MoA Signing of DBT- Pan IIT Center for Bioenergy—Press Release
Pan IIT centre for Bio-energy launched
DBT formalizes virtual centre for research on advance
bio-fuel technologies like cyanobacterial bio-fuels, bio-fuels from
micro-algae, ligno-cellulosic biomass to bio-fuels and also on techno-economic
and life cycle analysis
The Department of Biotechnology
(DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India launched the “DBT-Pan
IIT Centre for Bioenergy”, a virtual Centre spread across 5 Indian Institutes
of Technology; Bombay, Kharagpur, Guwahati, Jodhpur, and Roorkee and
coordinated by IIT Bombay signing a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) on September
3, 2015.
The first virtual centre for
collaborative research will focus on the thematic areas of research in advance
bio-fuel technologies.
The collaboration initiated in January
2015 and engaged a research team from the five participating institutes consisting
of 32 investigators who have been working on bio-energy and will jointly undertake
research activities in the following thematic areas: Cyanobacterial Biofuels,
Biofuels from micro-algae, Ligno-cellulosic biomass to Biofuels and
Techno-economic and Life Cycle Analysis.
Though the first virtual centre,
it is the fourth centre in Bio-energy research set up by DBT in addition to the
DBT-IOC Centre for Advanced Bioenergy Faridabad, DBT-ICT Centre for Energy
Biosciences, Mumbai and DBT-ICGEB Centre for Advanced Bioenergy, New Delhi.
This is also the largest among the four Bioenergy Centers in terms of
investigator participation.
The Centre also aims to develop a
mutually beneficial relationship with the bio-energy industry in India.
Memorandum
of Agreement was
signed between DBT and the participating 5 IITs on Sep 3, 2015 in
presence of Prof. K VijayRaghavan, Secretary DBT. The meeting was
attended by Dr.RenuSwarup
(Senior Advisor, DBT), Prof. Devang Khakhar (Director, IIT Bombay),
Prof. Pradipta
Banerji (Director, IITRoorkee), Prof.Gautam Biswas ( Director, IIT
Guwahati), Dr.Sangita Kasture (Joint Director, DBT), Prof.Pramod
Wangikar (Coordinator of the
Centre, IIT Bombay), Prof.V.Narayanan (IIT Jodhpur) and Prof. Saikat
Chakraborty
(IIT Kharagpur).
The main objective of this centre
is to develop advanced technologies in the area of biofuels, paving the way for
a sustainable solution to the energy crisis.
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