PART II

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS

Biotechnology Chemical Engineering Chemistry Civil Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Design Electronics and Communication Engineering Humanities and Social Sciences Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Physics

ACADEMIC CENTRES

Centre for Energy Centre for the Environment Centre for Nanotechnology

CENTRALISED SERVICES AND PROGRAMM E

Centre for Educational Technology Central Instruments Facility Centre for Mass Media Communication Computer Centre Quality Improvement Programme

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

INTRODUCTION

Biotechnology continues to expand rapidly with new discoveries and often life-saving products at a breathtak in g pace. This industry, a merger of science and business, demands a multi-discip lin ary workforce ski ll ed in basic- research, product development, regulatory affairs and co mm erc i al i zat ion. The Departm ent of Bi otechnology of the Institute, started in year 2002, offers students both undergrad uate (BTech) and postgraduate (PhD) academic programmes. Th e Departm ent is uniqu e in N orth-E aste rn India, imparting quality ed ucation and providing excellent research environm ent.

The major thrust of the Departm ent includes biochemical engi neerin g, plant biotechnology, nano-biotechnology, compu tational biology and proteomics. The Department has in itiated effo rts to estab lish ad vanced research labo ratories in all the thru st areas. Ap art from fundamental research, the goals of the Department are also targeted to meet the demands of the biotechnology based industries.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

The Departm ent is currently offering two program mes - BTech and PhD. Th e BTech degree offe rs comprehensi ve education in biotechnology focusing on basic concepts and techniques in b iotechnol ogy and alli ed engi neering sciences. The programme consists of core and elective cou rses, seminars, summ er training and a fin al year research project. Th e Department also offers a Mod ern Biology course as a core subject to first yea r BTech students of all disciplines.

The Departm ent offers research programme lead ing to the award of the PhD degree in the following areas: Prote in Fo ldin g and Aggr egatio n; Computati onal m o lec ular biophysics, structural-function-folding relati onship, protein engin eering, protein function, In silico drug design, Computer Simulation to study Drug­Resistance of HIV-protease, Enzym e' and M icrobial Technology; Plant Cell and Tissue Culture, Plant Gen etic En gin eering; Gene Th erapy for Viral and M etabolic Diseases; Molecu lar Fingerprinting and Expression Systems in Food Grade bacteria; Biochemistry and M olecular Biology of Carbohydrate Enzym es; Fungal Biotechnology and Bi o-pesticides, Biologica l Control of Insect Pests; Environmental bioremediation, Bioprocessdevelopment (upstream to downstream), M etaboli c Engineering.

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STUDENT INTAKE

Student intake in th e academic session 2006-2007:

PhD: 10 BTech : 33

Out of 19 BTech students of the Department registered with the Pl acement Cel l, 17 students have been placed in compani es like Tata Consultancy Servi ces Ltd., IBM Global Services (I) Pvt. Ltd., Globa l Analytics Ind ia Pvt. Ltd., Fl extroni cs Software Systems, etc. Highest and lowest salary offered is Rs.32.27 lakhs per annum and Rs.2.7Iakhs per annum respectively. Th e average salary offered is Rs. 6.15 lakhs per annum. Many of the passed out students are opting for higher studies and have rece ived offers from prestigious universities like Joh ns Hopkins, Universi ty of Pittsburgh, University of Southern California, etc.

FACULTY STRENGTH

Faculty strength as on 31 March 2007: 16 (Sixteen) Associate Professor: 3 (Three) Assistant Professor: 13 (Thirteen)

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

The Department has developed fully eq uipped BTech laboratories for Biochemistry, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Pl ant Biotechnology. Th e Department has procured major equipment like Super speed centri fuges, Ul tracentrifuge, Inverted fluorescence microscopes, PCR machine, Steady state fluorimeter, UV-Visibl e thermostat control spectrophotometer, Ultrasonicator, Ferm enters, Gel documentation system, Fraction collector, Cell disrupter, Atomic force microscope, HPLC, Tensi ometer, etc. In addition to that the Departm ent has created faciliti es like mamm alian cell culture laboratory, transgenic greenhouse containment and biochemical engineering laboratory. The Departm ent has a separate compu tational laboratory with the following faciliti es:

Desktop Computers: 29 in number; Operating systems: Windows/Linux; Connected to Servers at the Institute Computer Centre through LAN. Dedicated departmental server for computational biology work: 1 in number; Model: Atlas G71 0, ACER; Duel Intel Xenon Pocessor 3.2 GHz; Extended memory 64 technology; Hyperthread ing; 800 MHz FSB chipset. Dedicated departmental RISC Workstati on: 1 in number; Model: Sun Blade 2500, Sun Microsystems, with 2* 1.228 GHz Ultra SPARC IIli Processor.

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Access to GARUDA grid of C-DAC: Being a member institution of GARUDA grid, our Department has access to this network and used for large scale computational biology works. Software for computational Biology: SYBYL modules (Tripos) - SYBYL Base, Biopolymer, Dynamic. Th ese modules are used for molecular modelling and molecular dynamic simulations. Apart from these facilities, each of the faculties is provided with personal desktop computers connected to the LAN.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

The Department is committed to research in all aspects o f biotechnology. Research projects sponsored by Department of Sci ence and Technology (DST), Ministry of Human Resou rce and Development (MHRD), Council of Scientific and Industrial Resea rch (CSIR), and Department of Biotechnology (D BT) are currently in progress. Twenty five PhD students are pursuing research fo r their doctoral degrees. The research in the Department is carried out in diverse areas like Protein aggregation with emphasis on structural characteristics of aggregates and detection of protein aggregates in solution, Effect of macromolecular crowding on enzyme kinetics, structure-fu nction-fo lding relationship of proteins, Biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue enginee ring, Deve lopm en t of redox and lipol ytic enzymes for regio and enantio-select ive synth esis of pharmaceutica l compounds and development of biosenso rs and enzymatic biofuel cell; Genetic engineeri ng of grain legumes for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, marker free transgenic; Identification of plus trees and mass cultivation in biofuel plants; Segregation of abiotic stress genes in mapping population of ri ce; Phylogenetic analysis of emerging infectious viruses, Gene-therapy approaches for viral and metabolic diseases; Molecular fingerprinting of industrial food grade microorganisms, Identification of bioactive compounds from metagenomic lib rary, Molecular analys is of carbohydrate enzymes; Biological control of insect pests, Pl ant tissue culture and biochemical analysis; Environmental bioremediation, Bi ohydrom etall urgy; Bioprocess development (upstream to downstream), Bioreactor design and control, Metabolic engineering, Bioenergy; Compu tational Biology, In silico drug design; Biomolecule Immobilization, Biosensors, Analytical Biochemistry and Bioassays.

SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS

New Projects

Title: Tracking the growth of soluble protein aggregates in real time using nuorescence and subsequent manoeuvres to inhibit their growth. Investigator: Dr. R. Swaminathan

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Sponsoring Agency: CSIR Duration: 3 years

Title: Electrospun nanofiber scaffolds for hepatic tissu e Investigator: Dr. U. Bora Co-Investigator : Dr. P. Goswami, Dr. R.R. Bhande (Nati onal Centre for Cell Sciences, Pune) Sponsoring Agency: DBT Duration: 3 years

Title: Sleep ing Beauty (SB) transposon mediated sequence specific delivery and activation of prodrug gene in heptocellula r carcinoma cells. Investigator: Dr. S.S. Ghosh Sponsoring Agency: CSIR Duration: 3 years

Title: Synthesis of Biodegradable Nanocarri ers for Targeted Drug Delivery. Investigator: Dr. U. Bora CO- Investigator: Dr. P. Goswami Sponsoring Agency: DBT Duration: 3 years

Ongoing Projects

Title: Genetic engineering of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) for storage pest resistance. Investigator: Dr. L. Sahoo Sponsoring Agency: DST Duration: 3 years

Title: Computer simulation to study drug resistance of H IV-Protease. Investigator: Dr. P. Bandyopadhyay Sponsoring Agency : DST Duration: 3 years

Titl e: Structural, functional and biochemical analyses of modular cellulases. Investiga tor: Dr. A. Goyal Sponsoring Agency: CSIR Duration: 3 years

Ti t le: Genetic evaluation and mass production of entomopathogenic fungi for development as a potent biopesticide. Investigator: Dr. G.K. Saini Sponsoring Agency: DST Duration: 3 years

Title: Evaluati on of Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill and Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) Sorokin isolates for virulence, deve lopment of DNA markers and transformation studi es. Investigator: Dr. G.K. Saini

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Sponsoring Agency: MHRD Duration: 3.5 years

Title: In vitro morphogenesis and biochemical analysis of neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss). Investigator: Dr. R. Chaturvedi Sponsoring Agency: DST Duration: 3 years

Title: Collection of Pongamia germ plasm from North Guwahati for identification of plus trees and mass cultivation in wasteland. Investigator: Dr. L. Rangan Sponsoring Agency: DST Duration: 3 years

Title: Effect of NaCI on expression of translation initiation factor (eIF1) gene in leaf and roots of rice varieties and mapping of the gene in segregating populations. Investigator: Dr. L. Rangan Sponsoring Agency: CSIR Duration: 3 years

Title : Glucose sensor based on evanescent wave induced fluorescence spectroscopy. Investigator: Dr. S. K. Khijwania (Department of Physics) CO-Investigator: Dr. U. Bora Sponsoring Agency: BRNS, DAE Duration: 3 years

Title: Engineering nanoscale materials and their applications in nanotechnology. Investigator: Dr. A. Chattopadhyay (Department of Chemistry) CO-Investigator: Dr. 5.5. Ghosh Sponsoring Agency: DST Du rati on: 3 years

*Title: Development of micropropagation technology for large-scale cultivation of Jatropha: A potential biofuel plant. Investigator: Dr. L. Sahoo Sponsoring Agency: NEDFi Duration: 3 years

*Title: Cloning of Elite Germplasm of Jatropha for Large Scale Pl antation. Investigator: Dr. L. Sahoo Sponsoring Agency: DARL Du rati on: 2 years

* Ongoing under the Centre for Energy of the Institute.

Completed Projects

Title: Signature gene mediated specific identification and molecular fingerprinting of industrial strains of lactic acid bacteria.

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Investigator: Dr. A. Ramesh Co-Investigator : Dr. 5.5. Ghosh Sponsoring Agency: MHRD Duration: 2 years

Title: Construction of environmental library to access microbia l diversity for identification of bioactive compounds. Investigator: Dr. A. Ramesh Co-Investigators: Dr. 5.5. Ghosh and Dr. R. Swaminathan Sponsoring Agency: DBT Duration: 2 years

Title: Construction of a hybrid pro-drug-suicide gene transduction system. Investigator: Dr. 5.5. Ghosh Co-Investigator : Dr. A. Ramesh Sponsoring Agency: MHRD Duration: 3 years

Title: Protein Folding: Looking for residual structures in denatured proteins. Investigator: Dr. R. Swaminathan Sponsoring Agency: MHRD Duration: 3.5 years

Title: Studies on the metabolic machinery involved in the assi milation of alkane by filamentous fungi. Investigator: Dr. P. Goswami Sponsoring Agency: DST Duration: 3 years

PUBLICATIONS

International Journal

Ali Haider, M. and Pakshirajan, K. (2007) 'Screening and optimization of media constituents for enhancing lipolytic activity by a soil microorganism using statistically designed experiments' Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (In press)

Bandyopadhyay, P. (2007) 'Assessment ofTwo Surface Monte Carlo (TSMC) method to find stationary points of (H20)15 and (H20)20 clusters', Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (In press)

Dubey, V.K., Pande, M., Singh, B.K., and Jagannadham M.V. (2007) 'Realm of Papain-Like Proteases: Applications of their Inhibitors', Afr. Journal of Biotechnology (In Press)

Pande, M., Dubey, V.K., and Jagannadham, M.V. (2007) ' Crystallization and prelim in ary x-ray analysis of cryptolepain: A novel glycosylated serine protease from Cryptolepis buchanani', Acta Crystallographica Section F., F63,74-77

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Pakshi rajan, K., Rene, E.R., and Swaminathan T. (2007) ' Decolourization of azo dye containin g synthetic wastewater in a rotating biological contactor reactor: A fac torial design study ', International Journal of Environment and Pollution (In press)

Saravanan, P., Pakshirajan, K. and Sah a, P. (2007) 'Growth kinetics of an indigenous mixed mi crob ial consortium du rin g pheno l degradation in a batch reactor', Bioresource Tech nology (In press)

Vatsyayan, P., Kumar, A .K., Goswami, Papo ri, and Goswami, Pranab (2007) ' Broad substrate Cytochrome- P450-monooxygenase activity in the ce ll s of Aspergillus terreus MTCC 6324', Bioresource Technology (In Press)

Ghosh, 5.5., Gopinath, P. and Ramesh, A. (2006) 'Adenoviral vectors: A promising tool for Gene therapy', Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 133, pp. 9-29

Gogoi, 5., Gopinath P., Paul , A., Ramesh, A. , Ghosh, 5.5. and Ch attopadhyay, A. (2006) 'Green fluoresce nt protein -expressing Escherichia coli as a model system for investigatin g the antimicrobial activities of silver nanoparti cles', Langmuir, 22, pp. 9322-9328

Hom chaudhuri , L. , Kumar,S., and Swaminath an, R. (2 006) 'Slow aggregation of lysozyme in alka lin e pH monitored in real time empl oying th e fluorescence anisotropy of covalently labelled dansyl probe', FEBS Letters, 580, pp. 2097-2101

Hom chaudhuri, L., Sarma, N. and Swamin athan R. (2006) 'Effect of crowdi ng by dextrans and Fi colls on th e rate of alka lin e phosphatase catalysed hydrolysis: A size dependent investigation', Biopolymers, 83, pp. 477-486

Kumar A.K. , and Goswami, P. (2006) ' Functional cha racteri zation of alcohol oxidase from As pergillu s terreus MTCC 6324', Appl Microbial Biotechnol, 72, pp. 906-911

M ahanty, B., Pakshirajan, K., and Dasu, V.V. (2006) 'Production and Properties of a Bi osurfacta nt Applied to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarb on Solubili zation', Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 134, pp. 129 -142

Pande, M., Dubey, V.K., Yadav, S.c., and Jagannad ham, M.V. (2006) 'A Novel Seri ne Protease Cryp tolepain, from Crypto lepis buchana ni: Purifi catio n and Biochemical Characteri zation', J Agric Food Chem, 27, pp. 10141-10150

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Saiki a, A.P., Ryakala, V.K., Sharma, P., Goswami, P. and Bora, U. (2006) 'Ethnobotany of medicinal pl ants used by Assamese people for various skin ailm ents and cosmetics', Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 106, pp. 149-157

National Journal

Kumar, S. and Swaminathan, R. (200 7) 'Employing the fluorescen ce anisotropy and quenching kineti cs of tryptophan to hunt for residual structures in denatured proteins', Journal of Chemical Sciences, 11 9, pp. 141-1 45

Bharali, 5., Purama, R.K. , Majumder, A., Carlos Fontes, C.M.G.A. and Goyal, A. (2006) 'Molecular characteristi cs of a novel, recombinant glycoside hydrolase of family 26 from Clostridium thermocellum', Indian Journal of Microbiology, 46, pp. 371 -378

Book Chapters

Goswami, P. (2007) 'Microbial Diversi ty and Bioprospecting in Biodiversity and Environmental Biotechnology', Edi ted by: P.O. Dwivedi, S. K. Dwivedi and M .C. Kalita, Scientifi c Publishers, Jodhpur, India, pp 271-298 (In Press)

Mitra,S., Badwal, 5., Kelkar, U., and Latha R. (2006) 'Climate Change and Vulnerability in Indian Agri culture: A Major Hurdle Towards Food Secu ri ty', Hazards and Risk Management in Critical Regions in Asia, edited by R. B. Singh. 2006, pp. 275-287

Proceedings

Deka, D. , Bharali, 5. , Purama, R. K., Majumder, A., Javed, M., Goyal, D., Fontes, C.M.E.A. and Goyal, A. (2006) 'Molecular and functional characterization of cellulose of C th ermocellum', Proceedings of 47th Annual Meeting of AMI, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, 6-8 December 2006 (In press)

PAPER PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES/ WO RKS HOPS/ SYMPOSIA

International

Bora, U., Sahu, A. and Goswami, P. (2007) 'Covalent Coupling of Protein Li gand to Biodegradable Nan oparticl es for dru g delivery', 2nd In ternation al Conference on Recent Advances in Composite Materials, New Delhi, 20-2 3 Februar)l2007

Gopinath, P., and Ghosh, 5.5. (2 007) 'Cytosine deaminase as a prodruglsuicidal gene therapy system', 26th Annual Convention of Indian Association for Can cer Research (IACR) and Intern ational Symposium on

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Transl ational Research in Cancer, Bhubaneswar, 17-19 January 2007, Abstract No. A 15, pp. 95

Chatterjee, S., Barbora, L., Kumar, AK., Goswami, P., Dutta, N.N., and Goswami, P. (2006) ' Purification, immobilization and app li ca tion of a pseudomonas lipase for transesterification o f lipid ', International Conference on Bio-Fuel: Vision 2015, Bikaner, India, 13-15 October 2006 (Recipient of best paper presentation award)

Kesari , v., and Lath a, R. (2006) 'In vitro propagation of potential biodiesel plant, Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pi erre', International Conference on Biofuel: Vision 2015, Bikaner, India, 13-15 October 2006

Latha, R., Srivastava, AK., and Vogel, C, (2006) 'Consensus sequence and its significance in the sequenced genome of ri ce, 0. sativa. ' 2nd International Rice Congress, New Delhi, India, 9-14 October 2006, pp. 103

Latha, R. (2006) ' Build in g pub li c-private partnership in agri cu ltural biotechno logy ' , 4th International Symp os ium o n Biotechnology and Biocontrol, M ad urai, TN, India, 27-29 November 2006, pp. 174

Meher, B.R., Satish Kumar M.V. and Bandyopad hyay, P. (2006) 'Effect of simulation protocol and force-fi eld on the fl ap dynamics of HIV-l protease', International conference on bioinform atics (lNCOB), Delhi , December 2006

Mish ra, S.N., Latha, R. and Mitra, S (2006) ' Inventory of methane and nitrous oxide emission from agricultu ral soils of India: Assam as a case study ', 2nd

International Rice Congress, New Delhi, India, 9-14 October 2006, pp. 461

Pakshirajan K. and Swaminathan, T. (2 006) 'Regeneration and reuse of a fungal biosorbent in removing heavy metals from wastewaters', Fou rth Internation al Symposium on Southeast Asian Water Environm ent', 6-8 December 2006, Bangkok, Thail and, pp . 269

Sahu, A , Goswami, P. and Bora, U. (2006) 'Microwave mediated rapid synthesis of chitosan from chitin' , Indo-US symposium on Nanotechno logy in Advanced Drug Del ivery, NIPER, Chandigarh, 5-6 October 2006

Sen, S., Venkata Dasu, V. and Mandai, B. (2006) 'Effect of physical process parameters on th e production of alkaline protease from soil isolate - a statistical approach', Indian Chemical Engin eering Congress, 59 th Annual Session, CHEMCON 2006, Ankleshwar, December 2006

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Vatsyayan, P. , Kum ar, AK., Goswami, Papori and Goswami, Pran ab (2006) 'Cytochrome-P450-m onooxygenase of Aspergillus terreus MTCC 6324', Intern ational Conferen ce on Biomaterials (BIND-06), liT Kanpur, 8-11 December 2006

National

Kumar A.K., and Goswami, P. (2007) 'Structure-function relationship studies of multimeri c alcohol oxidases from Aspergillus terreus MTCC 6324', 11 th ADNAT Convention : Advances in Structural Biology and Stru cture Prediction, 23-25 Febru ary 2007, P-40, pp. 11 3

Bharali, S., Puram a, R.K., Majumder, A, Taylor, E. , Davies, G.L Fontes, CM.G.A. and Goyal, A (2007) 'Crystallization and 3-dimensional structure determ ination of a family 26 glycoside hydrolase of a bifunctional cel lul ase from Clostridium thermocellum ', 36th National Seminar on Crystallography (NSC-36), 22-24 January 2007, University of Madras, Chennai, India, pp. 1. (3-Dim ensional Structure of Li chenase enzyme of Clostridium themocellum was selected for Cover Page of th e Abstract Book)

Chaturved i, R. , and Srivastava, P. (2007) ' Effect of casein hydrolysate (CH) on clonal propagation from nod al exp lants ·of an elite m ature neem t ree (Azadirachta indica A. juss.)', National conference on increasing forest productivity: genetic and breeding opt ions, 21 -23 Feb ru ary 2007. Genetics and Plant Propagation Division, Tropical Forest Research Institute, Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, Jabalpur, pp.47

Bharali, S., Purama, R.K. , Majumder, A, Fontes, CM.G.A. and Goyal , A (2006) 'Binding characteristics of family 11 Carbohydrate Binding Module (CBMll) from Clostridium thermocellum', 7 yh Annual M eeting of Society of Biological Chemists of In dia (SBCI ), 8-11 Decem ber 2006, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi , India

Bharali , S., Purama, R.K. , M ajumder, A, Fontes, CM.G.A. and Goyal, A (2006) 'Molecular characterization of a bifunctional cellu lase of Clostridium thermocellum' , 47th An nual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of In d ia (AM I), 6 -8 December 2006, University of Barkatu llah, Bhopal, India, pp.174

Bharali, S., Puram a, R.K. , Majumder, A, Fontes, CM.G.A and Goyal, A. (2006) 'Biochemical properties of lichenan hydrolyzing family 26 glycoside hydrol ase from Clostridium thermocellum ' , CARBO XXI, an ACCTI sponsored conference on Recent Development in Carbohydrate Chemistry, 26-29 Novem ber 2006, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, pp. 30

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Chaturvedi, R. (2006) 'In vitro haploid production: fast forward technique for improved crop production', National seminar on Biodiversi ty & Indigenous Knowledge System, 25-26 October 2006, Centre with Potenti al for Excellence in Biodiversity, Raj iv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, pp. 19

Deka, D., Bharali, S. , Javed, M., Fontes, CM.G.A. and Goyal, A. (2006) 'Molecular cloning, expression and characterization of a bifunctional cellulase from Clostridium thermocellum', 75th

Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Ch em ists of Ind ia (SBCI), 8-11 December 2006, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Kumar, A.K., Vatsyayan, P. and Goswami, P (2006) 'Purification and specific functional characterization of alcohol oxidases from Aspergillus terreus MTCC 6324', 75th Annual Conference of SBC(I), JNU, New Delhi, 8-11 December 2006. Abstract No. P.1-114, pp. 69

Majumder, A. and Goyal, A. (2006) 'Optimization of conditions for production of dextransuaase, a glycoside hydrolase of family 70 from Leuconostoc dextranicum NRRL B-11 46', 75th Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists of India (SBCI), 8-11 December 2006, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Majumder, A. and Goyal, A. (2006) 'Purification of dextran sucrase, a glycoside hydrolase of family 70 from Leuconostoc dextranicum NRRL B-1146 by polyethylene glycol ', 47th Annual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of Ind ia (AMI), 6-8 Decem ber 2006, University of Barkatul lah, Bhopal, Ind ia, pp. 176

Mahanty, B., Pakshirajan K. and Dasu, V.V. (2006) 'Effect of glucose and triton X-1 00 on pyrene biodegradation by Mycobacterium frederiksbergense and Mycobacaterium vanbaalenii: Burman design', 59th Annual session of Chemical Engineering Congress CHEMCON 2006, 27-30 December 2006, Gujarat, India, pp. 10

Purama, R. K. and Goyal, A. (2006) ' Purification and characterization of a sucrose hydrolyzing enzyme from Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-640', 75 th

Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists of India (SBCI), 8-11 December 2006, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Purama, R.K. and Goyal, A. (2006) 'Production and purification of dextransucrase, a family 70 glycoside hydrolase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-640', 47 th Annual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), 6-8 December 2006, University of Barkatullah, Bhopal, India, pp. 191-1 92

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Purukayastha, J. , Sugla, T., Bakshi, S., Solleti, S. and Sahoo, L. (2006) 'Rapid in vitro plant regeneration from nodal explant of Andrographis panicu/ata Nees - a valuable medicinal plant', National seminar on Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge System, 25-26 October 2006, Centre with Potential for Excellence in Biodiversity, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh

Saravanan, P., Pakshirajan K. and Saha. P.K. (2006) 'Modelling of phenol removal in a batch readorusingmixed culture', 59 th Annu al Session of Chemical Engineering Congress, CHEMCON 2006, 27-30 December 2006, Gujarat, India, pp. 293

Sarma, T., Rangnekar, A., Ramesh, A. and Chattopadhyay, A. (2006) 'Enzymatic synthesis and corresponding fu nctionalization of Au nanoparticies', Indo-Australian Symposium on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 31 March -1 April 2006, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Singh, G., Purama, R.K., Majumder, A., Dasu, v.v. and Goyal, A. (2006) 'Effect of pH and aeration on production of dextransucrase from Leuconsotoc mesenteroides NRRL B-640 in batch and fed-batch ferm entations', 75th Annual M eeting of Society of Biological Chemists of India (S BCI) , 8-1 1 December 2006, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Uzm a Mustafa and Gurvinder Kaur (2006) 'Stress-tolerant entomopathogenic fungi: High affi rm ations for commercial market', 47 th Annual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of India, 6-8 December 2006, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, pp. 68

Vijayashankar, D., Damodar, R.A., Pakshirajan, K. and Swaminathan, T. (2006) 'Decolourization of an azodye containing synthetic wastewater using electrochem ical oxidation technique', 59th Annual session of Chemical Engineering Congress, CHEMCON 2006, 27-30 December 2006, Gujarat, India, pp. 298

Vatsyayan, P., Kumar, A.K., Goswami, Papori and Goswami, Pranab (2006)' Localization and broad substrate Cytochrom e P450-monooxygenase activity in the cells of Aspergillus terreus MTCC 6324', 75th Annual Conference ofSBC(I), JNU, New Delhi, 8-11 December 2006, Abstract No. P.1-115, pp. 69

Singh, A.K., Singh, S. and Ramesh, A. (2006) 'A molecular approach for detection and typing of lactic acid bacteria from fermented samples', 18 th In dian Convention of Food Scientists and Technologists (ICFOST), Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University (Angrau), Hyderabad, 16-17 November 2006

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CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

International

Dr. U. Bora Indo-US symposium on Nanotechnology in Advanced Drug Delivery, NIPER Chandigarh, 5-6 O ctober 2006

Dr. K. Pakshirajan Fourth In ternational Symposium on SoutheastAsian Water Environm ent, 6-8 December 2006 at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok in Th ailan d

Dr. L. Rangan 2nd In tern ational Ri ce Congress, New Delhi , India, 9-1 4 O ctober 2006

Dr. L. Rangan 4th Intern ational Symposium on Bi otechnology and Biocontrol, M adurai, TN, India, 27-2 9 November 2006

Dr. P. Bandyopadhyay Practicing Chemistry with Th eoretical Tools, M aui , USA, 15-1 8 January 2007

Dr. V. Yen kata Dasu Sh ort-term course on Cell Cul ture Technology, liT Bombay, Mumbai , 10-1 2 Janu ary 2007

Dr. A. Goyal Conference on Recent Development in Carbohyd rate Chemistry, CARBOXXI, sponsored by Association of Carbohydrate Ch emists and Technologists of Indi a (ACCTI), 26-29 November 2006, University o f Delh i, Delhi , India

Dr. A. Goyal 47 th Annual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of Indi a (AMI), 6-8 December 2006, University of Barkatull ah, Bhopal , India

Dr. A. Goyal 75'h Annual M eeti ng of Society of Biologi cal Chemists of In d ia (SBCI), 8-11 December 2006, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi , India

National

Dr. U. Bora DBT Workshop on Biomaterials for M ed ica l Devices and Drug Delivery, 17 February 2007, liT Delh i

Dr. U. Bora 2nd In te rn ational Conference on Recent Advan ces in Composite M ateri als, 20-23 Febru ary 2007, New Delhi

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INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY

Dr. P. Goswami 'How to live longer? - A thought of Bi ochemists', Foundation Day talk at In stitute of Advance Studies in Science and Technology (IASSn Guwahati, 3 November 2006

Dr. L. Sahoo Invited sp eaker and resource person at National Workshop cum Exhibition on Bi o -Di esel in North East, in augurated by Hon'bl e President of In dia at Guwahati, Assam , Indi a, 17-19 O ctober 2006 (Title of the talk: Micropropagation Technol ogy fo r Biofu el Pl ants)

Dr. L. Sahoo Invited speaker and exp ert at Defence Agricultural Research Lab, Base Station, Haldwani for Worksh op cum DARL's progress evaluation meeting on 'Biotechnology for High Altitu de Agricu lture' held on 12-13 November 2006. (Title o f the talk: Genetic Engin eering of Pulses for Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tol erance)

Dr. L. Sahoo In vited sp eaker and resource person at N atio nal Workshop on Bi ofuel at Nation al Institute for Rural Developm ent, Khan apa ra, Guwahati , Assam, 27-2 9 November 2006 (Title of the ta lk: In Vitro Cloni ng of Biofu el Pl ants: Promise to Generate Comm ercial Scal e Pl anting M ateri al)

Dr. L. Rangan Invited sp eaker at 2nd International Ri ce Congress, New Delh i, In dia, 9-14 October 2006 (Titl e: Consensus sequence and its significance in th e sequenced genome of ri ce, 0. sativa)

Dr. L. Rangan Invited sp eaker at 4th In ternation al Symp osi um on Biotechnology and Biocontrol , M adurai, TN, Indi a, 27-29 N ovember 2006 (Titl e: Buil di ng public-private partnership in agricultural b iotechnology)

D r. L. Rangan Sp eaker and resource person for Regional Semin ar on IPR and Patents for Capacity Buildin g, liT Guwahati , 15-17 September 2006 (Ti tle: Introd uction to Intell ectual Prop erty Rights)

Dr. U. Bora Invited speaker at DBT Worksh op on Bi omateri als for Medi ca l Devi ces and Dru g Delivery on 17 February 2007 at liT Delhi (Title: Application of Ph otochemical Technology in Biomateri al Development: Current Status and Future Scope)

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Dr. P. Bandyopadhyay Invited speaker at Practicing Chemistry with Theoretical Tools, Maui, USA, 15-18 January 2007 (Title : Enhanced conformational sam piin g of water clusters using 2-su rface MonteCarlo method)

Dr. K. Paksh irajan Delivered two lectu res (a) Bioreaction En gin eering and (b) Biocatalyst in Organic Chemical Synthesis in QIP­Sho rt Te rm Course on Gr een Chemistry-Gree n Technology condu cted durin g 5-9 June 2006 at liT Guwahati

Dr. K. Pakshirajan 'Regeneration and reuse of a funga l biosorbent in removing heavy metals from wastewaters', in the Fou rth Intern ation al Symposium on South east Asi an Wate r Environm ent he ld during 6-8 December 2006 at Asian Institute of Techn ology, Bangkok, Thailand

Dr. A. Goyal 'Molecular chara cte rizati on of a bifunctional cellulase of Clostridium thermocellum', at 47 th Annual Con ference of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), 6-8 December 2006, University of Barkatullah , Bh opal, India

VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/ UNIVERSITIES

Prof. Amitabha Chattopadhyay from Centre for Cell ul ar and Molecular Biology, Hyd erabad, 29 -30 November 2006

Dr. Bhaswati Pandit from Departm ent of Pediatrics and Hu man Geneti cs, Centre for M olecular Cardiology, Mount Sinai School of M edicine, NY, USA, 8 December 2006

Dr U.S.N. Murty, Deputy Director and Head, Biology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Tech nology (CSIR), Hyd erabad, 9 November 2006

Dr. Debasis Dan, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, 2 Febru ary 2007

M r. Kalyan Gayen, Departm ent of Chemical Engineering, liT Bombay, 25 January 2007

SHORT-TERM COURSES

'Fundamenta l Tech niques in rDNA Techn ology' at liT Guwahati held during 3-7 July 2006

MDONER sponsored short-te rm course on 'Capacity Bui lding for Micropropagation and Genetic Engineering of Biofu el Plants', Centre for En ergy, liT Guwahati , 15-20 January 2007

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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

Symposiu m on Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology: Scope and Prospects in North East India. Jointly organized by Departm ent of Biotechnology, liT Guwahati and North East Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 20-21 January at liT Guwahati.

Regional seminar organized under MHRD sponsored scheme on 'Awareness programme on Intellectual Property Rights and Patents for Capacity Building' at liT Guwahati, 15-17 September 2006.

INVITED LECTURESNISITORS

Prof. Amitabha Chattopadhyay from Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, 29-30 November 2006 (Title of talk given on 29 November 2006: Monitoring Organization and Dynamics of Membranes and Proteins using the Wavelength-Selective Fluorescence Approach. Title of talk given on 30 November 2006: Interaction of the Serotonin_1A Receptor with Membrane Lipids: Implications in Receptor Function and Organization)

Dr. Bhaswati Pandit from Department of Pediatrics and Hum an Genetics, Centre for Molecular Cardiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, USA, 8 December 2006 (Title: Molecu lar Insights into Noonan Syndrome)

Dr U.S.N. Murty, Deputy Director and Head, Biology Division, Indian Institu te of Chemical Technology (CS IR) Hyderabad,9 November 2006 (Tide: Integrated Information System for th e control of Vector Born e Diseases)

Dr. Debasis Dan, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, 2 Febru ary 2007 (Title: Identifying Core Promoter Elements in Drosophila)

M r. Kalyan Gayen, Departm ent of Chemical Engineering, liT Bombay, 25 January 2007 (Tide: Evaluation of phenotypic space in metabolic networks using elementary modes)

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Dr. A. Goyal has been conferred Fellow of Association of Microbiologists of India.

Dr. A. Goyal has appointed as Associate Editor, Indian Journal of Microbiology (AMI publication) January 2007.

Dr. A. Goyal has been appoi nted as reviewer, Journal of Food Biochemist ry, from UC Davis, Californi a, USA, (Blackwell Publishers), since 2006.

Partial financi al grant awarded to Dr. P. Bandyopad hyay to attend an international conference honouring Prof. M ark Gordon held in USA in January 2007 from three agencies, namely (a) DST (b) CSIR and (c) INSA.

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Dr. P. Bandopadyahya included for inclusion in M arquis WHO'S WHO IN SCIEN CE AND ENGINEERING 2006-2007.

Dr. Vikash Kumar Dubey nominated as editorial board member of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Reviews (http:// WV\-W.academicjournals.orglbmbr) starting from 1 January 2007.

FACULTY MEMBERS

P. Bandyopadhyay PhD (Insti tute for Molecular Science-Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Computational molecular biophysics, Stru ctu ral biology, Protein function, In silico drug desi gn

U. Bora PhD (Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi) Assistan t Professor Areas of Interest: Biomaterials for drug delivery, Tissue engineering and biosensors, Ethnomedicine

B. Bose PhD (All India Institute o f Medical Sciences) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Th erapeutic recombinant antibodies

R. Chaturvedi PhD (Delhi Universi ty) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Plant cell, tissue and organ culture, Protoplast isolation and culture, Synthetic seeds production, Biochemical, Cytological and Histological analysis of In Vitro raised plants

V.V. Dasu PhD (liT M adras) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Bioprocess developm ent (upstream to downstream), M etabolic engineerin g, M icrobial proteomics, Bioenergy

V. K. Dubey PhD (Banaras Hindu University) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Protein Engineering and Structure-Function Relationship of Protein

S.S. Ghosh PhD (Indian Insti tute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Development of new generation of gene th erapy vectors (V iral and Non-Viral) and tests th ei r th erapeutic potential on ce ll culture based systems, Development of reversibl e immortalized cell lines for drug and therapeutic gene testing, Nanobiotechnology

P. Goswami PhD (Gau hati Universi ty) Associate Professor and Head Areas of Interest: Bi ocatalysis biosensor, enzymatic biofuel cell and biotransform ation

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A. Goyal PhD (liT Kanpur) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: M olecular biology, Protei n engineering, Structural and function al proteomics of carbohydrate enzym es and other industri al enzymes

D.P. Nayak PhD (National Chemical Laboratory, Pune) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Novel bioreactor design, fabrication and biologica l reac ti on en gin ee rin g, Bi o logi cal Process Integration, Biologica l Process intensi fication, Chromatograph ic separation of organic and biological comp ounds, M embrane based separation s, Rati onal design of downstream Processing

K. Pakshiraj an Ph 0 (liT M adras) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Biotechnol ogy : Environm ental and Separat ion, Bi op rocess ki netics and opti mization, Biohydrometallu rgy, Arti fi ci al Intelligence

A. Ram es h PhD (Central Food Technol ogica l Research Institute, Mysore) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: M olecular fingerprin ti ng of food-grade lactic acid bacteri a, Bi onanotechnology

L. Rangan PhD (Madras Unive rsity, Intern ational Rice Research Institute, Ph ill ip ines) Assi stan t Professor Areas of Interest: Functional genomics, M olecular markers, Genetic transform ation, Pl ant tissue culture

L. Sahoo PhD (Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Transgen ic crops, Insect pest resistance, Abiotic stress tol erance.

G.K. Saini PhD (Andhra University) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Fungal biotechnology, Biological control of insect pests usin g entomopathogenic fungi, D NA fingerprin ti ng of entomopathogenic fun gi for virulence and oth er charac teristi cs of economical imp o rtance, Development of biopesticide as an alternative to chem ical pesticides to sustain agri cultu re.

R. Swaminathan PhD (Tata Insti tute of Fun damenta l Research, Mumbai) Associate Professor Areas of Interest : Pro tein Stru cture, Foldi ng and Aggregation, Effects of M acrom olecul ar crowd in g on physiological media

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

INTRO D UCTION

Since its inception in 2002, the Department of Chemical Engineerin g has showed marked growth on fronts o f education and research. Although th e youngest in the Institute, it now stands as one of th e most vi bra nt Department endowed with young, innovative and hard working facu lty. Th e Department now has 15 faculty members work ing in diverse areas of chemica l engineering ranging from conventional to state-of-the-art fi elds such as nanotechnology and molecular simu lati ons and dynamics. Th e Department has developed a highly soph isti cated analytical laboratory comprising of several ultra-modern and high-precision equipment. The undergraduate laboratories and the computational faciliti es in the Departm ent are also well-equ ipped to give the stu dents a valuable and lasting educational experience. Th e faculty is actively involved in research, consul tancy and education. Several research papers from the Depa rtment have appea red in esteemed intern ational journals. Th e faculty members and stu dents also parti cipated in the national and international conferences earning accolades for the Department. During 2006-2007 the Department received as many as 5 new research projects from various funding agencies such as DST, DRl and DRDl . Some facul ty members have also undertaken consultancy projects with the industries.

ACA DEMIC ACTIVITIES

The Ch emi ca l Engi neering Department currently offers BTech, M Tech and PhD p rogramm es. Th e BTech programme (started in 2002) comprises of 21 theory courses (i ncluding two Department electives), 4 laboratory courses and a seminar course, along with a project course spread over the last two sem esters. Various subjects and electives offered in the BTech programme offer comprehensive tutori ng in the basic chemical engineering principl es and their applications including process design. First batch of the BTech students from the Department graduated in May 2006. Most notably, one of the students of thi s batch, Mr. Ashwin Subramanian was awarded President's Gold Medal for highest CGPA. The placement record of the fi rst BTech batch was excellent with students getting job offers from renowned companies such as IOCl, Techspan, IBM , HPCl and Cognizant. Several students from the fi rst BTech batch also secured ad missi on w ith finan cial aid in reputed universiti es in UK and USA such as Cambridge University, Princeton University, University of Wisconsin (Madison), etc.

The MTech programm e of the Departm ent started in 2004. This programme offers specialization in Petroleum Refinery Engineeri ng and comprises of 1 0 theory courses (includihg

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3 electives) and a seminar in the first year. Th ese courses give an advanced outlook of various im portant chemical engineering subjects. Th e second yea r of the programme is dedicated to th esis work. Th e first MTech batch from th e Departm ent graduated in M ay 2006. This batch also had an excell ent placement record w ith students getting offers from renown ed companies su ch as GE, l & T, TCS and Wipro.

Th e PhD programm e o f th e Department has sh own signi fi cant growth in th e past four and half years. Th e Department offers opportun iti es in diverse research fi elds in fund amental and applied areas of chemica l engineering. M any faculty members have inter-discipli nary research interests overl apping areas of biotechnology, mechanica l engineerin g, chemistry and environm ental engineering. Presently th e Department has 21 research scholars working in d ifferent research areas such as waste pyrolysis, nanotechn o logy, co m bust io n en gin ee ri ng, solar photocatalysis, membrane reactors, sono-chemica l waste water treatment, membrane separation, auto-catalytic solid flui d reactions, gas-liqu id reactions, zeolite membranes, model predictive control, etc. Some facul ty members of th e Departm ent are research supervisors of PhD students in va rious Centres (Nanotechn ology, Environment and En ergy) of the Institute.

STUDENT INTAKE

MTech (2006 batch): 23 BTech (2006 batch): 40 PhD : (2006-2007): 07 Total continuing students: 165

FACULTY STRENGTH

Associate Professor: 1 Assistant Professor : 13 Senior l ecturer: 1

M AJOR EQ UIPMENT AND FACI LI TIES

In the year 2006-2007 the Departm ent acq uired several new equipment and install ed new facilities. Some of them are listed below:

Waste Water analysis kit Millipore water purification system (Elix water purification system) Tri nocular Trasmitted Light Microscope J EIOTECH heating and refrigerating circu lator Continuous stirred Ultrafilteration set up Peristalti c pump Digital Phosphor Osci ll oscope Program mab ie Arbitrary fu nction generators with software

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Colorimeter Digital dissolved oxygen meter Digital turbidity meter Multipu rpose tabletop mixer cum grin der ELMA Ultrasonic water bath w ith heating Acoustics O pti cs M odulator Performance series opti cal breadboard Automati c by pass fum e hood Broadband UV Rad iometer Opti cal Breadboard with support Double pulsed laser (Nd-Ya-G) RF amplifi er (10 kHz-2S0 MHz, 7SW) High pressure homogenizer

In addition to th e above equipm ent, 10 more computers were insta ll ed in various research win gs in the Departm ent.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

During 2006-2007, five new research projects were received in the Departm ent in additi on to three ongoing projects. A total of 9 new research scholars (inclu ding one under QIP scheme) joined th e Departm ent. Several papers appeared in renowned intern ati onal journals. Stu dents and facul ty presented many papers in the national and in tern ational conferences (detail s of which are given below) . Th e major MTech/PhD projects carri ed out (and ongoin g) in th e Department are as foll ows:

Catalyst synthesis for removal of VOCs through absorption

Catalyst synthesis for plastic waste pyrolysis

Technologies for removal of flu oride, arsenic and iron from wastewater

Membrane synthesis for remova l of oil from oil-water emulsion

Membrane synthesis for gas separation applications such as separations of hydrogen and acid gases

Liqu id membrane for wastewater treatment

Phenoli c wastewater treatm ent by microorgani sm and sonication

Generation ofbio-d iesel from mi croalgae

Research and Developmental acti vities on Fu el Cell s (Polymer Electrolyte Fu el Cell , Direct M ethanol and Ethanol Fuel Cell and Solid oxide Fu el Cell)

Wave-let based control

Hydrodynamics study of slurri es and CFD

Synthesis of bio-degradable membrane composites

Interfacial reactions

Microkinetics and modelling in hydrocarbon processing

Su rfactant based en hanced oil recovery

Molecular simu lations for phase equ ili bri a

Molecular Dynamics

System Engineering and Nonlinear analysis

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SPONSORED PROJECTS

Ongoing Projects

Title: Binary coalescence of drops in viscous media Investigator : Dr. P. Ghosh Sponsoring Agency: DST Duration: 2 years

Ti tle: Development of a generi c model for simul taneous absorption of carbon dioxide and hyd rogen sulfi de in to blended alkanolamines Investi gator: Dr. B. M andai Sponsoring Agency : DST Duration: 3 years

Titl e: Optimization studies in ul trasound based advanced oxidati on technology (sonolysis) for wastewater. Investi gator: Dr. V.S. M oholkar Sponsoring Agency: DST Durati on: 3 years

New Projects

Ti tle: Development of indigenous technology for flu oride free drinking water Investigators: Dr. M .K. Purkai t (PI ); Dr. AK. Das (Co- I, Department of Design); Dr. B. M ondal (Co-I , Department of Chemistry) Sp onsorin g Agency: DRDO Duration: 3 years

Titl e: Im provement of the ex itin g Iron removal unit developed by DRL - Tezpur Investi gator: Dr. M. K. Purkait (PI ); Dr. AK. Das (Co -I , Departm ent of Design); Dr. B. M onda l (Co-I , Department of Chemistry) Sponsoring Agency : DRDO Duration: 2 years

Titl e: Development of li ghtweight Iron Removal Unit based on the prin ciple developed by Defense Research Laboratory, Tezpur Investi gator: Dr. M .K. Purkait (PI ); Dr. AK. Das (Co- I, Department of Design) Sponsoring Agency : DRDO Durati on: 6 months

Titl e: Enhancement of Synthesis of Lipids from M icroalgae (Microalgal Oil ) for Biod iesel Prod uction: Optim ization Using Mechanistic Approach Investigator : Dr. V.S . Moholkar (PI ); Dr. M.K. Pu rkait (Co-I) Sponsoring Agency: DRDO Duration: 2 years

Ti tle: Study on Free surface flow of concentrated suspensions Investigator : Dr. A Singh Sponsorin g Agency: DST Duration: 3 years

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CONSULTANCY

Title : Evaluation of coal sampl es Investigator: Dr. S. Gumma and Dr. A.K. Ghoshal Sponsoring Agency: Vinay Cement Ltd., Guwahati

Title : Evaluation of xylene percentage Investigator: Dr. S. Gumma and Dr. A.K. Ghoshal Sponsoring Agency: Assam Carbon Pvt. Ltd .

Title: Heat integration study Investigator: Dr. R. Uppaluri and Dr. A.K. Ghoshal SponsoringAgency: Indian Oil Corporation Limi ted (lOCL), Guwahati

Ti tle : Evaluation of zinc coating Investigator: Dr. S. Gumma Sponsoring Agency: Central Warehouse Corporation, Guwahati

PUBLICATIONS

International Journal

S.D. Manjare, A.K. Ghoshal 'A comparison of adsorption of ethyl acetate on activated carbon and molecular sieves 5 A and 13 X', Journa l of Chemica l Engineering Data, 51 (4),1185-11 89, 2006

B. Saha, A.K. Maiti., A.K. Ghoshal 'Model-free method for isothermal and non- isothermal decom position kinectics analysis of PET sample' Thermochimica Acta, 444, 46-52, 2006

S.D. Manjare, A.K. Ghoshal 'Studies on adsorption of ethyl acetate vapour on activated carbon' Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 45, 6563-6569,2006

S.D. Manjare, A.K. Ghoshal ~dsorption equilibrium studies for ethyl acetate vapour and E-merck 13X molecular sieve system', Separation and Purification Technology, 51, 118-125, 2006

B. Saha, A.K. Ghoshal 'Model-free Kinetics Analysis of waste PE Sample from poly pack' Thermochimica Acta, 451,27-33,2006 B. Saha, A.K. Ghoshal 'Model-Fitting Methods for Evaluation of Kinetics Trip let during Thermal Decomposition of PET Soft Drink Bottles' Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Resea rch, 45, 77 52-7759,2006

B. Saha, A.K. Ghoshal 'Model-free Kinetics Analysis of ZSM-5 Catalysed Pyrolysis of waste LOPE' Thermochimica Acta, 453, 120-127, 2007

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J. Barman, A.K. Ghoshal 'Performance analysis of finned tube and unbaffled shel l­and-tube heat exchangers' International Journal of Thermal Sciences, doi :1 0.1 016/j .ijthermalsci. 2006.12.005, 2007

S. Pau l, A.K. Ghoshal, B.P. M andai ' Removal of CO, by sin gle and blended aqueous al kanolamine solvents in hollow fiber membrane contactor: mode ll ing and si mu lation ' Indust ria l and Engineering Chemistry Research, doi : 10.1021/ie061476f,2007

Ankur Pariyani, Abhigyan Gupta, Pal lab Ghosh 'Design of heat exchanger networks using randomized algorithm', Computers and Chemical Engineering, 30, 1046-1053,2006

M. Kishore Kumar, Pallab Ghosh 'Coalescence of ai r bubbles in aqueous solutions of ionic surfactants i n p resence of inorganic salt', Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 84, 703-710,2006

M . Ki shore Kum ar, Tania Mitra, Pall ab Ghosh 'Adsorption of ionic surfactants at liquid-liquid interface in the presence of salt: application in bi nary coalescence of drops', Industria l and Engineering Chemistry Research, 45, 7135-7143,2006

R. Am ri t, P. Saha 'Stochastic Identification of Bioreactor Process Exhibiting Input Multiplicity', Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, doi 10. 1007 /s00449-007 -011 1-6, 2007

P. Saravanan, K. Pakshirajan, P. Saha 'Growth kinetics of anindigenous mixed microbial consortia duri ng phenol degradation in a batch, Reactor', Bioresource Technology, doi :1 0.1 016/j .biortech.2006.1 1.045, 2007

Raphael Semiat, Avinoam Nir, Anugrah Singh 'Free surface flow of concentrated suspensions' , International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 32, 77 5-790,2006

A. M aiti, S. DasGupta, S. De, M.K. Purkait 'Removal of congo red using activated carbon and its regeneration', Journal of Hazardous Materials, doi:1 0.1 016/ j .jhazmat.2006.11 .021 (I n Press)

S. DasGu pta, S. De, M. K. Purkait 'Perform ance ofTX-1 00 and TX-11 4 for the separation of ch rysoidine dye using cloud point extraction', Journal of Haza rdous Materials, 137(2),827-835,2006

S. DasGupta, S. De, M.K. Purkait 'Determi nation of design parameters for the cloud point extraction of congo red and eosin dyes using TX-1 00', Sepa ration and Purification Technology, 51(2), 137-142, 2006

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S. DasGupta, S. De, M .K. Purkait 'Micellar enhanced ultrafiltration of eosin dye using hexadecyl pyridinium chloride', journa l of Hazardous Materials, 136(3), 972-977,2006

Manoj Kumar, Satyam Agarwal, Anupam Shukla, Anil Kumar, G. Pugazhenthi 'Preparation and characterization of Iron sa lt embedded el ectrodia lysis ana lcim e-C zeo li te clay composite membrane', journal of Membrane Science, 275 110-11 8, 2006

S. Sachan, S. Sachdeva, Anil Kumar, G. Pugazhenthi 'Hydrolysis of olive oi l using lipase bonded to modified carbon membrane', AIChE j ourna l, 52(4) 1611-1620, 2006

R.V.S. Uppaluri, P. Linke, AC. Kokossis, R. Smith 'On the Simultaneous Optimization of Pressure and Network Layout for Gas Separation Membrane Systems', j ournal of Membrane Science, 280 (1 -2), 832-848, 2006

T. Sivasankar, A. W. Paunikar and V.S. Moholkar 'Mechanistic approach to enhancement of the yield of a sonochemical reaction', AIChE journal, doi:1 0.1 002/ aic.11170, 2007

K. Sam path Kumar and V.S. Moholkar 'Conceptua l design of a novel hydrodynamic cavitation reactor', Chemical Engineering Science, doi:1 0.1 016!j.ces.2007.02.01 0,2007

S.K. Majumder, G. Kundu, D. Mukherjee 'Energy Efficiency ofTwo-phase Mixing in a Modified Bubble Column', The Canadian journal of Chemica l Engineering (Accepted for publication)

S. K. M ajumder, G. Kundu, D. Mukherjee 'Pressure drop and bubble-liquid interfacial shear stress in a modified gas-non -Newtonian-liquid downflow bubble column', Chemical Engineering Science, 62, 2482-2490, 2007

S.K. Majumder, K. Chandna, D. S. De, G. Kundu 'Studies on Flow Characteristics of Coal -Oil -Water Slurry System', International journal of Mineral Processing, 79,217-224,2006

S.K. Majumder 'A Notes on Mass Transfer in Isotherm al Two-phase Bubble Column Reactor', journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 1 (4),491-494, 2006

S.K. Majumder, G. Kundu, D. Mukherjee 'Bubb le size distribution and interfacial phenomena in ej ector induced downflow bubble column', Chemical Engineering journal, 122 (1 -2), 1-10, 2006

Annual Report 2006-2007

S.K. Majumder, G. Kundu, D. Mukherj ee 'Efficient Dispersion in a Modified Two-phase Non­Newtonian Downfl ow Bubb le Column', Chemical Engineering Science, 61 (20),6753-6764,2006

M.K. Purkait, S.K. Majumder, S.K. Das 'Hydrodynamic studies of two phase co-current up flow through helical coi ls', International j ournal of Chemical Science, 4(3), 481-494, 2006

National Journal

R.V.S. Uppaluri 'Techno-economic assessment of critical energy resou rces for India, Energy Security', Indian Perspective Complimentary News and Features, New Delhi, 2006

S.K. M aju mder, B. Kumar, G. Kundu, D. Mukherjee 'Mixing characteristics in slurry fioatation column', I.E (I), (Accepted for publication, December 2006)

S.K. Majumder, G. Kundu, D. Mukherjee 'Prediction of in tensity of liquid axial dispersion in a modified downfiow Bubble Column', I. E (I), (Accepted for publication, January 2007)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

International

K. Srinivasulu, A Difoe, G. Pugazhenthi and A Verma 'Development of hybrid Nafion® membrane for direct methanol fuel cell', International Conference on Cleaner Technologies and Environment Management (ICCTEM-2007), Pondicherry, India, 4-6 January 2007

K. Srinivasu lu, A Di foe, A Verma, G. Pu gazhenthi 'Development of hybrid Nafion® membrane for direct methanol fuel cell' , International Conference on Cl eaner Technologies and Environment Management (ICCTEM-2007), Pondicherry, India, 4-6 January 2007

Anu rag Verma, Prabhu R. Nott, Anugrah Singh 'Particle migration during Stokes flow of suspensions past a cy linder' , AICh E Annual Conference, San Francisco, 13-17 November 2006

Orhan Talu, Deepam Panchal, Roger J. Briggs, Edward J. Hummelt, Sasidhar Gumma 'Adsorptive Storage of Mechanical Energy (Work) for Transportation Applications' AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Novem ber 2006

T. Sivasankar and V.S. Moholkar 'A mechanistic app roach to enhancement of phenol degradation with ultrasound', Proceedings ofThe International Conference on Cleaner Technologies and Environmental Management, PEC, Pondicherry, pp. 298-302, 2007

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S.K. Majumder, G. Kundu, D. Mukherjee 'Mixing of Gas-Liquid in a Downflow Bubble Column Reactor (BCR)" ACHEMA-2006, Exhibition Centre Frankfurt, Germany, 15-19 May 2006

National

U. Menon., S. jami, S. Gumma, P. Saha 'Removal of Phenolic Impurities from Industrial Wastewater by Adsorption', 59 th Annual Session of the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

j. Reddy, P. Saha 'Plant wide Control of Hydrodealkylation Process using Aspen R Engineering Suite', 59th Annual Session of the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CH EMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

P. Saravanan., K. Pakshirajan, P'Saha 'Modelling the Degradation of Phenol by a mixed microbial culture in a Batch Reactor', 59 th Annual Session of the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

K. Srinivasulu, A. Difoe, G. Pugazhenthi, A. Verma 'Preparation, characterization and methanol permeation study of hybrid Nafion® membrane for direct methanol fuel cell', 59th Annual Session of the Indi an Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

S. Basu, A. Verma 'Alkaline fuel ell with manganese dioxide as a non-noble metal cata lyst at cathode', 22 nd National Convention of Mechanical Engin eers, Guwahati, 9-10 September 2006

N. Sugali, A.K. Ghoshal, A. Verma 'Phenol degradation in a photochemical reactor using titanium dioxide', 59 th Annual Session of the Ind ian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

K. Srinivasulu, A. Difoe, A. Verma, G. Pugazhenthi 'Preparation and characterization of hybrid Nafion ® membrane for direct methanol fuel ce ll' , 59 th Annual Session of the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

Debasis Ghosh, Pallab Ghosh , G. Pugazhenthi 'Effects of sintering temperature on properties of ceramic membrane support', 59 th Annual Session of the Indian Chemical Engineer ing Congress (C HEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

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M. Sin gla, S. Gumm a 'Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulation for adsorption of neon on Silicalite', accepted at 59 th Annual Session of the Indi an Chemical Engin ee ring Congress (C H EMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

Chetan P. Borkar, S. Gumma 'Novel techniqu e fQr measurem ent of VOC sorption usi ng TGA', accepted at 59 th An nual Session of th e In dian Chemical Engin eering Congress (C HEMCON 2006), Ank leshwar, Guj arat, 27-30 December 2006

Sh abroz Gill, Pradip Choudhury, and S. Gumm a 'Three- Suffix Margules Type equations for mixed gas adsorption equ ilibria', accep ted at 59 th Annual Session of the In dian Chemical En gineering Congress (C HEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Guj arat, 27-30 December 2006

U. Menon, Satish j ami, P.K. Saha, S. Gumm a 'Modellin g and Simul ation of Ph enol Adsorption on to Polymeric Resin XA D 16', accepted at 59 th Annual Session of the In dian Ch emical Engineering Congress (C HEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

P. Saravanan, K. Pakshirajan and P'Saha 'Modelling th e Degradation of Ph eno l by a mixed microbial cu lture in a Batch Reactor', presented at the 59 th An nu al Session of th e Indian Chemical En gineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Book

P. Ghosh Numerical Methods with Computer Programs in C++, Prentice-Hall of India, 2006, ISBN : 81-203-2987-2

PAPERS PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES! WORKSHOPS! SYMPOSIA

International

K. Srinivasulu, A. Di foe, G. Pugazhenthi and A. Verma 'Development of hybrid Nafion® membrane for direct methanol fuel cell', International Conference on Cleaner Techn ologies and Environment Management (ICCTEM-2007), Pondicherry, India, 4-6 january 2007

K. Srinivasu lu, A. Difoe, A. Verma, G. Pugazhenthi 'Development of hybrid Nafion® membrane for direct methanol fuel cell', In ternational Conference on Cleaner Tech nologies and Environmental Management (ICCTEM-2007), Pondicherry, India, 4-6 january 2007

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Anurag Verma, Prabhu R. Nott, Anugrah Singh 'Particle migration during Stokes flow of suspensions past a cylinder' , AIChE Annual Conference, San Francisco, 13-17 November 2006

T. Sivasankar and V.S. Moholkar 'A mechanistic approach to enhancem ent of phenol degradation with ultrasound', Proceedings of the International Conference on Cleaner Technologies and Environmental Management, PEC, Pondicherry, 2007

S. K. M aj umder, G. Kundu, D. Mukherjee 'Mixing of Gas-Liquid in a Downflow Bubble Column Reactor (BCR)', ACHEMA-2006, Exhibition Centre Frankfurt, Germany, 15-19 May 2006

National

U. M enon, S. Jami, S. Gumma, P. Saha 'Removal of Phenolic Impurities from Industri al Wastewater by Adsorption', 59th Annu al Session of the Indian Chemical En gineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

J. Reddy, P. Saha 'Plant wide Control of Hydrodealkyl ation Process using AspenR Engineering Suite', 59th Annual Session of the Indian Ch emi cal Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankl eshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

P. Saravanan, K. Pakshirajan, P'Saha 'Modelling the Degradation of Phenol by a mixed microbial culture in a Batch Reactor', 59th Annual Session of the Indian Ch emical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

K. Srinivasulu, A Difoe, G. Pugazhenthi, A Verma ' Preparation, characterization and methanol permeation study of hybrid Nafion® membrane for direct methanol fuel cell', 59 th Annu al Session of the Indi an Chemica l Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Guj arat, 27-30 December 2006

S. Basu, A Verma 'Alkaline fuel cell with manganese dioxide as a non-noble metal catalyst at cathode', 22 nd National Convention of Mechanical Engineers Guwahati, 9-10 September 2006

N. Su gali , AK. Ghoshal, A Verma ' Phenol degradation in a photochemical reactor using titanium dioxide', 59th Annual Session of the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

K. Srinivasulu, A Difoe, A Verma, G. Pugazhenthi ' Preparation and characterization of hybrid Nafion ® membrane for direct methanol fuel cell', 59 th Annual Session of the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

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Debasis Ghosh, Pallab Ghosh, G. Pugazhenth i ' Effects of sintering temperature on properties of ceramic membrane support', 59 th Annual Session of the Ind ian Chemical Engineering Con gress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

M. Singla, S. Gumm a 'Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulation for adsorption of neon on Silicalite', accepted at 59 th Annual Session of the Indian Chemical Engineerin g Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

Chetan P. Borkar, S. Gum ma ' Novel technique for measurement of VOC sorption using TGA', accepted at 59th Annual Session of the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankl eshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

Sh abroz Gill, Pradip Choudhury, and S. Gumma 'Three-Suffix M argul es Type eq uations for mixed gas adsorption equilibria', accepted at the 59 th Annual Session of the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Guj arat, 27-30 December 2006

U. M enon, Satish Jami, P. K. Saha, S. Gumma 'Modelling and Simulation of Ph enol Adsorption on to Polymeric Resin XAD 16 ', accepted at the 59th Annual Session of the Ind ian Ch emical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankl eshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

P. Saravanan, K. Pakshirajan and P'Saha 'Modelling the Degradation of Phenol by a mixed microbial culture in a Batch Reactor', presented at the 59 th Annual Session of the Indi an Ch emi cal Engineering Congress (CHEMCON 2006), Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 27-30 December 2006

CONFERENCES/WORKS HOPS/SYMPOS IA ATTENDED

National

Anugragh Singh attended Sum mer School on Advan ces in Petrol eum Refining Industry at Indian Institute of Petrol eum Management, Gurgaon, India, 3-8 July 2006

G. Pugazhenthi attended Summ er School on Advances in Petroleum Refining Industry at Indian Institute of Petroleum M anagement, Gurgaon, India, 3-8 July 2006

INVITED lECTURES OF FACULTY

In India

AK. Ghoshal Session Chair in the one day national workshop on ' Fluidized Bed Combustion Technology ' in Guwahati on 12 January 2007

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Anugragh Singh 'CFD for Material Processing', Invited Lecture organized by CFD forum, Department of Mechanical Engineering, liT Guwahati, 15 April 2006

Anugragh Singh 'Stokesian Dynamics Simulation for two phase flow', Department of Mathematics, liT Guwahati, 29 March 2007

Mihir Kumar Purkait 'Application of Membrane Separation Technology in Energy Generation', National Science Day, DRL Tezpur

A. Verma 'Performance of alkaline fuel cells: A possible fu tu re energy system', National Seminar on Challenges in Fuel Cell Technology: India's Perspective, liT Delhi, New Delhi, 1-2 December 2006

V. S. Moholkar 'The Fischer-Tropsch Process: Fundamental Aspects and Reactor Design', National Science Day, DRL Tezpur

V.S. Moholkar 'Science and Engineering of Sonochemical Wastewater Treatment', DST-SERC School on Cavitationally Induced Physical and Chemical Transformations, UICT Mumbai

V.S. Moholkar 'Mass Transfer Enhancement in Texti les with Ultrasound', DST-SERC School on Cavitationally Induced Physical and Chemical Transformations, UICT Mumbai

VIS ITORS FROM OTHER I NSTITUTES/ UNIVERSITIES

Professor Hemanta Sarm a, Reg Sprigg Chair in Petroleum Engineering, Centre for Improved Petroleum Recovery, Australian School of Petroleum, the University of Adelaide, Australia

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

Matlab Workshop organized jointly by IICHE (GRC) and Chemical Engineering Department, 17-18 March 2007. Facu lty participated: R. Uppaluri, P.K. Saha, P. Balasubramanian and T. Banerjee.

INVITED LECTURESNISITORS

'Biologically enhanced oil recovery' by Professor Hemanta Sarma, Reg Sprigg Chair in Petroleum Engineering, Centre for Improved Petroleum Recovery, Australi an School of Petroleum, the University of Adelaide, Australia

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SPECIAL MENTION

A.K. Ghoshal Chairman, Guwahati Regional Chapter of IICh E, 2006-2007. Nominated as one of the council members of IIChE student Chapters in the year 2006.

A. Verma Technical Committee member, Indian Conference at liT Delhi.

A. Verma Honorary Secretary, IIChE Guwahati Regional Centre.

Ankur Pariyani, Abhigyan Gupta, Pall ab Ghosh, students of the Departm ent, won the 2nd prize of the Chemical Weekly award of IIChE for best research paper published in a high impact factor international journal by an undergraduate chemical engineering student. The name of the paper is 'Design of heat exchanger networks using randomized algorith m', p ublish ed in Comp uters and Chemical Engineering, volume 30, page 1046-1053, 2006.

FACULTY MEMBERS

P. Balasubramanian PhD (l IT Madras) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Reaction Engineering, Single Event MicroKinetics, Nonlinear Analysis in Delay System

T. Banarjee PhD (lIT Kanpur, Thesis submitted 2006) Senior Lectu rer Areas of Interest: Phase Equilibria of Ionic Liquids, Statistical Therm odynamics, Molecu lar Dynamics, Genetic Algorithms

P. Ghosh PhD (liT Bombay) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Interfacial hydrodynamics, Interfacial reactions, Membrane separation

A.K. Ghoshal PhD (lIT Kharagpur) Associate Professor and Head Areas of Interest: Waste pyrolysis, Adsorption, Membrane separation, Pollu tion control, Modelling and simulation of separation processes

S.Gumma PhD (Cleveland State University) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: M olecular simu lation, adsorpti on, Gas separations, Synthesis of zeoli tes

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B.P. MandaI PhD (lIT Kharagpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Reactive absorption, Photocatalytic reactions, Pollution control, M embrane separation, Modelling and simulation of separation processes

S.K. Majumder PhD (liT Kharagpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Multiphase flow and reactor, Computational fluid dynamics in gas-liquid reactor, Mineral processing, Bio-separation

K. Mohanty PhD (liT Kharagpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Industrial pollution control, Environmental biotechnology, Bioseparation, M embrane technology, Adsorption

V.S. Mohol kar PhD (University ofTwente, Netherlands) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Bubble dynamics, CFD, Sono-process engineering, Bio-mass gasification

G. Pugazhenthi PhD (liT Kanpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Membrane separation, polymer nanocomposites, Synthesis of nanomateri als, Catalysis

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M.K. Purkait PhD (liT Kharagpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Surfactant based separation techniques, Membrane reactors

P.K. Saha PhD (liT Madras) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Process Modelling, Optimization and control, Photocatalytic reactions

A. Singh PhD (liSe. Bangalore) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Stokesian dynamic simulation, Multiphase flow, CFD, material processing, rheology

R.V.S. Uppaluri PhD (UMIST, Manchester) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Computer aided process design, Chemical and biochemical process optimization, Process integration, Refinery processes, Hom ogenous and heterogeneous catalytic reactions, Membrane reactors, Autocatalytic solid­fluid reactions

A. Verma PhD (liT Delhi) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Fu el Cells, Hydrogen Production, Photo catalytic treatment of wastewater

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Chemistry, with faculty strength of 17 at various levels, is engaged in pursuing excellence in higher learning through teaching and research in modern topics in Chemistry and related interdisciplinary fields of interest. The faculty members of the Department are engaged in implementing a large number of research and development sponsored projects. A sizeable number of students those who obtained various degrees from the Department are engaged in research all over the globe. The Department has received fund under FIST Programme (Level II) of the Department of Science and Technology, New Delh i.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

BTech Core (Theory and Laboratory) and elective courses in Chemistry M Sc (2 year) BTech in Chemical Science and Technology Ph D

STUDENT INTAKE

The student intake in the Department in the academic year 2006-2007:

BTech (from the Institute's Engineering Departments) MSc: 30 BTech in Chemical Science and Technology: 20 PhD: 18

FACULTY STRENGTH

The total numbers of faculty as on 31 March 2007 is

Professor: 5 Associate Professor: 4 (1 in lien) Assistant Professor: 8

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

The Department of Chemistry has sophisticated instrumentation facility to support research and teachi ng at various levels. Among the important instruments that are currently available are :

(i) UV-Visible Spectrophotometer: Hitachi (ij) FT-IR-Spectrophotometer: Nicolet (iii) Fluorescence Spectrophotometer: Simadzu (iv) Elemental Analyzer: Perkin Elmer .

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(v) Gas Chrom atograph: Hewlett Packerd (vi) High Perform ance Liquid Chromatogram and Gel Permeation Chromatogram: Waters (vii) Electrochemical Analyzer: CH Instruments (viii) M agnetic Susceptibility Balance: Sherwood Scientific (ix) Fluorescence life time measurement equipment (x) Pressu re Reactor (xi) Langm uir Bl odgett Film maker (xii) Thermogravimetric analyzer and differential scanning calorimeter: Mettler (xii i) FT-IR with far IR: Perkin Elmer (xiv) Cryocooler: Julabo (xv) Polarim eter: Perkin Elmer (xvi) UV-Visible: Perkin Elmer (xvii) Rotary Evaporator System : Buchi (xviii) GC-MS: Perkin Elm er (xix) H

2, N

2, O

2 gas generator : Peak Scientific Laboratory

(xx) X-ray si ngle crystal diffractometer: Bruker (xxi) Glove box: Mbraun (xxii) Hydrogenation Apparatus (xxiii) Cryostat: Oxford

In add ition to these, the Department can access to some important equipment like scanning electron microscope, 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NM R) spectrometer and electronic spin resonance spectrometer (ESR) in Central Instruments Facility of the Institute. It has also access to workshop facilities of Mechanical Engineering Departm ent and central computing facil ities in the Computer Centre.

A large number of international journals are subscribed and good number of text and reference books are made available in library. On line access to many journals are made available through INDEST consortium.

RESEARCH AND DEVElOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Th e Departm ent is engaged in various research and development activities such as:

Catalysis, Supramolecular Chemistry, Nano Science and Technology, Thin films and membrane sciences, Synthesis, structure and reactivity of Inorganics, Newer reagents, Protocols and Newer methodologies, Synthesis of natural products and Carbohydrate Ch emistry, Bio-organi c Chemistry, Bio-inorganic Chemistry and Co-ordination Chemistry and Organometallics, Polymer synthesis, Organic Photochemistry, Molecular dynamics, Laser Chemistry and Quantum Molecular dynamics, Physical Ch emistry -Spectroscopic and Theoretical investigations on Novel Materials, etc.

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SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS

New Projects

Tit le: Dioxygen Reactivities of Mono-Copper Complexes with Tridentate N-donor Ligands: Models for Dopamin b­Hydroxylase and Peptidylglycine-Hydroxyl ati n g Monooxygenase Investigator: Dr. Biplab Mondal Sponsoring Agency: DST Amount Sanctioned: Rs.23.77lakh Duration: 3 years

Title: Development and Reactivity Stud ies of Di-Copper(l)/ (II) Complexes with Tridentate N-donor Ligands: Models for Tyrosinases and Catechol Oxidases Investigator: Dr. Biplab Mondal Sponsoring Agency: DAE Amount Sanctioned: Rs.7.5 Iakh Duration: 3 years

Tit le: Further Exploration of 1 ,2-Dipyridinium Ditri brom ide Ethane (EDPBT) in Organic Syntheses Investigator: Prof. B. K. Patel Sponsoring Agency: DST Amount Sanctioned: Rs.12lakh Duration: 3 years

T itl e: NEW Stereo e lectronic effe cts on the photoisomerization by Hula-Twist Investigator: Dr. G. Krishnamoorthy Sponsoring Agency: CSI R Amount Sanctioned: Rs.11 .5 lakh Duration: 3 years

Title: Mechanisms of Ph otochemical Reactions in Ionic Liquids Investigator: Dr. G. Krishnamoorthy Sponsoring Agency: DST Amount Sanctioned: Rs.24lakh Duration: 3 years

Ongoing Projects

Tit le: Desulfu ri zation and Denitrogenation of Diesel Investigator: Prof. M.K. Chaudhuri Sponsoring Agency: IOCL Amount Sanctioned: Rs.12.34 lakh Duration: 3 years

Title: Synthesis of Novel Conducting Polymers for application in Organic Light Emitting Diodes Investigator: Dr. P. K. Iyer Sponsoring Agency: DST Amount Sanctioned: Rs.1 9.83 lakh Duration: 3 years

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Title: New Electro luminescent Polymers for Optoelectron ic Device Application Investigator: Dr. P. K. Iyer Sponsoring Agency: CSI R Amount Sanctioned: Rs.9.71 lakh Duration: 3 years

Title: Polym er Anchored Chiral Catalysts for Asymmetric Synthesis Investigator: Dr. T. Punniyamurthy Sponsoring Agency: CSIR Amount Sanctioned: Rs. 9.76Iakh Duration: 3 years

Title: Model studies on the function of supramolecular arch itecture in th e process of biomineralization Investigator: Dr. Gopal Das Sponsoring Agency: CSIR Amount Sanctioned: Rs.8 .1 8 lakh Duration: 3 years

Title: Development of Green Synthetic Methodologies Investigator: Dr. B.K. Patel Sponsoring Agency: CSI R Amount Sanctioned: Rs. 8 lakh Duration: 3 years

Title: Synthesis of molecular container of different size and shape through self-assembly of chiral transition metal complexes Investigator: Dr. M. Ray Sponsoring Agency: DST Amount Sanctioned: Rs.12.5 lakh Duration: 3 years

Title: Newer methods of synthesis and assemb ly of nanomaterials for improved optical, electrical and catalytic applications Investigator: Dr. (Ms.) A. Paul Sponsoring Agency: CSIR Amount Sanctioned: Rs.8.73 lakh Duration: 3 years

Title: Nanoli thography in Color and Design of Microfluidic Devices Investigator: Dr. A. Chattopadhyay Sponsoring Agency: DST Amount Sanctioned: Rs.35 lakh Duration: 3 years

Title: Study of Inter- and Intra-molecular Interaction and Molecular Recognition in Polyaromatic Compounds Investigator: Dr. J.B. Baruah Sponsoring Agency: CSIR Amount Sanctioned: Rs. 6.88 lakh Duration: 3 years

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Ti tle: Synthesis and characte risati on of assembled dicarboxylic acids and study of thei r supramolecular aspects Investigator: Dr. J.B. Baruah Sponsoring Agency: DST Amount Sanctioned: Rs.17.44 Iakh Duration: 3 years

CONFERENCES/WORKS HOPS/SEMI NARS

M.K. Chaudhuri 'Workshop on Green Chemistry', University of Delhi, Delhi, 9-10 March 2007

M.K. Chaudhuri 'Green Chemistry', NEERI , Nagpur, 28 February 2007

P.K. Iyer and B. Mondal ' Proton Induced Redox Tun i ng of Ruth enium Monoterpyridine Complex with 2,6-bis(benzim idazol-2 -yl)pyridine Anci llary Ligand : Synthesis, Characterization and Crystal Structure', 9th Chemical Research Society of India National Symposium, Delhi University, Delh i, 1-4 February 2007

J.B. Baruah Invited lecture: Indian Science Congress, Anamalainagar, Tamilnadu, January 2007

J.B. Baruah 'Indo-Singapore chemistry co-operation conference', Invited lecture, National University of Singapore, February 2006

G. Das 'Lu minescence Spectroscopy: Application in analytical chemistry', UGC refresher course on Current Trends in Chemistry with special emphasis on Analytical Techniques, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, 11 -31 M arch 2007

T. Punniyamurthy and S. Jammi ' Design and Development of Stereoregu lar Chiral Main Chain polymers for Asymmetric Synthesis, ICOB-5 and ISCNP-25 IUPAC', International Symposium on Biod iversity and Natural Products, Fukuoka, Japan, 30-31 July 2006 (Poster p resen tati on)

T. Punniyamurthy 'Ch iral polymers for Asymmetric Synthesis, ICOB-5 and ISCNP-25 IUPAC', International Symposiu m on Biod iversity and Natural Products, Fukuoka, Japan, 30-31 July 2006 (Invited lectures)

L. Rout and T. Punniyamurthy ' Ecologically Benign Oxidation of Tertiary Amines and Sulphides', IICT Hyderabad, ACS-CSIR-AOCCB-2006, 11 -13 January 2007 (poster presentation)

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S. Jammi and T. Punniyamurthy 'Stereoregu lar Chiral (1 R, 2R) Diammine based Co-polymers: Synthesis and Application to Enantioselective Et

2Zn Additrion

to A ldehyde, INDO-US CCNP- 2006, pp-39 (Poster presentation)

V.K. Akkilaghunta, L. Rout, S. Sanyasi and T. Punniyamurthy 'Chiral Copper(lI ) Catalysed Asymm etric Benzoylation of secondary Alcohols', INDO -US CCNP-2006, pp-39 (Poster presentation)

M. Ray National Sym posium on Advances in Chemi stry and Environm enta l Im pact (ACE- 2006), Department of Chemistry, NEHU, Shillong, 1-2 November 2006 (Invited lecture)

A T. Khan National Symposium on Advances in Chemistry and En v ironm enta l Im pact (ACE- 2006), Depa rtment of Chemistry, NEHU, Shill ong, 1-2 November 2006 (Invited lecture)

R. R. Koner and M . Ray ' Effects of Substituent in the Li gand on the Assembly and Disassembly of a Capsule shaped Cu(l l) complex', National Sym posi um on Advances in Chemistry and Environmental Impact (ACE-2006), Department o f Chemistry, NEHU, Shillong, 1-2 November 2006 (Poster presentation)

M. Ray 'Appl ication of EPR spectroscopy', UGC refresh er course on Current Trends in Chemistry with special emphasis on Analytica l Techniques, Gauhati University, Guwahati, 11-13 M arch 2007

S.c. Sahoo and M. Ray 'Synthesis, structural characterization and electrochemical properties of a set of Cu (II) complexes with ferrocen e and amino acid derived bidentate ligands', National Symposium on Advances in Chemistry and Environmental Impact (ACE-2006), Department of Chemistry, NEHU, Shillong, 1-2 November 2006 (Poster presentation)

AT. Khan International Symposium on Current Perspectives in Organic Chemistry, lACS, Kolkata, 7-9 December 2006 (Poster presentation)

B.K. Patel International Symposium on Current Perspectives in Organic Chemistry, lACS, Kolkata, 7-9 December 2006 (Poster presentation)

AT. Khan 43,d Annual Convention of Chemists 2006, organized by In dian Chemical Society, Kolkata, at Aurangabad in M aharastra, 23-27 December 2006 (Invited lecture)

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AT. Khan Refresh er Course in Chemistry on Current Trends in Chemistry with Special emphasis on Analytical Techniques, Department of Chemistry, Cauhati University, Cuwahati, 29 March 2007 (Invited lecture)

A Paul 'Electrochemical Actuation of Crowing Copper Dendrimers in Water', FirstMid year Meeting of the Chemical Research Society of India, liT Madras, 13 July 2006 (Invited presentation)

A Paul 'Surface Studies Using Ultra High Vacuum Techniques', Refresher course in Chemistry (IX): Current trends in Chemistry with special emphasis on Analytical Techniques, Cauhati University, Cuwahati , 26 March 2007 (Invited lecture)

AK. Saikia 'Pall adium Catalyzed addition reaction ofCFBr

3 and CF

2Br

2

to olefi ns', International Conference on Molecules to Materials, Sant Longwal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, 3-4 M arch 2006

P. K. Iyer ' Polymeric materials: Current Trends', UCC refresher course on Current Trends in Chemistry with special emphasis on Analytical Tech niques, Cauhati University, Cuwahati , 11-31 March 2007 (Invited lecture)

Amardeep, B. Chetia, P.K. Iyer and B. Mondal ' Proton Induced Redox Tuning of Ruth enium Monoterpyridine Complex with 2,6-bis(benzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine Ancillary Ligand: Synthesis, Characterization and Crystal Structure', 9th Chemical Research Society of India National Symposium, Delhi University, Delhi, 1-4 February 2007

S. Bhattacharyya, B. Chetia, P.K. Iyer, P. Ciri, K. B. K. Panigrahi, K.C.M. Nai r 'Nove l low temperature che mical synthesis and characterization of Zinc oxide nanostructures', Advanced Nano Materials (ANM-07), liT Bombay, Mumbai, 8-10 January 2007 (Poster presentation)

O.K. Singh, P.K. Iyer, P.K. Ciri 'Chemical synthesis of multiwalled carbon nanotubes', Advanced Nano M aterials (ANM-07), liT Bombay, Mumbai, 8-10 January 2007 (Poster presentation)

P.J. Sarm ah, P.K. Iyer 'Electroluminescent polymers for blue light emission', 9th

Asian Symposium on Information Display, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 8-12 October 2006 (Poster presentation)

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A Jain, M. Katiyar, P.K. Iyer 'Effect of processing parameters on Poly (9,9-dioctylfluorene­co-bithiophene) based organic field-effect transistors', 9 th

Asian Symposium on Information Display, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 8-12 October 2006 (Poster presentation)

P.K. Iyer Brainstorming Session on Futuristic R&D for Plasma Display Panel, Samtel Color Limited, Chaziabad, India, 15 July 2006

O.K. Singh, P.K. Iyer, P. K. Ciri ' Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes and Study of its Optical and Structural Properties', International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanomaterials, CIT, Coimbatore, India, June 2006 (Oral)

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers:

Mihir K. Chaudhuri, Sanjay K. Dehury, Sahid Hussain, A Duarah and Nayanmoni Cogoi 'Th e selective solid-phase oxidation of alcohols and other o rganic substrates by 3,5-d imethyl-pyrazo lium fluorochromate', Org. Prep. Proc. Int., 38, pp. 331-336, 2006

Mihir K. Chaudhuri, Sahid Hussain, Saitanya K. Bharadwaj and Harjyoti Kalita 'Borax as an efficient metal-free catalyst for hetero-Michael reactions in aqueous medium', Eur.}. Org. Chem., pp. 361 -365,2007

Mihir K. Chaudhuri and Sahid Hussain 'An efficient synthesis of quinolines under solvent-free conditions', }. ChemSci., 118,pp. 199-202,2006

Mihir K. Chaudhuri and Sahid Hussain 'Boric acid catalysed thia-Michael reactions in water or alcohol',}. Mol.Catal. A: Chemical, 269, pp. 214-217, 2007

A Karmakar, R.J. Sarma, J.B. Baruah 'Mechanochemical Control on Synthesis and Structures of Aqua Bridged Binuclear Nickel (II) Benzoate Complexes', European}. Inorg. Chem , 4673-4678, 2006

N. Barooah, A Karm akar, R.J . Sarma, lB. Baru ah 'Self-assembly through hydrogen-bonding and C-H· • • • n interactions in metal complexes of N-functionalised glycine', Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 9, pp. 1251-1 254, 2006

A Karmakar, R.J. Sarma, J.B. Baru ah 'Sel f-assembly of neutral dinuclear and trinuclear zinc­benzoate complexes', Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 9,pp.1169-1172,2006

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N. Barooah, R.J. Sarma, J.B. Baruah 'Solid-state hydrogen bonded assembly of N,N' -bis(glycinyl) pyromelli tic diimide with aromatic guests', Cryst. Eng. Comm., 8, PP .. 608-615,2006

K. Deka, R.J. Sarm a, J.B. Baruah 'Nitrogen-oxygen bond formation during oxidative reactions of Copper (II) benzoate complexes having 3, 5-dimethylpyrazole', Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 9, pp. 931 -934, 2006

N. Barooah, R.J . Sarma, J.B. Baruah 'Metal Directed assemblies of a Dipeptide: Formation of a­Pleated Sheets', European J. of Inorganic Chemistry, pp. 2942-2946,2006

A. Karmakar, K. Deka, R.J. Sarma, J.B. Baruah 'Benzoic acid inclusion in a dimeric nickel complex and its catalytic activity', Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 9, pp. 836-838, 2006

C. Tamuly, N. Barooah, M . Laskar, R.J. Sarma, J.B. Baruah 'Fluorescence quenching and enhancement by H-bonding interactions in some nitrogen containing fluorophores', Supramolecular Chemistry, 18, 605-613, 2006

K. Deka, M. Laskar, J.B. Baruah 'Crabon-nitrogen Bond Cleavage by copper complexes', Polyhedron, 25, 2525-2529, 2006

R.J. Sarm a, J.B. Baruah ' Hydrogen bifluoride mediated hydrogen-bonded self­assembly of pyridinium and anilinium bis-phenols: Towards control of C-H ... IT (aromatic) interactions', Chemistry: A European Journal, 12, 4994-5000, 2006

R.J. Sarma, A.S. Batsanov, R. Kataky, J.B. Baruah 'Structu ral Investigat ions on Quinone Methides fo r Understanding thei r Properties in Con fined Media', J. of Inclusion Phen. and Macrocycliccompounds, 55, 1-9,2006

N. Barooah, R.J. Sarm a, A.S. Batsanov, J. B. Baruah 'Structural aspects of adducts of N-phthaloylglycine and its derivatives', J. of Molecular Structure, 791, 122-130, 2006

R.J. Sarma, C. Tamuly, J.B. Baruah 'Synthesis and characterization of N-substituted bis-phenols as precursor for unsymmetrical triarylmethane cation', Dyes and Pigments, 72, 75-79,2007

N. Barooah, R.J. Sarm a, A.S. Batsanov, J.B. Baruah 'N-phthaloylglycinato complexes of cobalt, nickel, copper and zinc', Polyhedron, 25, 17-24, 2006

C.B. Singh, V. Kavala, A.K. Samal, B.K. Patel ~queous-mediated N-alkylation of amines', EuropeanJ. Org. Chem ., 1369, 2007

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S. Murru, V. Kavala, C.B. Sin gh, B. K. Patel 'A one-pot synthesis of l,4-dithiins and l,4-benzodithiins from ketones using the recycl able reagent 1,1 '-(ethane-1,2-diyl )dipyrid iniu m bistribromid e (EDPBT)', Tetrahedron Lett, 48, 1007, 2007

C.B. Sin gh, S. Murru, V. Kaval a, B. K. Patel ' It is Thiazolidene-2-imin e and not Imidazole-2-th ione as the reaction product of 1-Benzoyl -3-ph enyl thiourea with Br2/Enolizable Ketone', Organic Letters, 8, 5397, 2006

S. Naik, V. Kavala, R. Gopinath, B.K. Patel ' l,l-(Eth ane-l,2-di yl) dipyridi nium-bist r ibromide (ED PB T) as a Recycl able Cata lyst for Acylation', ARKIVOC, XI, 21-36, 2006

R.K. Roy, V. Kavala, S. Naik, B.K. Patel 'Chemoselectivity in Acetalization, Thioacetalizati on, Oxathioaceta lization and Aza th ioaceta lization', J. Phys. Chem., 110, 2181-2187, 2006

R.K. Roy, V. Usha, B.K. Patel, K. Hirao 'Acetalization of Cabonyl Compounds: A Case Stu dy Based on Global and Local Electrophilicity Descriptors', J. Compo Chem., 27, 773 -780,2006

B. Rama Raju, E.K. Pramod Kum ar, A.K. Saikia ' Paliadiu m(O) -catalyzed addition of CFBr3 to Olefins: synthesis of l ,l, 3-tribromo-l-fluoroalkan es and 1,2 -difluoroalkenes', Tetrahedron Letters, 47, 9245, 2006

J.w. John Bosco, A. Agrah ari, A.K. Saikia 'Molecu lar iodine cata lyzed selective acetyl ation of alcohols with vinyl acetate', Tetrahedron Letters, 47, 4065, 2006

B.M. Borah, B.J. Bhuyan, G. Das ' Low-Molecul ar-Weight Poly-Carboxylate as Crystal Growth Modifier in Biom ineralization', J. Chem. Sci., 118 (6), 519-524, 2006

H. Thakuria, G. Das 'One-pot Effi cient Green Synth esis of 1,4-Dihydro­quinoxali ne-2 ,3 -dione Deri vatives', }. Ch em. Sci., 118(5),425-428,2006

H. Thakuria, A. Pramanik, B.M . Borah, G. Das 'A one-pot synth esis and self-assembled superstructure of an organic salt of a l,5-benzodiazepine derivative', Tetrahedron Lett., 47(18) , 3135-3138, 2006

H. Th akuria, G. Das ' CuO Micro Pl ates from a 3 D M etallo -Organ ic Framework (MOF) of a Bin ary Copper(ll) Complex of N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)glycine', Polyhedron, 26(1), 149-153,2007

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H. Thakuria, B.M. Borah, G. Das 'ZnO Nano Particles from M etal-Organic Framework of Zn(ll)- Metallacycles', fu r. J. Inorg. Chem., 4, 524-529, 2007

A.T. Khan, Md. A. Ali, P. Goswami and L.H. Choudhury 'A mild and regioselective method for cx-bromination of ~-keto esters and 1,3-diketo nes using bromodimethylsulfonium bromide (BDMS)', J. Org. Chem ., 67, 896 1-8963, 2006

A.T. Khan, L.H. Choudhury, T. Parvin and Md. A. Ali 'CeCI3·7H20: An efficient and reusabl e catalyst for the preparation of b-acetamido carbonyl compounds by multi-component reactions (MCRS)', Tetrahedron Lett. , 47,8137-8141, 2006

A.T. Khan, T. Parvin and L.H. Chou dhu ry 'Silica supported perchloric acid (HCI0

4-SiO): A

versati le cata lyst for the tetrahydro-pyranylation, oxathioacetalization and thioaceta lization', Synthesis, 2497-2502,2006

A.T. Khan, L.H. Choudhury and s. Ghosh 'S ili ca supported perchloric acid (HCI0

4-Si02): A highly

effici ent and reusable cata lyst for gemin al diacy lation of aldehyd es under solvent-free conditions', J. Mol. Cat. A. : Chemica l, 255, 230-235, 2006

A.T. Kh an , P. Goswami and L.H. Choudhury 'A mild and environmentally acceptable synthetic protocol for chemoselective a-bromin ation of b-keto esters and 1,3-diketones', Tetrahedron Lett. , 47, 2751 -2754,2006

A.T. Khan, L.H. Choudhury and s. Gh osh ' Perchl oric acid impregnated on silica gel (HCI0

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A versatile catalyst for Michael addition of thiols to the electron deficient alkenes', f ur. J. Org. Chem, 2226-2231 , 2006

B.R. Panda, P.N. Rao, A. Pau l and A. Chattopadhyay 'Electrochem ical actuation of growing copper dendrimers in water', J. Phys. Chem. 8, 110 (45), 22917-22922, 2006

S.K. Gogoi, P. Gopin ath, A. Paul, A. Ramesh , 5.5 . Ghosh and A. Chattopadhyay 'Green Fluorescent Protein Expressing Esch erichi a coli as a model system for investigatin g th e Antimi crob ial activiti es of Silver Nanoparticles', Langmuir, 22(22), 9322-9328,2006

S. Manikandan, G. M ajumdar, D. Chowdhury, A. Paul and A. Chattopadhyay 'Solid -state Storage of Ag Nanoparticl es in Anion Exchange Resin Beads and Th eir Recovery', Journ al of Colloid and Interface Science, 295(1), 148-154, 2006

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G. Majumdar, S.K. Gogoi, A. Paul and A. Chattopadhyay 'Lithography for Imprinting Colored Patterns with Quantum Dots', Langmuir, 22(7), 3439-3444, 2006

S.K. Padhi and V. M anivannan 'Cu(N03)2'3H20-Mediated Synthesis of 4'-(2-Pyridyl)-2,2':6',2"-terpyrid ine (L2) from N-(2-Pyridylmethyl)pyridine-2-methylketimine (L 1). A C-C Bond-Forming Reaction and the Structure of {[Cu(L2)(OH)(NO)J [Cu(L2)(NO)2J} ·2 H20 ',lnorg. Chem., 45,7994-7996,2006

P. Puzari, B. Sarkar and s. Adhikari 'Matrix representation of vector potential: DVR and TDDVR formulation and dynamics', Chem. Phys., 324,497,2006

B. Sarkar and s. Adhikari 'Extended Born-Oppenheimer equation for a three-state system',J. Chem. Phys., 124, 014701, 2006

B. Sarkar, D.K.S. Bhadauria, N. Verma and s. Adhikari 'The effect of cluster environm ent on a chem ica l reaction', Chem. Phys., 328, 338, 2006

P. Puzari, B. Sarkar and S. Adhikari 'A quantum-classical approach to the molecular dynamics of pyrazi ne with a realistic model Hamiltonian', J. Chem. Phys., 125, 194316, 2006

M. Sarm a, s. Adhikari, M.K. Mi shra 'Sel ective control of HOD photo dissociation using low qu anta OD excitation and field optimized initial state (FOIST) based combin ation of states and co lors', Chem. Phys. Lett. 420, 321, 2006

S. Adhikari, s. Deshpande, M. Sarma, V. Kurkal, and M.K. Mi shra 'Selective control of photodissociation in deutereted water molecul e HOD', Phys. Chem., 75, 2106, 2006

B. Sarkar, S. Adhikari and M. Baer 'Do intense electro- magnetic fields annihil ate/create conical intersections?' J. Chem. Phys., 126, 014106, 2007

M. Sarma, S. Adhikari, M.K. Mishra 'Simp le systematization of vibrational excitation cross­section calculations for resonant electron-molecu le scattering in the boomerang and impulse models', J. Chem. Phys., 126, 044309, 2007

A. Saha, P. Sarkar, S. Adhikari ' Fourier grid Hamiltonian-based multidimensional Floquet propagator m ethod for co ntinu ous, p ul sed, and bichromatic laser field: Application to the multiphoton dissociation dynamics of HCN molecule', Int. }. Quantum Chem., 107,1285,2007

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B. Chetia, P. K. Iyer 'Utilization of 2,6-Bis(2-benzimidazolyl) pyridine to detect toxic benzene metabolites', Tetrahedron Lett., 48(1), 47-50,2007

B. Chetia, P.K. Iyer '2,6 -Bis(2-benzimidazolyl) pyridine receptors for urea recognition', Tetrahedron Lett., 47(46), 8115-8117, 2006

D. Knapton, P.K. Iyer, S.J. Rowan, C. Weder 'Synthesis and Properties of Metallo-Supramolecular Poly(p­xylylene)s', Macromolecules, 39,4069-4075,2006

P.K. Iyer, S. Wang 'A cationic tetrahedral ch romophores for amplified DNA detection', Tetrahedron Lett., 47(4), 437-439,2006

PATENT FilED

Arun Chattopadhyay, Anugrah Sin gh and Pinjala Nagaraju Rao ' Evaporation Induced lithography' (Patent Application Submitted, October 2006)

G.c. Bazan, AJ. Heeger, P.K. Iyer, B. Liu 'Meth ods and devices for utilizing soluble conjugated polymers', PO Int. Appl. (2006), 54 pp. WO 2006029226 (UC Case No. 2004-296-1 )

R.1. Kureshy, N.H . Khan, S.H.R. Abdi, P.K. Iyer, S.T. Patel, R.V. Jasra 'A process for the preparation of novel chiral salen transition metal catalyst useful in enantioselective epoxidation of prochiral olefins' (Indian (2006), IN 2000DE011 60)

P.K. Iyer, P.K. Giri , S. Bhattachharya, B. Chetia 'Method to synthesize nano sized zinc oxide' (India Patent application No. 563/K01/2006)

VISITORS

Prof. S. Ramakrishnan Departm ent of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

Prof. P. Selvam Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology M adras, Chennai, India

Prof. D.W. Knight Head, Departm ent of Ch emistry, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom

Dr. M. Ranganathan Institute of Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland

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Dr. Sivaprasad Mitra Department of Chemistry, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong

Prof. A Srikrishna Department of Chemistry, Ind ian Institute of Sci ence Bangalore, India

Dr. Tapan Kr. Sau Department of Chemistry, Punj ab University, Punjab

Dr. Sh ankar K. Guchhait Birla Institute ofTechnology and Science, Goa

Prof. B.C. Ranu Indian Association for th e Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India

Prof. A Basak Departm ent of Chemistry, liT Kh aragpur

SHORT-TERM COURSES

Green Ch emistry and Green Technology during 5-9 June 2006 under QIP programme. Prof. AT. Khan and Prof. B.K. Patel were the coord inators.

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

Departm ent of Science and Technology Expert Advisory Committee M eeting on Molecular Electroni cs, Conducting Polymer El ectronics and Non-Invasive and other Biosensors on 30-31 August 2006. It was coord inated by Dr. P. K. Iyer.

AWARDS/DISTI NCTION

UKIERI Research Fell owship to Dr. T. Punniyamurthy 2006 to visit Oxford Un iversity.

DAE-You ng Sci entist Research Award to Dr. Biplab ' Mondal (2006-2007) .

FACULTY MEMBERS

S. Adhikari PhD (Jadavpur University) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Molecul ar dynamics and laser chemistry

J.B. Baruah PhD (liSe Bangalore) Professor Areas of Interest: Homogeneous cata lysis, novel materi als, supramolecul ar chemi stry

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S. Bhattacharaya PhD (Burdwan University) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Physical chemistry - spectroscopi c and theoretical investigations on novel materials

A. Chattopadhyay PhD (Colum bia University) Professor Areas of Interest: Thin film s, membrane sciences, and nano science and technology

M .K. Chaudhuri PhD (lIT Kharagpur) Professor Areas of Interest: Synthesis, structure and reactivity of inorganics, newer materi als and meth odologies, newer reagents and protocols

G. Das PhD (lIT Ka npu r) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Su pramolecul ar, bioorganic chem istry and biomineralization

A.K. Gupta PhD (University of Californ ia, Los Angeles) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Quantum molecular dynamics

P.K. Iyer PhD (CSM CRI, Bhavnagar) Assistant Professor Are as of Interest: o lym er syn thesis, ino rga nic/ organometall ic chemistry and device fabrication

A.T. Khan PhD (Kalyani University) Professor and Head Areas of Interes t: Synthesis of natural p roducts, heterocycles and carbo hy d rate chem istry, new er methodologies

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G. Krishnamoorthy PhD (lIT Kanpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Organic photochemistry and spectroscopy

V. Manivannan PhD Uadavpur University) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Coordi nation chem istry and organ om etallics

B. Mandai PhD (l IT Bombay) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Bioinorganic chemistry

B.K. Patel PhD (liT Kanpur) Professor Areas of Interest: Bi oorgani c chemistry and newer methodologies

A. Paul PhD (Colum bia University) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Surface science, catalysis, thin films

T. Punniyamurthy PhD (liT Kanpur) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Synthetic organic chemistry

M. Ray PhD (liT Kanpur) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Bioi norganic and coordination chemistry

A. Saikia PhD (Dibrugarh University) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: New synthetic methodology and natural product synthesi s

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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Civil Engineering, established in the year 1998, has shown remarkable progress in academic, research and consultancy works. Faculty members continued to take the lead in strengthening their respective specializations through further development of the laboratories and research facilities. Several faculty members published their research work in leading journals or presented papers in international/national conferences. The Department has got several sponsored R&D projects in the last few years, many of which have been completed whi le some of them are in progress.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES

The Department is currently having BTech, MTech and PhD programmes. The MTech programme includes the following specialization:

Structural Engineering Water Resources Engineering and Management Geotechnical Engineering Environmental Engineering Transportation Systems Engineering

Our fourth (2003 year) batch of 31 BTech students are graduating this year. All of the outgoing BTech students were selected for recruitment in various reputed organization through campus interview. Most of the graduating students have undergone practical training during last summer in leading technical universities abroad. The PhD programme includes all areas of specialization in Civil Engineering.

STUDENT INTAKE

The student intake in 2006-2007 academic session is as follows:

BTech: 50 MTech: 38 PhD: 06

FACULTY STRENGTH

Faculty strength as on 31 March 2006: 22

Associate Professor: 8 Assistant Professor: 14

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

Structural Engineering/Concrete Technology Laboratory Major equipment procured during the period includes overhead EOT crane for structural test hall, universal testing

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machine, universal test frame, several new NDT equipment like corrosion analysing equ ipm ent, rebar locator. Permeability tester, resistivity meter, extraction tester. Cooling tower has been installed for actuator system. Earthquake simulator, FFT analyzer for vibration testing of structural elements, resonant frequency meter, HBM 4 channel data acquisition system, core cutter, coma meter for structural health monitoring have been procured and installed. The testing facility for UG and PG laboratories have been enhanced by adding more conventional equipment, like vicat apparatus, morter mixer, digital flame photometer, etc.

Environmental Engineering Laboratory Development Laser particle size analyzer was installed. Atomic absorption spectrophotometer was delivered and installed. Ultra-pure water system ordered. Ambient air pollutant measurement sampler, CO and C02 portable analyzer (automatic), the fine particular sampler (PM2.s and less; including PM,o)' micro­meteorological monitoring equipment with required accessories and data logging system and software (automatic) magnetic stirrer, paddle stirrer, microprocessor based digital pH meter, hot plate, AIR compressor, trinocular laboratory microscope compete with essential accessories and digital camera, bench top ORP meter, horizontal shaker, bottle top dispenser, DO meter have been processed for procuring the equipment the equipment.

Transportation Engineering Laboratory Bump integrator for pavement management, brooke field viscometer for testing of bituminous material as well as marshall design of flexible pavement facilities, HDM4 for highway development model, MXROADS for highway geometric design, rolling thin file oven, TRANSYT, TSIS, HCS software, plate compactor, CBR field apparatus, hydraulic jack have been procured and installed.

Driver vision screen tester, enoscope (as per BIS), distance measuring wheel, mapinfor professional 8.0, hot air oven, dial gauge, proctor compaction mould with hammer, water bath with thermostat, universal penetrometer for bitumen testing including automatic pentrometer timer, electric plate compactor for preparation of triaxial sample, gyratory type sieve shaker for 200 mm dia. have been processed for procuring the equipment in the current year.

Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering Laboratory Hydrology Apparatus in Water Resources Laboratory has been installed. An in-situ hillslope experiment set up (size = 250 m2) with fully automatic subsurface flow measurement system was designed and fabricated at the field site. This

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experimental set-up will quantify both subsurface and surface flow in a hillslope under high intensity storm events. 50/10 m long channel, rainfall simulation apparatus for study rainfall for various studies flow. Current meter with digital recording system (cup type, propeller), under an operating head of 5 m have been processed for procuring the equipment.

Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory De-airing apparatus for triaxial testing, multi-channel data logging equipment, relative density apparatus, dynamic block foundation equipment.

Surveying Laboratory In addition to conventional survey equipment, modern equipment like, EDM, total station, electron ic theodolite, GIS for remote sensing, digitizer, etc. for various topographic studies are in working condition. Electronic total station has been processed for procuring the item in the current year.

Engineering Geology Laboratory Trinocular stereo zoom microscope, petrographic microscope with digital image capturing facility, hardness box kit have been processed for procu rin g the equipment.

SPONSORED PROJECTS

New

Title: Development of a Simultaneous Approach for Integrated Mass Transit Planning Principal Investigator: Dr. A Verma Sponsoring Agency: DST Amount Sanctioned: Rs.l 0 lakh

Title: GIS based Inventory of the rivers of the Northeastern Region Principal Investigator: Dr. AX Sarma and Dr. C. Mahanta Sponsoring Agency: MOEF Amount Sanctioned: Rs.22 lakh

Ongoing

Title: Flood Forecasting Modelling in the Brahmaputra River Principal Investigator: Dr. AX Sarma and Dr. C. Mahanta Sponsori ng Agency: AICTE Amount Sanctioned: Rs.15 lakh

Title: Rural roads pavement performance study Principal Investigator: Dr. B. Singh Sponsoring Agency: National Rural Roads Development Agency Duration: 3 years Amount Sanctioned: Rs.8 lakh

Title: Installation of strong motion array in Guwahati for site characterization and instrumentation of multi-storeyed buildings at Guwahati Principal Investigator: Dr. S.K. Deb Sponsoring Agency: DST

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Title: Analytical and Inverge modelling for estimating aquifer parameters of a confined aquifer Principal Investigator: Dr. G. Barua Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. S.N. Bora Sponsoring Agency: DST Duration: 2 years Amount Sanctioned: Rs.3.9 lakh (Total amount for the project Rs.5.95 lakh)

Consultancy

Title: Protection of Matmara Arkep-Baligaon Area from the Erosion of River Brahmaputra Consultant: Dr. A.K. Sarma Sponsoring Agency: Water Resources Department, Govt. of Assam

Title: Id entifying Suitable Location for Inland Water Terminal Consultant: Dr. AK. Sarma Sponsoring Agency: Inland Waterways Authority of India

Title: Dam Break Analysis of the proposed Debang Dam of Northeast India Consultant: Dr. AK. Sarma Sponsoring Agency: National Productivity Council , India

Title: Feasibility Study for Watershed Management Project in the Kakodonga River Basin Consultant: Dr. AK. Sarma Sponsoring Agency: Agricultural Department of Assam

Title: North Eastern Region Urban Development Project Cons ultant: Dr. AK. Sarma Sponsoring Agency: Drainage Engineering for Lea Associates South Asia Pvt. Ltd, Govt. of India

Title: Proof checking of ROBs in Bihar Consultant: Dr. A. Dutta Sponsoring Agency: STUP Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Delhi

Title: Examination and assessment of collapsed jetty at Pandu Port Consultants: Dr. B. Singh Sponsoring Agency: Inland Waterways Authority of India

Title: Design of gangway, foundation and conveyor belt system for Jogigopha terminal Consultant: Dr. B. Singh Sponsoring Agency: Inland Waterways Authority of India

Title: Traffic volume count survey and PC! verification on rural roads of Assam Consultant: Dr. B. Singh Sponsoring Agency: National Rural Roads Development Agency

Title: Investigation of petrography of rock samples Consultants: Dr. C. Mahanta and Mr. A Borsaikia Sponsoring Agency: M/s Druk Stones & Minerals Export Co. Ltd., Phuenssholing, Bhutan

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Title: Investigation of Nakkati quarry in connection with widening and strengthening of existing NH-31 C from lane 2 to 4 lane KM 10-30.00 to KM 93.00 Consultants: Dr. C. Mahanta and Mr. A. Borsaikia Sponsoring Agency: Mis Gayatri-ECI UV), Site Offi ce: Shantipara, Kajal gaon, Chi rang, Assam

Title: Manufacturing bricks usi ng stone crusher dust (Phase-I) Cons ultants: Dr. D. Maity and Mr. A. Borsaikia . Sponsoring Agency: Mr. N Sahewalla, Clo Mr. M.D. Sahewalla, Sivasagar, Assam

Title: Investigation on soil samples against construction of perimeter road at Barapani Airport Consultants: Dr. Sreedeep S. and Mr. Kumar Pall av Sponsoring Agency: Sr. Manager Engg. (C )-111, Airport Authority of India, Guwahati

Title: Provision of designing drainage system for LGBI Airport, Guwahati Cons ultants: Dr. S. Dutta and Mr. Kumar Pallav Sponsoring Agency: Senior Manager (C)-SG-1, MI, LGBI Airport, Guwahati

Title: Proof checking of ROBs in Rohtak, Haryana Cons ultants: Dr. A. Dutta Sponsoring Agency: STU P Consultants Pvt. Ltd, Delhi

PUBLICATIONS

International Journal

N.B. Desu, S.K. Deb and A. Dutta 'Coupled tuned mass dampers for control of coupled vibrations in asymmetric building', Journal of Structural Control and Health Monitoring (Wiley Inter-Science), 13 (5), pp. 897-916, 2006

N.B. Desu, A. Dutta and S.K. Deb 'Optimal assessment and location of tuned mass dampers for seismic response control of a plan-asymmetrical building', Int. Journal of Structural Engineering and Mechanics, accepted for publication, 2006

M. Medhi, A. Dutta and S.K. Deb 'Health monitoring of multistoreyed shear building using parametric state space modelling', Int. Journal of Smart Structures and Systems, accepted for publication, 2007

A. Borsaikia, S. Talukdar and A. Dutta 'Study of modal parameters and vibration signatures of notched concrete prisms', Cement in Concrete Research, 36, pp 592-598, 2006

Rahul, G. Sandeep, D. Chakraborty and A. Dutta 'Mu lti-objective optimization of hybrid laminates subjected to transverse impact', Composites Structures, 70, pp 260-269,2006

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N.B. Desu, S.K. Deb and A. Dutta 'Coupled tuned mass dampers for control of coupled vibrations in asymmetric building', Journal of Structural Control Health Monitoring, 13, pp 897-916, 2006

P.K. Ghosh and L. Philip ' Environmental significance of atrazine in aqueous systems and its removal by b iological processes: An overview', GLOBAL NEST: International Journal, 8 (2), pp. 159-178,2006

M.Z. Nain and M . Jawed 'Performance of anaerobic reactors at low organic load subjected to sudden change in feed substrate types', Journal ofChemicalTechnology and Biotechnology, 81 (6), pp 958-965,2006

I. Gogoi and D. Maity ' Influence of sediment layers on dynamic behavi or of aged concrete dams', Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 133 (4), pp. 400-413, 2007

B. Sahoo and D. Maity 'Damage assessment of structures using hybrid neuro-genetic algorithm', Applied Soft Computing, 7 (1), pp. 89-104,2007

I. Gogoi and D. M aity 'A non-refiecting boundary condition for the finite element modelling of infinite reservoir with layered sediments', International Journal of Advances in Water Resource, 29 (10), pp. 1515-1527, 2006

D. Maity and D. Kar 'Vibration control of tall structures using tuned liquid column dampers', Advances in Vibration Engineering, 5 (3), pp. 253-262,2006

P.H. Shah, S. Sreedeep and D.N. Singh 'Evaluation of methodologies used for establishing soil-water characteristic curve', Journal of ASTM International, 3 (6), Page Count: 11, Published Online, April 2006

S. Sreedeep and D.N. Singh 'Methodology for determination of osmotic suction of soi ls', Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer, 24 (5), pp. 1469-1479, 2006

S. Sreedeep and D.N. Singh 'Nonl inear curve-fi tti ng procedures for developing soil-water characteristic curves', Geotechnica l Testing Journal, ASTM, 29 (5), Page Count: 10, Published Online, May 2006

S. Sreedeep and D.N. Singh 'Closure to parameters affecting soil-water characteristic curves of fine-grained soils', Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 132, pp. 1510-1511, 2006

V.K.S. Thakur, S. Sreedeep and D.N. Singh ' Evaluation of various ptfs for developing soil-water characteristic curve for a silty soil', Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM, 30 (1), Page Count: 6, 2007

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N.V. Rajyalakshmi and S. Dutta 'Regionalisation of rainfall-runoff processes in rice agricul ture dominated watersheds', Water Science and Technology, 53 (10), pp. 131-139, 2006

S. Dutta, A Mishra, S. Kar and S. Panigrahy 'Estimating spatial curve number from satellite sensor images using linear mixture model', Journal of Spatial Hydrology, 6 (2), pp. 57-67, 2006

A Chattopadhyay and S. Dutta 'Mapping monsoonal soil wetness regions using multi­temporal vegetation dataset', International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27 (20), pp. 4693-4700, 2006

M.D. Saikia and AK. Sarma 'Analysis for adopting logical channel section for 1 d dam break analysis in natural channels', ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Asian Research Publication Network,1 (2), pp 46-54, August 2006

J.A. Ahmed and A.K. Sarma 'Artificial neu ral network model for synthetic streamflow generation', Journal of Water Resources Management, Springer, pp. 1-15, July 2006

M .D. Saikia and AK. Sarma 'Numerical simulation model for computation of dam break flood in natural flood plain topography', Journal of Dam Engineering, IWPC, 17 (1), pp. 31-50, June 2006

S. Chakraborty and V. Tare ' Role of various parameters in synthesis of insoluble agrobased xanthates for removal of copper from wastewater', Bioresource Technology, 97, pp. 2407-2413, 2006 (001 in formation 10.1 016/j.biortech.2005.1 0.01 0)

M . Kumar and S. Chakraborty 'Chemical denitrification of water by zero-valent magnesium powder', Journal of Hazardous Materials, B135, pp. 112-1 21, 2006 (001 information1 0 .1 016/ j.jhazmat.2005.11.031 )

P. Albino Kumar, M. Ray and S. Chakraborty 'Hexavalent chromium removal from wastewater using aniline formaldehyde condensate coated silica gel', Journal of Hazardous Materials, (Accepted for publication) [001 10.1016fJ·jhazmat.2006.08.067)

A Verma and S.L. Dhingra 'Developing integrated sch ed ules for urban rail and feeder bus operation', Journal of Urban Planning and Development, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 132 (3), pp. 138-146,2006

T.R. Girija, C. Mahanta and V. Chandramouli 'Water quality assessment of an untreated effluent impacted urban stream: the Bharalu tributary of the Brahmaputra river, India', Environmental Monitoring and Assesment, Springer, 2006

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R.K. Goswami and C. Mahanta 'Leaching characteristics of residual lateritic soils stabilised with fly ash and lime for geotechnical applicati ons', Waste Managemen, Elsevier, 2006

National Journal

N. Dharamraju, R. Tiwari and S. Talukdar 'Identification of an open crack model parameters in cracked beams', Advances in Vibration Engineering, 5 (4), pp. 323-332, October-December 2006

AK. Sarma, R. Mishra and V. Chandramouli 'Application of genetic algorithms to determine optimal cropping pattern', OPSEARCH, Journal of Operational Research Society of India, 43 (3) (In press)

Conference Proceedings (International)

D. Maity and S.K. Dwivedy Recent Advances in Computational Mechanics and Simulation, Vol: 1 and 2, Eds., I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2006

Other publications (Books, Chapters, etc.)

A.K. Sarma and P. Goswami Developing Intensity Duration Curve with Limited Rainfall Data, Jain Brothers, New Delhi, pp. 187-194, November 2006

R. Kumar, K.U. Aham ad and M. Jawed ~A.ssessment of Fluoride Uptake Capacity of Wooden Charcoal -An Adsorbent used in Indigenous Household Iron Filters of Assam', A Contributed Ch apter in Challenges of Engineering for Sustainable 10% Growth and Beyond, Vol. 1, Eds. A.K. Baruwa, S.c. Mishra, S.K. Kakoty and A Goswami, Tata M cGraw-Hili, New Delhi, India (ISBN 0-07-065662-2)

M. Jawed and M.Z. Nain 'Impact of Changed Feed Types on Steady Performance of Anaerobic Biomass', A Contributed Ch apter in Synergic Solutions for Sustainable Development: Prescription for Prosperity, Eds. M .N. Madhyastha and S. Shrihar, Research Publishing Services, Chennai, India, 2006 (ISBN 81-903170-0-8)

A Verma 'Optimization of Feeder Transit Network Using Genetic Algorithm', Advances in Computational Optimization and its Applications, Eds. K. Deb, P. CHakroborty, N.G.R. Iyengar, S.K. Gupta, Universities Press, pp. 206-212 (book chapter)

AK. Sarma and P. Goswami 'Developing Intensity Duration Curve with Limited Rainfall Data', Prediction in Ungauged Basins for Sustainable Water Resources Planning and Management, Jain Brothers, New Delhi, pp. 187-194, November 2006

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B. Singh Web-based course on 'Soil Mechanics' for NPTEL, Ministry of Human Resource Development

Technical Book

D.Maity Computer Analysis of Framed Structures, 10K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2006

PAPER PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOPS/ SYMPOSIA

International

S.A. Kurian, S.K. Deb and A. Dutta 'Seismic vulnerability assessment of a railway overbridge using fragility curves', Proc. of 2nd Indo-Taiwan Workshop on Seismic Evaluation and Retrofitting of RC buildings, Taipei, pp. 109-117, 11-12 October 2006

S.K. Deb and V.K. Geddam 'Pushover analysis of reinforced concrete buildings with flexible floor diaphragm', Proc. of 1" European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, Paper No. 75,3-8 September 2006

A. Dutta, S.K. Deb and M. Medhi 'Parametric system identification technique for damage detection of multistoreyed shear building', Proc. of 1" European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, Paper No. 61, 3-8 September 2006

A.K. Dutta, S.K. Deb and A. Dutta 'Active control of a cable stayed bridge against multiple support seismic excitations', Proc. of 13th Symposium of Earthquake Engineering, liT Roorkee, 18-20 December 2006

A.K. Dutta, S.K. Deb and A. Dutta 'Active control of cable stayed bridge against seismic excitation: a case study', Proc. of International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS 06), liT Guwahati, 8-10 December 2006

S. Sreedeep and D.N. Singh 'Comparison of methods used for establishing contaminant retention in a fine-grained soil', Proceedings oflnternational Conference on New Developments in Geoenvironmental and Geotechnical Engineering, University of Incheon, Republic of Korea, 9-11 November 2006

S. Sreedeep and D.N. Singh 'A study on the correlation between physical properties of the soil and soil-water characteristic curve', International Conference on Soil and Rock Engineering, Colombo, Srilanka, 7-11 August 2007 (Abstract submitted)

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N.T. Singh and B. Singh 'Analysis of piled raft foundations in clayey soils', 2nd

International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, ICCMS-2006, Guwahati, 2006 (CD proceedings)

D. Sudhakar and S. Chakraborty 'Chemical decolorization of bismark brown azo dye using zero-valent iron powder', Proceedings of the International Conference on Civil Engineering in the New Millennium : Opportunities and Challenges (CENeM-2007), Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, West Bengal, 11-14 January 2007

N. Garg, CN. Raj, D. Maity and U.K. Saha 'Response control of baffled liquid storage tank considering fluid structure interaction', CD Proceeding of the International Conference on Civil Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges (CENeM-2007) , Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, West Bengal, 11-14 January 2007

R. Ayothiraman, D. Maity and G. Kashung 'Foundation-reservoir interaction in the seismic response of concrete gravity dam : A case study', Proceedings of the 131h

Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, liT Roorkee, India, Paper No. 146, pp. 1147-1158, 18-20 December 2006

I. Gogoi and D. Maity 'Seismic behaviour of an aging dam', Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS-06), liT Guwahati, India, Vol. II, pp . 2025-2030,8-10 December 2006

P.K. Panigrahy, U.K. Saha, D. Maity and S. Sharma 'Wall pressures on a square tank due to liquid sloshing', Proceedings of the 33,d National and 3,d International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, liT Bom bay, India, Paper No. 1130, 7-9 December 2006

M.D. Saiki a and A.K. Sarma 'Simulation modelling for planning and management of river basins under flood disaster', Proceedings of the International Perspective on Environmental and Water Resources, EWRI, ASCE, New Delhi, India, 18-20 December 2006

M.D. Saikia and A.K. Sarma Numerical modelling of water hammer with variable friction factor', Proceedings of 2nd International Conference of Computational Mechanics and Simulations, liT Guwahati, 8-10 December 2006

M.D. Saikia and A.K. Sarma 'Computational aspects for simulating dam break flood in natural channels', Proceedings of 2nd International Conference of Computational Mechanics and Simulations, liT Guwahati, 8-10 December 2006

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

M .D. Saikia and A K. Sarma 'Dam break flood forecasting w ith simple numerical model', Third APHW (Asia Pacific Hydrology and Water Management Association), Bangkok, Thai land, 16-18 October 2006

M.D. Saikia and AK. Sarma 'Numerical model for simulatin g fl ow and river bed profil es in a natural river under dam failure conditions', Proceedings of lASTED Conference Applied Simulation and Modelling, Rhodes, Greece, Vol. 522, pp. 227-232, 26-28 June 2006

AK. Sarm a and M .D. Saikia 'Dam break hydraulic in natural river ', Proceedings ofEWRI­ASCEConference, Omaha, USA, 21-2 5 M ay 2006

A Verma 'A GIS based Decision Su pport System (DSS) framework for transportation planning of Guwahati city', 7th International Workshop on Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies fo r Developing Countries: Transporta tion In frastructure Projects (TPM DC-06), liT Bombay, Mum bai, 1-4 December 2006

C. Mahanta 'Fluvial nutrient transfer from the Brahm apu tra catchments to the Indian Ocean shelf: potentia l cl im atic im pact on the primary productivity and food web' , Globa l Environmenta l Change: Regional Challenges, Beij ing, 9-1 2 November 2006

C. M ahanta 'Future of CO2 uptake in the Bay of Bengal: potential impact of the southwest monsoon freshwater pu lse' , Global Environmenta l Change: Regional Challenges, Beijing, 9-1 2 November 2006

C. Mahanta and N. Path ak 'Environ mental feasi bili ty of the MSTG link of River Lin king Proj ect of India', An Int ern ation al Pe rsp ective on Environmental and Water Resources, American Society of Civil Engineers, New Delhi, 18-20 December 2006

C. M ahanta 'A critica l appraisal of energy resource poli cies vi s-a.-vis development and growth in Northeast India', 3rd Future Environmenta l Trend Conference: EnergYt Environment and Development: Analysing Opportunities for Reducing Poverty, Bangalore, 14-1 6 December 2006

National

M.D. Saikia and AK. Sarma 'Si mulation of dam break flood in natural channel with conservative and nonconservative form s of st. Vennant Equations', Proceedings of National Conference on Technology in D isaster Mitigation , JITM, Parlakhemu ndi, Ori ssa, 27-28 January 2006 (In press)

M.D. Saikia and AK. Sarma 'Dam break flood disaster management and damage estimation', Proceedings of Indian Engineering Congress, Guwahati, pp. 102-111,21-24 December 2006

Annua l Report 2006-2007

S. Sreedeep and D.N. Singh 'An indirect methodology for assessing soi l contamination', Indian Geotechnica l Conference, IGC-2006, GEOINDEX, liT M adras, Chennai, 2006

B. Singh and R.K. Goswami 'Engineering behaviour of residual lateritic soil-fly ash mixes', Indian Geotechnical Conference, IGC-2006, Chennai, Vol. 1, pp. 28 7-288,2006

M . Jawed ' Impact of arsenic laden irrigation waters on soil and agri cul tural produ ce', Proc. Seminar on M itigation of Arsenic Menace in Groundwater in the Sta te of Assam, Institution of Public Health En gineers (I), Guwahati Regional Centre, pp. 68-72, 10 June 2006

M . Jawed 'Survivin g wi th energy shortages' , Proc. 22nd Nat iona l Convention of Mechanica l Engineers on Energy Technologies - Strategies fo r Optimal Utilisation of Natural Resources, Insti tution of En gineers (Ind ia), Assam State Centre, 9-10 September 2006

M .Z. Nain and M. Jawed 'Steady response of anaerobic reactors with sudden change in feed substrates', Proc. National Conference on Civil Engineering: Advancem ent and Challenges, Maharishi Markandeshwar Engineering Coll ege Mullana, Haryana, pp. 280-285, 9-10 M arch 2007

N. Cheti a and S. Talu kdar 'Tuned mass damper control of an asymmetric multistoried buildin g under seismic excitation with inbui lt elevated reservoir ', Proceedings of the Con ference on High Rise Build ings: Materials and Construction Practices, Delhi, pp . 335-343, 30-31 October 2006

P. Baru ah and S. Talu kdar ' Flexural and shear strength of concrete with steel, polyester and jute fib res' , Proceedings of the Conference on High Rise Build ings : Materials and Construction Practices, Delhi, pp. 121-1 28,30-31 October 2006

C. M ahanta 'The concept of a digital Brahmaputra', NEGeo Conference, Gu wahati, 21-23 September 2006

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIAATTENDED

National

M . Jawed 'Seminar on M itigation of Arsenic M enace in Groundwater in the State of Assam', Institution of Pu blic Health Engineers (I) , Guwahati Regional Centre, 10 Ju ne 2006

M . Jawed '22nd National Convention of Mechanical Engineers on Energy Technologies - Strategies for Optimal Utilisation of Natural Resources', Institution of Engineers (I ndia), Assam State Centre, 9-1 0 September 2006

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M.jawed 'National Conference on Civil En gineering: Advancement and Challenges', M ahari shi Markandeshwar Engineerin g College Mullana, Haryana, 9-10 M arch 2007

INVITED LECTURE

S.K. Deb 'Third Workshop on Indo-US Collaborative Research in Hazard Mitigation of Civil Infrastru cture', liT M adras, 16-17 January 2007

S.K. Deb ' Second World Forum on Coll aborative Resea rch in Earthquake En gineerin g', jRC, Ispra, Italy, 26-27 March 2007

AK. Sarma 'G IS and Remote Sensing Applicati on for Flood and Erosion Management', Energy and Environment Centre, UND, Grand Fork, ND, USA, 2 june 2006

AK. Sarma 'Simulating Flood due to failure of Dam/ levee in natural river', North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA, 3 june 2006

M. j awed 'The Environment- Present and Fu ture', World Environment Day, Zoological Society of Cotton Coll ege, Departm ent of Zoology, Guwahati, 5 june 2006

M. j awed 'Energy from Waste Organics - An Overvi ew', Training Programme on Bi ogas Technology and Improved Chu llah, Centre for En ergy, liT Guwahati, 6-7 june 2006

M. j awed 'judging Adaptability of An aerobic Biomass to Changed Feed Substrates through M ethanogenic Activity Tests and its Verification', Training Programme on Biogas Technology and Improved Chull ah, Centre for Energy, liT Guwahati, 6-7 june 2006

M.jawed 'Challenges in Water Treatment', Q IP short term course on Green Chemistry and Green Technology, Departm ent of Chemistry, liT Guwahati, 5-9 june 2006

M.jawed 'Challenges in Wastewater Treatment', QIP short term cou rse on Green Chemistry and Green Techn ology, Department of Chemistry, liT Guwahati, 5-9 june 2006

B. Singh 'Internal rate of return and life cycle cost analysis of rural roads', Training Programme for W est Bengal Rural Development Agency, Kalkata, 17-19 july 2006

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D. M aity 'Seismic Resistant Design of Structures', Invited Lecture, NIT, Agartala, 23 -24 December 2006

M. jawed 'judgingAdaptabil ity of Anaerobic Biomass to Changed Feed Substrates through M eth anogenic Activity Tests and its Verifi cation', Training Programme on Biogas Technology and Improved Chull ah, Centre for En ergy, liT Guwahati, 6-7 june 2006

A Verma ' Frontiers of Transportation Research', Civil Engineering Association, liT Gu wahati, 12 April 2007

A Verm a 'A GIS-Based Decision Su pport System (DSS) Framework for Transportati on planning of Guwahati City', NEGeo-2006, Gu wahati, 21-22 September 2006

A Verma 'Transport Network in GIS and its App li cations Expert', Traini ng Course on Geo-Informatics and its Applications, Departm ent of Civil En gineering, liT Guwahati, 18-20 September 2006

A Verm a 'GIS for Transportation (GIS-T)' , Training Course on Geo­Inform atics and its Appli cati ons, Depa rtm ent of Civil En gineering, liT Guwahati, 18-20 September 2006

A Verm a 'Pavement M anagement Systems (PMS)', All India Seminar on Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Civil Engineering Structures, Departm ent of Civil Engineering, GMR Institute ofTechnology, Rajam (AP), Indi a, 10-11 August 2006

A Verma ' In tegrated Pu bli c Transport Pl anning/Comprehensive Transportation Study for Mumbai M etropolitan Region (MMR)', Civil EngineeringAssociation, IITGuwahati,21 April 2006

C. M ahanta ' Flood Management', MoDONER Training Workshop, liT Guwahati, 2 December 2006

C. Mahanta ' Environmental Studi es and Research', Refresher Course, Academic Staff Coll ege, Gauhati University, Guwahati, 24-25 December 2006

C. Mahanta Three lectures at NPEEE short-term cou rses at liT Guwahati

C. Mahanta Gave a talk at PHED Groundwater Arsenic Mitigation Strategy Worksh op at Insti tu tion of Engineers, Guwahati on 10 june 2006

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

2nd International Congress on Computational M echanics and Simulation (lCCMS-06), liT Gu wahati, 8-10 December 2006. Convener of th e programme was Dr. D. M aity.

SHORT-TERM COURSES

Organ ised MDONER sponsored short-term training course on Recent Practices in Transportation Pl anning and Traffic Engineering during 15-1 9 January 2007. It was coordin ated by Dr. A. Verm a.

Organi sed MDONER sponsored short-term training course on Flood Hazard Mitigation and Watershed M anagement held during 1-5 Decemb er 2006. Th e co urse was coordinated by Dr. AX Sarm a.

Organised MDONER sponsored short-term training course on Water Quality M onitoring for Water Treatm ent Pl ant Operators of Northeastern States held during 26-30 June 2006 . Dr. M. Jawed and Dr. S. Ch akraborty were the coordinators.

Organ ised AICTE sponsored QIP short-term training course on Recent Developments in Wastewater Treatm ent using Anaerobic Reactors during 26-30 December 2006. Dr. S. Chakraborty and Dr. M . Jawed were the coord inators.

Organised AICTE sponsored QIP short-term training cou rse on RecentTrends in Dam Engineering during 5-9 June 2006. It was coordinated by Dr. D. M aity.

Training on Computer Aided Seismic Design of RC Buildings sponsored by DONER to Pro fessiona l Engin eers of North eastern States held during 12-1 6 June 2006. It was coordin ated by Dr. D. M aity.

Training Programme on Earthquake Risk M anagement under NPCBEERM, sponsored by MHA, GOI, 8/5/06 to 24/5/06 (Ph ase- I) and 19/6/06 to 7/7/06 (Phase-II). Coordinated by Dr. S. Talukdar.

One week training programme on Hydroinfom atics and Flood M anagement, 16-20 October 2006. Coord inated by Dr. S. Dutta.

Three days training programme on Geoinformati cs and its Application, 18-20 September 2006. Coordinated by Dr. S. Dutta.

Two day training programme on Geotechnical and Highway Projects for practicing engineers in association with National Academy of Construction, Hyderabad.

NPEEE sponsored short-term course on Seismic Retrofitti ng of Rei nforced Concrete Buildings: Conventi onal and

Ann ual Report 2006-2007

Stru ctural Contro l Based Approaches held durin g 27 Novemb er to 1 D ece mb er 2006. Th e course was coord inated by Dr. S.K. Deb.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

IGS-ONGC biennial prize to Dr. B. Sin gh for the paper titled Behaviour of Suction Anchors under Pullout Loading. It was awarded by Indian Geotechnical Society in December 2006.

Dr. A. Verma was honoured w ith Editori al Board Member of Journal of Urban Planning and Development, American Society of Civil Engineers from 2007 onwards.

FACULTY MEMBERS

R. Ayothiraman PhD (liT M adras) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Soi l dynamics and Earthquake geotechnical engineering

G. Barua PhD (lIT Kh aragpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Flow through porous media

S.c. Chakraborty PhD (liT Bombay) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Environm ental engin eerin g (Water treatment, Wastewater treatment)

S.K. Dash PhD (liT M ad ras) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Geotechnical engineering (Reinforced soil stru ctu res)

S.K. Deb Ph 0 (lIT Roorkee) Associate Professor Areas of Interst: Structural and Earthquake engineerin g

A.Dutta PhD (liT Delhi) Associate Professor and Head Areas of Interst: Structural En gineering

S. Dutta PhD (liT Kharagpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Irrigation and Hydrau lics engineering

P.K. Ghosh PhD (liT Kh aragpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Environmental science and engi neerin g

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S.B. Gokhale PhD (lIT Delhi) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Environm ental engineering (Air quality modelli ng)

M.Jawed PhD (lIT Kanpur) Associate Professor Areas of Interst: Environmental engineering

C. Mahanta PhD UNU) Associate Professor Areas of Interst: Environmental science and engineering, Engineering geology

D. Maity PhD (lIT Kharagpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Structural engineering

S.T.G. Raghu Kanth PhD (lISe Bangalore) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Structural engin eering , En gineering seismology and Climatology

T.L. Ryntathiang PhD (liT Kharagpur) Assi stan t Professor Areas of Interst: Transportation engi neerin g

Sreedeep S. PhD (liT Bombay) Assi stan t Professor Areas of Interst: Geotechnical engineering

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A.K. Sarma PhD (Gauhati University) Associ ate Professor Areas of Interst: Hydraulics and Water resources engineering

AX Singh PhD (liSe Bangalore) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Computati onal mechanics, IT in construction management

B. Singh PhD (liT Delhi) Associate Professor Areas of Interst: G eotechnica l engin eering and Geoenvironmental engineering

K.D. Singh PhD (Southampton University) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Structural engineering

G. Suresh Kumar PhD (liSe Bangalore) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Water resource engineering (F low and transport through fractured med ia)

S. Talukdar PhD (liT Kanpur) Associate Professor Areas of Interst: Structural engineerin g

A. Verma PhD (liT Bombay) Assistant Professor Areas of Interst: Transportation engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati