| Patent Title | A dehydration of tetrahydrofuran/water via extractive Distillation using solid NaoH |
| Department | Chemical Engineering |
| Year | 2025 |
| Faculty Name | Prof. S. B. Thakore |
| Status | Published |
| Abstract | Country's exponential economic growth over past decades have led to rise in energy demands. Today the most fundamental component of modern civilization and sustainable global economy is energy, its demand and its production capacity. India's primary energy demand will get twice from 2011 to 2030, making India the second largest contributor to global energy demand by 2035. Over exploitation of fossil fuels have led to resource depletion and environmental damage. To meet the growing energy demand of nation, alternative sources of energy are near future globally. With this need, renewable sources like hydrogen powered vehicles, lithium-ion batteries and solar energy have gained attention in recent times. The major drawback for this alternative is the efficacy in comparison to conventional fuels and its commercialization due to entire change in production units. To reduce the dependency on fossil fuels and to solve the environmental problems there is a need of spontaneous and efficient alternative to overcome current energy crises. Biodiesel and ethanol blended fuels have already been into existence as a sustainable solution. India first blended petrol with 5% ethanol in year 2002 and till date the achievable blending is only 10%. National Policy on Biofuels has a target to achieve 20% blend by year 2030 under Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) programme. In India, the prices of ethanol are quite high globally due to raw material fixation for farmer's community. Hence to meet the set b |