Transcript CST PRESENTATION - Center for Sustainable Technologies

Centre for Sustainable Technologies
(formerly ASTRA)
Indian Institute of Science
BROAD AREAS of R & D
• Bioenergy Technologies
– Biomass gasification, biomethanation, improved wood
burning devices (cook stoves, driers, kilns, etc.)
– Technology generation and transfer/dissemination
• Alternative building technologies
– Technology generation, training and
transfer/dissemination
• Defluoridation of Water & Sanitation Program
• Hazardous waste management
• .Forestry, sustainable biomass production and climate
change
BIOMASS GASIFICATION
Technologies / Designs
• Biomass gasifiers for
power generation
• Capacity:
20 kW to 1000 kWe
Technology transfer
Impacts / investments
• Village electrification – 4 - Installed capacity
Village Elec. 145 kWe
• On-going village
electrification - 25
-100% HH electrification
-2500 HH to be electrified
• Industry captive power and
grid connected – 20
- Captive and grid Power
2500 kW
- Inv. Rs. 120 mil
Thermal Gasifiers
Upto 5 MWth
Industrial application – 8
• 1 MW – 500 to 1 MWe
rating
•Improved processing
BIOMETHANATION
Technologies / Designs
Technology transfer
Impact/ Investment
Community biogas for rural
electrification
– Optimized designs
Village electrification –
17 villages
Home lighting and
water supply
•Reliable electricity in 17
villages
•No. of HH electrified - 1800
•Inv. Rs.10 mil
Bioreactors for Coffee effluent
•Multi-feed high rate bioreactor
process
No. of sites – 17
Capacity – 1700 kg
COD/d, 92% removal
Municipal solid waste treatment
No. of plants – 1
Capacity – 90m3
Biomass plants for cooking
•Solid phase and plug flow
processes.
On going –
25 villages
•Gas production for multiple
end uses
•Effluent treatment 504, 000
litres per day
•Inv. Rs. 5 mil
•Gas for multiple end uses &
•Waste treatment
•1 town 50,000 population
•Gas for cooking for all HH
•No. of HH = 2000
•Inv. Rs. 10 million
Alternative Building Technologies
Technologies/
designs
-Stabilized mud blocks
-Lime-Pozzolana Cements
-Composite mortars
-Pre-cast and prefab roofs
-Ferro-cement roofs
-Masonry vaults and domes
-Filler slab roofs
-Earthquake resistant
buildings
-Solar passive architecture
Technology
transfer
Impact/
Investment
>12,000 buildings
nationally
Energy efficient &
improved buildings
>4000 buildings in
Gujarat after the Bhuj
earthquake
Homes for earth quake
victims
Training technology
carriers
Energy conservation
Environment
conservation
Trained entrepreneurs,
employment generation
Wood Burning Devices
Technologies / Designs
Technology Transfer
• Cook stoves: 1.55
million HH
Efficient smokeless
cook stoves
• Bath stoves: 3300
• Institutional stoves:
4000
Agro-products driers:
spices, fruits,
Driers: 1000
vegetables
Impacts
• Fuelwood
conservation: 0.5 t/yr
•Improved quality of
life for 1.5 million
women
•Entrepreneurship
and employment
•Investment: Rs.300
million
• Enhanced economic
value of Agro-products
•Investment: Rs.27 mil
Defluoridation & Rural Sanitation
Technologies / Designs
Domestic
Defluoridation
Technology
Rural sanitation
program
Technology Transfer
Impacts
• 15 liters domestic
defluoridation units
• 100 liters
defluoridation units
•Health benefits for
rural people drinking
fluoride-contaminated
water
•Improved life quality
Under progress
• Improved sanitation
& hygiene conditions
Forestry, Biomass Production, Climate Change
• Developed and promoted mixed-spices forestry for
biodiversity conservation & sustained yields
• Developed Nursery practices manual for 100 tree
species
• Estimated Sustainable biomass production potential for
energy for India
----------------------------------------------------------• Climate change mitigation technologies, potential, costs
and projects
– Forestry
– Bioenergy technologies
– Renewable energy technologies
• Bioenergy for Rural India and Climate Change Mitigation: A
large project prepared by ASTRA,
– Funded by UNDP-GEF
– Implemented by Govt. of Karnataka
• Climate change science and policy making
FUTURE PLANS: R & D
• R & D in new interdisciplinary areas
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Sustainable bioenergy technologies
Water and sanitation; sustainable water
Environmental quality standards
Sustainable construction technology
Toxic sludge management
Climate change mitigation and adaptation