{"id":8836,"date":"2022-10-30T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T05:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8836"},"modified":"2025-03-29T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T04:10:40","slug":"red-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/red-mud\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has converted red mud into X-ray shielding tiles in a green and economically viable manner through a ceramic route by adding a certain weight percentage of high Z material and binder with it.<\/li>\n<li>These tiles can be used to build radiation shielding structures in diagnostic X-rays, CT scanner rooms, Cath labs, bone mineral density, dental X-rays, etc., instead of the toxic lead sheet to protect the public from radiation hazards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Red Mud:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Red Mud is the waste generated in the Bayer process of alumina production from bauxite.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as bauxite residue.<\/li>\n<li>Red Mud is defined as a \u201cHigh Volume Low Effect Waste\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 1 to 1.5 tonnes of RM is being generated while producing one tonne of alumina from the bauxite ore through the Bayer process.<\/li>\n<li>It is considered to be toxic due to its extreme alkalinity and heavy element leaching.<\/li>\n<li>Annually about 175 million tonnes of red mud have been generated globally and stored in a specially designed clay-lined pond.<\/li>\n<li>Among that India is producing nearly 9 million tonnes of red mud every year.<\/li>\n<li>The clay-lined ponds often broke out and pollute soil, groundwater, and air and become fatal for both humans and wildlife.<\/li>\n<li>Red mud is one of the underutilized industrial wastes and getting accumulated over the years due to an increase in alumina production as well as inadequate technologies for its large-scale utilization.<\/li>\n<li>The red mud contains 30 \u2013 55% of Fe2O3, which is suitable for attenuating high-energy ionizing radiations like X- and gamma rays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1871866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Mud is the waste generated in the Bayer process of alumina production from bauxite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}