steering engineering to life
The information about various renewable energy gadgets are taken to the end users through extension activities of this department. Various field trainings, entrepreneurship programmes, seminars, short courses etc. are being conducted to impart training to officers, unemployed graduates, field workers, Non-Governmental Organisations, industrialists and farmers.
Biogas Trainings
In the Regional Centre for Biogas Training of this department, various trainings on biogas technology are conducted for self employed workers, masons, turnkey workers, staff and users of biogas gadgets. Various subjects such as construction of biogas plants, advantages, management and maintenance of biogas systems are focused in these trainings. The information on schedule of these annual trainings can be obtained from the Professor and Head, Department of Bioenergy.
Industrial Tie-up and Front Line Demonstration
Performance evaluation and demonstration of renewable energy gadgets are done using industrial tie-up programmes and different activities in farmers field. The activities made in the recent past are :
Biomethanation plant for sago effluent
Maruthambigai Sago Factory, Namakkal District
Solar tunnel dryer for sago rice drying
Amman Sago Factory, Erode District
Activities in farmer’s field
Front line demonstration of biomass gas stoves
Thondamuthur block, Marappalam (The Nilgris dist.) and Thennilai (Karur dist.)
Demonstration of horizontal flow biogas plant for vegetable and kitchen waste
Nandhagiri Educational Trust, Nandhagiri,Erode.
Demonstration of Modified Janatha plant
Muthur, Erode
Large number of TNAU model single and double pot chulha were installed in rural house holds of Tamil Nadu, Andaman and Nicobar islands, Pondicherry.
Seminars, short courses and rural meet
Apart from these trainings, seminars, short courses and rural meet are also conducted to make awareness about the activities of this department not only to the rural mass and those involved in renewable energy field.
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