News & Updates
1. Advanced Membrane Research Lab is delighted to share that Prof. Bhaskar Jyoti Deka and his students (Gaurav Vaghela & Mohd Sahil) have been bestowed with the prestigious YUKTI Innovation Challenge 2023 (Yukti 2.0) by the Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Government of India. This recognition reflects the exceptional dedication and ingenuity demonstrated by the team.
2. Delighted to share about the successful completion of 3 days International workshop on "Membrane Technologies for Desalination, Energy and Water Sustainability (MemDEW)" during 18th to 20th October 2023, sponsored by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.
Heartfelt gratitude to our esteem keynote speakers (international as well as national) Prof. Ho Kyong Shon (University of Technology Sydney, Australia), Prof. Alicia Kyoungjin An (City University of Hong Kong), Prof. Achintya Bezbaruah (North Dakota State University, US), Prof. Sanghyun Jeong (Pusan National University, South Korea), Prof. Akhilendra Bhushan Gupta (MNIT Jaipur, India), Prof. Jiaxin Guo (XI'AN Jiaotong University), Prof. Swatantra Pratap Singh (IIT Bombay), Prof. Shrutidhara Sarma (IIT Jodhpur), Prof. Shobha Shukla (IIT Bombay), Dr. Racha Surya Murali (Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun), Prof. Manish Kumar (University of Petroleum and Energy Studies), Prof. Gopinath Packirisamy (IIT Roorkee), Prof. Himanshu Joshi (IIT Roorkee), Prof. Amit Bhosle (IIT Roorkee), Prof. Abhijit Maiti (IIT Roorkee), Dr. Tina Chakrabarty (Reliance R&D Centre, Reliance Industries Ltd., Navi Mumbai), Dr. Ratikanta Nayak (NIST, Berhampur), Prof. Krishna Mohan Poluri (IIT Roorkee), Prof. Brijesh Kumar Yadav (IIT Roorkee), Prof. Hari Prakash Veluswamy (IIT Roorkee), Prof. Sumit Sen (IIT Roorkee), Dr. Vinay Kumar Tyagi (NIH Roorkee), Prof. Basant Yadav (IIT Roorkee).
3. Job Alert: Opportunities for passionate candidates to work on research project in my group.
Essential Qualification: BTech/BE & MTech/ME in "Chemical/Environmental/Civil/Polymer Engineering/Chemistry or Equivalent" alongwith GATE score. Job Alert: Opportunities for passionate candidates to work on research project in my group.
Essential Qualification: BTech/BE & MTech/ME in "Chemical/Environmental/Civil/Polymer Engineering/Chemistry or Equivalent" alongwith GATE score.
4. Recipient of Technology Readiness Level Booster (TRLB) from IIT Roorkee.
5. It is my great pleasure to share that my PhD student (Gaurav Vaghela) has been awarded with distinguished "Award for Asian Young Professional on Water Research", "Excellent Abstract Award", along with "International Travel Support" at 13th International Symposium on Southeast Asian Water Environment (SEAWE-13). This symposium was organized by Research Center for Water Environment Technology (RECWET), the University of Tokyo (UTokyo, Japan), Southeast Asian Center for Water Environment Technology (SACWET), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT, Thailand), in cooperation with National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan (NIES, Japan).
Title of the talk: Roughness enhanced electrospray hydrophobic membrane for separation of dye from textile wastewater via membrane distillation. Authors: Gaurav Vaghela, Mohd Sahil and Bhaskar Jyoti Deka
About the authors:
Gaurav Vaghela: PhD research scholar under the supervision of Dr. Bhaskar Jyoti Deka
Mohd Sahil: M.Tech student under the supervision of Dr. Bhaskar Jyoti Deka
It is really a proud moment for all of us to receive such a recognition in global platform.
6. It was a great honor for me to participate in the International Engineering Sourcing Show (IESS) exhibition (16-18 March) in Chennai.
Joint Secretary, Director of Indo-German Science and Technology Centre, Mr. Jeevan Reddy (Associate Director, AECOM), many other govt agencies, international delegates, and industries visited us and showed great interest in our recently developed products, waste to resource concept, and willing to extend further association. It was a wonderful experience to interact with more than 300+ visitors, 100+ industrial representatives in three days.
7. Recently online ITEC course on "Emerging Technologies for Water/wastewater Treatment" was successfully conducted by the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee & Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC), Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India. Prof. Apurbba Kumar Sharma, Dean of Academic Affairs, Prof. P. Arumugam, Dean of International Relations, Prof B. K. Yadav, Head of Hydrology, Prof. Himanshu Joshi, Hydrology Department, and faculty colleagues graced the inaugural & valedictory session. The training course was jointly coordinated by Prof. Himanshu Joshi and me. Thankful to all the key speakers for delivering expert talks, also to all faculty colleagues from own/other departments for all time support as well as our student volunteers Suraj Gudale, Mohd Sahil, SHUBHAM KETAN SHARMA, Gaurav Vaghela, and others for conducting the sessions smoothly.
The international participants (from the industry as well as academic & research organizations) joined the course from different parts of the globe. Together, we completed a great journey of knowledge exchange, discussed water-related issues and their possible scientific remediation. Further, delighted to see the participant's interest in advanced membrane technologies and their applications.
Aim of the training course: Understanding about different emerging treatment technologies including desalination and their application to address current and future water scarcity.
8. International workshop on "SuWaRec: Securing sustainable treatment for drinking water production and water recycling with focus on anionic contaminants" supported by Indo-German Science & Technology Centre (IGSTC).
Coordinators: Dr. Bhaskar Jyoti Deka (IIT Roorkee, India) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mathias Ernst (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany).
Venue and date: Hamburg University of Technology, Germany / 20 Jul 2022 - 22 Jul 2022
