DESCRIPTION :

Barsha Marandi completed her BTech in Chemical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Rourkela in 2012. She completed her Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2014. Thereafter she started her career as a scientist at CSIR-IMMT in Hydro & Electrometallurgy department in December 2015. Her research interests include Electrometallurgy, Electrowashing, Electrochemical Salt Splitting, Purification studies using Ion Exchange Resins. She has been associated with nearly 20 projects which encompasses industrial, strategic, government and CSIR projects. She has been working majorly in the area of Design and upscaling of Electrochemical systems in Extractive Metallurgy. She is also involved in the facility creation of the departmental pilot plant where most of the bench scale and pilot scale testing of several processes have been carried out. 

• Scientist 2015 To Date.
  

• Electrometallurgy, Electrowashing, Electrochemical Salt Splitting, Purification studies using Ion Exchange Resins, Computational Fluid Dynamics.
  

• Jaishree Jeyaraman, Anna Malecka, Poonam Billimoria, Akansha Shukla, Barsha Marandi, Poulam M. Patel, Andrew M. Jackson, Sri Sivakumar “ Immuno-silent polymer capsules encapsulating nanoparticles for bioimaging applications " , Journal of Materials Chemistry B: Materials for Biology and Medicine . (2017), 5(26), 5251-5258.
  

1.       ‘Multifunctional electrodes and electrolytes for futuristic electrochemical technologies’; CSIR XII plan (CSC0101), New Delhi.

2.       ‘Feasibility Study for Preparation of Glasses using Quartz Extracted from Fly Ash’, (Project Leader) (CSIR-OLP).

3.       ‘Evaluation of design parameters for dewatering of manganese nodules’; National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai.

4.       ‘Recovery of alumina from Fly ash’; CSIR (FTT Project).

5.       ‘Process scale-up and feasibility study for improving Mn/Fe ratio of low grade manganese ore’; TATA Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur.

6.       ‘Feasibility studies to recover Mn metal from low grade Mn ore’; TATA Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur.

7.       ‘Technology development, demonstration and shifting of 1000 cm² EM cell for splitting of sodium sulphate solution to sodium hydroxide and sulphuric acid’; Heavy Water Board, Mumbai.

8.       ‘Processing of secondary resources for the production of battery materials’; CSIR-FTT Project.

9.       ‘Extraction of Tungsten values from Hutti gold mine tailings concentrate and scrap: process flow sheet development, bench scale studies and pilot scale testing’; Defense Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DRDO), Hyderabad.

10.   ‘Recyclability strategy of value added utilization of iron/ manganese ore tailing /low grade ore:    evaluation of energy storage capacities’; Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India.