Waste to Energy

In October 2020, the Sustainable Environergy Research Lab (SERL) under the Chemical Engineering Department of IIT Delhi, successfully demonstrated the working prototype of VRFB that can efficiently store and utilize renewable energy for a wide range of applications. Here is a brief on the versatile energy research being conducted in the institute…

It is always useful to recycle the waste material. Recycling process consumes about half of the energy to produce same quantity of products, which would have been otherwise made from the virgin materials... - Nidhi M J, Shaikh Shamser Ali

NTPC, India’s largest power generating company will use treated sewage water at its Dadri Power Station.

Renewable Energy India (REI) E-Expo, South Asia’s first virtual renewable energy event by Informa Markets in India (formerly UBM India) concluded on a successful note 9th June 2020.

World’s largest Energy from Waste Plant in Dubai; which is also significant as one of the various projects for the conservation of natural resources,...

Currently, less than half of the energy used in industrial processes, transport or households is actually utilised. The majority of primary energy still escapes...

Aemetis, Inc. (AMTX) has closed its second $25 million, 20-year term loan guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a total of...

Hybrid energy systems can be potential solutions for the electricity problems in the rural region. However, vast research is needed in this aspect to make it technically feasible to be deployed at these areas. - Dr. Vikramaditya Dave, Dr. Sujit Kumar

Solid-Oxide fuel cells (SOFC) According to developers, solid oxide fuel cell technology would be among the most in demand. Researchers at Harvard School of Engineering...

The projects will ensure the United States’ leadership across all segments of the growing global bioeconomy.

Global technology leader Seiko Epson Corporation (Epson) is planning the construction of the company’s first biomass power plant, in Iida City, in Nagano Prefecture,...

With rise in the use of renewable energy, its cost of installation is coming down very rapidly, the post-COVID19 development packages must be spent on building sustainable power systems with more renewable energy plants… - P.K Chatterjee

GE Power and Marinus Energy revealed a pilot project to capture Isopentane gas and use it as a fuel source for generating electricity.

Mahatma Gandhi, father of nation and founder of Union bank of India once told – Mother Earth will Provide Every Thing for Human Need but not Greed. Fast depletion of resources like fossil fuels, ore coupled by exponential population growth and aspiration for higher quality of life will slowly make earth – warm, highly polluted, having no minerals or fossil energy resources. So to save this planet from resource crunch – one of the answer is Green Building. - Dr Shivaji Biswas

In areas with consistent wind resources, wind energy systems, or wind farms, present an opportunity for larger-scale rural electrification. These systems consist of multiple...

Here’s the story of Sweden’s waste-to-energy revolution and what India can learn from it.

Coal–fired power stations are the least carbon efficient power stations in terms of the level of carbon dioxide produced per unit of electricity generated, and gas is the best. On an average 2.095 pounds of carbon dioxide per unit of electricity generated is produced in coal-fired power plants... - Mayadhar Swain

Generation of heat from combustion was the first man made source of energy in addition to natural source of energy i.e., light. Our ancestors, though with plenty of heat resources, were very intelligent, environmental friendly and well aware of energy conservation. - Dr S S Verma

The government has decided to add 80 GW thermal power capacity by the year 2031-32, as Power demand of the country has increased at...

Methane pyrolysis It is a fundamentally new technology that splits natural gas or biomethane directly into the components of hydrogen and solid carbon. This process...