Achievements

Process Design:

• Design, development & commissioning of a 4 ton/hr continuous billet re-heating coal fired furnace for re-rolling mill belonging to Industrial Development Corporation Ltd. ,Orissa , Hirakud.
• Engineering consultancy for design, equipment specification, and installation of 10TPD (Technology Proving Plant)- for production of nickel from Sukinda chromite overburden.
• An integrated approach for porcessing of tree borne oil seeds and value addition to products and byproducts.
• Integrated utilization of under explored non-traditional oil seeds wildly growing in the forests of Orissa.

Process Modelling and Simulation:

• Mathematical models for various mineral processing unit operations such as hydrocyclone, magnetic separator, spiral concentrator, fluidized bed etc.
• Design of a microfluidic device for separation of charged gold nanoparticles.
• Mathematical model of a multiple hearth furnace for reduction roasting of chromite overburden for extraction of Nickel.
• Hydrodynamic modeling and simulation of a pulsed sieve-plate extraction column .
• Software development for estimating the influence co-efficients and concentration of unknown samples for a XRF unit.
• Neural network control of froth depth for a flotation column.

Instrumentation:

• Eye-on-Pellet: An online image processing system developed for obtaining the pellet size distribution trend in a pelletization plant.
• Active Noise Control: Development and evaluation of many ANC novel algorithms.
• Plasma Spectroscopy: Optical Emission Spectroscopic study of plasma using Echelle and Czerny Turner spectrographs with ICCD camera.