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From the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, a team of researchers, including two professors and three students, have been able to develop a method of producing a catalyst that will be used for converting all the chemicals in biomass waste to the precursors needed for biofuel.
A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H) have come with a rather simple but innovative technique to combine a catalyst that will help in converting the chemicals that are produced from different biomass to the precursors of bio-fuel. The catalyst that had been developed using the IIT-H researchers displayed a better efficiency and selectivity that the more commonly and commercially used catalysts that are required to develop the C15 oxygenated hydrocarbon, which is a precursor to diesel as well as jet fuel.
The development will help India immensely, especially the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana as well as Uttar Pradesh, as these are the states that are the largest production houses of corn in India. Which means, that a large amount of corn waste is also produced, which ends up being burnt. Due to negligence and lack of any knowledge on the various uses of the corn along with the dearth in the expertise and technology needed to convert corncob waste to the useful resource, has resulted in such wastage.
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Sources have stated that the research by the researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad can result in becoming an additional source of income for the farmers of corn, along with providing the necessary environmental solution to the increasing pollution and carbon footprint in both the aviation as well as the automobile industry, especially since the production of the catalyst is efficient and cheap.
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The team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad include two professors, viz. Assistant Professor from the Department of Material Science and Metallurgical Engineering and from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Prof Sunil Kumar Maity. There were three other research students, viz Dr V Mohan, K Alekhya and D Damodar, who had contributed to the research paper as well.
