{"id":33001,"date":"2020-11-02T04:49:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T04:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=33001"},"modified":"2020-11-02T04:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T04:49:49","slug":"iisc-iocl-signed-mou-for-hydrogen-generation-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/iisc-iocl-signed-mou-for-hydrogen-generation-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"IISc, IOCL signed MoU for hydrogen-generation technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Bengaluru based Indian Institute of Science and R&amp;D Centre of Indian Oil Corporation have signed an MOU to develop and demonstrate biomass gasification based hydrogen generation technology for producing fuel cell-grade hydrogen at an affordable price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Both IISc and Indian Oil will demonstrate the technology in the Indian Oil R&amp;D Centre in Faridabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The technology is crucial for the fuel cell operated buses being conceived by Indian Oil towards ushering in the country\u2019s hydrogen economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian Oil Corporation had recently launched trials of 50 buses in Delhi using hydrogen-CNG as a fuel, based on Indian oil patented single step reforming technology. It is now working with IISc to use hydrogen production technology based on biomass gasification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IISc has worked on biomass gasification and developed an innovative process for the production of hydrogen rich syngas and a small scale prototype is demonstrated in the IISc campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The use of this technology will not only provide a cleaner energy option for India but also be a step towards addressing the challenge of biomass waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bengaluru based Indian Institute of Science and R&amp;D Centre of Indian Oil Corporation have signed an MOU to develop and demonstrate biomass gasification based hydrogen generation technology for producing fuel cell-grade hydrogen at an affordable price. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Both IISc and Indian Oil will demonstrate the technology in the Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":33002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1329],"tags":[68],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-33001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2020","tag-science-technology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33003,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33001\/revisions\/33003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33001"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=33001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}