Project Description

Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research Centre

This facility is catering to the research, testing and prototyping needs of new Electric & Hybrid vehicle development. The centre provide the necessary support and ecosystem to students for fulfilling their dreams of working on cutting age technologies in frontier areas of electric and hybrid vehicles. The broad Research areas are:

Renewable Energy system: Energy harvesting, Fuel Cells and hydrogen forming, Photo Voltaic technologies, Thermoelectric energy, solar water-splitters.

Renewable Fuels: Bio fuel and Hydrogen fuel Systems

Combustion system: Performance and minimize pollution of combustion and propulsion systems, plasma-enhanced combustion of hydrocarbon fuels and development of a soot less diesel engine;

Green transportation: Solar powered vehicle, Batteries and energy storage, Hybrid vehicles, Advanced and hybrid power trains, alternative fuels and combustion processes;

Waste Management: Recycled materials, pyrolysis of waste

Facilities for Student

  • Expert guidance for student from start to finish of their projects
  • Manufacturing and Testing equipment for motor, controller, fuel testing, solar testing, power generation testing, fuel cell test rig etc.

 

Faculty In-charge:

Dr. Isham Panigrahi

Technical Asst. In-charge:

Mr. P. K. Panda
  • Two-seater Solar Car
  • Exclusive Solar Car
  • Electric-Bike
  • Hybrid Electric Solar Car
  • Electric Solar Vehicle
  • Solar Boat
  • Biodiesel Car
  • Three-wheeler solar car
  • Ultra-solar vehicle

List of successful Student Research Projects participated in national competitions:

  • Exhaust Air Purification System Using Plasma Technology ,[2017] ,KPIT Sparkle.
  • Boosting the efficiency of solar PV power management system for charging of EV & HEV by using U-Cap Technology,[2018],KPIT Sparkle.
  • Oxy-Hydrogen hybrid electric vehicle by using I-boost technology, [2018], KPIT Sparkle.
  • Fuel extraction on plastic waste by thermal plasma using pyrolysis with advance ITEG System, [2019],KPIT Sparkle.
  • Increasing efficiency of Piezo-Powered management System for charging battery using U-Cap Technology, [2019],KPIT Sparkle.
  • Generation of electricity from waste Aluminium Dross by using Half-Cell Technology, [2020],KPIT Sparkle.
  • Boosting the efficiency of a hydrogen fuel cell with E-thermal management system by using Grove method,[2020],KPIT Sparkle.
  • Wireless charging of Electric Vehicle battery system from RF sources by using rectenna methodology,[2020], KPIT Sparkle.