Providing safe, widespread, and equitable access to sustainable energy is one of the key challenges of our time. Centre for Alternate Energy Research (CAER) UPES, hosts world-leading researchers who see this challenge as an opportunity to help future generations inherit a better world. Our interdisciplinary program brings together innovators from many departments, including the School of Applied Science, School of Engineering, School of Health Sciences and School of Business.
We are working on different alternative energy resources using advanced technology. Currently, we are working on biofuel production from waste agricultural and forest biomass by thermal and biological routes, plastic waste to energy and other value-added products, microalgae biofuels. CAER actively seek national and global collaboration with industry, academia and all levels of government and private bodies.
List of equipment at CAER
• Solar Thermal Pyrolysis reactor (15 Kg/batch)
• Digital pyrolysis reactor (50 Kg/batch)
• Lab scale floating type Biogas production plant (6-80 m3 / day)
• Pilot scale CSTR Biogas plant (40 m3/day)
• Algae Photobioreactor
• Open ponds
• Vacuum Oven
• Hot plate magnetic stirrer
• Heating mantle
• Chirpine grinder
• Refrigerator
• Centrifuge
• Fuel Combustion and Emissions analysis set up
• Solar cooker
• Emission analysis kit of cooking stove
• Soxhlet extraction Unit
• Hydrothermal Liquefaction reactor
• Gasification Reactor (Downdraft gasifier, 15 Kg/ atch)
• Briquetting Machine
• Municipal solid waste segregator
• Screw press expeller
• Hot air Oven
• Lab scale Biodiesel reactor (1, 5 and 100 L/ batch)
• Plastic shredder machine
• Muffle furnace
• Vacuum Oven
• Hot plate magnetic stirrer
• Heating mantle
• Chirpine grinder
• Refrigerator
• Centrifuge
• Fuel Combustion and engine Emissions analysis set up
• Multifuel cooking stove