DESCRIPTION :
Ms. Pooja is a post-graduate with M.tech in Metallurgical & Materials Engg. (silver medalist) from IIT Kharagpur, 2014; and had graduated with B.tech in Metallurgical Engg. from NIT Raipur, 2012. After her stint as Patent Analyst in Eaton Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (2014-2016), Pune, she joined CSIR-IMMT Bhubaneswar as Scientist C in 2016. She has been working in Department of Hydro & Electrometallurgy. Post her joining she was assigned to work in high temperature extractive metallurgy and expand the scope of working team from hydro & electrometallurgy to that of extractive metallurgy. She has been actively involved in creating pyrometallurgical/ High temperature facility in the department.
n Senior Scientist , CSIR-IMMT Bhubaneswar (2020-present)
n Scientist C, CSIR-IMMT Bhubaneswar (2016-2020)
n Patent Analyst, Eaton Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (2014-2016)
n Extractive Metallurgy Process Development, Metallurgy of waste utilisation, recycling for circular economy, Alloy Development
AWARDS & HONOURS :n INSTITUTE SILVER MEDAL, first position in M.Tech, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT Kharagpur (2014)
n ‘Evaluation of design parameters for dewatering of manganese nodules’; National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai.
n ‘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.
n ‘Recovery of alumina from Fly ash’; CSIR (FTT Project).
n ‘Process scale-up and feasibility study for improving Mn/Fe ratio of low grade manganese ore’; TATA Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur.
n ‘Feasibility studies to recover Mn metal from low grade Mn ore’; TATA Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur.
n ‘Processing of secondary resources for the production of battery materials’; CSIR-FTT Project.
n Technology transfer for cobalt manufacture ; MIDHANI, Hyderabad
n Recovery of Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide (EMD) from manganese ore ; MOIL, Nagpur
n Cobalt technology from impure cobalt hydroxide: Process flowsheet development; MIDHANI, Hyderabad
n Recovery of alumina from Fly ash – modifications and validation of flow sheet; NALCO
n ‘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.