Dr. Sonali Hiwarkar Tajane
Brief Bio
| Brief Bio |
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| Dr Sonali Pravin Tajane |
| Assistant Professor |
| Deparment of Chemical Engineering |
| Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology |
| Teaching experience of 15 years |
Education
| Sr. No. | Degree | Year | Specialization | University |
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| 1 | B.Tech | 2004 | Chemical Enguineering | Nagpur University |
| 2 | M.Tech | 2007 | Membrans and separation technology | Amravati University |
| 3 | Ph.D. | 2016 | Biopesticide | Visvesvaraya National Inst. of Tech. Nagpur |
Contact Details
| Phone: | Email: | Address: |
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| 0712-280-1569 | sphiwarkar@che.vnit.ac.in | CHE-013, Department of Chemical Engineering, VNIT Nagpur, |
| Maharashtra-440010, India |
Research Interest
| Research Interest |
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| Biopesticide |
| Physical Separation |
| Biorefinary |
| Solid Waste Management |
| Nano Technology |
| Sr. No. | Title | Funding Agency | Role | Year | Amount (in Lakhs INR) |
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| 1 | Development of orange waste biorefinary | DST( SEED) | PI | 2008 | 9 lakhs |
| 2 | Development and testing of micro fine powder biopesticide using neem | BRNS | Co-PI | 2013 | 22.6 lakhs |
| 3 | Valuable products from Orange- addressing a problem of Nagpur division of Vidarbha the largest orange producer | DST | Co-PI | 2019 | 50 lakhs |
| 4 | Use of Biomass Ash to enhance the nutrient supply to the plant and effect on soil health, 55/14/02/ | DAE-BRNS | Co-PI | 2020 | 34.10 lakhs |
| 5 | Volarization of post harvesting agro waste using indigenous fibrinolytic enzyme. | Sree padmavati venkateswara foundation | Co-PI | 2023 | 32 lakhs |
| Sr. No. | Title | Funding Agency | Role | Year | Amount (in Lakhs INR) |
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| Description | Author(s) | Publisher | ISBN | Year |
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| Book chapter-Exploring the Utility of Membrane Bioreactors (MBRs) in Wastewater Treatment | Shyam Kodape | Springer,Cham | 978-3-031-87461-1 | 2025 |
| Book Chapter-Esterification processes in membrane reactors | Vishal S. Chandane, Ajit P. Rathod, Shriram S. Sonawane, Shyam M. Kodape | Elsevier | 9780443138768 | 2025 |
| Sr. No. | Patent Title | Application No. | Date | Present Staus |
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| 1 | Three days intensive course on “Process Equipment Design” 12-14th sep 2014 as a Co.Convenor |
| Sr. No. | Responsibility | Institute | Role | Year |
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| 1 | Student Mentor programm faculty coordinator | VNIT | To look after deparmental student mentor program | 2022-24 |
| 2 | NRIF Departmental coordinator | VNIT | To compile various document needed for NRIF ranking. | 2014-19 |
| 3 | Class committee chairman | VNIT | To take the Feedback (Teaching & learning) from students and faculty of academic session. | 2023-24 |
| 4 | Departmental cordinator for Academic Audit | VNIT | Collecting the relevant information from faculties/student require time to time by the institute | 2019-20 |
| 5 | Grade card verification | VNIT | Verification of student grade card for the award of B. Tech degree | |
| 6 | Member in Spic Macay | VNIT | worked as a member in Spic Macay 8th international convection (Auditorium and seating arrangement) | 2022-23 |
| Sr. No. | Awards |
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| S.No. | Paper Citation |
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| 1 | Khanpit, Vishal V., Sonali P. Tajane, and Sachin A. Mandavgane. “Techno economic andlife cycle analysis of soluble dietary fiber concentrate production from waste orangepeels." Waste Management 155 (2023): 29-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2022.10.036 |
| 2 | Khanpit, Vishal V., Sonali P. Tajane, and Sachin A. Mandavgane ; Extrusion for SolubleDietary Fiber Concentrate: Critical Overview on Effect of Process Parameters onPhysicochemical, Nutritional, and Biological Properties." Food Reviews International(2022): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/87559129.2022.2097689 |
| 3 | Khanpit, Vishal V., Sonali P. Tajane, and Sachin A. Mandavgane; Production of solubledietary fiber concentrate from waste orange peels: study of nutritional andphysicochemical properties and life cycle assessment." Biomass Conversion andBiorefinery (2022): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-03007-w |
| 4 | Khanpit, V.V., Tajane, S.P. & Mandavgane, S.A. Orange waste peel to high value solubledietary fiber concentrate: comparison of conversion methods and their environmentalimpact. Biomass Conv. Bioref. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-02481-6 |
| 5 | Khanpit, Vishal, Sonali Pravin Tajane, and Sachin A. Mandavgane (2021) Waste towealth-recovery of total dietary fibers from waste peel: A generalised model forpredicting operating parameters, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, DOI : 10.1007/s13399-021-01791-5 |
| 6 | Khanpit, Vishal V., Sonali P. Tajane, and Sachin A. Mandavgane. “Dietary fibers from fruits and vegitable waste: Method of extracion and process of value addition. Biomass convertion and bio refinary. “ |
| 7 | Tajane, S., Shastri, P. & Mandavgane, S. Inventory calculation for commercialproduction of cereal grain flour using particle size distribution model. J Food Sci Technol(2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-021-05286-z |
| 8 | Khanpit, Vishal V. Rahul Raibagkar, Sonali P. Tajane, and Sachin A. Mandavgane.”Optimization of extrusion conditions increases soluble dietary fiber yield from pomegranate peels with improved physico-chemical and biological properties”https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcdf.2024.100415 |
| 9 | Priyanka Jatav, Sonali P. Tajane, and Sachin A. Mandavgane, S.B. Gaidhani.” A process of carbon enrichment of bottom slag ash for value- added application.” |
| 10 | Khanpit, Vishal, Sonali Pravin Tajane, and Sachin A. Mandavgane. “Experimental studies on coal-water slurry fuel prepared from pretreated low-grade coal” https://doi.org/10.1080/19392699.2019.1666830 |
| 11 | Sonali P Tajane, Praful S Dadhe, Sachin A Mandavgane, SayajiMehetre. Simple Technique of formulating fine powder of whole neem fruits using dolomite in Hammer mill: Characterization and Azadirachtin stability study. https://www.jstor.org/stable/i26163792 ; Current Science Vol. 112, No. 9 (10 May 2017), pp. 1942-1948 (7 pages) |
| 12 | Mandavgane, Sachin A; Tajane, Sonali P; Dadhe, Praful S; Mehetre, Sayaji. Kinetic and Thermodynamic Azadirachtin Extraction from Whole Neem Fine Powder Formulation. Indian Journal of Chemical Technology Mar-2017; http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/41076 |
| 13 | Sonali Tajane,Praful Dadhe, Krishna Kanth Chole, Sachin Mandavgane, Sayaji Mehetre. Co-Grinding of Whole Neem Fruits: Modeling of Particle-Size Distribution and Energy Study. Current Science Vol. 113, No. 5 (10 September 2017), pp. 911-918 (8 pages); https://www.jstor.org/stable/26293956 |
| 14 | Manisha Kamble, Sunila Deokar, Sonali Tajane and Mandavgane, Sachin A “Groundnut plant ash: Characterisation and adsorption efficacy study for removal of paraquat dichloride” http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/54028; Jan-2020 |
| 15 | Rahul R. Raibagkar , Vishal V. Khanpit , Sonali P. Tajane , Sachin A. Mandavgane,” Optimization of extrusion conditions increases soluble dietary fiber yield from pomegranate peels with improved physico-chemical and biological properties” Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre, Vol.31 ,100415,2024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcdf.2024.100415 |
| S.No. | Conference paper (Internaltional) |
| 1 | Sonali Hiwarkar, Praful Dadhe, Sayaji Mehetre, Sachin Mandavgane, “Mathematical Modeling of Particle Size Distribution of Neem Fruit” International Conference on Green Technology for Environmental Pollution Prevention and control (ICGTEPC 2014) 27-29 September,2014 National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli. |
| 2 | Kanchan Modi, Mohnish Kumar, Swati Kumari, PrafulDadhe,SonaliHiwarkar,SayajiMehetre,SachinMandavgane2,”Hydrolysis of Azadirachtin present in neem bio-pesticide powder in different natural waters and distilled waters”, Conference on Exploring basic and applied sciences (EBAS-2014) 14-15 November 2014 Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar-Delhi G.T. Road (NH-1),Phagwara (PUNJAB) INDIA. |
| 3 | Sonali Tajane,Praful Dadhe, Krishna Kanth Chole,Sachin Mandavgane,Sayaji Mehetre, “Grinding study of whole neem fruit powder formulation using Hammer mill”, Conference on New Frontiers in Chemical, Energy and Environmental Engineering (INCEEE-2015) March 20-21, 2015,National Institute of Technology, Warangal – 506004. Telangana, India. |
| 4 | Khanpit, Vishal V., Sonali P. Tajane, and Sachin A. Mandavgane. Study of physical properties those superintended dietary fiber sepration from citrus aste by sustainable enriching elutriator. Internal conference on chemical bio and environmental engineering. |
| 5 | Priyanka P. Jatav , Dr S. A Mandavgane , Dr S.B. Gaidhani , Sonali P. Tajane*. “Recovery of carbon from boiler bottom slag using froth flotation, Technoscape 2016: An International Conference on Separation,2016, An International Conference on Separation Technologies in Chemical, Biochemical, Petroleum and Environmental Engineering, VIT University, Vellore.” |
| 6 | Priyanka P. Jatav, Dr S.B. Gaidhani, Sonali P. Tajane,. “Froth flotation an effective technique for recovery of carbon from waste ashes, India International Science Festival-2016, Organisers- The Ministry of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences.” |
| 7 | Priyanka P. Jatav, Mamta Jamgade, Shreya Udhoji, Dr. Sonali P. Tajane. ” Coal-water slurry fuel: A way to reduce solid waste, International Conference on “Integrated Solid Waste Management Practices in Developing Countries”, 2017,pp.188, CSIR (NEERI), Nagpur.” |
| 8 | Sonali Tajane , Praful Dadhe , Krishna Kanth Chole , Sachin Mandavgane *, Sayaji Mehetre.”Grinding study of whole neem fruit powder formulation using Hammer mill”, Conference on New Frontiers in Chemical, Energy and Environmental Engineering (INCEEE-2015) March 20-21, 2015,National Institute of Technology, Warangal – 506004. Telangana, India. “ |
| 9 | Sonali Tajane, Praful Dadhe, Sachin A. Mandavgane. ” Mathematical Modelling of particle size distribution of neem seed’ International Conference on Green Technology for Environmental Pollution Prevention and control (ICGTEPC 2014), 27th-29th September 2014, Organized by Department of Chemical Engineering National Institute of Technology Tiruchirapalli (NITT), India.” |
| 10 | Srushti Gedam,Pooja Chavhan,Dr.Sonali Tajane.,”Enhancing Sustainability and Energy Efficiency:Recovering Unburned Carbon from Rice Husk Ash Using Froth Flotation”,International conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICNN-2023),VNIT Nagpur,11-13 September 2023 |
| S.No. | Conference paper (Naltional) |
| 1 | Sonali Tajane Sachin Mandavgane,Sayaji Mehetre, “Novel, Method of Synthesis of Neem powder biopesticide”, Conference on Green Chemistry and Engineering (NCGCE-2013) 22 March-2013, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur-10,India. |
| 2 | Kanchan Modi, Mohnish Kumar, Swati Kumari, PrafulDadhe, Sonali Hiwarkar, SayajiMehetre, SachinMandavgane “Stabilization of azadirachtin present in neem fruit dust using different carriers and stabilizers under UV light exposure” Conference on Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON-2014) 27-30 December 2014, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. |
| 3 | SonaliTajane, PrafulDadhe, SayajiMehetre, SachinMandavgane “Extraction and HPLC determination of Azadirachtin present in new powder formulation of whole Neem Fruit and Dolomite” DAE-BRNS Life Sciences Symposium, (LSS-2015) 3-5 February 2015 Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai India. |
| 4 | SonaliTajane, PrafulDadhe, SayajiMehetre, SachinMandavgane “Stability of Azadirachtin (Neem) Bio Pesticides: Challenges and Remedies” DAE-BRNS Life Sciences Symposium, (LSS-2015) 3-5 February 2015Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai India. |
| 5 | Sonali Tajane, Praful Dadhe, Sayaji Mehetre, Sachin Mandavgane. “Extraction and HPLC determination of Azadirachtin present in fine powder formulation of whole Neem Fruit, DAE-BRNS Life Sciences Symposium-2015, Feb 3-5, 2015”. |
| 6 | Sonali Tajane, Praful Dadhe, Sayaji Mehetre, Sachin Mandavgan. “Stability of Azadirachtin (Neem) Bio Pesticides: Challenges and Remedies, DAE-BRNS Life Sciences Symposium-2015, Feb 3-5, 2015 “. |
| 7 | Sonali Tajane Sachin Mandavgane *, Sayaji Mehetre.” Novel, Method of Synthesis of Neem powder biopesticide”, Conference on Green chemistry and Engineering (NCGCE-2013) 22 March-2013, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, “. |
| 8 | Kanchan Modi, Mohnish Kumar, Swati Kumari, Praful dadhe, Sonali Hiwarkar, Sachin Mandavgane. “Stabilization of azadirachtin present in Neem Fruit dust using different carriers and stabilizers under UV light exposure.Organised by CHEMCON- 2014, Indian chemical engineering congress December 27th-30th, 2014, Chandigarh India “. |
| 9 | Dipali Gahane, Sonali Tajane, “Developing the concept of biorefinary for Orange waste”. National conference on “ Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science (ACES- 2019)” held at IISER Bhopal (Department of Chemical Engineering ).07 th -08 th March 2019. |
| 10 | Srushti Gedam,Pooja Chavhan,Dr.Sonali Tajane.,”A Sustainable Approach For Plant based Protein Separation”,4th edition of National Environmental Conference (NEC-2024) on 15th to 17th February at IIT Bombay |
| 11 | Pooja Chavhan,Sweety Singh ,Pratik Singh ,Dr.Sonali Tajane.,”Dry Fractionation Techniques for protein enrichment from plant based waste source”,4th edition of National Environmental Conference (NEC-2024) on 15th to 17th February at IIT Bomba |