ERDA organises its first Technology Meet

ERDA organised its first ever Technology Meet 2019 at Vadodara recently, to showcase its wide bouquet of R&D facilities including innovative technologies developed by ERDA and expert services offered by it. Head of R&D division of ERDA, Dr SH Chetwani presented the activities carried out by R&D and Expert Services division of ERDA. He elaborated the expert services like failure analysis, material characterisation, power quality and power system studies, expert diagnostics, FEM based simulation activities carried out by ERDA. It also covered various R&D programmes carried out by ERDA like contract research offered to various customer, sponsored R&D and internal R&D programme of ERDA. Many R&D projects like IoT based intelligent lighting system, smart inverters, improvement of ester oils, polymer nano composites, alumina-based nano composites were discussed. ERDA informed that all R&D facilities available with ERDA are available to its members and customers for any development work or contract research.
Dr SH Chetwani also presented the technologies developed by ERDA under internal R&D program. Few technologies, which were presented were silver-based contact material including nano silver and nano CNT based technology, anti dust coating, corrosion resistance paint, hotspot monitoring for distribution transformers, chargers for E-Vehicle, nano composite for insulating materials etc.

More than 50 customers participated in the event from manufacturers and power utilities. Participants gave their views on the technologies developed by ERDA and suggested future road map of R&D activities at ERDA. Technical presentation session was followed by visit to R&D facilities of ERDA.