Projects


 

Details of the Externally Funded Projects

    A. Center of Excellence

DST-IIT Delhi Energy Storage Platform on Batteries (ESPOB)

ESPOB is a consortium of 6 Institutions and an Industry partner along with International Institute. The consortium is working on cutting-edge research on Electrochemical Energy Storage material s and Devices. Please visit http://espob.iitd.ac.in/ for more details.   

    B. On-going projects

25.
Title of the Project   : Design, Development and Demonstration of 1kW (1kWh) Vanadium   
                                    Redox Flow Battery for Stationary Application (PI)                      
Funding Agency         : DST, New Delhi
Duration                    : 2019 – 2022

24.
Title of the Project   : Development and Deployment of Redox-flow Battery Energy Storage for
                                    Rural Electrification (PI)
Funding Agency         : MHRD, SPARC, New Delhi
Duration                     : 2019 – 2021 

23.
Title of the Project   : Development of Efficient Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRFB) using
                                    Assisted Inner-Sphere Electron Transfer and Higher State-of-charge  
                                    Management (PI)
Funding Agency         : SERB, DST, New Delhi
Duration                     : 2017 – 2020 

22.
Title of the Project    : Investigation of Non-assisted Low Temperature Start-up of PEM Fuel Cell
                                    Current Efficiency for Gold Deposition and Gold Recovery from Effluent
                                    (PI)
Funding Agency         : ISRO
Duration                    : 2017-2020

21.
Title of the Project    : Improvement in Electrolytic Gold Refining Process through Optimum
                                    Current Efficiency for Gold Deposition and Gold Recovery from Effluent
                                    (Co-PI)
Funding Agency         : Under UAY
Duration                    : 2017-2019

20.
Title of the Project   : High Performance Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries based on Redox Active
                                    Polymers and Janus membranes (Co-PI)
Funding Agency         : DST, New Delhi
Duration                    : 2019-2022

19.
Title of the Project   : Low coast, Flexible crack free Metal Oxide/Conducting polymer Inverse
                                    Opal structures for Supercapacitors (Co-PI)
Funding Agency         : DST, New Delhi
Duration                    : 2018-2021

    C. Completed Projects/consultancies

18.

Title of the Project   : Low-cost and Efficient MFC Materials for Bioelectricity Production
                                     from Waste Materials (Bio-e-Mat) (PI)
Funding Agency         : DST (International Division)
                                    (Collaborators: IICT Hyderabad, TUT Turkey, and YTU Finland)
 
17.
Title of the Project   : Redox Flow Batteries for Electric Energy Storage
                                    (Coordinator)
Funding Agency         : GIAN, MHRD
Duration                     : 2017

16.
Title of the Project   : Development of Solar Powered Microbial Fuel Cell (photo MFC) for
                                    Integration with Photo Fermentative Biohydrogen Production for
                                    Bioelectricity Generation (PI)
Funding Agency         : DBT, New Delhi
Duration                     : 2014 – 2015

15.
Title of the Project   : Evaluation of Technical Feasibility of Dr. Jitendra Kumar Barthakur’s
                                    Invention to Generate Electricity through Electrolysis (C)
Funding Agency         : Dr. Jitendra Kumar Barthakur, New Delhi
Duration                    : 2016 – 2016

14.
Title of the Project   : Development of Electrochemical Reactor and Solid Electrolyte for
                                    Efficient Conversion of CO2 into Value Added Products (PI)
Funding Agency         : DST, New Delhi
Duration                     : 2012 – 2015

13.
Title of the Project   : Development of Aluminum Degreaser and Shiner (PC)
Funding Agency         : Motichem Centre, Guwahati
Duration                     : 2014

12.
Title of the Project   : Development of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell using
                                    Indigenously Prepared Low Cost Composite Bipolar Plate (PI)
Funding Agency         : CSIR, New Delhi
Duration                     : 2010 – 2013

11.
Title of the Project   : Fabrication of Low Cost Dense Palladium Composite Membrane for
                                    Hydrogen Energy Applications (Co-PI)
Funding Agency         : DST, New Delhi
Duration                    : 2011 – 2014

10.
Title of the Project    : Evaluation of Hydrogen Storage Properties of Metal Nano-structures (Co-PI)
Funding Agency         : CSIR, New Delhi
Duration                      : 2011 – 2014

9.
Title of the Project   : Development of Composite Membrane for Carbon Dioxide Electro-
                                    reduction (PC)
Funding Agency         : CRERE, Saudi Arabia
Duration                     : 2010 – 2011

8.
Title of the Project    : Development of Chemical Engineering Virtual Laboratory (Co-
                                     developer)
Funding Agency         : MHRD, New Delhi
Duration                     : 2009 – 2011

7.
Title of the Project  : Development of Web Course for Heat Transfer Operations (Developer)
Funding Agency         : MHRD, New Delhi
Duration                    : 2009 – 2011

6.
Title of the Project   : Development of Web Course for Fuel Cell Technology (Co-developer)
Funding Agency         : MHRC, New Delhi
Duration                     : 2009 – 2011

5.
Title of the Project  : Development of Direct Methanol Fuel Cell based on Hybrid Nafion
                                   Membrane (PI)
Funding Agency        : DST, New Delhi
Duration                    : 2007 – 2010  

4.
Title of the Project   : Development of Polymer Composite Bipolar Plate for Polymer
                                    Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PI)
Funding Agency         : BRNS, DoE, Mumbai
Duration                     : 2007 – 2010   

3.
Title of the Project   : Construction of Enzymatic Bio-fuel Cell for Biomedical Application
                                    (Co-PI)
Funding Agency         : DBT, New Delhi
Duration                     : 2007 – 2009    

2.
Title of the Project   : A Preliminary Project Report on “Generation of electrical power from
                                    small quantities of gas available in isolated pockets of oil fields” (Co-PC)
Funding Agency         : Oil India Limited, Duliajan, Assam
Duration                    : 2007   

1.
Title of the Project   : Development of Enzyme Electrode for the Construction of Cholesterol
                                    Biosensor (Co-PI)
Funding Agency         : CSIR, New Delhi
Duration                    : 2007 - 2010