MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641042363 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 2, for 'biological hydrogen generation and energy management system.'
Inventor(s) include Karthika Pichaimuthu; Sakthivel G; and Abirami Sasinthiran.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system (100) for biological hydrogen generation and energy management may include a biomass input unit (102) to receive and supply cellulose-rich lignocellulosic biomass (124), a biochamber (104) operatively coupled to biomass input unit (102), and may include a plurality of reaction zones to replicate physicochemical and microbial symbiotic conditions of a termite gut environment to facilitate anaerobic microbial conversion of lignocellulosic biomass (124) into hydrogen gas, a gas collection unit (110) to collect hydrogen-containing gaseous output generated therein, a gas purification unit (112) to remove impurities and moisture to obtain purified hydrogen gas, a hydrogen storage unit (114) to store purified hydrogen, an energy conversion unit (116) to convert hydrogen gas into electrical energy, and an energy management unit (118) to manage distribution of electrical energy between one or more energy storage units (120) and one or more electrical loads (122) to enable demand-responsive energy utilization and optimizing efficiency."
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