• FIPS participated in the Brainstorming Conclave on Atmanirbhar North East through S&T Interventions during 21st & 22nd December, 2021 at Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam, organized by North East Centre for Technology Application & Reach ( NECTAR). Prof Jagdish Mukhi, Hon'ble Governor of Assam was the Chief Guest. Prof Bhavesh Ch. Goswami, Vice Chancellor, Cotton University, Guwahati, Prof. Arun Kumar Sarma, Director General, NECTAR and other dignitaries were present during the event.
  • Prof N.C. Saha, Founder Chairman, FIPS has Chaired the Technical Session on S&T Innovations to provide Livelihood Opportunities in the North East - Technology solution on Agriculture and Food Processing on 21st December, 2021, Guwahati during Brainstorming Conclave,. Mr M.K. Banerjee, Director, FIPS and Mr S. Bhattachrjee, Chief Consultant, FIPS were the speakers.
  • FIPS has also participated into TECHFAIR with a Booth to showcase the activities of FIPS at Cotton University, Guwahati during 21st & 22nd December, 2021, organized by NECTAR.
  • FIRST FOUNDATION DAY OF FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE PACKAGING AND SUSTAINABILITY will be celebrated through VIRTUAL MODE on 28th January, 2022 at 4 PM onwards.
  • Mr Atul Bagai, Head of Country Office, UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM( UNEP) and Prof. Manoj K. Tiwari, Director, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING ( NITIE), Mumbai will be the "KEYNOTE " speakers.
  • Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai, Director, CHANAKYA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP STUDIES, University of Mumbai & Author, India's Best selling book " CORPORATE CHANAKYA"  will deliver a "MOTIVATIONAL TALK" on " CHANAKYA NITI FOR BUSINESS GROWTH".
  • One Month ONLINE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM ( MODULE-3) On "  ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES IN FLEXIBLE AND RIGID PLASTIC PACKAGING" in association with All India Plastic Manufacturers Association ( AIPMA) will be organized during 24th February, 2022 to 25th March, 2022.
  • Virtual Conference on " PLASTICS PACKAGING WASTE MANAGEMENT: SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION ( PART-2)- Deriving Value from Post- Consumer Multilayer Packaging ( MLP) Waste was organised in association with M.G.University, Kottyam, Kerala on 21st October, 2021 at 3 PM.
  • On-Line Short term during ( 40 hours) Certificate Program on " Innovative Packaging and Sustainability", Organized by Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi with FIPS as Knowledge Partner. The course was held on 26th July to 28th September, 2021.
  • Virtual Conference on " Pathways to a Profitable Recycling Enterprise" ( Part-1) under the series conference on " Plastic Packaging waste Management" was held on 29th July,2021. Mr R. R.Rashmi, Rtd IAS, Former Chief Secretary, Manipur & Distinguished Fellow, TERI was the Chief Guest.
  • FIPS in association with Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), Govt of India will organize Virtual Conference on  "Patient friendly Packaging for Pharmaceuticals"  on 2nd August, 2021 at 3 PM. Dr Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi, Secretary cum Scientific Director, IPC was the Chief Guest to inaugurate this conference.

Using PET waste bottles to make batteries

PET-waste-bottles

Scientists in the U.S. claim to have successfully upcycled PET waste bottles into an electrochemical active-carbon material that functions as a double‐layer supercapacitor substance. They said that this achievement may lay the ground for the production of more sustainable batteries. Devices built with the proposed technique would not store as much energy as lithium-ion batteries but they could charge much faster.

Plastic waste made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) may be easily turned into a nanomaterial for the production of sustainable batteries and enable the production of more sustainable storage devices, according to research from scientists at the University of California, Riverside.

“Using waste from landfill and upcycling plastic bottles could lower the total cost of batteries while making … battery production sustainable on top of eliminating plastic pollution worldwide,” said research co-author, Mihri Ozkan.

In the paper Upcycling of polyethylene terephthalate plastic waste to microporous carbon structure for energy storage, published in August in Energy Storage, the U.S. group describes the process for upcycling PET waste bottles into an electrochemical active-carbon material that works as a double‐layer supercapacitor substance.

PET plastic bottles are first dissolved in a solvent which consists of a mixture of trifluoroacetic acid and dichloromethane. Then, through a process called electrospinning, microscopic fibers were fabricated from the polymer and the plastic threads carbonized in a furnace. “After mixing with a binder and a conductive agent, the material was then dried and assembled into an electric double-layer supercapacitor within a coin-cell type format,” the academics explained, adding that the active material is able to perform as a supercapacitor with added pseudocapacitance.

The material is claimed to have both a double-layer capacitor created by the separated ionic and electronic charges and redox reaction pseudo-capacitance, determined by the ions that are electrochemically absorbed onto surfaces of materials. “Though they don’t store as much energy as lithium-ion batteries, these supercapacitors can charge much faster, making batteries based on plastic waste a good option for many applications,” the scientists stated.

They believe the technique could reach mass production soon although they want to improve the electrical properties of the nanomaterial with compounds such as boron, nitrogen, and phosphorous. “We believe that the proposed process is scalable, with environmental and economic advantages, and this study could present opportunities for future research and development,” they concluded.

In another study published in 2019, researchers from Indiana’s Purdue University proposed a method to extract pure carbon from plastic waste and turned it into anode material for lithium-ion batteries which powered a toy truck.

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