IIT student uses sugar bagasse to generate electricity

Nagesh1

After eight months of pottering about in the lab, 22-year-old Nandan Kulkarni tasted sweet success when he managed to develop a technology that uses sugar bagasse – a waste product from sugar mills - to generate electricity. “The technology does not require any costly resources,” said Kulkarni, a fourth year undergraduate student of the Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay (IIT-B). “On an average day, sugar mills generate around 200 tonnes of bagasse and this can easily be used to generate part of the electricity that the mills require.”

Kulkarni’s project was one of the entries for a competition at Helios, the one-day technical festival of Department of Energy Science and Engineering at IIT-B that took place on March 18. Called GreenBiz, the event required participants to present sustainable energy technologies to experts. Thirty-five teams sent their entries for the event out of which 12 were short-listed. Kunal Upadhyay, who is a member of the incubation cell at the Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad’s and chief executive officer of Infuse capital, was one of the judges for the event.

More useful and practical solution from India.

mrsparkyman

I do not deny that this is a useful and practical solution, however I do deny that this is a new idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagasse#Use

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/sdissues/energy/op/parliamentarian_forum/deepchand_bagasse.pdf

If Nandan's method is a new one, I'd be interested in reading about it.

Cassidy

@Nagesh said:

More sweet and sickly solution from India.

FTFY.

blakeyrat

If you think India's been innovative when it comes to bagged asses, you should go to any Wal-Mart in the southern US.

Nagesh1

@mrsparkyman said:

I do not deny that this is a useful and practical solution, however I do deny that this is a new idea.

Bagasse - Wikipedia

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/sdissues/energy/op/parliamentarian_forum/deepchand_bagasse.pdf

If Nandan's method is a new one, I'd be interested in reading about it.