Achievements - BITS Pilani

Prof. P. Sankar Ganesh

Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Environment and energy, Anaerobic digestion, Vermicomposting, Nano(eco)toxicology, Composting, Solid waste management, Termigradation, Technology for Pedagogy

Room number A119,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

sangan@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

psg.bits@gmail.com

040-66303547

Administrative Responsibilities

Current Positions:

Coordinator, Global Sanitation Graduate School (From September, 2019).
Member, WILP & Industry Connect, Project Lakshya (From October, 2018).

Past Positions:

Nucleus Member, Instruction Division (August, 2009 to December, 2012).
Member, Curriculum Bench marking for MSc Bio Sc, BE Biotech & ME Biotech programs (March, 2010).
Faculty Member, Academic Counseling Cell (August, 2010).
Member, Curriculum Restructuring: Ecology & Environmental Science and Plant Physiology (July, 2011).
Member, Departmental Research Committee, Dept. of Biological Sciences (July, 2011 to February, 2013).
Program Coordinator, National Service Scheme (February, 2011 to September, 2012).
In-charge, Timetable, Instruction Division (August, 2011 to September, 2012).
Convener, Prof. V. S. Rao Prize for Innovation in Education (December, 2011).
In-charge, Course Management System (January 2012 to December, 2012).
Campus Coordinator, French courses, Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad (February, 2012 to September, 2012).
Invited Faculty Member, Student Faculty Committee (March, 2012).
Process Owner, Learning Management System, Enterprise Resource Planning (May, 2012).
Lead Faculty Innovator, Centre for Innovation (August, 2012 to February, 2015).
Faculty In-charge, Placement Unit (September, 2012 to February, 2014).
In-charge, Student Feedback & Monitoring, Instruction Division (September, 2012 to December, 2012).
Faculty In-charge, Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (June, 2013 to February, 2015).
Leader, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Mission 2015 (June, 2013 to March, 2016).
Associate Dean, International Programmes and Collaboration Division (January, 2014 to July, 2018).
Convener, Departmental Committee for Academics (November, 2016 to October, 2018).
Campus Coordinator, Project Management Office, Project Lakshya (August, 2017 to December, 2017).
Member, Departmental Research Committee (September, 2019 to November, 2020)
Associate Dean, Practice School Division (July, 2018 to September, 2021).

Other Positions:

President, Tamil Sangam, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (August 2010).
In-charge, Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences (October 2011).
Faculty Member, URJA, (November 2011).
Committee Member, Steering Committee Meeting & visit of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh (December 2011).
Transport Coordinator, Chancellor’s Visit (December 2011).
Member, Committee for mid semester test pattern (March 2012).
Coordinator, Transportation & Stay Arrangements, Convocation Committee (May 2012).
Coordinator, Workshop for researchers in infectious diseases from Canada and India. (June 2012).
In-charge, Pre-Convocation Events (August 2012).
Coordinator, Transportation & Stay Arrangements, Alumni Advisory Committee (August 2012).
Event In-charge, Srimad Bhagavad Gita by Swami Anubhavananda Saraswati, (August 2012 & January 2013).
Coordinator, Jeevan Vidya Introductory Talk by Prof. Rajeev Singhal (November 2012).
Coordinator, Farewell for outgoing students (November 2012).
Member, UGC Innovation Project proposal submission team (February 2013).
Event In-charge, Srimad Bhagavad Gita by Swami Anubhavananda Saraswati, (August 2012 & January 2013).
Member, Quality Assessment & Assurance, Mission 2015 Workshop (March 2013).
Coordinator, Convocation Documentation Sub Committee, Convocation 2013 (May 2013).
Coordinator, Convocation Documentation Sub Committee, Convocation 2014 ( June 2014).

Technology Developed

iSTAR® is a novel thermophilic anaerobic digestion technology, used to treat hazardous wastes such as landfill leachate and domestic septage. It can be used to treat single or multiple substrates (co-digestion). The inbuilt 'Remote Monitoring System' keeps track of the bioreactor's health. Organic matter present in the substrate(s) is converted into methane-rich biogas. Effluent sludge is composted and used as a soil amendment. This technology has been developed as part of the SPARSH project No. BT/SPARSH0144/03/15, funded by BIRAC.

Technology Commissioned: As part of the CoRE project, a 12,000 Lt thermophilic biogas digester was commissioned in 2014 at the students' hostel dining hall to treat food waste. The biogas produced is used as a supplement for cooking gas and the spent slurry is used as a soil amendment/ biofertilizer for horticulture. Click here to watch the video of the biogas plant.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Start-up Company:

ALMaC Protech: Incubated a start-up company named ALMaC Projects and Technologies Private Limited at Technology Business Incubator, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. ALMaC Protech is a Technology Development, Technology Adaptation, Systems Engineering and Projects Management Company, specializing in the domains of Biological Systems, Solar, IoT and IC Technologies.

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