Latest Achievements

CSIR Lab	Name/title of technology	Brief Summary	Actual date of development / Announcement in Public domain
NML	Battery Recycling Pilot facility	Realizing the potential of battery recycling to meet the critical demand for Lithium, Nickel, Manganese, and Cobalt, and adhering to India’s Atmanirbhar EV mission, the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur with the support of CSIR-Bulk Chemical Mission, has commissioned CSIR’s First Battery Recycling Pilot Facility at its campus. This facility encompasses 1TPD battery dismantling and cathode material separation setup, apart from the integrated large-scale hydrometallurgical facility for extraction and separation of aforesaid critical metals. The facility is able to tackle any kind of spent rechargeable batteries belonging to the class of lithium-ion batteries (including LFPs), nickel-based batteries, for process validation and technology transfer under HIRE-OPERATE-TRANSFER mode. The facility will initially operate under NML’s patented flowsheet (Inventors: Pratima Meshram, Abhilash, Sanjay Kumar) on closed-loop extraction and separation of all metals from any chemistries of spent lithium-based batteries and expand to other batteries based on the interest of the recyclers. The technology is currently being validated for commercialization with two MSMEs in India	24th Sep 2023

Sl. No.	CSIR Lab	Name of the Indian Company/agency	Official address & and contact person	Date of Approval by Director/CSIR	Title/brief description of Agreement/ MOU	Date of signing/ execution of the Agreement/MOU	Validity period of Agreement/ MoU	Date of commencement of the project/ task as per Agreement/MOU	Name of the Coordinating Scientist/Official	Theme Area
1	CSMCRI	Adani Group	Mr Sandeep Dixit Adani Power Ltd Mudra Port Gujarat	July 2023	Algae-based flue gas CO2 sequestration with co-production of high value bio chemicals	4th Aug 2023	36 months	4th Aug 2023	Dr. Arup Ghosh	CCUS
2	CSMCRI	Abode Biotech	Abode Biotech 34 A Mida Square 2nd Floor Mear Lotus Pond MLA colony, Banjar Hills Hyderabad Telangana	July 2023	Pilot scale extraction and purification of gamma linolnic acid form microalgae; biomass and gamma linolenic acid validation	4th Aug 2023	36 Months	4th Aug 2023	Dr. Sourish	CCUS
3	CSIR HQ	RKDF University	Prof V.K. Sethi RKDF University Airport Road Bhopal	July 2023	Utilization of the Pilot Plant of RKDF University for CCUS activities of CSIR	4th Aug 2023	5 years	4th Aug 2023	Sh R.P. Singh , Head IMD CSIR	CCUS
4	CSIR HQ	NCB Faridabad	DR. L./ P. Singh, Ballbgarh, Faridabad Haryana	Aug 2023	CCUS activities related to building and construction materials	13t Sept 2023	5 years	13th Sept 2023	Sh R.P. Singh	CCUS
5	CSIR HQ	Institute of Aerospace Safety	Air Cmde Sharad Pasricha Air commodore Aerospace Safety Institute of Aerospace Safety, IAF, Palam, New Delhi Air Headquarters, RK Puram, New Delhi	Oct 2023	For the Fatigue study on the Pilots	11 Oct 2023	3 years	June 20222 – It is part of ongoing AITS Mission	Sh. RP Singh	AITS Mission