The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and General Electric (GE) have established an Expanded Gas Turbine Combustor Testing Facility at National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD). The NCCRD is an IIT Madras Research Centre arm that undertakes research on automotive, thermal power and aerospace propulsion, fire research and microgravity combustion. The ‘Expanded Gas Turbine Combustor Testing Facility’ was inaugurated on Thursday in the presence of Alok Nanda, CEO, GE India Technology Centre and CTO - GE South Asia; Vikram Reddy, General Manager, Engineering, India, GE Aviation; V Kamakoti, Director, IIT-Madras, and SR Chakravarthy, Coordinator, NCCRD, other faculty and researchers. IThis facility will lead to further understanding the combustion physics and cultivation of a talent pool in the field of gas turbine research. Over the long term, facilities such as these could enable India to become ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ in Gas Turbine Combustion technology, he said.

Source: The Hindu April 01, 2022 20:05 UTC