I. faculty members and students ofIndian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay Has won a $250,000 grant to create a tri-modular technology to remove carbon dioxide on a large scale from source points of emissions and convert them into salts. A grant has been provided to a team of students by the XPRIZE Foundation, a part of the Elon Musk Foundation, at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. The student body is also known as ‘SASIITB’. It includes Srinath Iyer, Anvesha Banerjee, Srishti Bhamare and Shubham Kumar.
According to an official release from the XPRIZE Foundation, the team of students from IIT Bombay is among 23 student-led teams that have won the $5M ‘Carbon Removal Student Competition’. The foundation said prizes of $250,000 each have been awarded to the various teams competing to receive funding for early-stage concepts of carbon removal.
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The Foundation has stated that winning teams can use this grant to compete in the upcoming round of the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition. The winning team can use the grant to develop key assistive technologies for carbon dioxide removal.
SASIITB, which represented India in the competition, won a grant to create a tri-modular technology for large-scale carbon dioxide removal. Iyer, one of the members of SASIITB, explained that carbon dioxide emissions from biomass-based power plants and other industries can be captured using various solutes or solvents.
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“And a solvent containing carbon dioxide can be reacted with alkaline wastes to generate a permanently sequestered mineral carbonate, as well as regenerate the solvent in the integrated CO2 absorption mineralization cum regeneration of the solvent which IAMR (integrated CO2 absorption-mineralization and regeneration of absorbers) process,” Iyer was quoted as saying by Business Today.
According to Iyer, the mineral carbonate generated after the IAMR process can be used as an alternative material. It will also help in avoiding indirect carbon dioxide emissions, he added. Worldwide, the management of carbon dioxide waste generated by many industries is still a major problem.
The XPRIZE Foundation announced grants to the winning teams at the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP-26 in Glasgow on 11 November.
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