IIT-Madras, Shell India open energy research centre

CHENNAI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras’ energy consortium and Shell India have partnered to launch ‘Shell IITM Centre for Energy Research’ (SICER), for research and development in the energy sector.

According to a release from the institute, the centre collaborates in bringing solutions for energy transition, incubation of energy startups by tapping industry-academia expertise. It will promote innovation, research, development, piloting and commercialization of technologies in the energy sector, it said.

The partnership also entails instituting the Shell Chair Professorship, which will enable knowledge exchange between Shell and IIT Madras, along with the continuation of Shell’s participation in the Energy Consortium. As part of the initiative, Dr Satyanarayanan Seshadri, IITM faculty and head of the energy consortium , was announced as Shell Chair Professor at IIT-Madras.

Dr Ajay Mehta, VP engineering technology at Shell, said, "This collaboration will further enable us to share our knowledge and resources with IIT-M while leveraging their expertise, R&D facilities, and innovation ecosystem to address one of the world’s most critical challenges – the energy transition.”

The Energy Consortium is a recognized Institute of Eminence Centre at IIT-Madras that covers a spectrum of research in energy generation, storage, conversion, and distribution, with industry-academia-government collaboration. The core expertise areas at the consortium include carbon capture and storage, gas hydrates, coal and biomass conversion to useful chemicals, renewable energy technologies, electrolyser technologies for CO2 conversion and green hydrogen generation, energy storage technologies beyond lithium, and distributed energy management including for AC and DC microgrids.


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