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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award 2022
November 23 , 2023
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- Rajnish Kumar, a faculty member in (IIT Madras), has bagged the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award in the field of engineering for the year 2022.
- He has been pursuing research on sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2), a process by which carbon is returned to earth.
- Currently, India produces 2.8 billion tonnes of CO2 a year.
- It costs ₹4.50 to capture one kg of CO2 from point source today.
- This means, to produce 1 kilowatt hour of electricity one has to roughly, on an average, produce 1 kg of CO2 by coal.
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