SVCE College|B.Tech Chemical Engineering College in Chennai

Patent Granted

Dr. C. Anand Babu, Mrs S Swathi, Former, Mr LS Badhri Narayanan, Dr N Meyyappan filed an Indian patent titled, "Laboratory Scale Invertible and Constant Flow Resin Column" in the name of Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering on 28/04/2018 and has been published on 17/05/2022, with the patent number 396960.
Ms. G. Havisha, Mr.M Asifullah, Ms. E. Lavanya, Dr N.Meyyappan and Dr. D. G. Rao, filed an Indian patent titled "process for the preparation of fruit toffees by microwave heating" in the name of Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering on 14/10/2016 and has been published on 20/4/2018, with the patent number 350323.

Patent Submitted to IPR : 3

Sl. No.	Applicant/Assignee Name (Application No. & date)	Name of the Inventors	Title	Application Status (State Yes/No)
Sl. No.	Applicant/Assignee Name (Application No. & date)	Name of the Inventors	Title					Not Published	Published Application	Application under examination	Abandoned / Withdrawn	Patent Granted (National/International)
1.	Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering 201841016897 On 4.5.2018	Dr C Anand Babu, Mr R Sandeep Kumar and Dr S Muthukumar	Instant Electronic Call informer Device	Yes	No	Yes	No	No (National)

Patent Submitted to IPR : 30

Final Year UG Projects Selected for Funding (2022-2023)

S.No.	Name of the Student	Title of the Project	Name of the Supervisor with Designation	Amount Sanctioned
1.	Ms. K. Swetha Mr. M Syed Zeeshan Mr. M Umar Farook	Extraction of biocolours from plant species for application in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics	Dr. R.Palani, Associate Professor/CHE	Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand only)
2.	Mr. S. Vasudevan, Mr. M. Rohith Narayan	Design and experimental validation of Cavitation reactor	Mr. S. Jai Ganesh Assistant Professor/CHE	Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand only)

Research Grant for collaborative research (2023)

S.No.	Course/Dept	Name of the Student	Title of the Project	Name of the Supervisor with Designation	Amount Sanctioned
1.	B.Tech Chemical	Mr. V.K. Vignesh	Design and Development of Reactive Electrochemical Hybrid Membrane Systems for onsite Decentralized Wastewater treatment.	Principal Investigators:Dr. N.P. Kavitha, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, SVCE Dr. G. Sudha, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, SVCE Research Collaborator: Dr. Omkar S. Kushwaha, Principal Project Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras.	Rs.70,000/-

Intramural Research grant for the A.Y 2022-2023

S.No.	Dept	Title of the Project	Name of the Principal supervisor with Designation	Amount Recommended
1.	Chemical Engg.	Development of Low cost Pyrolysis reactor for the production of High quality BioChar	Dr.Philip Bernstein Saynik and Mr. M. Ananda Boopathy, Assistant Professor.	Rs.1,00,000/-

Intramural Funded Projects - PG (2021-2022)

S.No	Course/Dept	Name of the Student	Title of the Project	Name of the supervisor with Designation	Amount Recommended
1.	M.Tech Chemical	Mr.G.Ratna Sabapathy	Experimental studies for the removal of arsenic in fertilizer industry effluent using packed bed column filled with Chitosan /zeolite complex beads	Dr.N.Meyyappan Professor and Head	Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand only)
2.	M.Tech Chemical	Ms.S.Madhumitha	Investigation of variation of extraction methodology to infer the recovery performance of 1,8cineole from Eucalyptus oil	Dr.R.Govindarasu Associate Professor	Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand only)

Final Year UG Projects Selected for Funding (2021-2022)

S.No.	Name of the Student	Title of the Project	Name of the Supervisor	Amount Sanctioned
1.	Mr.V.Kamalakanth Mr.S.Kailash Mr.V.Dilliganesh	Dynamic Covid 19 Disinfection using Humidified Hypochlorous Acid	Dr.N.P.Kavitha Assistant Professor	Rs.9,000/- (Nine Thousand only)

Intramural Funded Projects - PG (2019-2020)

S.No	Course/Dept	Name of the Student	Title of the Project	Name of the supervisor with Designation	Amount Recommended
1.	MTech Chemical	Becky Miriyam	Removal of Chromium(VI) from contaminated water by using the petals of Banana blossoms	Dr R Palani Associate Professor	Rs.10,000/-

Final Year UG Projects Selected for Funding (2018-2019)

S.No.	Name of the Student	Title of the Project	Name of the Supervisor	Amount Sanctioned
1	1. P. Harish Kumar, 2. A. Gokul Raj 3. R.Dinesh,	Experimental investigation of yield using lab scale reactive distillation apparatus	Dr. R. Govindarasu, Associate Professor Mr. S. Jai Ganesh Assistant Professor	Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand only)

External Funded Projects Year 2022 -2023

Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE); UG (B.Tech) Project Grants for 2022 - 23

S.No.	Course/Dept	Name of the Student	Title of the Project	Name of the Supervisor with Designation	Amount Sanctioned
1.	B.Tech -Chemical Engg	Mr.Ram Karthik Vasan H; Ms. Sai Durga Shoba R; Mr.Selva Subash M.	Investigating the effect of alkali and alkaline earth metals (AAEM) on the pyrolysis of invasive biomass species	Dr. Philip Bernstein Saynik Assistant Professor	Rs.10,000
2.	B.Tech -Chemical Engg	Ms.Poojitha Bhaskara; Ms.Supreetha Dhamodharan; Mr.Oviyan S.	Synthesis of cathodes for room temperature sodium sulphur batteries	Dr. N.P. Kavitha Assistant Professor	Rs. 10,000
3.	B.Tech -Chemical Engg	Mr.Chezhian K.; Ms.Maheshwari R; Mr.Ezhil Arasan K.	Real time production and investigation of aspirin by the lab scale vacuum reactive distillation apparatus	Dr. R. Govindarasu Associate Professor	Rs. 10,000

External Funded Projects

Year 2021 -2022

Mr. M. Ananda Boopathy, Received the TNSCST (Tamilnadu State Council For Science & Technology) students project fund Rs. 7,500/- titled "Design of low-cost carbon absorbers to control the emission of Carbon dioxide from the Environment", during 2021-2022.

Year 2019-2020

Dr. R. Palani, Received the TNSCST (Tamilnadu State Council For Science & Technology) students project fund Rs. 7500/- titled "Removal of Chromium(VI) from contaminated water by using the petals of banana blossoms", during 2019-20

Year 2018-2019

Mr. Himanshu Dashora, Fullbright Scholar from Johns Hopkins University, USA is working under the mentorship of Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is working on the project titled "Cell-Cell Interaction Systems with Mesenchymal Stem Cells", with a fellowship amount worth of Rs 10,00,000 /- from United States - India Educational Foundation (USIEF) for a period of nine months (Sept 2018 to May 2019).

Year 2017-2018

Received the TNSCST (Tamilnadu State Council for Science & Technology) students project fund Rs.10,000/- on the title "Enrichment of Geraniol Composition in Palmorosa using simultaneous microwave-assisted extraction and hydrodistillation" during 2017-18.

Year 2016-2019

Dr C Anand Babu, Professor and Head-TIC and Ms S Swathi (Co-investigator), Assistant Professor, received Rs. 20,15,400 research grant from Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) under Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) for the project titled "Process Development and pilot scale demonstration for removal of metallic and other impurities from used pickle solution of SSTP"(Rs.7,45,250)

FIST under DST

Dr. Ganesh Vaidyanathan, Principal, SVCE, Dr Sudhakar K Bharathan, Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Dr Nallinkanth V Ghone, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, received Rs.80,00,000, grant through FIST under Department of Science and Technology

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