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

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

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)

40 Lakhs

2023-2024

Global Sanitation Graduate School

PI

IHE Delft & Bill & Melinda Gates foundation

318 Lakhs

2019-2025

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.

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

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

Bioleaching of Limestone and clay to remove iron and other transition elements

PI

ABSTCPL

11.8 lakhs

2019 -2020

Enzymatic pretreatment for enhancing Anaerobic Co-digestion of Sewage Sludge / Septage / Food waste / MSW for energy production

PI

Larsen & Toubro

12.39 lakhs

2019 -2020

Bioremediation and Digital Documentation Towards the Conservation of Cultural Heritage

PI

Department of Science & Technology, Government of India

32.8 lakhs

2019- 2021

Demonstration of River Sal cleaning by Vertical wetlands and river bed filtration

PI

Department of Biotechnology, Government of India

68.85 lakhs

2019

-2021

On site electrochemical wastewater treatment and recycling technology

PI

Bill & Melinda Gates foundation project in collaboration with Caltech, USA

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

2018

-2020

Demonstration of a waste to energy by anaerobic digestion of food waste and septage

PI

Department of Biotechnology, Government of India

161.6 Lakhs

2017-2019

Empowered septic tank as decentralized wastewater treatment system

PI

DBT BIRAC – Bill & Melinda Gates foundation

67 Lakhs

2017-2019

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

3 Lakhs

2017-2019

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

Development and Demonstration of two decentralized wastewater treatment plants

PI

Centre of Research Excellence in waste, Water and Energy management – BITS Pilani

31  Lakhs

2017-2020

Role of environmental toxins in kidney related diseases of Canacona Taluka, Goa – Co investigator

PI

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

2 Lakhs

2016-2019

Analysis of metabolically active bacterial species in anaerobic digesters

PI

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

17 lakhs

2016-2019

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

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

0.25 Lakhs

2012-2012 (6 months)

Anaerobic Digestion of food waste in a horizontal plug flow reactor

PI

University Grants Commission, Government of India.

11 Lakhs

2011-2014

Expression of cyclodextrin glucosyl transferase gene in hydrocarbon degrading bacteria for enhancing bioremediation

PI

Department of Biotechnology

21 Lakhs

2011-2014

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

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

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