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RGPV, DCE to produce biodiesel vehicle
A TECHNOLOGICAL seminar was organised on Friday at the Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV) on ?Design and Development of a Biodiesel Hybrid Vehicle? that will be a joint venture of RGPV and Delhi College of Engineering (DCE).
A TECHNOLOGICAL seminar was organised on Friday at the Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV) on ‘Design and Development of a Biodiesel Hybrid Vehicle’ that will be a joint venture of RGPV and Delhi College of Engineering (DCE).
Abhishek Agrawal, the team leader of the DCE hybrid car team, along with the team members Nitesh Gupta and Siddharth Arora shared their expertise on the design and development of the DCE hybrid car that charted a success story last year at the American Green Car Festival held at Saratoga Springs, New York, USA.
The DCE Hybrid was the first hybrid car of India indigenously designed and developed by seven-member students team under the guidance of Prof P B Sharma, the then Principle of DCE, who is now the Vice-Chancellor of RGPV.
The RGPV and DCE joint venture of the biodiesel hybrid vehicle is a novel idea of a new-age vehicle that shall be both environment-friendly ahead of today’s Euro-IV emission standards and will be a highly energy-efficient.
The car will be powered by an independent mode switching system, which will enable the vehicle to run as zero emission level in urban traffic conditions.
The car will utilise high-capacity energy storage batteries and an energy efficient biodiesel engine. The RGPV is already developing a biodiesel park on its campus and has already planted about 1500 oil-producing plants on the campus which will be further scaled to a 10-acre energy farm.
The RGPV team would be headed by Dr V K Sethi, Head of Centre of Energy Technologies, and will be supported by Tasneem Ahmed, who is currently developing a new biodiesel production technique based on bio-enzymes.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Sharma said that he wanted RGPV to make effective contribution to the success of the National Mission on Biodiesel and Energy Security by the innovative design and development of biodiesel vehicle.
The seminar was attended by the members of the faculty and post-graduate students of RGPV including Dr S N Verma, Dean Faculty of Technology; Dr Deepti Jain, Head School of Pharmacy; Prof R K Mani, Director, SIRT, Bhopal.
Presentations were also made on green pharmacy by Dr V B Gupta of BRNCP, Mandsaur, who shared the new innovations in green pharmacy and the outcome of the recently held innovation summit organised by FICCI at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
