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CECRI Madras Centre,
established in 1971, in this complex is one among the three
centers of Central Electrochemical Research Institute,
Karaikudi 630 006. This Centre has been recently transformed
into a full fledged R&D Centre for select electrochemical
power systems namely Fuel cells, Supercapacitors and
Electrochemical solar cells. The focus of this
Centre is to act as a nucleas for developing functionally
better performing cost effective electrochemical power
delivering systems of the above mentioned devices through
creation of new knowledge and its transformation into
application oriented utility. The present R&D thrust is on
Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell (PEFC), Direct Methanol Fuel
Cell (DMFC) , Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell (DBFC), Super
capacitors (Supercaps) and Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC).
To meet the challenges in the above mentioned activities, the
center is geared now for developing appropriate components and
systems involving interdisciplinary approaches of
Electrochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and
Computational methods.
The Centre has been recently
reconfigured with state of art facilities with following
laboratories namely (i) Electrocatalysis Laboratory, (ii)
Materials Characterization Laboratory, (iii) Preparative
Laboratory, (iv) Electrode Fabrication Laboratory and (v) Fuel
cell assembly and evaluation Laboratory. The Centre is also
equipped with LAN connection with Broad band internet
connectivity for accessing global knowledge base on specific
areas of interest and latest developments.
The following are
the major instrument facilities created at this Centre:
1.
Electrochemical work station
2.
Multistat Potentiostat / Galvanostat with Frequency Response
Analyser
3.
Membrane Electrode Assembly preparation facilities
4.
All in one laboratory for preparative chemistry.
5.
Fuel cell testing stations
6. Universal Testing Machine specific to polymer based samples |
