sector functioned and the results could be\noptimized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof. Lala Behari Sukla, Director of BBRC and Convenor of the\nconference, said large investments would be required alongside latest\ntechnologies in the field of prospecting and mining. The need was to promote\nstate-of-the-art exploration techniques, scientific mining and optimal use of\nminerals through ore dressing and beneficiation technologies, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Debabrata Pradhan, Organising Secretary of the conference\nand Dr. Niharbala Devi, Co-convenor, also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Never recharge your cell phone if the energy level has not gone below 20 per cent, an eminent researcher advised on Wednesday. People have the tendency to put their phone on the recharge mode even when the energy level is 60 or 70 per cent which actually harmed the device and reduced its life, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}