Launching of 3 solar energy centres done for a superb purposes
Posted on: 26/Jan/2019 10:49:47 AM
To bring researchers together from important academic institutes, scientists from national labs, experts from various industries and government departments to perform a work is not an easy task at all. On Friday, 25th of January 2019 to bring together the above mentioned personalities, launching of 3 solar energy centres was carried out. The purpose was to undertake research and development so that they could come out with customised solutions in the field of solar energy and water management.
Mr. Harsh Vardhan who is the minister for science, technology, earth sciences and environment, forests and climate change, launched 3 DST Technology mission centres set up at an amount of Rs 50 crores.
For the sake of getting better results at a faster rate, Mr. Harsh Vardhan urged scientists working across various academic institutes and other national laboratories to ensure coordination among themselves and with other researchers in foreign nations. He spoke about how the scientists could benefit from each other’s knowledge and experiences. The minister added that the presence of many science programmes present with the department of science and technology and how these programmes would be of high benefit for the scientists who wants to conduct research abroad or within India itself.
The important piece of information collected is one of the three DST centres is a test bed for solar thermal desalination solutions established by IIT Madras and Empereal KGDS in Narippaiyur in Ramanathapuram District to develop customised technological solution for water challenges in the arid coastal village. It was set up at an amount of Rs 3 crores is known. The objective of this was to produce good quality drinking water from sea water by solar powered forward osmosis.
It must be taken into account that the other 2 centres include the DST-IITM Solar Energy Harnessing Centre that would take up R& D activities such as silicon solar cells etc. Other areas where the centre would be working are solar thermal technologies, energy storage systems and utilising solar energies to produce fuels etc.
The superb information is researchers from IITM, IIT Guwahati plus from other important educational institutions like Anna University, Chennai, ICT Mumbai, BHEL, KGDS etc would be working together in the centre.
