Hyderabad:A University of Hyderabad (UOH)-led Indo-German research project on energy-efficient steel manufacturing has been featured as the cover story of the latest edition of the international journal ACS Applied Engineering Materials, with the study proposing a lower-carbon alternative for producing automotive suspension springs.
The research was carried out under the Indo-German science and technology centre project ‘Steel4LTC’, involving academic researchers and industry partners from India and Germany. The study focused on developing a thermo-mechanical treatment process that can produce lightweight, high-strength and fatigue-resistant automotive spring steel, while sharply reducing industrial energy consumption and carbon emissions.
The UoH team included Mohsin Hasan, whose doctoral research formed a key part of the work, along with Nanda Kishore Karnam, Joshua Daniel Jujjavarapu and Koteswararao V. Rajulapati from the School of Engineering Sciences and Technology. The collaboration also involved researchers from JSW Steel, University of Siegen in Germany, and German automotive spring manufacturer MUBEA.
According to the paper, adopting the process at industrial scale could save nearly 18.25 GWh of energy annually and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by around 15,000 tonnes each year. The ₹7.2 crore project received ₹1.88 crore support for the UoH component.
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