Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has unveiled the first indigenous high temperature fuel cell system.
It was launched in partnership with Indian industries under the flagship programme “New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative (NMITLI)”.
A fuel cell is an electrochemical device which directly converts the chemical energy of a fuel into electrical energy.
In a fuel cell, the fuel and the oxidant, which is usually oxygen or air, are supplied continuously from an external source and power is also drawn continuously.
In a conventional battery, on the other hand, the fuel and the oxidant are contained within and when these reactants are consumed the battery must be replaced or recharged.
A high temperature fuel cell using a solid oxide electrolyte, and operated at temperatures above 700°C, is a highly efficient energy conversion device utilizing primarily gaseous fuels like H2and CO.
It can also be operated in the reverse manner as a high temperature steam electrolyser to produce hydrogen.
It would replace Diesel Generating (DG) sets and help reduce India’s dependence on crude oil.
CSIR
It was established in 1942 as an autonomous body, though mainly funded by Ministry of Science and Technology.
It is registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860.
Prime Minister is the ex-officio president and Minister of Science and Technology is the ex-officio vice president of CSIR.
It runs 38 laboratories/institutes, 39 outreach centers, 3 Innovation Centers and 5 units throughout the nation.
CSIR Achievements – It developed India’s synthetic drug – Methaqualone in 1950.
It completed the complete sequencing of the Human Genome.
It established first ever in the world 'Traditional Knowledge Digital Library' accessible in 5 international languages - English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish.
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize was established by CSIR in 1958, named after its founder.
The research categories - Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Earth Sciences, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary, Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, Medical Sciences & Physical Sciences are eligible for the prize.
Cyberdome
It is Kerala State police department’s premier facility dedicated to prevent cybercrime and mitigate security threats to the State’s critical information infrastructure.
It is the state-of-the art lab with enabling software to crackdown the criminal activities over the Darknet.
Darknet is a layer of the Internet accessible only by using special software like Tor (The Onion Router), or I2P, which stands for Invisible Internet Project.
Websites and information on the Darknet are intentionally hidden and cannot be accessed using traditional search engines like Google.
Its impermeability become a major platform for drug dealers, arms traffickers, child pornography collectors and other criminals involved in financial and physical crimes.
In order to handle these type of crimes, cyber-surveillance tools to detect and convict those responsible for industrial espionage.
Cyberdome has used social engineering as the lynchpin of its policing strategy to snoop on radical groups that use the net for extremist activities.
