Major research areas
Photocatalysis, Membrane separation, renewable energy, hydrogen fuel, wastewater treatment
Research Group Members
PhD
Vishal Kumar Paswan (Ongoing)
Ravi Kumar (Ongoing)
Shravan Kumar (Ongoing)
Nayanika Dasgupta (Ongoing)
Rohini Singh (2019): Synthesis and characterization of visible light active semiconductor photocatalysts for dye degradation and hydrogen generation
Shireen Quereshi (2019): Production of fuels and value added chemicals from renewable biomass sources
Chiranjit Bhattacharjee (2020): Studies on watermelon juice concentration using ultrafiltration
Lutukurthi D.N.V.V. Konda (2022): Synthesis and characterization of metal oxides and metal oxide based nanocomposite photocatalysts
Pallabi Das (2022): Membrane integrated crystallization: sustainable technology development towards process intensification
Bharti Kumari (2022): Study on chromium removal using modified nanoscale zerovalent iron
Ajay Oraon (2023): Removal of toxic dye and heavy metal from simulated wastewater using low cost adsorbent
Shivshankar Prasad (2025): Catalytic conversion of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural into 2,5-furandicarboxilic acid as biopolymer precursor
M. Tech
2016: Anuja Tripathi, Pooja Kumari, Hassam Mazhar, Sikha Sinha
2017: Saikat Mandal, Srilekha Das, Anant Nema
2018: Pranjal Tripathi, Ashish Bhagat
2019: Rahul Binjhade, Srikant Kumar
2020: Rahul Das, Tara
2021: Naveen Singhal, Aman Singh
2022: Shubham Kumar
2023: Rishabh Jain, Vishal Kumar Yogi
2024: Arkaprava Gupta
2025: Ram Vijay Yadav, Prerna Pandey
Visiting researchers/Post-Doctoral fellows
Mboowa Drake (Visiting researcher; September 2015 - February 2016)
Ganesh Swain (IPDF; February 2023 - January 2024)
Abdur Raheem (IPDF; ongoing)
Patent/Copyright
Title: Process of preparation of fuel additives and commodity chemicals
Inventors: Kamal K Pant, Shireen Quereshi, Ejaz Ahmad, Suman Dutta, Tarun Kumar Naiya
India; Granted: Patent No: 413014
Title: Integrated Hollow fibre FO-UF with Tubular Assembly in a cross flow channel.
Pallabi Das, Suman Dutta, K.K.K. Singh, Pradeep Kumar Singh
Applicant: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
ROC No: L-88587/2020; ROC date: 07/01/2020; India