An innovative energy-efficient 3-pan Jaggery Furnace and matching Crusher have been developed catering to Jaggery-makers in this largest sugarcane producing area of the country where Jaggery furnaces operate round the clock from roughly October to

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Baked products like cakes and biscuits are becoming popular in rural areas as ready to eat foods. Most small towns have shifted completely to electric or LPG fired ovens. The oven capacity is usually too high to meet the relatively lower demand

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TIDE has also developed a range of attachments for its stoves. These are designed as inserts, add ons, spares to increase the life of the stove. The end user can thus have to option of replacing only some stove parts instead of changing the stoves. 

With increasing biomass fuel prices, the trend among commercial kitchens is to shift to lower cost fuels like agricultural residues, saw dust, and carpentry wastes. The PYRO MSG stove is designed for institutional and commercial kitchens that us

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The multi-purpose (MP) stove is a versatile stove designed to cook all kinds of food and meet needs of roasting, boiling and frying. It is designed in a range of sizes to cook meals, fry chips etc. It is ideal for big and small street food vendo

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The value of the food vendor market in India is estimated to be Rs 816 billion. This dense and competitive market, requires fuel efficient technologies to save fuel costs, improve the working atmosphere for the cooks and extend their productive

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Most poor households in rural areas cannot cook their entire meal in LPG. They need low cost wood burning stoves to cook their daily meal. The Sarala stove constructed locally using mud and other local materials has been well accepted in south I

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An integrated system for providing power and water to small village was planned and designed.  This system provides 3 key inputs for agri based rural community –Water (for irrigation & safe drinking water using water purifiers, Electric lig

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MCRC has developed a simple, cost effective method to convert different type of agricultural, industrial and commonly available wastes into charcoal by slow pyrolysis method in the absence of oxygen at low temperature using kiln.  The ki

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MCRC has designed and developed various biogas systems to produce methane for sustainable fuel supply in rural areas. Various substrates like cow dung, food waste, vegetable waste, algal biomass and leaf biomass of different plants have been tested for bi

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MCRC developed solar stills for converting brackish water to potable water. MCRC has developed different types of solar stills for converting brackish, sea, or any poor quality water into safe drinking water. Apart from solar water distillation units, des

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The solar jacket charges automatically under the sun and stores the energy for use during the night. Even if the Jacket is put into hanger on sunlight, the batteries get charged and can be used in night time.

The biometric based ‘BS-ATM’ is designed which is User friendly (Based on A/V touch interface) and at the same time avoids the use of cards, PIN and paper. This ATM is also energy efficient and environment friendly as it involves the use of solar energy to power it.

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Communities residing in and around the forests in the Terai regions of Uttarakhand,Uttar Pradesh and Bihar known as WWF-India’s Terai Arc landscape have been using traditional wood fired cookstoves for preparing meals and for heating water. They have been collecting fuel wood mostly from th

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Rural areas in Indian Himalayan Mountains are
facing grave energy crisis and high dependence on
fuel wood due to cold climate poses a potential
threat to the ecology, health of household inmates
and involve women drudgery in fuel wood/ dung
collection.
Collection of

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Anaerobic fermentation of suitalbe materials  such as agro residues, kitchen wastes etc. produce biogas in samll quantities useful for house hold applications. This digester is made from locally available components.

In present condition solid waste management is a big issue, the solid waste is generated at domestic, commercial and agricultural levels which is to be managed and treated in a proper manner so that it can  be used as energy source and also be less polluting. The traditional systems of dumpi

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With more than a decade of experience in R&D in fuel efficient cooking technologies, TIDE had designed cook stoves for domestic and commercial use and also made them 'Ready for market.  These stoves are wood burning, fuel efficient and prevent indoor air pollution.  There are stoves

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In the rural edges of the country, there are mud walled houses either with thatched roofs of hay or with the GCI sheets.  The use of GCI Sheets was very commonly found in many parts of Tripura during a survey conducted by the NBIRT. The dampness within the houses is the root cause of m

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The hand operated molding machine developed by IIT, Kharagpur were existing in this area. Pressing machine, in which the dye is heated by a stove using biomass as fuel. This machine was tested and found to be easy to operate by tribal families. This machine does not require electricity. It can

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Rubber latex after treatment needs to be dried, either in sun or through smoke houses. Mitraniketan Core Support team has developed a fuel efficient rubber sheet drier affordable to small farmers, in cooperation and consultation with IISc, Banglore.

Smoke houses are owned b

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India has an energy problem. There is a huge urban-rural energy divide. Urban India is having a largely subsidized commercial energy while rural India is primarliy dependent on dwindling sources of non-commerical primary energy. Both are non-sustainable in the long run. Equally important is the p

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The conventional sources of energy are coal and petroleum, which is exhaustible, therefore renewable energy sources are, required which are continually replenished such as Read more »

Problem/Need: It is an age old practice to use dung cake as cooking fuel in villages. The alarming fuel prices and depleting biomass from the forest leave no option for community other than this. Considering this issue, HESCO developed manual machine and tools to reduce the drudgery of women and

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Solar drier is a device where solar energy is captured through photovoltaic cells and transferred to the chambers connected to it and this energy is utilized for drying the samples. At MCRC, a solar drier to dry 50 kg of vegetables/fruits/ 10 kg of leaves was fabricated. The advantage of our m

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This technology addresses the management of agro waste generated during agricultural operations and converting them as useful products. This technology was adopted from ARTI, PUNE during 2006 and modified for easy operation. A prototype model kiln was developed during DST Young Scientist Progr

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It is human powered generator to charge batteries. It is mainly a solution for lighting homes of remote communities, areas with high rainfall, nomadic people etc. Target group are schools in tribal areas, Dairy/ Poultry farmers, disaster relief etc. Key Advantages- 60W generator , Easy to pedal e

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Shortage of energy is one of the main challenge everywhere. Many villages still have to spend nights in the dark. Kerosene lamp are still used at many houselhold. Nomadic people, who are always moving from place to place in search of livelihood. It is not feasible to provide them lights using gri

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Firewood, woody agrowaste Such as stalks of cotton and pigeonpea are burnt directly in domestic and large sized community wood burning cook stoves. A traditional rural cook stove, made of unfired clay, has a very low efficiency, it produces a lot of smoke and soot and it has a life of just a coup

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Because most agricultural species are herbaceous, agricultural waste is generally in the form of leaves and thin stems. The act of threshing also results in generating powdery agrowaste. Agrowaste in these forms cannot be used as fuel in a wood burning stove, but it can be converted into charcoal

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The traditional biogas technology, based on cattle dung, is useful only to households having at least 6 to 8 heads of cattle. Because of the low rate of gas generation per unit mass of dung, and long reaction time of about 40 days, the smallest domestic digester has a volume of about 2000 litres.

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