The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar has bagged the innovation award at the Green Charcoal Hackathon, a technology challenge organised by the National Thermal Power Plant and Energy Efficiency Services Limited.
The Green Charcoal Hackathon event is organised with a motto to fast track the development of technology to convert agricultural residue to charcoal in the pursuit of reducing carbon foot print. The event is aimed at bridging the technology gap with the prime objective to clean the air by eliminating farm fire, to produce renewable energy from agricultural residue, to promote local entrepreneurship, and to increase the income of the farmers.
Prof RV Raja Kumar, Director, IIT Bhubaneswar, said each faculty member of the institute should strive to foster innovative thinking and creativity among their students, in classrooms, laboratories and beyond.
He said the institute felt proud by constantly raising the standards on all fronts, including internationalisation of academic programmes, international collaborations on research of high industrial and societal relevance.
The award winning team, Dr Remya Neelancherry, Shardul Narde (MTech student) and Neha Shukla (research scholar) designed a microwave torrifier and pelletizer plant to produce 100kg per day of charcoal from rice straw, one of the agricultural residues.
The team presented the complete process and instrumentation of microwave torrifier, torrefaction operation details and business model canvas. The designed technology is capable of converting agricultural residue to charcoal at a faster rate compared with conventional method. In addition, the charcoal pellets obtained from the process showed heating value comparable with that of coal, a press release issued by the IIT Bhubaneswar said.
Besides, the team will also receive financial assistance from NTPC for the development of machine prototype on the basis of mutually accepted terms and conditions.
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