The Higher Education Commission aims to facilitate institutions of higher learning to serve as engines for socio-economic development of Pakistan as stated in the mission. Along these lines, Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan took an initiative to finance proposals of completed interdisciplinary applied research projects for prototype development and industrial value addition for technology development under Technology Development Fund (TDF). In this way, HEC envisages to help the productive minds of Pakistan to impact economy through new and emerging technologies.Centre for Energy Research and Development (CERAD) also submitted proposals under TDF program and won the following projects after review process.
1.Gadget (Test bench) development for water pump/agricultural tube well energy efficiency measurement and improvement.2.Energy Extraction by safe disposal of Municipal Waste using Nanotechnology3.Design and Development of an Automatic, Robotized and portable cleaning system for solar photovoltaic plants4.Design and Development of capacity tester for valve Regulated lead acid (VRLA) batteries as per IEEE standard 11885.Implementation of optimal energy consumption and distributed energy generation strategy (NRPU)6.Hybrid power monitoring and control system (NRPU)