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Significant Achievements
- Use of the technologies proposed by the institution in all the 22 existing central washeries (installed capacity 38 million tonnes of coal per year) and upgradation of high ash Indian coals by beneficiation to augment coking coal reserves in the country.
- Selection of optimum coking blends for steel plants, characterisation of available coking coals, commissioning of coke oven batteries, development of improved designs for beehive coke ovens (non-recovery type) and standardisation of specifications and testing of coke for BIS.
- Development of solvent refined coals (SRC), a coking additive from non/weak - coking coals that would help reduce prime coking coal component or imported coal brands in the coke ovens in the steel plants.
- Process development of indigenous sand for caking index (import substitution) and reactivity of coke/ char, development of carbon molecular sieve for gas separation, utilisation of low-ash metallurgical coke (LAMC) as heating medium in the production synthetic graphite and substitution of synthetically calcined anthracite by LAMC for alumina reduction cell.
- Basic studies on the structure of coal that have led to valuable information useful in the production of coal fertilizer, sponge iron using non-coking coal, briquetting and formed coke, prediction of tar formation demineralization of coal and auto oxidation and spontaneous combustion in mines and stacks.
- Development of a series of zeolite catalysts for the production of industrial chemicals like 2-, 3- & 4-picolines and pyridine.
- Monitoring of air, water, soil and affluents with a view to combating environmental pollution by different industries; evolving national standard for SPM in stack emissions of coke ovens and briquetting plants; collaboration with MOEF for total methane budget from Indian paddy fields; study of CO2 emissions from coal-based industries; and utilization of fly-ash in agriculture as a source of essential plant nutrients and soil conditioner.
- Development of coke/ coal based efficient home chulhas under the NPIC of Department of Non-conventional Energy Sources.
