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IIT develops moveable, electric cremation system amid rise in Covid deaths

It uses half of the wood otherwise required for the cremation and still is eco-friendly because of the technology that uses combustion air system
  • The cremation system or incinerator heats up at 1,044 degree Celsius which ensures complete sterilization
  • IIT Ropar has developed a prototype of a moveable electric cremation systemPremium
    IIT Ropar has developed a prototype of a moveable electric cremation system

    The Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar has developed an eco-friendly cremation cart, fitted with stainless steel insulation for ensuring no heat loss and less wood consumption. 

    The cart has been developed in collaboration with a company Cheema Boilers Limited, a university release said on Thursday.

    “The technology behind it is based on the wick stove, in which wick after lighting glows yellow and this is converted into smokeless blue flame after installing the combustion air system over these wicks," it said.


    The stainless steel trays on both sides of the cart are for easy ash removal. The cart is equipped with combustion air for primary and secondary hot air systems, it further said.

    The disposal is completed within 12 hours including cooling as against 48 hours, said Harpreet Singh, Dean, IIT Ropar.

    Singh said that the cremation system or incinerator heats up at 1,044 degree Celsius which ensures complete sterilization.

    “Usually wood costs about 2,500 for disposing one body and poor families sometimes try to get by with much less and end up having to dispose of partially burnt bodies, or even whole corpses, in rivers," the dean said.

    The cart has wheels and it can be transported anywhere without much effort, he added.

    Harjinder Singh Cheema, MD, Cheema Boilers Ltd said, “We are providing a simplest and cheapest way of cremation, which can be performed within half of wood required now and can reduce the carbon footprint by half."

    It can also be used on LPG using domestic gas cylinders, he further said.

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    Updated: 13 May 2021, 08:04 PM IST
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