{"id":2132,"date":"2019-11-16T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winfoundations.org\/?page_id=2132"},"modified":"2020-06-28T04:01:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:01:53","slug":"chakra-household-tds-reduction-device-using-electrostatic-principle-and-nanotechnology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.winfoundations.org\/chakra-household-tds-reduction-device-using-electrostatic-principle-and-nanotechnology\/","title":{"rendered":"Chakra Household TDS reduction device using electrostatic principle and nanotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<b>Partner organization : Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Project Leader :\u00a0Dr. C. Subramaniam, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A research project, to develop a rural household nano technology based water purifier, through capacitive deionization, using carbon nanotubes coated cellulosic threads as anode and cathode. It handles water upto 4000 TDS, with less than 5% water wastage, and running on a single 1.5 V cell. As against this, a typical RO system consumes more electricity and has over 50% water wastage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Objectives:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reduce TDS in water at house-hold level \u2013 for upto 4000 TDS<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wastage &lt;=5%\u00a0 (as compared to &gt;50% in RO plants)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nano-technology filters based electrostatic deionization<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Achieve cost efficiency of less than 1 Rs\/litre<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>WIN is supporting for the following:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To convert its laboratory scale product into a prototype for field testing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">50 prototypes under production &#8211; To be tested in various usage conditions with actual users in underdeveloped areas. Additional prototypes may produced at very low incremental cost<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prepare plan for a sustainable social business enterprise with objective to progress further to enable for production optimized design, mass production and nationwide marketing with a strong social impact focus.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About Indian Institute of Bombay (IITB) and Dr. C. Subramaniam<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Project Leader : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chem.iitb.ac.in\/?q=facultyuserview\/139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. C. Subramaniam<\/a> is Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry,\u00a0 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Established in 1958, as an institute if national importance, IIT Bombay has grown from strength to strength to emerge as one of the top technical universities in the world. The institute is recognised worldwide as a leader in the field of engineering education and research. Reputed for the outstanding calibre of students graduating from its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, the institute attracts the best students from the country for its bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and doctoral programmes. Research and academic programmes at IIT Bombay are driven by an outstanding faculty, many of whom are reputed for their research contributions internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more details, visit the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iitb.ac.in\/\"><b>IITB<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0 website.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Publication on\u00a0 Water Treatment \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1TBcvJs5XOvQ3taTFqMwM8_s9x-UZJxaj\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>ACS Applied Material and Interfaces<\/strong> <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(click here)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IIT Bombay\u2019s very low power water filter \u2013\u00a0 <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/iit-bombays-very-low-power-water-filter\/article20219779.ece\">The Hindu online Article<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (click here)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bottom-up approach to capacitive deionization \u2013 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/17azIbQWCRArhPxjWPsopy46TE4wGKWsL\/view?usp=sharing\">Presentation<\/a><\/strong> (click here)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_media_grid element_width=&#8221;3&#8243; gap=&#8221;20&#8243; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1593316659692-30766ae5-f862-10&#8243; include=&#8221;2084&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Partner organization : Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay Project Leader :\u00a0Dr. C. Subramaniam, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay\u00a0 A research project, to develop a rural household nano technology based water purifier, through capacitive deionization, using carbon nanotubes coated cellulosic threads as anode and cathode. It handles water upto 4000 TDS, &hellip; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winfoundations.org\/chakra-household-tds-reduction-device-using-electrostatic-principle-and-nanotechnology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chakra Household TDS reduction device using electrostatic principle and nanotechnology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winfoundations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winfoundations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winfoundations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winfoundations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winfoundations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.winfoundations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/www.winfoundations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2132\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winfoundations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}