Overview

Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (SSS-NIBE), Kapurthala is an autonomous Institution of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India. The Institute is an up-coming R&D Institute with a mandate to carry out state-of-the-art R&D and innovations, covering the entire spectrum of bioenergy leading to commercialization of technology and their integration with other renewable energy technologies. The Institute is established on a 75 acre green campus with state-of-the-art infrastructure and R&D facilities. It aims to serve as the Principal Innovation Centre and Centre of Excellence for advanced research, development, and demonstration of biomass related technologies and a repository of knowledge and technology relating to utilization of biomass for bioenergy and bioproducts.

India is endowed with a large reserve of biomass and being an agrarian country there is surplus agricultural residue / waste that gets generated as a consequence of the agricultural activity. With surplus biomass being underutilized, there is ample scope and opportunity for furthering biomass usage for energy applications. Approaches to enhance the usage of biomass includes creating awareness and technologies such that the power, transportation and industrial sectors, particularly in rural areas stand to benefit. SSS-NIBE is therefore rightly placed to address this issue, it is in fact actively working in this space, wherein its well-equipped R&D divisions are focused on Biomass and Energy Management, Thermochemical, Biochemical, Chemical, Electrochemical conversion technologies.

One of the important roles envisaged for the institute is human resource development in the field of bioenergy, it regularly conducts training programmes including skill development for relevant stakeholders such as researchers, farmers, entrepreneurs, government officials, and industry officials. It is also recognized as the Central Nodal Agency (CNA) by MNRE for implementation of the Biogas scheme in the country.

The institute has successfully executed several projects and the scientific findings published in journals and conferences. SSS-NIBE is also offering MTech - Renewable Energy (with NRE fellowship from MNRE), jointly with NIT Jalandhar from 2020.

SSS-NIBE has ongoing collaboration with several national and international institutes. It is equipped to provide consultancy and support to industries for biomass testing/characterization, DPR preparation, resource assessment, technologies for biogas/bioCNG and advanced biomass cookstoves/combustors. It is also working towards attaining NABL Accreditation.