Professor
Sponsored Project (completed and ongoing), agency, duration and grant amount
Title |
Your Role (PI or Co-PI) |
Program/Agency |
Total Direct Cost (INR, Lakhs) |
Duration |
Improving Washing Machine hygiene by reducing release of Microplastics, reuse of greywater |
PI |
IFB Ltd |
15 Lakhs |
2024-2027 |
Textile Industry wastewater treatment by Moving bed Biofilm bioreactor and Photocatalysis |
PI |
Department of Biological Sciences |
30 lakhs (10 lakh for our Lab) |
2023-2025
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Hybrid Non Sewered wastewater treatment system for safe discharge and reuse. |
PI |
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (DST) |
87.02 Lakhs |
2023-2026 |
“Developing a Wetland Photobioreactor Microbial Fuel Cell system for Household Wastewater Treatment” |
PI |
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (DST) DST India and WTZ Austria
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15 Lakhs |
2023-2025 |
Combination of Constructed Vertical flow Wetlands, Microalgae Photobioreactor and Microbial Fuel Cell (KIT) for wastewater treatment in small pig production farms; under India-Portugal Joint Research Projects 2022
|
PI |
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (DST) |
30 Lakhs |
2022-2025 |
"Tracking the import of SARS CoV2 and its variants by surveillance of Airport wastewater"
|
PI |
Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB)
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40 Lakhs |
2023-2024 |
Global Sanitation Graduate School
|
PI |
IHE Delft & Bill & Melinda Gates foundation
|
318 Lakhs |
2019-2025 |
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Title |
Your Role (PI or Co-PI) |
Program/Agency |
Total Direct Cost (INR, Lakhs) |
Duration |
WASH Digital Learning Collaboration With EAWAG Switzerland
|
PI |
EAWAG Switzerland |
5.75 Lakhs |
2022-2023 |
Source Separation Toilet User Interface and wastewater Treatment –Project with EOOS Next Austria |
PI |
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
|
36 lakhs
|
2023-2024 |
Wastewater based Epidemiology and Screening for Covid 19 |
PI |
DBT BIRAC and Bill & Melinda Gates foundation
|
83.29 lakhs
|
2021-2022 |
Co-digestion of STP secondary sludge with organic wastes in urban/peri-urban areas; process optimization, scale up and field demonstration |
PI |
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (DST) |
5 Lakhs |
2020-2020 |
Impact of negative factors and importance of monitoring natural wetland ecosystem |
PI |
Conservator of Forests, Jharkhand.
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17 lakhs
|
2020-2020 |
“‘Empowered septic tank as a decentralized wastewater treatment system’ - Second Phase in collaboration with Ghent University, Belgium |
PI |
DBT BIRAC and Bill & Melinda Gates foundation
|
151.92 lakhs
|
2020-2022 |
Recovery and purification of enzymes |
PI |
Zuari foods and Farms Pvt Ltd
|
7.15 lakhs
|
2019 -2020
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Programme of Open Studies on Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste Management” (POS-WASH) - Second Phase and sub title production |
PI |
EAWAG Switzerland
|
9 lakhs
|
2019 -2020
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Bioleaching of Limestone and clay to remove iron and other transition elements |
PI |
ABSTCPL
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11.8 lakhs
|
2019 -2020
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Enzymatic pretreatment for enhancing Anaerobic Co-digestion of Sewage Sludge / Septage / Food waste / MSW for energy production |
PI |
Larsen & Toubro
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12.39 lakhs
|
2019 -2020
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Bioremediation and Digital Documentation Towards the Conservation of Cultural Heritage |
PI |
Department of Science & Technology, Government of India |
32.8 lakhs
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2019- 2021
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Demonstration of River Sal cleaning by Vertical wetlands and river bed filtration |
PI |
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
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68.85 lakhs
|
2019 -2021
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On site electrochemical wastewater treatment and recycling technology |
PI |
Bill & Melinda Gates foundation project in collaboration with Caltech, USA
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27 Lakhs
|
2018 -2019 |
Developing Bioactive Compound-Enriched Functional Food Ingredients from Dillenia indica and valorization of its pomace |
PI |
DBT under North EastTwinning Program in collaboration with Assam Agricultural University
|
16 Lakhs
|
2019 -2022 |
“Network on Decentralized Grey/Waste Water Treatment & Recycling” |
PI |
Indo French CEFIPRA networking project
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2018 -2020 |
Demonstration of a waste to energy by anaerobic digestion of food waste and septage |
PI |
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
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161.6 Lakhs
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2017-2019
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Empowered septic tank as decentralized wastewater treatment system |
PI |
DBT BIRAC – Bill & Melinda Gates foundation
|
67 Lakhs |
2017-2019
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Anaerobic co-digestion of food waste and organic fraction of municipal solid waste for the production of biogas and concomitant use of biogas as fuel for cooking |
PI |
Centre of Research Excellence in waste, Water and Energy management – BITS Pilani
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3 Lakhs
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2017-2019
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PreTreatment of Nitrogenous WasteWater using Microalgae and its Utilization for Production of Biofuel and other Value added Products |
PI |
Centre of Research Excellence in waste, Water and Energy management – BITS Pilani |
11 Llakhs
|
2017-2019
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Development and Demonstration of two decentralized wastewater treatment plants |
PI |
Centre of Research Excellence in waste, Water and Energy management – BITS Pilani
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31 Lakhs
|
2017-2020
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Role of environmental toxins in kidney related diseases of Canacona Taluka, Goa – Co investigator
|
PI |
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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2 Lakhs
|
2016-2019
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Analysis of metabolically active bacterial species in anaerobic digesters
|
PI |
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research |
17 lakhs
|
2016-2019
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Biotransformation of phosphogypsum by sulphate reducing bacteria
|
PI |
Department of Biotechnology
|
5 Lakhs |
2015-2016 |
Biocatalytic Production of a commercial textile dye - Indigo
|
PI |
Department of Science, Technology & Environment, Goa
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5 Lakhs |
2012-2015 |
Survey of microbial in-situ PAH degradation activity based on Southern hybridization using gene probes
|
PI |
International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Society’s bursary scheme
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0.25 Lakhs
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2012-2012 (6 months)
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Anaerobic Digestion of food waste in a horizontal plug flow reactor
|
PI |
University Grants Commission, Government of India.
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11 Lakhs
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2011-2014
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Expression of cyclodextrin glucosyl transferase gene in hydrocarbon degrading bacteria for enhancing bioremediation
|
PI |
Department of Biotechnology |
21 Lakhs |
2011-2014
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Genetic diversity of polyaromatic hydrocarbon degrading bacteria and their role in biodegradation
|
PI |
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India |
9.9 Lakhs
|
2011-2013
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Experimental pilot scale horizontal plug flow reactor for anaerobic digestion of food waste
|
PI |
Goa Energy Development Agency & BITS |
10 Lakhs
|
2010 -2013 |
Cunsaltancy Project |
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Pilot testing to capture performance data with commercial partner engagement for Cranfield University developed Reinvented the toilet Unit |
PI |
Cranfield University, UK and Gates Foundation |
57 lakhs |
2024 |
Generation 2 Reinvented Toilet (G2RT) third phase |
PI |
Georgia Tech, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation |
211.56 Lakhs |
2022-2023 |
Utilization of Palm oil effluent and solid sludge for protein production so as to use it as feed additive for animals |
PI |
Godrej Agrovet Ltd |
15.23 Lakhs |
2021-2022 |
Generation 2 Reinvented Toilet (G2RT) |
PI |
Georgia Tech, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation |
74.22 Lakhs |
2020-2021 |
Mobile Treatment Unit (MTU) Field Study” with Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Institute (WASH Institute) |
PI |
WASH Institute |
10 Lakhs |
2020-2022 |
Reviewing the course Developing Resource Recovery and Reuse (RRR) business options in the sanitation sector |
PI |
International Water Management Institute |
3.62 Lakhs |
2019 (21 days) |
Screening of Coliforms and Helminthes eggs in some of the samples of sludge that are treated using their technology |
PI |
Tide Technocrats Pvt Ltd |
0.5 Lakhs |
2019 (15 days) |
Recovery and Purification of enzymes from Spent Mushroom Substrate |
PI |
Zycon Biosciences Pvt Ltd |
7.15 Lakhs |
2019 - 2020 |
Vitamin D increase in Mushrooms by exposing to UV light |
PI |
Tropical Mushrooms private limited |
3.06 Lakhs |
2018 (6 months) |
“Resource recovery from the spent mushroom substrate. |
PI |
Zuari Foods & Farms Pvt. Ltd |
0.6 Lakhs |
2016 (2 months) |
Technical advice on construction of biogas plants. |
PI |
DeerTree Technologies Pvt Ltd |
0.75 Lakhs |
2013 -14 |
Knowledge transfer, technical support, research, development as well as for dissemination and commercialization of the Sequencing Batch Reactor. |
PI |
Tide Technocrats Pvt Ltd |
4.9 Lakhs |
2017 -2018 |
To establish COD(Cr) quality testing method for sea water |
PI |
Hitachi India Pvt Ltd |
27.41 Lakhs |
2013 -2016 |
Hybrid Electrochemical-MFC Waste Processing: Functional blocks for low energy disinfection and denitrification of human waste streams. |
PI |
Bill & Melinda Gates foundation project sub contracted by RTI international |
27 Lakhs |
2017-2018 |
Analytics Sensor Test-Kit for Advanced Process Control |
PI |
Bill & Melinda Gates foundation project in collaboration with Cranfield University, UK |
85 Lakhs |
2016 – 2018 |
Pilot study, testing the use and production of Terra Preta and other soil improving products like Struvite / PROM |
PI |
German Technical Cooperation |
55 Lakhs |
2016 -2017 |
Bioleaching of Limestone and clay to remove iron and other transition elements (titanium, chromium,manganese, nickel and zinc). |
PI |
Aditya Birla Science and Technology Pvt Ltd |
10 Lakhs |
2019 - 2020 |
Bioremediation of red mud using acidogenic fermentation and by Biopiling |
PI |
BITS Pilani and Aditya Birla Science and Technology Pvt Ltd |
71.5 Lakhs |
2018 - 2020 |
Waste to Energy Project in Nashik |
PI |
German Technical cooperation |
10.23 Lakhs |
2011 |
Total funding brought = Rs 1822.56 lakhs
Research projects = Rs 1204.95 lakhs
Consultancy projects = Rs 617.73 lakhs