Dehydration Technologies Facility (DTF), Fire and Combustion Research Center, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University)
Fire and Combustion Research Center is actively involved in developing technologies in the area of fire and combustion. The research carried out in the area of advanced biomass combustion devices and valorisation of food products has culminated into a technology for dehydration of food products which can be taken to commercial scale.
FCRC-DTF is an Experience Center for Food Processing and Valorisation where the primary objective is to demonstrate technologies for processing of food/biomass (pre-processing and post processing) at a commercial level. This facility will act as a knowledge sharing center for all the stake holders – farmers, budding entrepreneurs, students, researchers and business community.
FCRC-DTF developed the technology for drying of all kind of agri-produce by integrating it with FCRC patented technology for Advanced Waste Biomass Combustion Device. This is first of its kind system in the area of dehydration as it’s encompass the efficiency, quality of dried products, economics of operation under the umbrella of sustainability. Reduced drying time as low as 4 hours, ability to dry multiple material at the same time, ultra-low electrical power consumption, use of food waste based fuel for the operation are some of its unique characteristics.
Fire Safety Training & Industrial Tour
On 26th July 2024, 40 students from Renewable energy, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) - School of Sciences, Department of Physics and Electronics, JC Road, Bangalore participated in the fire safety training event organised at Fire and Combustion Research Center, JAIN Global Campus, Jakkasandra.
Students were engaged in class room training and were imparted with basics of fire science and fire safety. Various classes of fire and the means of firefighting by FCRC experts. Students were also shown demo on firefighting. Various sustainable development activities in the area of bio energy, solar energy were also demonstrated to the students as part of the event.
JIRS
2 batches of Grade III students from JAIN International Residential School, JAIN global campus, had visited FCRC as a part of their Field visit. Various classes of fires, Dehydration technology and other lab activities were demonstrated as part of the event.
BIS Meet
Dr. C S Bhaskar Dixit, Director, FCRC has attended the ‘International Standards Summit 2024’ being organised by BIS in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on 4th and 5th July 2024 at Taj Yeshwantpur, Bengaluru.
BIS MEET : Dr. C S Bhaskar Dixit, Director, FCRC, participated in the Mandatory One-Day Workshop cum-Brainstorming Session for Technical Committee Members of Bureau of Indian Standards at National Institute of Training for Standardization, Noida as a principal member of CED36, sectional committee for fire safety on 5th August 2024.
Over 280 students from faculty of engineering and technology of JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) participated in the event. The Inaugural ceremony was presided over by Vice President of JGI Sri Ravindra Bhandary. Sri Venkatesh, Senior Director (Engg), Honeywell set the context for the event. Smt Meena Prasad, University Relations Manager from Honeywell represented Honeywell in the event. Event was judged by Mr. Sameer Tripathi, Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Honeywell and a team of 9 engineers from Honeywell. This was jointly organized by FCRC, FET & Honeywell Technology Solutions.
Chetlur Vasundhara’s team of 4 was declared winner with an award of INR 60 thousand, Arastu Thakur’s team of 4, was rewarded INR 45 thousand as the 1st runner up and Kampili Akkash’s team of3, was rewarded Rs. 25 thousand as 2nd runner up.
Few participants may get opportunity to extend their workin Honeywell. Honeywell has expressed interest to conduct more such programmes with JAIN in future.
Dr. C S Bhaskar Dixit, Director, FCRC was invited to IIT Dharwad as an Academic Expert Speaker, for the workshop on’ Drone Design and Autonomous Navigation in Fire Rescue in Fire’ during 31st May - 1st June 2024. He delivered the presentation on the topic ‘Large Pool fires for qualification of fire suppression products and challenges in energetics’.
Expert-led-sessions and hands-on-sessions were the major highlight of the workshop.
Mrs.Priyanka Shukla (Sci./Engr-SF) & Konduru Naresh (Sci./Engr-SD), from VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram had visited FCRC on 21st March 2024, for a discussion on the possibility of fire safety aspects of pyrophoric chemicals. The discussion involved Prof. HS Mukunda and Prof. CS Bhaskar Dixit along with FCRC team.
Plenary Talk at 14th International High Energy Materials Conference & Exhibits 'Expedition towards excellence in energetics' by VSSC ISRO on Safety aspects in High Energy Materials by Prof. Bhaskar Dixit, FCRC Jain University held on 2nd.February 2024
Plenary talk on Practical applications of Stove/Combustors in National workshop on Biomass based cleaning solutions held at Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute Of Bio-Energy, Kapurthala, Punjab by Prof. Bhaskar Dixit, FCRC, Jain University held on 29th February and 1st March 2024
3 days ONGC training programme was organised from 13th to 15th September 2023 at FCRC. 17 officials participated in the programme.
2 residential training programmes were organised by UL, for ONGC Fire Service Executives from various parts of India, at FCRC.
3 days ONGC training programme was organised from 11.01.2023 to 13.01.2023 at FCRC. 20 officials participated in the programme.
3 days Short Term Course on Fire Safety was organised to Chola MS- Risk Services during November 16-18 '2023. 21 officials participated in the programme.
Date: 28/07/2023 No. of participants: 26
On 12th April 2023, ULJFL had the honour of hosting Ms. Karine Johnfroe, Vice President and General Manager for Built Environment Business, UL Solutions, USA. The visit aimed to explore potential future collaborations and identify areas for those. The event started with a warm welcome extended to Ms. Johnfroe by the JGI team.
Dr. C S Bhaskar Dixit, the Director of FCRC, presented an overview of the research activities being carried out at ULJFL. After the presentation, the lab tour was conducted, which included a UL 162 Fire Test Demo. The demonstration showcased the testing procedures and the capabilities of the UL-JFL Lab.
The visit was wrapped up with a high tea. The team departed from the Global campus by 4.00 pm. The UL team included Mr. V Srinivasa Desikan - Regional Sales Director, Mr. Suresh Shanmugam - Asia Pacific Leader, Mr. Renoy Rajan - Engineering Leader South Asia, Mr. Jomy Joseph - Regional Sales Manager, Ms. Swati Tyagi - Marketing Lead of Built Environment, and Mr. Gaurav Banerjee - Sr. Business Manager South Asia. The JGI team included Dr. Bhaskar Dixit - Director of FCRC, and Mr. M S Parswanath - Director of Projects and Facilities, JGI Team FCRC.
Overall, the visit was a success, and we look forward to future collaborations with UL Solutions.
Dr. C S Bhaskar Dixit, Director, FCRC was invited as chief guest for the NDS celebration at Satish Dhawan Space Center, Shar Sriharikota Range of ISRO. The programme was on 9th March 2023.
About Prof. Palakat Joseph Paul [1950-2012]: Department of Aerospace Engineering of Indian Institute of Science, has contributed significantly to Research & Development in the areas of combustion instabilities and biomass gasification. His student community is spread across academic and R&D organizations of Government of India.
The 8 th PJPaul Memorial Combustion Researchers’ meet was held during 3 rd & 4 th March 2023 and was hosted by Fire and Combustion Research Center, Jain (Deemed-to-be University) at its facility located at Jakkasandra. The meeting is conducted every year in memory of Prof. PJ Paul, an eminent scientist in the field of combustion, propulsion and renewable energy. FCRC-Jain hosts this meet for the 3 rd time at its facility and over 50 participants from various institutions, research labs including professors from IITs, IISc and DRDL participated in the meeting. The theme of the 8 th meet is “Developments in Combustion Science Based Technologies”. The meeting was conducted for two days and over 20 presentations were resented under 9 sessions chaired by eminent scientists and discussions were made intensively on each topic. Apart from presentations, posters were also displayed in the leisure bay to make it interactive during high tea breaks. Over a dozens of posters were presented and the poster topics attracted very good interactions among the scientists and students. A lab tour was also organised in which the participants were introduced to various fire suppression tests and combustion exploratorium – aimed towards understanding fire and combustion through model demonstrations. A variety biomass combustion devices were also displayed in operating mode. On campus accommodation were provided to outstation students and scientists who had opted for it from the previous day (March 2 nd , 2023) onwards at HIMALAYA Hostel and dining was organised at Suvidhi on all the days. The event also received financial sponsorship from DRDL, Hyderabad.
Day-1: Friday, March 3rd,2023: The day started with registration of the participants and the meeting was inaugurated following the welcome speech by Dr. Bhaskar Dixit, Director, FCRC-Jain. There were five sessions during the day. All the sessions went well as planned, Session-1 was chaired by Shri. G Sivaramakrishna, Scientist from GTRE. Prof. Santosh Hemachandra gave his talk on Learning RANS model parameters from LES using Bayesian inference and Dr. MSR Chandramurty on Thermo-chemical exploration of dual mode scramjet, effect of wall temperature on mean flow. Session-2 was chaired by Shri. P Venugopalan, Former Director DRDL.Shri V Prabakar, Scientist, GTRE presented on Small gas turbine engine and challenges involved in the manufacturing of expandable engine and certification for which methods need to be evolved. Dr. Shankar, scientist from GTRE spoke about Challenges in Critical Technology Development for Indigenous Kaveri Derivative Engine. Session 3 was chaired by Prof. Joseph Mathew, IISc. Aerospace engineering. Shri. Kali Prasad, Scientist from ISRO (Sriharikota) presented on Pressure and thrust oscillations in large segmented Solid rocket motors. and Prof. Varunkumar gave his talk on Towards a computational framework for predicting and optimizing combustor pattern factors. The session was followed by lunch at Suvidhi and the interactions with scientists from ISRO opened its way to an honorable invitation as Chief Guest to Director FCRC, Dr., Bhaskar Dixit for the Safety week ceremony held at ISRO, Sriharikota. A group photo was taken post lunch. Post lunch there were 3 talks and Prof, Varunkumar, IITM, chaired the sessions 4&5. Shri. Kiran Pinumalla, Scientist – VSSC gave his talk on Solid Propellant Burning Rate Measurements using Ultrasonic Technique – Current status; Dr. Irfan Mulla spoke on Quantification of laser-based techniques for measurement of mixing field and soot concentration and Dr. Pratikash Panda presented his Insights into swirling flow and flame dynamics in gas turbine combustors: From laboratory scale to full scale combustor. The day ended with poster demonstrations and final sum up by Dr. Dixit followed by Tea and visit to combustion exploratorium where scientists from FCRC demonstrated various combustion devices revealing combustion principles and patented bio-mass combustion devices of recent times developed at FCRC.
Day-2: Saturday, March 4th, 2023:- The day started with welcoming of the participants from various scientific groups and from Industries by Dr. Dixit. The day had 4 sessions and the first session (session 6) was chaired by Prof. H S Mukunda. Dr. Himanshu from NIBE spoke about Recent advancements in biomass cook stoves. Dr. Sowriraajan (FCRC) presented on Exploring 0.1% probability extinction behaviour of Incense Sticks and Shri. Sachin Payyanad (FCRC) A Novel approach for dehydration of fruits & vegetables using advanced biomass combustion device. At the end of this presentation, Shri. MS Parswanath, Director- Projects and Facilities (JGI) announced the launch of Spray Drying Technology Facility under FCRC aimed at developing sustainable spray drying technology and which can also be treated as central research facility for the interested groups involved in this activity. This would help to promote sustainable products to the market. The session was followed by two sessions after a brief tea. Session-7 was chaired by Prof. SN Sridhara, Vice Chancellor, HITS University. Dr. Sudheer, IITDh gave his talk on Characterization of 0.2 m double pool fires: flame height. Dr. Shivakumar (FCRC) presented his work on Can small scale pool-fires replicate fire extinguishment of large fires and Shri. Saju Eugine spoke about Challenges in providing active fire protection systems in modern industries andϵ warehouses. Session-8 was chaired by Prof. Debasis Chakraborty, Mahindra University. Dr. Ravi Kiran presented on Deceleration Transient Response Improvement of Aircraft Engines with Active Lean Blowout Sensing and Control. Dr. Anilkumar presented on Development of Models for Passive Catalytic Recombine following which was lunch break. Post lunch a group photo for the day was taken.
The Fire and Combustion Research Centre (FCRC) of JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) demonstrated the Advanced Biomass Combustion Devices (ABCD) at the “Kisan Krishi Mela” organised by Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) between 22-09-2022 to 27-09-2022 in Punjab.
The FCRC of JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) signed an MoU with Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (SSSNIBE) to collaborate and work in the area of biomass combustion.
The ABCD stoves use biomass energy, and are designed for both domestic and industrial purposes. These devices can be the best sustainable alternative for the future energy requirements. Many other Bio-mass based stoves like Vertical Ejector Based Combustion Devices (VEBCOD) and Horizontal Clean Continuous Combustion Device (HC3 D) by FCRC were also displayed during the event.
Dr. Bhaskar Dixit, Director, FCRC visited SS-NIBE to deliver a lecture in the National Training Program on 'Renewable Energy Technologies: Recent advancements and Techno-Economic aspects’, from 28th Nov to 1st Dec 2022.
Dr. Bhaskar Dixit, Director, FCRC anchored a session in fire safe workshop for estate managers organised by Bangalore Apartment Federation and Beyond Carlton at Ballal residency on Saturday the 3rd of December where Dr. A Ve Sowriraajan presented on NBC part IV along with Dr. A Shivakumar.
14/07/2022 : Dr. G Sridhar, DG - NIBE visited FCRC for discussions on possible collaborations with FCRC in the area of application development and popularization of patented stove technologies of Jain.
Industrial visit of the Station officers course trainees from National Fire Service College, Nagpur visited our fire suppression lab. The participants consisted of senior members of the firefighting fraternity of India who are in command of Fire stations in various parts of India. more...
Venue: Seminar hall
1000 - 1100: Welcome, Introduction to UL-JFL, Summary of capabilities of UL-JFL
Venue: Fire Lab
1100 - 1200: Fire extinguisher test equipment demo
1200 - 1300: 20 B pool fire demo and full scale expansion ratio demo
1300: LUNCH (Venue: leisure bay, UL-JFL)
The programme was very well received by the participants and they have complemented the knowledge and professionalism demonstrated by the FCRC team.
Activity Report on International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2022
In view of International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2022 celebrations , FCRC and its team actively participated in the event. Following are the details of the event participation.
Team from FCRC successfully demonstrated different stoves at Govt. College of Engineering Kannur on date. Different models ranging from 1.5 kg/h. 3.5kg/h, dosa tawa system, carbonised was showcased in the event and over 500 people attended the event to see and understand the new technology. There was participation from hotel, caterers and other industry apart from the domestic use customer. As a continuation of the event, an awareness talk was conducted for anganwadi teachers and self-help groups
The sanitary pad system was demonstrated at a tribal school in Odisha. The system is based on 3.5-6kg/h Advanced waste Biomass Combustion Device(ABCD) and will be able to dispose 40 nos. of sanitary pads in 30 min cycle. Training session was also conducted for the women to impart them the skill of using the device in a systematic way.
7 Days Summer Internship Programme National Fire Service College Students- 18-24th Dec 2023
The 3rd internship programme of two weeks (27th Sept-12th Oct. 2021) was conducted for BE (Fire Engg) students of NFSC, Nagpur. 5 students participated for the programme. The programme completed successfully with the feedback sessions and the certificate distribution.
Total Energies team visit to FCRC on 9th March 2024 for R & D on their new products.
Saint Gobain Team Visit To FCRC Jain University on 12 Mar 2024
Fluence team visit to FCRC Jain University on 22 Mar 2024
JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) continuously works towards providing its scholars a research and development platform.