The objective of this DST project is selection of suitable materials, study of its corrosion properties under fuel cell conditions, optimization of procedures for hydroforming including die design, different sizes, identification of suitable thickness of material, gasketing of the flow field plates, stack assembly techniques, stacking of multicells-short stack and large stacks (50 cells).

ARCI is working on development of biodegradable (BD) alloys and additive manufacturing (AM) of soft tissue anchors in collaboration with WIPRO 3D, India, Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Germany and KCS Europe GmbH, Germany. The objectives and deliverables of the project are given below:

• Technology for the production of BD alloy powders for AM
• AM Technology for the production of soft tissue anchors
• Surface modification of BD implants
• Testing of BD implants in animals

Overall Project Goal: Develop and implement advanced ultrafast laser surface texturing technology for automotive components that improves the engine efficiency.

The specific objectives are:

• To establish an ultrafast laser surface texturing facility suitable for all geometries and to study the effect of process parameters on dimple/texture aspect ratio and predict optimum process parameters
• To apply laser surface texturing to upgrade the tribological performance of selective automotive components
• To study the influence of texturing pattern, dimple orientation on the emission and performance characteristics of engine
• Practical and Economical aspects of the implementation of laser surface texturing technology for automotive applications

The deliverables are:

• Development of ultrafast laser surface texturing system for inner bore of cylinder liner, piston rings and connecting rod eyes of an automotive engine.
• Microsurface texturing technology for three automotive engine components

Solar Energy Research Institute for India and US (SERIIUS) Consortium project

ORC Collector and Optical Materials & Thin film PV absorber Material Consortium partners: CSP: ARCI/NREL/IISc/Thermax; PV: ARCI/NREL/Purdue University/ Corning Inc./ IITB

The project is with the objectives to develop a cost-efficient parabolic trough solar collector for ORC system (CSP) & Scalable ink based technology that produces high-quality photovoltaic materials (PV). In this project ARCI’s focus in CSP for the development of cost efficient receiver coating with high absorbance and low emission and high weather stability with the ultimate aim of indigenous receiver design development for ORC based collector system whereas in PV for the development of CIGS absorber by non-vacuum routes like ink-printing and electrodeposition. In this a key focus is to use of flex-glass substrates, including proprietary Corning substrates for the CIGS thin film solar cell development.

Design and Development of Cost Efficient Solar Receiver Tube for Medium and High Temperature Solar Thermal Applications (DST- SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH INITIATIVE:SERI)

Project Partners: Indian Institute Technology Madras & Empereal KGDS Renewable Energy Pvt. Ltd)

The key objective of the project is to develop indigenous receiver tubes for Medium and High temperature concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) applications. In this, ARCI’s focus is development of high temperature stable selective absorber coatings have a high selective properties (Solar abs (α): > 95%; Thermal emissivity (ε) at 4000 C < 0.2) and antireflective coatings have a high transmittance (>95% T) in broad solar spectral range with high weather and thermal stabilities with the ultimate aim of prototype receiver tube development for demonstration in the real field condition.

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Improvements in gas turbine performance

The objectives of this DST-EPSRC project, 'Improvements in gas turbine performance via novel plasma spray coatings offerings protection against ingested species', are to obtain improved understanding of how ingested species can cause degradation of the performance of ceramic coatings in gas turbines and to identify effective measures to counter these effects. Explore the scope for using variants of the conventional plasma spray process, notably Solution Precursor Plasma Spray and the over-spraying of "scavenging" outer layers, in order to counter sintering effects within protective coatings (promoted by ingested species) and hence to improve their thermo-mechanical stability is also the objective of this project. Identify the coating formulations with improved resistance to CMAS/VA-enhanced degradation through the use of rare earth zirconates based ceramic powders as well as solution precursor derived coatings are the targets of this project

Development of 2.5 Nm3 ECMR for fuel cell application

The objective of this DST project is development of electrochemical methanol reformer (ECMR) short stack based on lower cost components, development of next generation stacks (1.0 Nm3/hr) to reduce the voltage drop in the stack and its continuous operation, development of 2.5 Nm3/hr of hydrogen ECMR stack with the improved performance, alternative stack design, components & reduced / indigenous BoP components, integration of ECMR with commercial hydrogen compressor unit, development of simple and efficient control monitoring system for ECMR operation, integration of ECMR with control system, continuous testing of integrated reformer for 500 hours, analysis of all the components after integration and testing.

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The key objective of the project is to develop and demonstrate an indigenous erosive wear resistant coating for helicopter engine compressor blades and vanes. An optimized TiN coating was developed using Cathodic Arc Physical Vapor Deposition (CA-PVD) technique and supplied 510 no.’s of coated blades and vanes for field testing. The coated blades/vanes successfully completed 300 h of flying and RCMA Chandigarh has issued the final clearance for ARCI TiN coatings.

The objectives of the project are: (i) to scale-up the production of nano-DAP fertilizer up to 10 kg per batch by establishing a higher capacity cryo-milling facility (65 L) at ARCI, (ii) Optimise the process parameters to achieve the suitable powder properties in large scale and (iii) supply of large quantities of n-DAP to the University of Hyderabad for field trials.

DST-STORAGE MAP (ICMAP)-Automation and AI/ML-Assisted Development of Solid State Battery Technology

Synthesis of modified LFP (carbon coating/doping of metal ions such as Nb3+, Ni2+, Zn2+, Zr4+, etc.), which can be used for the fabrication of high capacity and high energy density Li- ion cells by adopting solid state/wet chemical method.

Development of modified LTO (carbon coating/ doped- La3+) with 1.0 V working potential and capacity of more than 200mAh/g by adopting Solid state/Wet Chemical method.

Centre for Electrochemical Energy Storage Design, Development, fabrication and evaluation of utility Scale high performance batteries

Establishment of the pouch cell assembly line for the fabrication of pouch cell with the specification of 3.2-3.7V, 10 Ah

Fabrication of module (48V, 30-40Ah) using Li-ion pouch cell and its demonstration for 2W application

Alternate Energy Materials and Systems. The project consists of many modules and are given below:

A1. Li-ion Batteries for EVs (Materials for Li-ion batteries and manufacture of LIB Cells)

A2: Motors for EVs and various other automotive applications

A4 and A5: Development of PEMFC for stationary application

A6: High temperature stable nanocomposite selective solar absorber coatings for high temperature CSP applications

A7: High transparent dust repellent coatings for PV panels and Aluminium reflectors

A8: Application Demonstration of Indigenous Supercapacitors

A9: Broadband anti-reflective coatings for CSP and PV applications

B5: Large area perovskite solar module for rechargeable portable electronics

N1: Development and Demonstration of PEM based ECMR for hydrogen generation

N2: Low-cost sodium-ion battery for energy storage applications

N3: High energy lithium ion batteries

N4: All-solid-state lithium ion batteries for improved safety and energy density

N5: Demonstration of Metal Oxide based Asymmetric Supercapacitors

N6: Development of Electrode Materials for Lithium – Sulfur (Li-S) batteries

N7: Development of Indigenous Thermal Energy Storage Prototype System and Integration with Existing CST Test-Rig for Solar Cooling Application