{"id":380148,"date":"2020-10-23T10:31:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T05:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=380148"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T06:06:26","slug":"with-tech-developed-by-ncl-green-fuel-operated-cooking-stoves-launched-by-dr-harsh-vardhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/with-tech-developed-by-ncl-green-fuel-operated-cooking-stoves-launched-by-dr-harsh-vardhan\/","title":{"rendered":"With tech developed by NCL, green fuel-operated cooking stoves launched by Dr Harsh Vardhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday launched a gas stove that operates on dimethylether (DME) blended with LPG, developed by scientists from city-based CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL). <\/p>\n<p>During his visit to NCL in September last year, the minister had inaugurated India\u2019s first pilot plant manufacturing this special mix of fuel \u2014 initially meant to operate cooking stoves. The plant was set up under CSIR\u2019s \u2018Catalysis for Sustainable Development\u2019 mission. <\/p>\n<p>Scientists have demonstrated an indigenous and patented technology for producing DME from methanol dehydration. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, stove prototypes were handed over to 11 beneficiary families residing on the NCL campus. The institute\u2019s canteen will also start using these stoves on an experimental basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday launched a gas stove that operates on dimethylether (DME) blended with LPG, developed by scientists from city-based CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL). During his visit to NCL in September last year, the minister had inaugurated India\u2019s first pilot plant manufacturing this special mix of fuel \u2014 initially meant to operate cooking stoves. The plant was set up under CSIR\u2019s \u2018Catalysis for Sustainable Development\u2019 mission. Scientists have demonstrated an indigenous and patented technology for producing DME from methanol dehydration. On Wednesday, stove prototypes were handed over to 11 beneficiary families residing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}