BioDiesel Research Innovations

In India, the interest in biodiesel has grown vividly during the last few years. The chief rationale for biodiesel in India is energy security. Better environmental performance, greening of wastelands and creation of new employment opportunities - are seen as some of the other advantages of biodiesel.
Delhi College of Engineering has emerged as a leading technological institutions of India which has been accredited as the hub of advanced level research in propagation of petro-plants, their improved agro-practices, development of indigenous biodiesel production technology, design and development of small to medium capacity biodiesel processing unit, quality assurance of biodiesel and trial of biodiesel in diesel engines and vehicles.
Biodiesel from Mahua, Linseed, Rice Bran, waste cooking oil from the Mc Donalds, Crude Palm, Castor, Jatropha & Karanja have already been prepared and successfully tested in diesel engines & vehicles. The college has taken a lead in development of small capacity biodiesel reactors for the production of Biodiesel. Small capacity of reactors of 5 & 10 liters biodiesel were designed and developed two years back. The other one is a 50 liters batch size reactor designed and fabricated specifically for the rural operative conditions. The reactor being capable of producing 50 lts of Biodiesel in one cycle costs about 15,000 Rs, hence economically viable solution for making biodiesel for the replacement of the costly fossils in the rural areas.

Intel Planet Lab at DCE

The Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) has been selected by Intel Technology Pvt. Ltd. and ERNET to join Planet Lab Consortium, which already has one hundred fifty of the world's top universities and industrial research labs including MIT, Stanford, Princeton University, UC Berkeley, University of Washington, AT&T Labs, Cambridge University, France Telecom, HP, NEC Labs, as its members.
Planet Lab is an open, globally distributed test bed for developing, deploying and accessing planetary-scale network services. It provides an environment for testing the next generation of distributed applications and services. There are currently 599 nodes at 284 sites world wide available to support both short-term experiments and long-running network services.

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE PROJECT

The scale and suddenness of the 7/11 tragedy has brought back into focus the country's need for effective surveillance.
While India is yet to develop its own technology for stealth surveillance through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) has developed a laboratory-level model, weighing 1.8 kg and capable of lifting 28 kg weight.
With a light-weight carbon frame, the vehicle is equipped with surveillance cameras, wireless sensors and vision-processing software. It is capable of operating both on the ground and in air.
The complete vehicle comprises twin UAVs, one large and one small. The latter is positioned on the former during launch and later takes off from the orbiting mother UAV after a pre-determined height.

Super Mileage Vehicle

With the aim of improving fuel efficiency, 14 members student team of Delhi College of Engineering has designed and developed a super mileage vehicle to participate in the world wide super mileage vehicle competition organized by SAE International (Society of Automobile Engineers) at Marshall, Michigan,USA. This prestigious event has participation from universities from France, America, U.K. etc. Incidentally, Michigan is the home for auto industry and houses General Electric and Chrslyer Corporation a world auto joints. This is the first time a team from India has participated in the world competition on innovative concept car.

MISSION AUR “SOVEREIGN”

The mission of this research project is to make an “AUTONOMOUS URBAN ROBOT” that will be able to navigate all types of urban terrains including stairs, curbs, and walls and even operate an elevator autonomously. The robot will be able to meet the defense requirement for target identification, bomb detection, firing from a long distance using laser gun, and fight against the terrorists, thus reducing loss of human life. The name “SOVEREIGN” reflects the property of our robot to be fully independent and autonomous. Innovation and attention to detail are the hallmarks of sovereign’s design. The design was chosen after considering the aim from all points of view and to bring a revolution in the world. To this end, the overall vehicle design stresses safety, serviceability, ruggedness, and utility. These design objectives are achieved through innovative design features that have been implemented within the mechanical, electronic, and navigational systems onboard sovereign.

DEFIANZ RACING CAR

Defianz_racing provides a unique opportunity for undergraduates to learn and develop multi-disciplinary teamwork plus innovative, design, leadership, management, marketing, finance and practical skills. Educating and training the very best graduates is what Defianz_racing does.
Defianz_racing designs a formula car, which competes with over a 100 teams from around the world in the prestigious Formula Student competition held in UK every year in July. The team was first constituted in 2002. In the team’s glorious 5 year history, it has won many awards. The team in its very first attempt bagged the " FISITA Best Endeavour Award". The efforts of the team in this regard are commendable which is constantly rising above the paucity of funds, materials and technical expertise and making up for it by their unending determination to succeed. The team was declared runners up in cost effectiveness in 2006 and their performance in 2007 overshadowed all it’s previous ones.

In addition to the above other projects include the following:
1. SOLAR CAR
2 . ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE (MINI BAJA)