Flex Fuel Green Hydrogen CNG Engine Project at IIT Madras

Storing solar energy as 'green zinc' for low cost,safe & sustainable stationary energy storage for grid independent housing

Objective

• Considering the phenomenal move to EVs, the nonavailability of battery charging or swapping stations will be a bottle neck for transportation in the remote areas and small villages. The proposed strategy will alleviate this issue of transportation simultaneously maintain zero-carbon emission.

Description

• The project will be split into two phases, where in the first phase rigorous testing of prototype at a site at IIT Madras will be conducted, and in the second phase field testing in a village shall be carried out. The pitfalls identified from Phase-1 will be rectified and the advanced version of the prototype will be transferred to the Phase-2 testing.

Impact

• a. A grid-independent protype housing of 20 to 25 m? powered by 8 kW solar panels coupled with 30 kWh mechanically rechargeable zinc-air batteries and corresponding recharging station, b. Understand the state-of-the-health (performance drop of batteries and recharging station), and system failure, and transfer the learning to design and develop advanced and robust grid-independent green housing system, c. Correlation of life-cycle and performance assessment of the batteries and recharging station as a function load usage and solar availability in Chennai (IIT Madras) respectively.