Advanced Materials
ERDA is working on advance materials to develop new class of nano-dielectrics, materials for battery electrodes, contact materials and novel performance enhancing coatings for applications in thermal, hydro and photovoltaic power plants.
Electrical Research and Development Association
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Infrastructure
- Battery materials development facilities: glove box, vacuum mixer, electrode coater, calendaring machine and coin cell crimping machine
- Performance analysis of batteries and battery materials: Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) with various cell configurations
- Material Characterization equipments: Optical Microscopes, SEM, XRD, EDS, and Thermal conductivity instrument
- Dielectric characterization of insulating materials: Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS)
- Laboratory scale processing facilities: compounder, two-roll mill, sonicators, high temperature furnace, micro-wave furnace, ageing ovens etc.
- Nano material synthesis: High Energy Ball Mill and well equipped chemical laboratory for molecular self-assembly, sol gel and hydro thermal synthesis.
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R&D Project Areas
- Electrically insulating materials (Nano-dielectrics)
- Battery developments based on advance cell chemistry and flow cell battery
- Contact materials for switchgears
- Green hydrogen
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Expert Services
RCA of Electrical products
- Power cables and accessories (cable joints and termination)
- Insulators
- Power transformer
- Bushings and CT / PT
- Overhead conductors
RCA of Power plant components
- Boiler Tube
- Motor shafts
- Turbine blades
- Bearing and spring
Material Characterization Services
- Thermal, dielectric and spectroscopic analysis of materials
- Battery materials: electrodes, electrolytes
- Thermal & electrical aging of materials