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CSR Proposal

Carbon Zero PreIncubation Program

Dr. Indumathi M Nambi Dr. Satyanarayanan Seshadri

IIT Madras

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Abstract Title of Project: Carbon Zero PreIncubation Program Introduction/Background: Carbon Zero Challenge (CZC) program was conceived at IIT Madras in 2017. The program is being led by the Environmental engineering professor Dr Indumathi M Nambi, supported by Dr Hiran Vedam and a team of advisors who are all alumni and well-wishes of the institute. The Carbon Zero Challenge team is passionate about promoting and inspiring young minds towards Clean Tech Innovations leading towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals. The first edition, CZC 2018 (June 2017 to April 2018) was conducted with support from U S Consulate General Chennai, Polaris (a Virtusa company) in collaboration with Shaastra (IIT Madras student technical festival) and Industrial Waste Management Association (IWMA). Second Edition, CZC 2019 (June 2018-May 2019) was fully supported by Virtusa with Shaastra (IIT Madras student technical festival) and IWMA as organizing partners. The next edition of CZC – CZC 2020 - will be structured as a ‘Carbon Zero PreIncubation program’ to support the winners from CZC 2019 and 25 other research teams that are at a similar level of technical maturity. This will enable the teams we support reach the market and ensure that they do not fall into the “valley of death” between the basic prototype and market adoption. In addition, the teams supported by the program will be well-positioned to receive follow-on funding from customers and investors and to be incubated in any of the incubators around the country when they exit the program. Objectives of the project: The Preincubation program will be focused on commercializing researcher-led innovations supported by dedicated teams comprising students and post-doctoral researchers. Time Line and Budget: The estimated budget for the proposal is Rs. 2.51 Crores Contact person: Dr. Indumathi M Nambi, Professor, Dpt. of Civil Engineering IIT Madras. Dr. Satyanarayanan Seshadri, Assistant Professor, Dpt. of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras

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Carbon Zero PreIncubation Program A PROPOSAL

Carbon Zero Challenge is an All India Energy and Environment Innovation & Entrepreneurship program with a vision to “create a global impact by combining three powerful factors Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Energy &Environment and Youth to protect future generations”. The program’s uniqueness lies in the fact that it is one-of-its-kind initiative in its category that exclusively focuses on energy and environment technological innovations at a national level and supports the eco-entrepreneurs.

1.0 Organizers &Partners

Carbon Zero Challenge (CZC) program was conceived at IIT Madras in 2017. The program is being led by the Environmental engineering professor Dr Indumathi M Nambi, supported by Dr Hiran Vedam and a team of advisors who are all alumni and well-wishes of the institute. The Carbon Zero Challenge team is passionate about promoting and inspiring young minds towards Clean Tech Innovations leading towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals

The first edition, CZC 2018 (June 2017 to April 2018) was conducted with support from U S Consulate General Chennai, Polaris (a Virtusa company) in collaboration with Shaastra (IIT Madras student technical festival) and Industrial Waste Management Association (IWMA). Second Edition, CZC 2019 (June 2018-May 2019) was fully supported by Virtusa with Shaastra (IIT Madras student technical festival) and IWMA as organizing partners.

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CZC partners with IIT Madras incubation cell and Keiretsu Forum on various aspects of the project planning and implementation. A 150+ strong network of faculty, industry professionals, investors and government officials are actively supporting the CZC initiative as advisors, judges and mentors for the participating teams. The organizers and advisors of the program are included in Appendix A

Project Plan & Milestones

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CZC program identifies, mentors, and financially supports clean-tech innovations across India in the following five thematic areas.

The innovators and entrepreneurs are identified through an all-India contest that is organized according to the following schedule:

Phase 1 The all-India competition inviting applications from students and early-stage start-ups in the five thematic areas opens in the first and second quarter of the year. These applications are reviewed by a panel of judges comprising of subject experts from academia and industry from across the country through multiple rounds of evaluation. Upto 25 teams (2-5 members) proposing the best problem-solution fit for pertinent energy and environmental challenges through a feasible prototype/product (blueprint/lab prototype/product) or service with potential viable business model

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Each team selected in Phase 1 above receives: Structured training to equip the teams with necessary skills required to build a cost-

effective prototype, identify target customer segments and build a viable business model.

Up to Rs 5 lakh seed funding build and test the prototype and evolve their business model.

Dedicated technical and business mentorship

At the end of Phase 2, the shortlisted teams demonstrate their prototype/product and present their business model to a panel of judges comprising of academia and business professionals, leading to selection of up to 5 best performing teams.

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Timeline of CZC 2018 & CZC 2019

Phase 3 Once the CZC competition ends, we actively support the graduating teams to secure follow- on seed funding from government agencies and investors on a request basis. The teams also receive information about other competitions and opportunities in this space as they become available to our team.

Outcomes

From Regional to National Footprint CZC program evolved from a contest that was conducted in southern Indian States in 2018 to a pan-India contest in 2019.

CZC 2018 CZC 2019

Indian States/UT Tamil Nadu Kerala Karnataka Puducherry Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Pan India Contest Reached out to 2345 faculty/administrators across 944 colleges 358 incubators 150+ industries and 70+ start-ups 10000+ student database 40000+ IIT Madras alumni network 1780+ college network through NPTEL

Received 531 applications from 3 states&1 UT

Received 3923 registrations and 995 applications from 25 states and 2 UTs

Practical Demonstration of Indigenous Clean-tech Innovations Teams supported by CZC are proposing technological innovations in areas of environment pollution control, utilization of waste materials and energy efficiency.

First two cohort of teams shortlisted in CZC 2018 and CZC 2019 demonstrated exemplary technologies in Feb 2018 and June 2019 respectively. Annexure B presents brief description of the CZC 2018 team and their innovations . Annexure C

Ecosystem Building for Cleantech Development and Adoption

shows the projects from CZC 2019.

Larger goal of CZC platform is to create an enabling ecosystem that promotes and supports cleantech innovation and their adoption by industries, public bodies and Communities. CZC steering committee and CZC’s network of advisors and mentors are actively striving to support this cause at various platforms.

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Cleantech adoption in India via CZC platform was discussed with 300+ IIT Madras alumni at Santa Clara (USA) on September 8th, 2018. Prof Indumathi M Nambi and Dr Sriram Krishnan (ex-CZC steering committee) presented CZC to distinguished alumni interested in cleantech sector. The presentation was followed by a panel discussion with interested alumni and cleantech industry representatives.

CZC initiative was showcased during IIT Madras CSR Conclave on December 10th, 2018 in Mumbai. CZC 2018’s working prototypes were showcased in UNEP-MoEFCC’s1 exhibition on June 5th, 2018, and received personal attention from Hon PM Narendra Modi. CZC contest and innovations supported by CZC has been extensively covered by leading national and local newspapers in more than 40 articles. Annexure D

Value Proposition for CSR by CZC

enlists notable coverage of CZC 2018 & CZC 2019. The social media pages of CZC have received 25000+ people engagement including 200+ active conversation about the CZC initiative.

Innovations supported by CZC contribute towards global sustainability goals by addressing triple bottom line; People, Planet, Prosperity. As per Schedule VII of Companies Act, CZC project best fits the following three criteria Ensure Environmental Sustainability (in alignment with SDG goals) Foster Innovation & Entrepreneurship (in Cleantech Sector) Promotion of Education (focused on green technology development in energy, water

and waste management)

Ensuring Environment Sustainability Innovations supported by CZC offers conservations of natural ecosystem and saving of natural resources. Notable examples are:

1. CZC 2018: a. Team JSP’s estimates that their technology ‘fuel cell for treatment of textile

effluent’ can save 5tons of CO2

b. Team Electrochem’s ‘Zero Energy Prototype for Desalination coupled with waste water treatment’ offers net carbon abatement of 4.88tons CO

in one year for each kilo litre of water treated when compared conventional (RO, Activated sludge) approaches

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c. Team Enviro’s proposal of converting waste plastic to fuel by pyrolysis can avoid emission of 2.15 kg CO

per kilo litre waste water treated over the year when compared to electrocoagulation & RO based methods.

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2. CZC 2019:

for each kg of plastic processed as compared to open burning. Each kg of plastic processed produces 0.3-0.7 L of oil which can substitute for 0.3-0.5 L of a conventional fossil fuel (petrol/diesel) and save corresponding carbon footprint of 2.3-2.7 kg CO2 emission for each litre of fossil fuel substituted.

a. Team Enviraj estimates that their IoT system for drip irrigation can save upto 500m3 water/acre/year

1United Nations Environment Programme-Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change

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b. Team Carpro’s agriculture dehydrator has the potential to save 140kg Co2 per year by avoiding burning of wood for drying of cardamom

c. Team Elicuis’ tubular fuel cells have the potential to save 460Kg of CO2 per kWH of production

d. Team IngoElectric’s personal mobility solution has the potential to save 140Kg or CO2 per year

e. Team WaterChakra’s system to recover nutrients from urine can save upto 130m3 water in 1 year.

Following graphic indicates the alignment of innovations supported through CZC with the global sustainable development goals2.

2 United Nations. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300

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Exhaust Fumes powered Powered Phone petrol engine

Mini automated Integrated Cold Chain Biodiesel Maker facility for B2B Services

Integrating Data Acquisition Techniques with Demand Controlled Ventilation(DCV)

Multi-functional Retrofit solution for ICE vehicles Agro-gantry with electric drive train

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Location based, spatially Connected and Portable resolved, real time air Electric Vehicle for pollution maps across the city Personal Mobility

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Plastic waste cleaning from sea, lake and other water bodies

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Innovation & Entrepreneurship

CZC 2018: Patents: 4 teams supported through CZC 2018 have patented their innovation.

Entrepreneurship: Advisory and financial support from CZC 2018 has been instrumental in entrepreneurial journey of the participating teams. Following teams have made notable progress post-CZC 2018 Finale.

U-Farm3: The start-up is piloting their prototype at Hotel Marriot (Powai, Mumbai). The team has been awarded NIDHI-EiR grant of Rs. 30000/month through SINE IIT Bombay and secured 2nd place at i2i competition at IIM Calcutta (award Rs. 1,50,000). Currently, it is an early stage company seeking angel investment.

JSP: The start-up recently won second place in Climate Launchpad 2018 global grand finale in Scotland and is the first team to be supported by Climate KIC accelerator in India. Start-up is working as contractor and consultant for restoration of 26 acres ICF (Indian Railways) lake in Chennai. The team is currently in initial stage of fund raising.

Enviro: The start-up is currently being considered for incubation by IIT Madras incubation cell and seed funds of Rs 1 crore from Engineers India Limited (EIL).

Ozone: The start-up is currently being considered for incubation by IIT Madras incubation cell and seed funds of Rs 20 Lakhs from Engineers India Limited (EIL).

CZC 2019: Incubation Team Elicius Energy

Team U-farm IIT Madras Incubation Cell SINE, IIT Bombay

Pilots Team Paper Labs Team Enviraj Team Germsafe Team Gita Team Kaatru Team Insulight Team Ingoelectric

at Hyderabad Culture Centre at Amity University, NCR at IOCL, Mumbai at IIT Madras at THSTI, Gurgaon at Solaris Ceramics, Gujarat at Prestige Builders, Bengaluru

Funds Team Indriyam Team Water Chakra Team Germsafe Team Ingoelectric Team U-Farm

from DST-Nidhi Prayas from IIGP Grant from IOCL & Infosys Foundation from Elevate 2018 & IKP Eden from DBT-BIRAC

Awards Team Carpro Team Germsafe

TNIGC 2019 Aarohan Social Innovation Award

3https://www.theufarm.com/

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Team Pristine Energia

'Most Socially Relevant Project' on IIT Madras Alumni Association Day 2019 Gandhian Young Technological Innovation

Team Insulight: Award 2019 & NRDC Innovative Prototypes for Startup Award 2019

Patents 5 Patents

Promotion of Education through Skill Development

The CZC participants have received skill-based training on key aspects of business development and entrepreneurship through seminars, training workshops and direct interaction with subject experts. Notable efforts are:

Half-a-day Workshop on Product development and Idea-to-market in July 2017.

Webinar on entrepreneurial journey by Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala (Chair Professor, IIT Madras) and Mr Raghuttama Rao (CEO, GDC, IIT Madras) in October 2018.

Training webinar series on Customer Discovery by Dr Hiran Vedam (Steering Committee Member, CZC) in October 2018.

2-day Entrepreneurship Bootcamp at IIT Madras with best professionals covering modules on customer validation, go-to-market strategy, product development, cost structure, revenue models and pricing, designing business model and pitching the business in January 2019.

Webinar on “Evaluating Environmental Effectiveness of Products and Services” by Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan (Founder & CEO& Eco-Catalyst Inc.) in March 2019

Webinar series on “Assessing Impact Of Early-Stage Climate And Cleantech Startups” by Ms. Jui Joshi (Program manager for Climate Launchpad, South Asia) in March and April 2019

Webinar on “Intellectual Property and you” by Dr. Hiran Vedam (Steering Committee Member, CZC) in March 2019

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Testimonials from CZC Training Bootcamp 2019

“It was an awesome experience with all of u. We learned many new things in the boot camp. Boot camp was very well organized and all sessions were very informative. We feel very resourceful and confident after the boot camp. Thanks to IIT M and CZC for providing us such a wonderful opportunity. Hoping to see all of u soon”.

- Team Lightweight Ceramic,

ICT Mumbai

“Being from technical background we have very little knowledge of doing business. Bootcamp was a great exposure to us. We have learned a lot from the bootcamp”"

- Team Enviraj Gwalior

Thank you, for the boot camp training. The last session on elevator pitching and the canvas handout was highly beneficial to us. We followed that handout and we have developed a valuable connect. The training has helped me explore the networking skills and create my own network of people. Thanks to CZC for this effort that has helped us to nurture this knowledge.

-Team FreshUnn Technologies Chennai

Carbon Zero Pre Incubator The last two editions of Carbon Zero Challenge have enabled IIT Madras to create a culture of cleantech innovation and entrepreneurship among the student community across the country. However, very few of the ideas that the teams developed during the competition were actually commercialized. This is because, the kind of support we provided to the early stage ideas through CZC 2018 & 2019 is not available for more mature ideas – including for the ideas developed by the teams that won the competition.

Keeping this in mind, the next edition of CZC – CZC 2020 - will be structured as a ‘Carbon Zero PreIncubation program’ to support the winners from CZC 2019 and 25 other research teams that are at a similar level of technical maturity. The Preincubation program will be focused on commercializing researcher-led innovations supported by dedicated teams comprising students and post-doctoral researchers. This will enable the teams we support reach the market and ensure that they do not fall into the “valley of death” between the basic prototype and market adoption. In addition, the teams supported by the program will be well-positioned to receive follow-on funding from customers and investors and to be incubated in any of the incubators around the country when they exit the program.

Marketing for the program will be done by identifying researchers who are involved in research in the thematic areas outlined in Section 2. This will be done by creating a database of the grantees of various government research funding schemes such as SERI, CERI, IMPRINT, WTI from DST and SERB and similar grants from DBT. Additionally, the Carbon Zero team will sieve through SCOPUS (publications database) and patent databases like InPass (Indian patents) and espacenet (International patents) to identify the Indian researchers actively patenting in this area. The researchers thus identified will be approached directly and actively pursued to apply for this program. The applications received will be reviewed by a panel of technical and business experts and 26 teams will be shortlisted. We expect this process to take upto 3 months.

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Each of the shortlisted teams will receive upto Rs 5 lakhs of funding (released in a staged manner subject to milestones) to improve their prototype and perform customer validation over a 12 month period. In addition, the teams will receive training and personalized mentoring on various aspects of building their commercialization plan under IIT Madras’ flagship PreIncubation program - Nirmaan - headed by Dr. Satyanarayanan Seshadri from Applied Mechanics department.

The Demo day at the end of the 12 month period will give the teams an opportunity to showcase their solutions and articulate their path to commercialization to incubators, investors and industry experts. The winners – selected by an independent panel of jury at the Demo day event - will receive follow-on funding of Rs 10 Lakhs each to define their product-market fit and to scale up their solution.

Fund Requirements Total funding required to identify and support one cohort of the Carbon Zero PreIncubation program is ₹ 2.51 Cr. The overall breakup of budget is as shown below:

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Budget (in Lakhs INR)

Project staff 35 Funding to teams (Rs. 5 Lakhs for 25 teams)

125

Website development, launch, promotion, Younoodle, marketing outreach

10 Mentors, Jury, Faculty (inc travel, accomodation, honorarium)

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Events (inc. Demo day) on IIT Madras Campus

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Award Money (3 Prizes) 30 PI Compensation (2 PIs) 6 Contingency 3 IIT Administrative Expenses (5% of project cost)

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*there may be need for reallocation between the abovementioned heads during the course of the project.

Annexure A: CZC and Nirmaan Leadership & CZC Advisors

CZC Leadership Team Nirmaan Faculty Co-ordinator

Dr.Indumathi M Nambi

Professor, Civil Engineering IIT Madras.

Dr Hiran Vedam Project Advisor, Carbon Zero

Challenge, IIT Madras

Dr. Satyanarayanan Seshadri Assistant Professor, Applied Mechanics

IIT Madras

CZC Advisors

Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala

Chair Professor,IIT Madras

Dr Srikanth Rajan Co-President, Keiretsu

Forum, Chennai Chapter

Dr. Mahesh Panchagnula Professor & Dean IAR,IIT Madras

Mr. P Senthilnathan CTO Findmeashoe

Former Board Member,IITM IC

Mr Raghuttama Rao CEO, GDC,IIT Madras

Dr. Sriram Krishnan Director, National Grid, Boston,

USA

Mr Pradip Subramaniam Founder & CEO,

Growwtech Innovations, Bengaluru

Mr. Sivaraman K

Advisor - Projects, IWMA, Chennai

Dr R. Brakaspathy R&D Advisor, IIT Madras

Annexure B:Prototypes by CZC 2018 Cohort

Annexure C: Prototypes by CZC 2019 Cohort

Annexure D: Selected CZC 2019 Press Coverage

https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/iit-madras-carbon-zero-challenge-2018-winning- projects-html-1359430-2018-10-10

https://www.ndtv.com/education/iit-madras-carbon-zero-challenge-attracts-participants-from- students-startups-1881576

https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/iit-madras-carbon-zero-challenge- attracts-participants-from-students-start-ups-and-entrepreneurs-1282660-2018-07-11

http://skilloutlook.com/education/iit-madras-carbon-zero-challenge-attracts-participants-from- students-start-ups-and-entrepreneurs-across-the-country

https://www.ucnews.in/news/IIT-Madras-Carbon-Zero-Challenge-Attracts-Participants-From- Students-Startups/1496336458478156.html

http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Young-Hans/2018-07-15/IIT-Madras-CZeroC- attracts-participants-across-country/398358http://newswave.co.in/iit-madras-carbon-zero-challenge-goes-national.html

http://www.uniindia.com/on-world-environment-day-iit-m-launches-2nd-carbon-zero- challenge/states/news/1251929.html

https://www.netindia123.com/articles/showdetails.asp?id=3359907&n_date=20180605&cat=In dihttps://www.dtnext.in/News/City/2018/06/06010022/1075036/IITs-environmentfriendly- competition-goes-national.vpf

https://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20180605/3359907.html

http://skilloutlook.com/education/iit-madras-carbon-zero-challenge-goes-national-in-its- second-edition

https://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/skill+outlook-epaper- skillout/iit+madras+carbon+zero+challenge+goes+national+in+its+second+edition-newsid- 89470510

https://www.energyoutlook.net/news/asia/iit-madras-carbon-zero-challenge-goes-national-in- its-second-edition/

http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2018/aug/05/iit-madras-carbon-zero- challenge-invites-applications-1853522.htmlhttp://www.eqmagpro.com/iit-madras-carbon-zero-challenge-invites-applications/

https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/iit-madras-carbon-zero-challenge- attracts-participants-from-students-start-ups-and-entrepreneurs-1282660-2018-07-11http://indiaeducationdiary.in/iit-madras-launches-second-phase-carbon-zero-challenge/

Selected CZC 2018 Press Coverage

https://indiaeducationdiary.in/iit-madras-teams-bag-two-top-five-honours-carbon-zero- challenge/http://www.iwma.in/media/Times-of-India---Team-U-Farm-Technologies.pdf

https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewable/iit-teams-solar-powered- system-can-convert-plastic-into-fuel/64492210

http://www.newsnation.in/science-news/iit-madras-scientists-develop-solar-powered- technology-that-can-convert-plastic-into-fuel-article-197098.html

https://www.jagran.com/news/national-iit-madras-has-created-a-mechanism-to-make-fuel- from-plastic-waste-18052118.html

https://www.dailythanthi.com/News/State/2018/06/08014222/Chennai-IIT-Students- achievement.vpf

https://www.newsbytesapp.com/timeline/India/24466/111465/solar-powered-system-can- convert-plastic-into-fuel

http://menafn.com/1096976517/IITMadras-teams-solarpowered-system-can-convert-plastic- into-fuel

https://www.thebetterindia.com/144733/iit-madras-students-turn-plastic-waste-into-fuel- using-solar-power/

http://www.dnaindia.com/science/report-iit-team-s-solar-powered-system-can-convert-plastic- into-fuel-2622983

https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/iit-team-s-solar-powered-system-can- convert-plastic-into-fuel-118060700505_1.html

https://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/iit-team-s-solar-powered-system-can-convert-plastic- into-fuel-1252847-2018-06-07

https://www.thebetterindia.com/144733/iit-madras-students-turn-plastic-waste-into-fuel- using-solar-power/

https://telanganatoday.com/iit-teams-solar-powered-convert-plastic-fuel

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/130618/iit-m-researchers-double-the- joy-make-fuel-oil-from-plastic.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSeNZz5aIxkhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/going-the-tech-way-to-solve-environmental- problems/article22487091.ece