Research

Research Publications: 

AISSMS College of Engineering, Pune-411001
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Publications (2020-2021)

• Jadhav A S, Charaterization and Preparation of coconut leaves activated carbon used for polymer carbon composites, 23rd International Conference on Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine, October 23-24 2020.
• Asmita S Kulkarni, P N Dange, Quantitative risk analysis of alkylation technologies to quantify benefits of ionic liquid alkylation, International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews, vol 7, 4,(2020) 774-780, ISSN 2348-1269
• Mangesh Kulkarni, Rajendra Raut, Design of 40 KLPD absolute alcohol plant by MSDH Process, International Journal of Innovative Research and Technology, 2020,Volume 7, Issue 2, 214 – 220, ISSN: 2348-1269
• Abhijit Jadhav, Govindaraj Thangaraj Mohanraj, Ashok Gokarn, Suseeladevi Mayadevi, Adsorption Of Heavy Metal On Active Carbon Derived From Coconut Leaves Agro-Waste, Chemistry And Chemical Technology, Page no:553-562, 2020-2021
• Manali Kulkarni, Yashoda Patil, Computer Aided Design of Absorber to remove pollutant gases from Waste Plastic Treatment Plant, Prakalpa-2020, MIT Pune
• Dimpal Kadu, Manufacture of Levulinic Acid from Cellulose, Prakalpa-2020, MIT Pune
• Minal Borkar, Pratik Chaure, Development of A Membrane Distillation Module For Solar Energy Seawater Distillation, Prakalpa-2020, MIT Pune
• Dimpal Kadu , Green Synthesis of Levulinic Acid from Cellulose, Prakalpa-2020, MIT Pune
• Manali Kulkarni, Yashodha Patil, Synthesis of Fuel from Plastic Waste, Prakalpa-2020, MIT Pune

AISSMS College of Engineering, Pune-411001
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Publications (2019-2020) 

• Dr. P. N. Dange and V. K. Rathod, Heterogeneous Synthesis of Ethyl Butyrate: Parameter Optimization and Kinetic Studies, Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering, 2019-20.
• M. Kulkarni and Dr. P. N. Dange, Design and Mathematical Modeling of Cyclone Separator Using Openfoam, International Journal of Research Analysis and Reviews, 2019-20.
• Abhijit Jadhav, Govindaraj Thangaraj Mohanraj, Ashok Gokarn, Suseeladevi Mayadevi, Ferets diameter estimation of activated carbon for effluent treatment application, Journal of Indian Chemical Society, 2019-20. Abhijit Jadhav, Govindaraj Thangaraj Mohanraj, Ashok Gokarn, Suseeladevi Mayadevi, Rapid method for determination of nano surface area of arecanut shell derived activated carbon by iodine adsorption number,  News of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Series of chemistry and technology, 2019-20.
• Tiwary, S., Ghugare, S.B., Chavan, P.D., Saha, S., Datta, S., Sahu, G. and Tambe, S.S., Co-gasification of High Ash Coal–Biomass Blends in a Fluidized Bed Gasifier: Experimental Study and Computational Intelligence-Based Modeling, Waste and Biomass Valorization, 2019-20.
• Pravin S. Tadkar, Palas K. Borkar, Sayali N. Gholap, Vitthal L. Gole, Treatment of Methylene Blue Dye Using Immersed Lamp Photocatalytic Reactor: 5 L Scale Study, J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. E, 2019-20.
• Mangesh Kulkarni and Rajendra Raut, Design of 40 KLPD absolute alcohol plant by MSDH Process, International Journal of Innovative Research and Technology, 2019-20.

AISSMS College of Engineering, Pune-411001
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Publications (2018-2019)

• Abhijit Jadhav, Govindaraj Thangaraj Mohanraj, Ashok Gokarn, Suseeladevi Mayadevi, Synthesis and Influence of Feret Diameter on Particle Morphology of Activated Carbon Derived from Agrowastes, Asian Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2018-19.
• Makarand Naniwadekar, Sanjeev Tambe, Prediction of    Coal Ash  Fusion  Tempertures  Using Computational Intelligence based Models, International Journal of Coal Science and Technology, 2018-19.
• Abhijit Jadhav, Govindaraj Thangaraj Mohanraj, Ashok Gokarn, Suseeladevi Mayadevi, Synthesis and Influence of Feret Diameter on Particle Morphology of Activated Carbon Derived from Agrowastes, Asian Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2018-19.
• Varsha Yadhav and Rajendra S Raut, Acid Based Hydrolysis Treatment of Sugar Cane Leaves to Manufacture Ethanol, International Journal for Science and Advanced Research in Technology, 2018-19.
• Rajendra Raut, Distillery Waste Water (Spent Wash ) Biomethanation- Waste to Energy Generation, International Journal for Science and Advanced Research in Technology, 2018-19.

AISSMS College of Engineering, Pune-411001
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Publications (2017-2018)

• Abhijit Jadhav, Govindaraj Thangaraj Mohanraj, Ashok Gokarn, Suseeladevi Mayadevi, Synthesis of biomass waste derived activated carbon-NBR composites for automobile application, Chemistry & Chemical Technology, 2017-18.
• A S Jadhav, G T Mohanraj, Evaluation of Kinetic Models of Lead Uptake from Wastewater by Activated carbon derived from coconut leaves, Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 2017-18.
• Doltade, S. B. Gole, V. L., Mechanistic insight on the sonolytic degradation of phenol at interface and bulk using additives, Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies, 2017-18.
• Gole, V. L., Priya, A. Danao, S. P., Decolorization of brilliant green dye using immersed lamp sonophotocatalytic reactor, Applied Water Science, 2017-18.
• Gole, V. L., Alhat A, Treatment of malachite green dye using combined oxidation techniques based on different irradiation, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2017-18.
• Vitthal L Gole, Apurva Alhat, Sequential effect of microwave-photocatalysis on degradation of Bismarck Brown -Y dye, Journal of Applied Research in Water and Wastewater, 2017-18.
• Vitthal Gole, Astha Priya, Microwave-photocatalyzed assisted degradation of Brilliant Green dye: A batch to continuous approach, Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2017-18.
• A S Jadhav G T Mohanraj, Evaluation of Kinetic Models of Lead Uptake from Wastewater by Activated carbon derived from coconut leaves, Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 2017-18.
• A V Mohod, P R Gogate, Intensified synthesis of medium chain triglycerides using novel approaches based on ultrasonic and microwave irradiations, Chemical Engg Journal, 2017-18.
• A V Mohod, P R Gogate, Intensification of biodiesel production using hydrodynamic cavitation based on high speed homogenizer, Chemical Engg Journal, 2017-18.
• N. Dange, V. K. Rathod, Esterification of butyric acid with methanol under microwave irradiation, Resource-Efficient Technologies, 2017-18.
• A V Mohod, P R Gogate, Intensification of esterification of non-edible oil as sustainable feedstock using cavitational reactors, Ultrasonic Sonochemistry, 2017-18.
• Ghugare SB, Tambe SS, Genetic Programming based High Performing Correlations for Prediction of Higher Heating Value of Coals of Different Ranks and from Diverse Geographies, Journal of the Energy Institute, 2017-18.
• Naniwadekar M Y, Tambe S S, Prediction of Rate Constants of Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceutical Pollutants by Artificial Intelligence based Genetic Programming Formalism, Current Environmental Engineering, 2017-18.
• Ghugare, S. B., Tiwary, S., & Tambe, S. S. Computational  intelligence based models for prediction of elemental composition of solid biomass fuels from proximate analysis, International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 2017-18.
• A V Mohod, S P Hinge, Rajendra S Raut, M V Bagal, D V Pinjari, Process Intensified  Removal of Methyl Violet 2B Using modified Cavity-Bubbles oxidation reactor, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2017-18.

Research Funds:

Conference Publications:

• P N Dange , N N Shejwal, Carbon dioxide separation from air using Direct Air Capture Technology, International Conference on Energy and Environmental Technologies for Sustainable development, Chemcon flux-2020’, NIT Allahabad, February 13-15, 2020.
• A S Jadhav, Synthesis of essential oil from lemongrass using steam distillation method, Conference on All India Seminar on Green Energy Technology For Sustainable Environment on October 19-20, 2019, Pune.
• A S Jadhav, A review on the effect of physical & chemical properties of vegetable oil blending, Conference on All India Seminar on Green Energy Technology For Sustainable Environment on October 19-20, 2019, Pune.
• A S Jadhav, Synthesis of coconut shell derived activated carbon NBR composite for automobile application, The World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2019, San Francisco, USA, 2019-20.
• A S Jadhav, Synthesis of EPDM rubber coconut leaves activated carbon composite for automobile application, International Conference on Materials Science and Materials Chemistry London, 2019-20.
• A S Jadhav, Activated Carbon from Lignocellulosic waste of Arecanut shell: Estimation of feret’s diameter, International Conference & Expo on Material Science and Engineering, 2019-20.
• C S Shende, P N Dange, CFD Studies forabsorber plate of solar air heater, International Conference on Energy and Environment-2019, VIT Pune, January 4-5, 2019.
• A S Jadhav, Estimation of ferets diameter of activated carbon derived from agrowaste for effluent treatment  application International conference on advance technologies for industrial pollution control (ATIPC), Kolkata, 2018-19.
• P M Warke, Photocatalytic  Treatment of Wastewater by using immoblized TiO2 Nanoparticles,
• Proceeding of BVDU NANAOCON018 on 25-26 October 2018 held at Pune-1.
• P M Warke , Use of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Wastewater Treatment, Proceeding of BVDU NANAOCON018 on 25-26 October 2018 held at Pune-1.
• M Y Naniwadekar, Prediction of Rate Constant of Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceutical Pollutants By Utilizing Artificial Intelligence Based Genetic Programming Formalism, ICSDEE-2017.
• M Y Naniwadekar, Prediction of Cetane Number of Biofuels using Artificial Intelligence based Models, International Conference on NexGen Technologies for Mining & Fuel Industries, 2017-18.

Funded Research Projects:

Studies of Some Novel Anti-Mycobacterium Agents:

Tuberculosis (TB) is a fatal infectious disease caused by bacterium call Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Each year the disease kills almost 2 million populations. The disease spreads due to unhygienic conditions also the bacterium develops resistance to the existing drugs (Multiple Drug Resistance-TB and Extensively Drug Resistance- TB). World Health Organization (WHO) has predicted by the Year 2020 there will be one billion new active cases if effective anti-TB drugs are not developed. The essential objectives of anti- tuberculosis therapy includes, fast killing of keenly multiply bacteria, avoidance of drug resistance and sterilization of infected host tissues to stop clinical relapse. In this study, we report few of the challenges such as drug resistance, duration of treatment, complexity of treatment in developing anti-tuberculosis drug along with their mode of action and limitations with reference to drug Isoniazid.  This project attempts to bring out the review of anti-TB drugs, and presents a novel method of synthesizing new anti-tuberculosis drugs and potential compounds to overcome the bacterial resistance and combat the re-emergence of tuberculosis. New anti-tuberculosis drugs  may show promising anti-tuberculosis activity.

Synthesis of some new Antituberculosis drugs:

The prolonged use of classical drugs developed a growing resistance and these drugs have gradually become less effective and incapable to meet the challenges, especially those of MDR-TB, XDR-TB, and HIV-TB co-infections.  Such MDR-TB is difficult and expensive to treat and is not always curable. Several nicotinic and isoniazid derivatives, most of them containing nitro groups were synthesized by our group, and evaluated for their in vitro antibacterial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv using the Alamar Blue susceptibility test and the activity expressed as the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) in mg/mL. The novel method of synthesizing new anti-tuberculosis drugs(synthetic molecules) successfully obtained potential compounds for the treatment of tuberculosis. Therefore this class of compounds could be a good starting point to develop new lead compounds in the treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. It suggests that this class of compounds may be selectively targeted to M. tuberculosis growth, also considering that they were not cytotoxic to host cells at the same concentration and could be a good starting point to find new lead compounds.

Totally 11 new Anti-tuberculosis drugs were Synthesized and MIC of 25 mg/L was obtained. Snehal Bomble 2014 Batch BE Student of Chemical Engineering worked on project. She participated in Avishkar 2013, Chemcon 2013,  and Prakalp 2013.

Value added products from Karanja using novel techniques:

Karanja is abundantly found in most part of India. It had wide applications in pharmaceutical industries and considered as the key source for the synthesis of FAME. The aim of work is the extraction of value added products Karanjin from Karanja. It has application in the treatment of cancer. The intensified approach of ultrasound was found to be useful for enhancing the yield of Karanjin from the oil. The physical effects of ultrasound such as micro-emulsification, acoustic streaming reduced the diffusion limitations between the solid and the solvent phases.

Process Intensification of heterogeneously catalyzed for biodiesel synthesis for sustainable feedstock using a continuous hybrid reactor:

The objectives of the work were to develop the intensified strategies for esterification and transesterification processing for the synthesis of FAME from the sustainable feed stocks on a batch scale using cavitational and microwave reactor. The results of work confirmed that the intensified approach based on the microwave and sonochemical effect increased the rate of transesterification process on multi-fold basis compare to individual and conventional approaches. The continuous approach has been developed to enhance the rate of transesterification and esterification processing. The continuous approach eliminated the limitations of the low penetration depth of microwave and sonochemical effects and reduced the energy requirement for synthesis of FAME.

Biomass Fermentation in a 5 L Stirring Bioreactor:

 Fermentation typically is the conversion of carbohydrates to alcohols and carbon dioxide or organic acids using yeasts, bacteria, or a combination thereof, under aerobic or anaerobic conditions. Batch experiments were carried out on brown berries juice biomass. The crushed filtered juice of brown berries was sterilized by heating in a pressure cooker at around 120⁰C for half an hour. The glucose content of the juice was around 4%. The sterilized juice was then fermented in a conical flask at various temperatures and pH for 48 hours by adding sufficient nutrients and the developed culture medium containing Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Saccrification experiments were carried out which increased the glucose content by a minor amount of 1%. Final yield of ethanol obtained was around 6% as obtained at a pH of 5 and 35⁰C.

Research Fundings:

Awards:

1. Prof K B Gandhi’s paper on “Intensification of chemical processing using energy efficient sonochemical reactor”, was  awarded as the best paper in National  Conference on Energy & Environment at Bharati  Vidyapeeth University, COE, Pune on 26, 27 March 2016
2. A S Jadhav  awarded  PhD Scholorship  by  SAKAL INDIA FOUNDATION on 31st July 2015

Membership:

1. A S Jadhav, became life member of “International Association of  Engineers”, (IAEngg) Japan in 2014