“Eco-Neev” A Nanomaterial for
Reducing Harmful Emission
An Indian firm(NAND IPL) has come up with a solution to reduce harmful gases emitted
when diesel fuel is burnt by application of Nanotechnology.
It is something we all are connected with today - directly or indirectly. You might have
guessed it right, for the one concern around which a lot of furor is developing is the big
Global warming-word. Thus any effort towards reducing harmful emissions is a
considerable step in the right direction – towards saving of the future of humanity. In
India Approx 6600 cr liter of diesel is burnt annually . One should remember that one
liter of diesel emits approx 3.0 Kgs of CO2 emissions. Thus India emits approx 20,000 cr
tones of carbon dioxide annually. While the Govt. and other companies are coming up
with ‘green’ technology, there still remains a wide gap in the efforts and results as many
of the industries use diesel to run their plants, machines and logistics. Burning up of
diesel results in gases which are harmful to the atmosphere – like Carbon dioxide and
Methane.
It would be thus a mammoth effort towards retardation of the global warming phenomena
if such a variety of diesel itself is produced which wont emit these harmful gases on
burning. One Indian company has managed to do just that – with the help of
Nanotechnology, the folks have produced an additive for diesel which will reduce the
emission of harmful gases by as much as 50 percent and increase the efficiency of the
machine by as much as 5-15 percent.
Navran Advanced NanoProduct Development International pvt Ltd. (NAND ipl), a
company based in New Delhi with a manufacturing unit at Himachal Pradesh, deals in
providing Nanotechnology products to the public and have recently come up with a
specialized fuel combustion catalyst called 'Eco Neev' .They have currently started
marketing ‘Eco-Neev’ and will soon start manufacturing it too. Nand ipl”Eco-Neev” fuelefficiency enhancer uses cerium oxide as a catalyst. This metal is one of several used in
catalytic converters to reduce the amount of air pollution in engine exhaust. Cerium
usually plays a supporting role to platinum, which is a more active catalyst but also more
expensive. Fashioning cerium oxide into nanoparticles just 5 to 25 nanometers in
diameter has given Nand ipl two advantages: it has turned the cheaper metal into a highly
active catalyst and produced it in a form that can be blended directly into the fuel
Because of the ingredients and the technology behind it, during energy production, the
amount of unburnt fuel that is left is minimal if this product is added in the diesel before
being used,” explains cofounder of the company Kumar Binit. Size matters, because a
catalyst's activity is a function of its surface area, and the total surface area in a mass of
particles rises exponentially as the mass of the individual particles decreases. As a result,
only a small amount of the product is required; Eco-Neev is blended into diesel fuel at a
ratio of just 10 parts per million
Not only emissions, but the proposition seems viable and profitable to the user too. The
cost-benefit analysis says that for every 7.2 percent increase in energy efficiency, 1.2
litres of fuel is saved. “We tested the product in Tata Steel’s mining excavators and got a
emission reduction of harmful gases by a staggering 50 percent, and efficiency increase
of 7.2 percent,” said Kumar.. As Kumar says, they want customers to first try out the
product, see the results themselves and compare it with already existing products in the
market which promise similar things. They are offering paid trials of the product to
companies which are bulk users of diesel and only if a reduction in emission and an
increase in efficiency is seen, the client can adopt the same. “Himachal Pradesh Road
Transport Corporation also tested out the product and they are very happy with the
outcome. They measured an increased efficiency of 6.5 percent.. “Not only this, but there
would be a definite increase in the engine life as well on the use of this product. It has a
high compatibility factor in the sense that it can be mixed with Bio-diesel as well”, adds
Kumar.