Research Grants/Awards

Research Awards:

Young Engineer's Award

Environmental Engineering Division
The Institution of Engineers (India)
2021 - 2022

Young Scientist Research Award

Board of Nuclear Sciences, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. 

Young Scientist Research Fellow

Tamilnadu State Council for Science & Technology, TNSCST

Summer Research Fellow

Indian Academy Sciences (IAS) & National Academy of Sciences (NASI)”, Bangalore.

Best Chemical Engineering Project

Srishti'18 - National Level Technical Project Exhibition and Competition’ in association with “National Instruments (NI)"

Best Environmental Engineering Project

PoweRIT - National Level Project Competition’ in association with “Zoho"

Best Design Project

Aarambam - National Level Project Competition’ in association with “Native Lead Foundation"

Research Grants:

DBT BIRAC: E-Yuva Award

Project Title: SURFMIN - Microbial surfactants assisted biohydrometallurgy towards the recovery of critical minerals from electronic waste

DBT BIRAC E-Yuva Awardees: Prerna M Gaidhani, Prerna Patil, Tania Dhul,  Rayavarapu Gowtham Kishore; 

Mentor: Dr V C Padmanaban

Funding Agency: DBT BIRAC, Govt of India; Duration: 2024 - 2025

Project Title: Antimicrobial resistance surveillance in the municipal black water of northeast India and its remediation through advanced oxidation processes

MSME Hackathon: R Kheerthana

Funding Agency / Amount: MSME, Govt of India / 15 Lakhs

Duration: 2024 - 2025

Project Title: Design of continuous heterogeneous photo-catalytic reactor immobilized with nano composites (as nano spheres) for the degradation of textile dyes.

Project Supervisor: Dr.V.C.Padmanaban

Project Fellow: N.Maheswari

Funding Agency: Indian Institution of Engineers, Kolkatta, India.

Duration: 2019 - 2020

Board of Nuclear Sciences, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. 

Project Title: Process Development for the degradation of textile dyes by wild type and radiation induced mutants.

Project Investigator: V.C.Padmanaban

Duration: 2013 - 2016

Indian Academy Sciences (IAS) & National Academy of Sciences (NASI)”, Bangalore.

Project Title: Design of Packed Bed reactor for the degradation of textile dyes.


Research Fellow: V.C.Padmanaban

Project Mentor: Prof.R.S.Singh, IIT-BHU

Duration: 2015 - 2016

Tamilnadu State Council for Science & Technology, TNSCST

Project Title: Kinetics studies on degradation of textile dyes by gamma radiation: Optimization through RSM & ANN.


Research Fellow: V.C.Padmanaban

Project Mentor: Dr.N.Selvaraju, NIT Calicut

Duration: 2015 - 2016

Indian Institution of Engineers, Kolkatta, India.

Project Title: Design of Bioreactor for Degradation of Textile Dyes by Developed Bioprocess


Project Supervisor: V.C.Padmanaban

Duration: 2012 - 2013

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