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L-R: Advanced Detonation Spray Coating System
Outreach activities being conducted for the students
Unique Parabolic trough test rig
Indigenous Supercapacitor device
Induction Melting Furnace
Dr G Padmanabham, Director, ARCI
Automotive Energy Materials: Centre for Automotive Energy Materials of ARCI located at IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai, focuses on the development of lithium-ion battery technology and high performance magnetic materials and components Technology for Electric Vehicle (EV) and other automotive applications.
Materials Characterization and Testing: ARCI has established comprehensive capabilities
to obtain a complete picture of materials
by performing microstructural, structural, chemical (elemental), surface, and mechanical characterization.
Technology Transfer Models: ARCI’s commitment to provide materials-based technologies and solutions to industry and support the creation of technology-led ventures is reflected by the strategies that are continuously being evolved. In addition, ARCI is open to achieving
its goals in collaboration with renowned national and foreign institutes/laboratories as it does
not believe in reinventing the wheel. To further streamline the decision-making process, the
progress of the work from proof of concept to commercialization, unique Intellectual Property
Development Indices (IPDI) from level 1 to 10
and IPDI-based Collaborative and Technology Transfer Models have been developed.
CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL MISSIONS
Technical Research Centre for Alternative Energy Materials & Systems: This centre has been set up with a mission to develop unique, novel, and techno-commercially viable technologies in the area of ‘Alternative Energy Materials & Systems’ and, subsequently, transfer them to industrial organizations. Some of the major outcomes of this initiative are:
• Solar selective absorber coatings for medium and
high temperature solar thermal applications
• PEM Fuel cell stack up to 10 kW demonstrated
in several field conditions, including disaster
management
• 2.5 Nm3/hr of hydrogen production by
electrochemical methanol-reformer (ECMR) process.
National Centre for Materials and Manufacturing technologies for clean coal-based energy generation: ARCI established this national centre
in a consortium mode involving several IITs, NITs, national laboratories and industries. The centre houses both processing and testing facilities to