Researchers at BITS Pilani Hyderabad have devised a method to convert smoke‑like industrial gases into Dimethyl Ether (DME), a clean fuel that could supplement or replace LPG in Indian households.
The West Asia crisis has renewed focus on India’s dependence on imported LPG. Former CSIR chief Raghunath Mashelkar urged the Union government to adopt Dimethyl Ether (DME), with Hyderabad’s IICT developing technology to produce the fuel from industrial carbon emissions
