Name : Debangshu Kumar
Class : 10
District & State : Puruliya, West Bengal
Award : IGNITE
Award Function : IGNITE 2018 Awards
Award Year : 2018
Innovation Description :
The filtering process of shellac in traditional handmade method needs charcoal as a fuel. In large scale processing system the filtering is through hydraulic press. The present technique uses house hold items viz. pressure cookers, hollow cylinder, one double burner gas oven, one shuraksha gas pipe, cloth filter. etc. In this process steam produced in one cooker is transferred to another containing shellac (seed lac), which melts it. The wastage of heat in the traditional method of shellac processing where large quantity of charcoal is used gave him this idea.
Debangshu gets his motivation to work for the society from the famous quote of Helen Keller “Alone we can do so little. together we can do so much”. He wants to grow up and become a rural industrialist.