IOC launched indoor solar cook top Surya Nutan

Highlights:

• Recently, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) unveiled its patented indigenous solar cook top called Surya Nutan.
• Surya Nutan has been developed by Faridabad R&D centre of the oil refiner (IOC).
• The solar cook top will aid in reducing CO2 emissions of India drastically and keep its citizens insulated from high international fossil fuel prices.
• It is a rechargeable, stationary, and kitchen-connected indoor solar cooking system.
• The system offers an online cooking mode while charging.
• Currently, the pilot projects are being held across 60 places like Leh (Ladakh), in order to ascertain several operational and commercial aspects associated with its application.
• Solar cook top works in hybrid mode. 
• Thus, it can run on solar energy as well as auxiliary energy sources simultaneously. 
• The insulation design of Surya Nutan minimises conductive and radiative heat losses.
• Initial cost of the solar cooktop was Rs 12,000 for base model while Rs 23,000 for the top model. 
• However, this cost is likely to reduce substantially with economies of scale.
• The solar cook top is in line with the steps taken by Ministry in ongoing global energy crisis, including:
• Increasing procurement price of Compressed Bio-Gas from Rs 45 per kg to Rs 54 per kg, under SATAT scheme.
• Increasing ethanol blending to 20 per cent
• Increasing area under Exploration and Production from 7-8 percent to 15 per cent of geographical area and
• Pursuing green hydrogen mission in refineries.

• SATAT Scheme stands for “Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) scheme”. 
• It has four objectives:
• To utilise over 62 million metric tonnes of waste generated per year in India
• To cut down import dependence
• To supplement job creation India.
• To reduce vehicular emissions and pollution from burning of organic waste or agricultural waste.