Research Projects

S.No.	Name of the Project	Year
1.	Development of Transplanter and Weeder for SRI Method of Rice Cultivation Including Nursery Raising System	2010
2.	Development of an Automated Medium Filling and Sowing Machine for Portray	2010
3.	Development of Aerial Access Hoist for Coconut and Tall Tree Crop Management	2010
4.	Design and Development of Dehusker Suitable for Fresh Arecanut	2010
5.	Development of an Automatic Nursery Tray Seeder for SRI	2013
6.	Power Weeder for Weeding on Ridges and Furrows	2013
7.	Design and Development of Tractor Operated Fertilizer Dibbler for Ratoon Sugarcane	2013
8.	Development of Tractor Operated Cassava Harvester	2013
9.	Design and Development of Tractor Operated Sugarcane Harvester	2015
10.	Design and Development of  Tractor Operated Planter for Turmeric Rhizomes	2015
11.	Studies on Ergonomic Interventions in Hand Tools for Selected Activities in Grape Cultivation In Tamil Nadu	2019

S. No.	Scheme	P.I.
1.	Developing and Creating Ontology Consortia for Multistakeholders	Dr. V. Ananthi

S. No.	Scheme	P.I.
1.	Forest College & Research Institute’ Education Management Information System (FC&RIEMIS)	Dr. S. Sridevy
2.	Analytical and Advisory Software for Environmental Samples	Dr. V. Ananthi

Sl. No.	Title of the Project	Principal Investigator	Funded by	Period
1	Ag-IoT – Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality based class modules – Institutional Development Plan (IDP) entitled “Enhancing the learning outcome, employability and entrepreneurial skills of farm graduates through excellence in education”	Dr.S.Sridevy	Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi	01.08.2019 to 31.07.2022

Sl. No.	Title of the Project	Coordinator	Funded by	Period	Budget(Lakh)	Status
1	Weed Mapping using UAV Imagery with file number: DST/TDT/TD/2019/46	Dr.S.Sridevy	National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP), ICAR, New Delhi (World Bank Project)	2 years	24,31,100/-	Write-up and Power Point Presentation submitted on 29.11.2019 for in absentia presentation during first fortnight of December, 2019
2	Payirmarabu: Crop Genomic Data Resource Description Framework (RDF) Search Engine for Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics in Department of  Plant Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, TNAU, Coimbatore	Dr.S.Sridevy	Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.	5 years	Rs. 81,37,400/-	Project shortlisted

S.No.	Scheme Name
1.	Strengthening the Department of Renewable Energy Engineering
2.	Development of frugal engineering thermal reactor for generating energy efficient refuse and biomass derived fuels
3.	Evolution of higher energy producing techniques for fuel and chemical generation from by-products
4.	Comparative study of solar tunnel dryer with different cover materials for drying agricultural produce

S.No.	Scheme Name
1.	Pilot plant development for ethanol production from sugar based crops
2.	Adoption and Development of existing gasifier system using. Melia  Dubia as feed stock and estimation of Biochar from the tree parts

S.No	Scheme Name	Period
1.	ICAR – All India Coordinated Research Project on Energy in Agriculture and Agro – Based Industries	From 1974 to continue
2.	ICAR – Consortia Research Platform on Energy from Agriculture	From 2015 to continuing
3.	ICAR – National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture	2018 to 2020
4.	ICAR – NASF – Studies on thermal degradation of crop residues for kinetics, biopolymeric transitions and value-added products	2019 to 2022
5.	GOI – MNRE – Biogas Development and Training Centre	From 1982 to continuing
6.	GOI- DST Joint Indo – Ukraine Project – Scientific and technical basis of creation of a complex of energy technology processing of biomass for obtaining substances with new properties and increasing their commercial value	2019-2021
7.	PCRA – Energy conservation programmes in Agriculture and Allied Sectors	2018-2021

S.No	Scheme Name
ICAR Schemes
1.	ICAR Fully Financed Scheme – “Recycling of hatchery and Poultry waste through anaerobic digestions on large size dome type bio-gas plants for getting fuel and value added organic manure”
2.	ICAR – BDS – Techno economic feasibility of pilot study bio diesel plants in collaboration with NGO TNAU
3.	ICAR Fully Financed Schemes – NATP-BF -“Development and Refinement of Bio-Mass based improved chulha retrofit to drying burn for Turmeric and Arecaunut”
4.	ICAR Fully Renewable Energy sources / prototype
5.	ICAR – Fully – NAIP – Value Chain on Biomass Based Decentralized Power Generation of Agro Enterprises
6.	ICAR – NFBSFARA – Isolation of clostridium strains and a two phase digestion system for efficient butanol production
7.	ICAR – Extramural Research Project – Process development and evaluation of plasma gasification for producer gas generation from biowastes
8.	ICAR – NASF – Eliciting soil microbiome responses of rice for enhanced water and nutrient use efficiency under anticipated climate change
9.	ICAR – NAIP – “Value Chain on biomass based decentralized power generation for agro enterprises”.
GoI Schemes
12.	Technical Backup unit under “National Project on Improved Chulha”
13.	GOI “ Study on evaluation of improved chulhas with reference to indoor air pollution and health under the existing scheme on National Programme on improved chulha”
14.	GOI – Development of Natural draft Gasifier for steam and hot air generation for Turmeric Boiling and Drying
15.	NADP – Implementation of Precision Farming system in Tamil Nadu
16.	GOI – MNRE – R&D Project – Design Development and evaluation of pilot scale ethanol Production from Cassava starch
17.	GOI – Indo US  – US – India consortium for development of Sustainable Advanced Lignocellulosic  Biofuel System (SALBS)
18.	GOI – MNRE –  DST  – Development of restore and online metering of drying parameters of Biomass Hot Air Generation System integrated with solar tunnel dryer for agro products drying application
19.	GOI – MNRE R&D – Development of Hybrid high rate biomethanation reactor with locally available media for treating waste water and solid waste
20.	GOI – RRII  – Development of Biogas / producer gas cum solar thermal energy based integrated drying system for efficient drying ribbed smoked sheets
Private agency Schemes
21.	PA – GTZ “ Survey of Biogas Plants and study on replacement of fossil fuel in reducing Green House Gases under CDM”
22.	PA – “Biodiesel production from algae” (BPCL)
23.	PA – “Poultry litter based biomethanation plant slurry handling and enrichment” – IOT
24.	An exploration of biomass resource potentials in Kangayam and Mannarkudi Taluks for installation of biomass based power generation units.
Foreign Agency
25.	Food and Agricultural Organization funded scheme – Study on Biofuel Production from Rice residues in India
Venture Capital Schemes
26.	Enhancing Biogas promotion and implementation through commercial module and consultancy of renewable energy systems (V60HK)
27.	Analysis of energy generation potential of renewable sources and promotion of sale of improved chulhas (V60HL)

Title

“Development and Testing of Low cost filters” in the Network project on “Engineering Interventions in Micro Irrigation Systems (MIS) for improving water productivity” under Consortia Research Platform on Farm Mechanization and Precision Farming.

Objectives

• To develop low cost filters with optimal selection of off the shelf components as well filtering media

• To test the developed system in the field for efficacy in terms of pressure drop throughout discharge and quality of output

Funding Pattern

• Fully funded (100 %) by ICAR

Project Area – Soil and Water Conservation Engineering Workshop, AEC&RI, TNAU, Coimbatore

Details of Works – Design of low-cost filters has been done and the low cost filter model is fabricated and analysis is being carried out.