PhD thesis completed:
1. Anupam Mukherjee - Thesis titled: “Techno-economic Feasibility Analysis Of An Integrated Technology For
Greywater Treatment From Indian Households” – Awarded July 11, 2022 –
currently Senior Engineer at Ramky Enviro Engineers, Hyderabad
ME thesis completed:
1. Shahnoor Tamboli – Thesis titled: “Desalination Technologies for Affordable Water for
Rural Economies” – Awarded August 2022 – currently Engineer at Aequs,
Karnataka
2. Jasneet Kaur Pala – Thesis titled: “Mathematical Modeling of Desalination technology from Water-Energy
Nexus perspective” – Awarded 2021 – currently pursuing PhD at
University of Alabama, USA
3. Lubna Muzamilrehman – Thesis titled: “Understanding the Thermodynamics of Salt-water systems” –
Awarded 2020 – currently pursuing PhD at KAUST, SA
4. Shubham Lanjewar – Thesis titled: “Thermodynamics of Membrane formation and its Application” –
Awarded 2019 – currently pursuing PhD in BITS Pilani Goa
Awards Won by Students
FD students:
1. Malini Roy: Indian
Institute of Chemical Engineers – Outstanding Young Chemical Engineer (OYCE)
Award – 1st Prize
Paper titled: ""Development of a Deep Learning Based
Hydrodynamic Cavitation Technology for Dye Degradation : An Artificial
Intelligence (AI) - Machine Learning (ML) Framework""
2. Avdhesh Vermani: Indian
Institute of Chemical Engineers – Outstanding Young Chemical Engineer (OYCE)
Award – 2nd Prize
Paper titled: "Prediction of Mass Transfer Coefficient Through
Deep Learning Based Image Processing Framework for Bubble Geometry Variations
in a Surfactant Ozonation based Gas-Liquid Contacting System"
3. Arijit Chakraborty: Indian
Institute of Chemical Engineers - The Chemical Weekly Prize for Best Research
Paper Published in a High Impact Factor International Journal by an
Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Student (First prize)
Journal paper: "Seasonal Variations in River Water Properties
and Their Impact on Mixing Energies and Pressure Retarded Osmosis."
HD students:
1. Lubna Muzamilrehman:
INAE Best Masters Thesis Award
Title: "Thermodynamics of Salt-Water Systems"
2. Jasneet Kaur Pala:The
Late Lakshmi Nandakumar Award as the best speaker
in the women's category at SCHEMCON 2020
Title: "Zero Liquid Discharge Strategy And Related Energetics
: A Study Of Thermal Desalination Integrated With Crystallization"
3. Jasneet Kaur Pala:
Best paper award in "Modeling and Simulation" at SCHEMCON 2020
Title: "Analysis of Thermo-acoustical parameters of
Hypersaline solutions for applications in Osmotic Power Generation
Technologies"
4. Lubna Muzamilrehman:
Best paper award under the theme "Alternate Energy Resources" at
International Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering-2020 (AdChe-2020)
at UPES Dehradun
Title: "Analysis of Thermo-acoustical parameters of
Hypersaline solutions for applications in Osmotic Power Generation
Technologies"
PhD students:
1. Anupam Mukherjee : VICAL Award
presented at CHEMCON 2021
2. Anupam Mukherjee: Best
Paper Award at SCHEMCON 2020
Title: "Study of Hydrodynamic Cavitation based hybrid
advanced oxidation technology: A case study for degradation of Sodium dodecyl
sulphate "
3. Anupam Mukherjee: BRIC
(BIRAC IKP) Award for Goa Idea Exposition 2020 on "Healthcare and
Environment" at GIM Goa - in collaboration with ESSIL -
includes cash prize of 50,000 INR for furthering development of technology
Title: "Prototype Development for Treatment of Grey
Water Appliance GeRRy"