IIT Roorkee formulates project for utilizing forest bio residue for low carbon energy generation- Education News
Professor Vinay Sharma and Professor Rajat Agrawal from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), conceived a project on utilizing forest bio residue for low-cost energy generation.
The project called “Socio-Economic Value Creation through Forest Bio Residue Energy Generation in Alignment with the UNs SDGs” was granted and financially supported as a pilot project by the National Mission on Himalayan Studies under the Ministry of Environment and Forests Government of India and is focused on developing complementary source of low-cost energy generation from the forest bio waste residue as well as establishing sustainable management practices of indigenous green technologies in the Himalayan Region of Uttarakhand.
As per the project initiative plan, a total of more than 1000 quintals of pine needles from 100 acres of forest land was gathered with the help of the Forest Department, Uttarakhand.
These pine needles were crushed and processed with the help of machines and crushers designed and developed in the laboratories of IIT Roorkee and UPES, Dehradun. Prior to the launch of the project, community engagement and capacity-building programmes were initiated in the villages in the form of regular training and workshop sessions and focused group discussions between experts and locals.
Beneficiaries from the villages were provided a training cum workshop session to learn the installation and operations of briquetting machines and crushers where doubts and queries related to the operations and safety were addressed by the experts.
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