Kesavan Center - Energy Policy & Climate Solutions @ckc_iitk

🎓 Congratulations to Our Award-Winning Scholars! We are proud to celebrate the winners of the Chandrakanta Kesavan Best Research Project Award - Ridhav Arora from the Department of Material Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, and Sneh Omer from the Department of Chemical…

🎓 Congratulations to Our Award-Winning Scholars! We are proud to celebrate the winners of the Chandrakanta Kesavan Best Research Thesis Award - Siddharth Raj from the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Mansi Kumawat, and Manish Gupta from the Department of…

🔋 Toward Practical Li-S Batteries with Carbonate Electrolytes: A Materials-Centric Approach 🔋 Despite their high theoretical capacity, Li-S batteries have long been hindered by polysulfide shuttling, poor rate capability, and instability in carbonate electrolytes. In our…

⚡ Enhancing Grid-Scale Storage: A Synergistic Approach to LMB Performance🔋 Liquid Metal Batteries (LMBs) are novel solutions for large-scale renewable energy storage — however, a crucial obstacle still needs to be addressed. During discharge, an undesirable intermetallic…

📢 BREATHE EASY IN CLASSROOMS: IT'S TIME TO ACT! 🏫💨 🚨 Shocking Revelation from Our Latest Study! Children in naturally ventilated (NV) classrooms are exposed to up to 10x higher levels of particles compared to those in mechanically ventilated (MV) classrooms in Kanpur, India,…

🔋 Advancements in Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries: Exploring Organic Cathodes⚡ The battery lab@SEE at IIT Kanpur has developed a high-performance solid-state Li-ion battery (SSB) using an organic pyrene-tetraone (PTO) cathode and a polymer-sulfide composite electrolyte --…

IIT Kanpur’s Cleanliness Drive @ Ganga Barrage Driveway & Atal Ghat – March 2025 🌊♻️ Chandrakanta Kesavan Center (CKC ) in its continued stride towards a cleaner Kanpur, joined hands with Kanpur Ploggers to clean and rejuvenate the sacred banks of the Ganga—at Ganga Barrage…

🔧 Decarbonizing India's Steel Industry Starts with BF-BOF! The blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) route contributes to 46% of India's steel production -- and it's also the most energy- and emission-intensive. 🇮🇳 Producing 57.37 million tons of crude steel…

🌞 Revolutionizing Metal Heat Treatment with Solar Energy! 🔥 Electricity and gas-based heat treatment processes are highly energy-intensive. To address this, a team of researchers, led by Prof. Laltu Chandra, has developed an open volumetric air receiver-based solar convective…

🏡 Understanding Residential Energy Consumption at IIT Kanpur ⚡📊 A research team led by Profs Anubha Goel & Aakash C Rai analyzed electricity consumption patterns across various residential buildings on the IIT Kanpur campus, focusing on end-use energy consumption and…

Advancing Solar Thermochemical Research at IIT Kanpur - Dr. Vaibhav K. Arghode With generous support from Kesavan Center, IIT Kanpur, an electronic ballast was procured which enabled a significant upgrade to the High Flux Solar Simulator Facility (HFSS) at IIT Kanpur. This…

Mr. Manojit Sengupta, Delivery Centre Head at Tata Consultancy Services(TCS), Kolkata, and co-lead of the TCS Energy and Utility Practice, shared valuable insights on the progress of #energy transition within the global utility industry on 11 Feb 2025 during the lecture of…

CKC conducted many Life and Carbon Climate Change Awareness events on Saturdays and Sundays in October 2024. These events were attended by over 200 enthusiastic students from Sunshine Public School, Prayas, and Opportunity School participating, the event sparked thought-provoking…

In a Cleanliness Drive, an initiative conducted by the Chandrakanta Kesavan Centre (CKC), with over 150 motivated IIT Kanpur students, collected upto 300 kg of plastic waste from locations like Ganga Barrage and various parks like Kargil Park. These drives happened from August to…

Please join us for a talk by Dr Sudhanshu Shukla, a senior researcher at Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (imec), Belgium as part of the Chandrakanta Kesavan Lecture Series titled “Addressing the Material Challenges for Photoelectrochemical Solar Fuels Generation: Lessons…

IIT Kanpur and Zynetic Electric Vehicles Charging sign a MoU to advance EV Charging technology! This collaboration is set to drive forward the innovation and deployment of advanced AC and DC fast chargers for electric vehicles, marking a significant step towards the growth of EV…

The Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering at @IITKanpur is organizing a two-day Schmidt Sciences Conference on ‘Energy Technologies for India’s #Decarbonization’, on November 5-6, 2024. The event brings together leading experts from #academia, #research organizations,…

Spreading #Sustainability and #NetZero concept, on September 17th, 2024, Prof. Rajeev Jindal served as the chief guest at Maharana Pratap Group of Institutions in Mandhana, Kanpur in an event that was a Hackathon focused on "Sustainability through Innovation", where young…

Spreading the concept of sustainability and going green Rajeev Jindal, Professor, @iit_see and associated professor, @ckc_iitk, shared some basic concepts of achieving a sustainable society, as the chief guest in a three-day conclave at Heritage International Xperiential School.…