Electricity From Sewage Water Good Innovation

IIT considered as one of the reputed institutes of the country. After 10+2 most of the science students try their luck to crack IIT entrance exam. We have fourteen IITs in India. To get admission in 14 IITs thousands of students take this entrance admission test.  Thousand of students take this entrance test and only few get through this test. Those few lucky students got the opportunity to study in best institute of the country.

The institute trained the students in all aspects that it gives them best training and exposure. In IITs students conduct different type of experiments and develop new gadgets and technology which will help for the development of the country.

From time and then students of IIT have done many experiments. One student from IIT has done one experiment. Manoj Mandelia, a 23-years old student from IIT-Kharagpur, has created a method to produce electricity from sewage water.  Mandelia said, "I developed a product which uses the concept of microbial fuel cell, a bio-electrochemical system that drives current by mimicking bacterial interactions found in nature.”

Mandelia's project named Localised Operation of Bio-cells Using Sewage (LOCUS). It is able to condensed chemical oxygen demand in sewage water by about 60-80 percent. He explained that LOCUS is a microbial fuel cell which along with sewage treatment systems can treat waste water and also generate electricity. He conducted his experiment at the Fermentation Technology Lab of IIT, Kharagpur.

Mandelia is students of integrated MTech from the premier institute. The Fermentation Technology Lab of IIT, Kharagpur honored him as a young Indian innovator during its Em Tech India Conference earlier in the month.


Source: Manisha Verma

Date: 1st April, 2010

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