Amity develops sustainable tech to generate electricity, clean industrial waste water

The self-sustained system helps generate electric power from waste water

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A team of scientists and researchers at Amity University has developed a self-sustained system to generate electricity and clean industrial waste water.

The technology developed by the team helps generate electric power from waste water and simultaneously cleans the waste water without using any external source or material.

This newly developed system consists of two specially designed electrodes of different materials dipped in dark coloured industrial waste water, which in turn generates electric power and cleans the water. It is an electrochemical process where cleaning of water is done by its own generated electricity.

The trials were carried out with the sample water taken from River Yamuna under the Kalindi Kunj bridge at Noida, Uttar Pradesh. As a result of the trials, power of about 4 Watts was generated, which is sufficient to light an LED lamp for four hours approximately.

Subsequently, the system was successfully tested to light a tubelight of 10 Watt. This system can be further up-scaled and has a huge potential to be used anywhere to clean the industrial waste water while generating the electric power. It may be highly useful for the industries for generation of electricity and treating waste water.

Amity University prides itself on quality education, research and innovation in the latest and emerging areas of science & technology, management and other disciplines, including the field of interdisciplinary sciences. 

As a university driven by innovation, Amity is focussed on bringing about a meaningful change in the society by finding low cost, pragmatic solutions to real-life problems.

Amity has more than 10,000 faculties, 170,000 students, 5,000 PhD scholars with state of the art infrastructure facilities. The university has successfully conducted more than 300 research projects supported by major science & technology organisations at the national and international level. More than 1,323 patents have been filed and some of these innovations have been transferred to industry for commercialisation.