Achievements
Patents
System and method for remediating groundwater from impurities with zero waste.
Granted in October 2024
Patent number: 552198
Inventors: Dr. Yagnaseni Roy, Subhash Kumar, Rasmi Mohan T, Prof. Prof. Lakshminarayana Rao, Prof. Suryasarathi Bose.Curcumin isolation using a membrane.
Granted in August 2024
Patent number: 546988
Inventors: Dr. Yagnaseni Roy, Milana M. Mavinkurve, Prof. Suryasarathi Bose, Ria Sen Gupta, Samir Mandal, Amit Malakar.Method for sequential recovery of single type of plastic material from plastic waste in a closed system.
Filed in November 2024
Application number: 202441090278
Highlighted achievements
Groundwater remediation work by the group featured in the news.
Rasmi Mohan T becomes one among the first five to win the prestigious Hindustan Unilever Fellowship for women PhD students in November 2023.
She was also selected for the PMRF 2023 (cycle 11).
Publications and conference presentations
Aparna Anilkumar and Yagnaseni Roy, Improved Solution Thermodynamics Modeling in Pervaporation, Chemical Engineering Science, Available online 14th July 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2024.120497.
Mahsa Gholami, Bram Middelkamp, Yagnaseni Roy (co-supervisory role), Wiebe M. de Vos, Boelo Schuur. Flux decline in crossflow ultrafiltration-based diafiltration process for lignin recovery from a deep eutectic solvent comprised of lactic acid and choline chloride. Chemical Engineering Research and Design. 2024 Jan 12.
Alan D. Pérez, Yagnaseni Roy, Constantijn Rip, Sascha R. Kersten, Boelo Schuur. Influence of pulping conditions on the pulp yield and fiber properties for pulping of spruce chips by deep eutectic solvent. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. 2023 Dec 21:1-5.
Rasmi Mohan T and Subhash Kumar win second prize in the Indian International Conference on Water Quality Management held at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in December 2023.
Milana M. Mavinkurve presented 'Nanofiltration-based energy-efficient scheme for concentrating plant extracts by replacing conventional evaporation' at the Third International Scientific Conference on Environmental Research: Issues, Challenges and Strategies for Sustainable Development’ to be held at Karwar, Karnataka, India during 1-2 December 2023.
Aparna Anilkumar presented 'Hybrid pervaporation-distillation: a sustainable technology to break azeotropes for efficient, high-purity solvent recovery' in the Distillation Experts Conclave in Mumbai, India, October 2023.
Preprint of "Pervaporation System Level Modeling and Thermodynamic Analysis: Isopropanol Dehydration" authored by Aparna Anilkumar released (http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4481082)
Mahsa Gholami, Boelo Schuur, and Yagnaseni Roy (guiding author). "Ultrafiltration-based diafiltration for post-delignification fractionation of lignin from a deep eutectic solvent comprised of lactic acid and choline chloride." Separation and purification technology 302 (2022): 122097.
Funding
Government Grants
IISc-Rice Collaborative Seed Grant 2024
(In collaboration with Prof. Qilin Li, Rice University)
Novel membrane synthesis and combined experimental and simulation-based investigation for pervaporation-based polar aprotic solvent recovery.
SERB Core Research grant (2024-2027)
Experimental and simulation-based investigation of extraction of phytochemicals using organic solvent nanofiltration and crystallization.
Ministry of Earth Sciences grant as Co-PI (2 years)
Experimental and simulation-based investigation of novel membrane material synthesized by collaborators for sea water desalination.
IISc Startup Grant (2021-2022)
Curcumin recovery using membrane separations and solvent separation using pervaporation
Industry R&D Funding
Himalaya Wellness Company (2024-2026)
Curcumin isolation using membrane separation
Biocon Limited (3 month project)
Polar aprotic solvent recovery by pervaporation through experiments for pharmaceutical processes
Assessment of water recovery from boiler effluent water using membrane separation by combined experimental and simulation-based investigations.
Industry CSR Grants
Earthwatch fund (2023-24)
Citizen science and sensitization for the effects of groundwater contamination in rural regions of Karnataka
Avnet and L&T
Pilot-scale implementation of Zero Waste Discharge (ZWD) scheme