Projects

Projects

Environmental Status Report and estimation of Carbon footprint for Pune City

June 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011
| Completed Project

The objectives of this project are: (1) To prepare Environmental Status Report for the year 2009-10; (2) To estimate the carbon foot print of Pune city (PMC limits.

IGES CDM Capacity Building in India for FY2010: To enhance identification and development of CDM projects

June 1, 2010 to June 22, 2012
| Completed Project

Main objective of the project are:1. To conduct research on the experience of the CDM Project development in large energy intensive sectors2. To propose the CDM reform basd on the CDM capacity building activities in India

Project Surya

June 1, 2010 to April 7, 2012
| Completed Project

The main objectives of this phase are: (1) Design and testing of a low cost wood cutter, which can be used by women easily for fuel processing without being dependent on their male counterparts; (2) Qualitative and quantitative assessment of the usage pattern of fuel and corresponding kitchen air BC concentration capturing seasonal variation in select village households;

Truing up for year 2004-05 to 2008-09 and detrmination of tariff for year 2010-2011 for Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam and ARR 2010-11 of Chabbra Coal based power plant

June 1, 2010 to September 15, 2011
| Completed Project

This project comprises of the following two parts. 1/Truing up for year 2004-05 to 2008-09 and detrmination of tariff for year 2010-2011 for Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam - this involves a pudential check of the annual accounts of the 5 power plants from FY 2004-05 to FY 2008-09 so as to revise the ARR. There would be preparation of True up model of ARR for these plants.

Database on Indian Transport Information

June 1, 2010 to August 15, 2011
| Completed Project

TERI will develop a framework for collecting, compiling, and maintaining data/information on the Indian transport sector; and an on-line databases.

Review of Comprehensive Mobility Plans

June 1, 2010 to February 22, 2011
| Completed Project

The objective of this project was to explore urban sustainability with respect to the provision of basic services in Indian cities. The project was aimed to serve as a step towards the larger goal of developing a framework for guiding Indian cities towards sustainability.

Energy audit of the French Embassy

May 31, 2010 to January 11, 2011
| Completed Project

In this project, following activities will be taken up: -baseline energy audit of the existing buildings, -detailed analysis and -guidelines which will act as design brief/framework for the proposed new building

Bioleaching of heavy metals from spent catalyst used in petroleum refineries and scale-up studies

May 18, 2010 to April 2, 2013
| Completed Project

Bioleaching of metals like Ni, Mo, V from spent petroleum refinery catalyst using Acidiiobacillus thioxidans which utilizes sulfur to produce sulfuric acid and metabolites which enhances the leaching process of metals from the catalyst matrix.

SEARCH Ambassadors (Sensitization, Education and Awareness on Recycling for a Cleaner Habitat)

May 16, 2010 to March 21, 2012
| Completed Project

The project aims at instilling good waste management practices among the students and teachers and through them to the larger community. In this project we strive to ensure that the schools are involved in garbage collection and send it for recycling to the identified recycling units. The phase I of the project was implemented in Delhi and Bangalore with 30 schools each in both the cities.

Igniting young minds: Climate EduXchange Phase II

May 15, 2010 to May 10, 2011
| Completed Project

The overall objective of the current project will be to build on the existing project ¿ Climate EduXchange Phase I by further focusing on enhancing key climate change issues amongst students and teachers of all disciplines, reinforcing and promote their engagement on these issues with each other through the website that has been created ¿ www.climateeduxchange.org .