Monday, February 27, 2012

Effective recycling of autos can generate two million tonnes of steel by 2020: Chidambaram


 
Chennai:
Effective recycling of automobiles can generate two million tonnes of steel, 150,000 tonnes of aluminum and 75,000 tonnes of rubber and plastics by 2020, according to Dr R Chidambaram, principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India.

Delivering the inaugural address at the Confederation of Indian Industry conference on “Automotive R&D Trends 2015”, here on Monday, he urged the automobile industry to show the same drive towards the disposal chain as it has done towards the supply chain, the events which happen after a car or motor cycle reaches end of useful life.

He said producing recycled aluminium requires only 7 per cent of the electrical energy required to produce aluminium from the ore.

He also said the Ministry of Heavy Industry and the automobile industry have set up a demonstration centre for automobile recycling at Oragadum in Chennai and Industry has donated large numbers of cars and two wheelers to kick start the center.

Stating that Chennai has the right environment to become a hub for automotive research and development activity, he said plans are on to set up Combustion Research Institute in Indian Institute Technology Madras. This joint initiative by IIT Madras and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will  be backed by department of science and technology.

He also said that the Collaborative Automotive Research and Development (CAR) and Faunhofer Group of Germany is working on a pilot project on “Joining and Compatibility of Aluminium, Steel and  Plastics (Multijoin).

He said the intelligent automobile systems in India are possible only if the Indian automotive sector optimally utilizes the research and development capabilities of the academic institutions and national laboratories

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