Erode-basedKongu Engineering Collegehas bagged the Union governments grant worth Rs 1 crore to conductresearch on Waste Management technologies.
The college has proposed to convert plastic wastes into fuel and char through hydrothermal liquefaction process. It had submitted the proposal, titled Design and Development of Continuous High-pressure Screw Reactor for Alkali Catalyzed Hydrothermal Co-liquefaction of Plastic Wastes in Lignocellulosic , to the technology development programme of theministry of science and technologylast November.