Sponsored Projects

                              Project Ongoing:                                                                     

• SERB DST sponsored Power grant project on “Bacteria doped aerogel/xerogel bioreactor for organic pollutants separation, 5th  September, 2022 - September 2025

• • • Project Completed:

• "Synthesis of Graphene oxide coated natural waste materials and its application for simultaneous treatment of wastewater containing fluoride and chromium: Reactor performance in batch, fluidized bed and membrane reactor", DST SERB, March, 2019 - March 2022

• "Synthesis of reduced Graphene oxide using gamma irradiation and Detoxification of wastewater using reduced Graphene oxide based nano-coated composite in presence of Gamma/ UV/ photolytic radiation /irradiation technique: Comparative analysis, Removal efficiency, Optimization and Toxicity evaluation " UGC-DAE Consortium, June, 2019 - May,2022

• “Role of carbonaceous materials and cellulose nano-fibres polymeric composite for treatment of multiple pollutants present in waste water”, sponsored by Industry (PI), Jan 2018 - Sep,2023

• "Zeolite-based Low-cost Hybrid Membrane Photo-Bioreactor System for Treating and Recycling of High Strength Industrial Wastewater”; IMPRINT - II (Co-PI) in collaboration with Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT-Rourkella, Department Of Life Science, NIT, Rourkela, School Of Environmental Science And Engineering,  IIT-Kharagpur (Co-PI), Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Institute Of Chemical Technology , Feb, 2019 - Feb,2023

• "Removal of pharmaceutical derivatives present in waste water by advanced oxidation integrating with microstructure and rotating packed bed of graphene (G)/Graphene oxide (GO)/GO-metal nanocomposites" sponsored by DST (India) (PI) in collaboration with IIT - Guwahati, March 2017-March, 2020.

• Bioremediation of oil spills and removal of aromatic hydrocarbons using marine microorganisms with nanoparticles: Treatment efficiency, optimization, modeling and simulation studies", sponsored by Ministry of Earth Science, India (PI), March 2014-Oct, 2017.

• Assessment and modeling on decolourization of textile effluents by sorption coupled with biodegradation in a fluidized bed bioreactor and evaluation of reactor performance, WBDBT (PI), Feb 2015-March 2018.

• "Sustainable development of value added products from Food waste Materials and its Application", under RUSA2 Project (PI), Feb 2019 - March 2021.

• "Utilizing natural resources, Carbondioxide and waste heat towards sustainable development", RUSA 2, June, 2019 (PI) - March 2021

• "Integral approach of separation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon from aqueous solution using waste biomass based magnetic nanocomposites and advanced oxidation",  RUSA 2, June, 2019 (PI) - March 2021 (Project Coordinator)

•  Application of Bio-Remediation technology for remediation of Fluoride Containing water Bodies”, Seed Grant under TEQIP II, Jadavpur University (PI)

• Treatability study of pharmaceutical wastewater using Graphene – oxide nanosheet, Jadavpur University Research Grant (PI) 

• Isolation and Characterization of Micro-organisms/Micro-algae from North East region and Eastern Coal mines for Bio-Sequestration of CO2 and its Utilization towards Generation of Bio-fuel, sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, India (Co-PI).      

• "Green Synthesis of iron nanoparticles from manglicolous fungi of Indian Sunderban and their application in sequestration of heavy metals from contaminated water", Department of Biotechnology (India), (PI) in collaboration with Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta and Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT-Rourkella (PI). January 2016-March 2019

• TEQIP community Cell Project on "Waste to wealth materials" (PI).

• "Studies of toxic stress (oxidative) conditions arising from biochemical disorders and degeneration due to environmental exposures from components of drinks (soft/hard) or food and mechanisms of actions of phyto-medicine as remedial (antioxidants) measures", Industry Project. (Co-PI) in collaboration with Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta.

• Institution of Engineers Grant-in-Aid project on “Application potential of graphene and graphene oxide for treatment of dye-stuff effluents” (Supervisor).