Researchers Led by IIT Delhi Develop Technology to Enable Use of Environment-Friendly Dimethyl Ether as Fuel in Automotive Vehicles
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Researchers Led by IIT Delhi Develop Technology to Enable Use of Environment-Friendly Dimethyl Ether as Fuel in Automotive Vehicles New Delhi: Researchers from the IIT Delhi’s Department of Energy Science and Engineering (DESE), Indian Oil Corporation (IOC R&D), and Ashok Leyland Ltd. have developed a technology, which enables a diesel-powered automotive vehicle to run in flex fuel mode i.e. either 100% diesel or Dimethyl Ether (DME) plus Diesel mode. The project was funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. Using this technology, the researchers converted a diesel-powered automotive vehicle into a flex fuel vehicle on a pilot basis. This flex fuel technology-based vehicle DOST was jointly flagged off on 8th April 2022 at IIT Delhi by Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar, Secretary, DST; Prof. Rangan Banejee, Director, IIT Delhi; Dr. SSV Ramakumar, Director (R&D), IndianOil; Shri. Krishnan Sadagopan, Senior Vice President, Ashok Leyland; Prof. Su