R&D Projects associated with Institute
- Applied Mechanics
- Architecture & Planning
- Chemistry
- Civil Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Computer Science & Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Centre for VLSI & Nanotechnology
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Metallurgical and Material Engineering
- Mining Engineering
- Physics
Applied Mechanics
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the project |
1 | Development of Technology for Rapid Construction of Staging of RCC Elevated Service Reservoir | M/s Tejas Constructions & Infrastructure Private Limited, Pune | 8.0 | Dr. R S Sonparote | Ongoing |
2 | Experimental Investigation on Shear Strength Standard grades of Plain concrete (M-20 to M-55) | D P Jain and Group, Nagpur | 5.0 | Dr Sangeeta Gadve | Ongoing |
Architecture & Planning
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the project |
| 1 | Developing Framework for Heat Vulnerability Assessment and Model Heat Action Plan for Indian Cities | National Disaster Management Authority; 23.03.2020 | 51.2 | Dr. Rajashree Kotharkar Dr. Ravindra Keskar | Ongoing |
| 2 | Developing Regional Circulating and Ecological Sphere Framework for Enhancing Sustainable and Resilient development of City-Regions in South & South-East Asia | IGES, Japan & START International, USA 18.03.2021 | 20.0 | Dr. Sameer Deshkar | Ongoing |
| 3 | Developing Urban-Rural Partnerships Framework to Mitigate Climate-induced Water Availability Impacts on Food, Energy, Water (FEW) Security at Regional Level | Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research 01.02.2021 | 18.0 | Dr. Sameer Deshkar | Ongoing |
Chemistry
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the project |
| 1 | Extraction of high value products from potato peel | Merino Industries 24 January, 2019 | 15.00 | Dr. Anupama Kumar Dr. S.A. Mandavgane | To be completed on 30 April, 2022 |
| 2 | Waste to wealth: Extracting nutraceutical (polyphenols) from tropical fruits’ residue by biorefinery approach | MoFPI 16 October, 2019 | 32.74 | Dr. Anupama Kumar | To be completed on 15 April, 2022 |
| 3 | Green Preservatives for enhancing the shelf life of Fruits and Vegetables using Biorefinery approach. | KVIC 25 March, 2021 | 14.95 | Dr. Anupama Kumar | Ongoing |
Civil Engineering
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the Project |
| 1 | AI (Artificial Intelligence) in Soil Management for Diversified Agriculture | ISRO | 19.0 | Dr R Srinivas (BITS Pilani), Dr Yashwant B Katpatal | Ongoing |
| 2 | Techno- Feasibility Study on Fly ash filling of Open cast mine at Manikpur Korba | BALCO Ltd. | 69.45 | Dr Swapnil Wanjari, Dr Yashwant B Katpatal | Ongoing |
| 3 | Predictive Approach for Early Detection of Contamination Zone in an Intermittent and Continuous Water Supply System and its health impact | Department of Science and Technology, DST/TM/WTI/2K16/171(G) dated 30.12.2016 | 77.56 | Dr. Pawan Labhasetwar (NEERI) Dr. Rajesh Gupta, Dr. Pranav Nagarnaik (NEERI) | Completed |
| 4 | Monitoring of Ambient Air Quality at Wadi | MPCB, Mumbai, No. MPCB/JDAPC/SAMP-Wadi/B-210101-FTS-0176 dated 01/01/2021 | 7.08 per annum | Dr. Dilip H. Lataye | Ongoing |
| 5 | Monitoring of Ambient Air Quality at Kamptee | MPCB, Mumbai, No. MPCB/JDAPC/SAMP-Kamptee/B-210101-FTS-0174 | 7.08 per annum | Dr. Dilip H. Lataye | Ongoing |
| 6 | A self-healing house – restore power and safety to thousands of households in India | British Council-Global Challenge Research Fund | 13.5 | Dr. R. V. Ralegaonkar Dr. M. V. Aware | Ongoing |
| 7 | Sustainable construction material using agro-industrial by-products | MoHUA, GoI, New Delhi | 952.17 | Dr. R. V. Ralegaonkar, Dr. M. V. Madurwar, Dr. V. A. Dakwale | Ongoing |
| 8 | Development of bio-mass briquettes using Manual Pressing Technique | KVIC, GoI, Mumbai | 13.22 | Dr. V. A. Dakwale, Dr. R. V. Ralegaonkar, Dr. M. V. Madurwar, Dr. D. R. Peshwe Dr. S Giripunje Dr. A Chourasia | Ongoing |
| 9 | Forensic investigation related to Geotechnical aspects in order to stabilize the foundation soil of expansive nature and implement suitable ground improvement technology to sustain and enhance the optimum overburden dump height. | Coal India Ltd, Project Code: CIL/ R&D/04/11/2021 | 132.93 | Dr. Srinivasan. V, Dr. Anjan Patel, Dr. Anirban Mandal | Ongoing |
| 10 | Site classification scheme and amplification factors for Indian seismic design code | SERB-ECR (17th March 2017) | 30.24 | Dr.(Mrs).S. Adhikary | Completed |
| 11 | Development of Trip Generation Manual for Indian Cities | CSIR-CRRI 01-12-2021 | 8.25 | Udit Jain | Ongoing |
Chemical Engineering
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the project |
| 1 | Development of Cost Effective Process for Phyco-Remediation of Dairy Wastewater and Valorization of Algal Biomass for Production of Bio-Succinic Acid: A Sustainable Approach towards bio-refinery | DST-SERB | 20.0 | Dr. Kailas Wasewar Dr. Suvidha Gupat | Ongoing |
| 2 | Design and synthesis of ionic liquids for separation of bio-butanol from fermentation broth to enhance its production | DBT | 50.0 | Dr. Kailas Wasewar Dr. Ashish Chaurasia, Dr. Pradip Dhamole | Ongoing |
| 3 | Use of Biomass Ash to enhance the nutrient supply to the plant and effect on soil health, 55/14/02/ 2020-BRNS/ 35006 | DAE-BRNS | 34.1 | Dr. S. A. Mandavgane Dr. Sonali Tajane, Dr. Sayaji Mehetre | Ongoing |
| 4 | Valuable products from oranges – addressing a problem of Nagpur Division of Vidarbha, the largest orange producer (DST/SSTP/2018/76) | DST | 60.5 | Dr. S. A. Mandavgane Dr. Sonali Tajane, Dr. Yogendra Shastri, Dr. S. N. Naik | Ongoing |
| 5 | Development of valuable products from stubble waste/agricultural straw by bio refinery approach and field trials, (DST/TDT/WMT/2019/32) | DST | 6.0 | Dr. S. A. Mandavgane | Ongoing |
| 6 | Development of potato biorefinery (DST/TDT/TDP/02/2017) | DST | 66.9 | Dr. S. A. Mandavgane Dr. Dhamole, Dr. Ashish Chaurasia | Completed (5th May 2021) |
| 7 | Development of valuable products from stubble waste/ agricultural straw by biorefinery approach and field trials (DST/TDT/WMT/2019-32A) | DST | 167.6 (VNIT share: 56.71) | Dr. S. A. Mandavgane Dr. Ashish Chaurasia | Ongoing |
| 8 | On farm brown and green agrowaste biorefinery using traditional wisdom (DST/TDT/WMT/Traditional tech waste/2021/01) | DST | 34.73 | Dr. S. A. Mandavgane | Ongoing |
| 9 | Development of process for sulphur removal from bottom ash of thermal power plant | NTPC, Govt of India | 6.0 | Dr. Shriram S. Sonawane | Completed (18 August 2021) |
| 10 | Removal of Water from Spent acid | Ordnance Factory Bhandara September 2017 | 11.32 | Dr. M. N. Varma Dr. K. L. Wasewar Dr. D. Z. Shende Dr. C. Ravikumar | ongoing |
| 11 | Development of processes for high value products from agricultural biomass – Part I: Production of bio-oil and activated carbon. | Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) Sanction order No. T/18/9/2021/S&T/HQ/17532/2021-22/303 Dated 07.01.2022 | 14.98 | Dr. Ashish S. Chaurasia Dr. Sachin A. Mandavgane | Sanctioned. First installment will be released soon. |
| 12 | Feasibility study on Fly ash Filling of Open Cast Mine at Manikpur, Korba | Bharat Aluminium Company Limited | 69.45 | Dr. S.P. Wanjari, Dr. D.Z. Shende, Dr. K.L. Wasewar, Dr. Y.B. Katpatal, Dr. Anupam A. Kher, Dr. A.K. Agarwal | Ongoing |
| 13 | Investigation on Various Aspects of Minerals and Ores | Shivmalhar Laboratories | 16.728 | Dr. D.Z. Shende, Dr. K.L. Wasewar, Dr. R.R. Yerpude | Ongoing |
| 14 | Efficient Generation of Hydrogen using water splitting reaction by scrap aluminum and its proposed onsite applications | Tata Steel Ltd. | 0.708 | Dr. D.Z. Shende, Dr. K.L. Wasewar, Vipashwi, Dr. Devang Joshi | Ongoing |
| 15 | Downstream processing of erythromycin using a new phase separation method | DST (07.08.2017) | 24.13 | Dr. P. B. Dhamole Dr. S.G. Agrawal Dr. P.P. Wanjari | Completed (June 2021) |
| 16 | Development of prototype lantern powered by spent laptop batteries | SYST-DST | 12.01 | Dr. Ravi Methekar Dr. Ganesh Patil | Ongoing |
| 17 | Development of economically viable peeling and dissolution process for active cathode of the lithium-ion batteries | IIChE | 5.0 | Dr. Ravi Methekar | Ongoing |
| 18 | Thermal transformation of waste toner into Carbon nanotubes and Iron in a novel cascade reactor system | DST – SERB | 42.0 | Dr. R. P. Vijayakumar Dr. A. S. Chaurasia | Ongoing |
| 19 | A compositional, structural and mechanical study to evaluate the effect of Mg2+ on the formation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm | DST (2018) | 24.0 | Dr. Ashwin Kannan | Ongoing |
| 20 | Development of pervaporation for separation of Lycopene from Tomato waste | DST SYST program of the SEED division, GOI. 16/12/2021 | 25.38 | Dr. S M Kodape Dr. A P RAthod | Ongoing |
Computer Science & Engineering
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the project |
| 1 | Information Security Education and Awareness Project Phase – II | Meity, New Delhi 2019 | 38.0 | Dr. S. R. Sathe Dr. U. A. Deshpande | Ongoing |
| 2 | Genome-wide identification of cis-regulatory elements and development of G-logo tool for genome logo representation | MeitY, Young Scientist Faculty Research Fellowship Award, GoI. | 7.40
| Dr. Deepti .D. Shrimankar | Ongoing |
| 3 | Face Recognition under Unconstrained Environment for Videos from Internet | Deity (Visvesvaraya Young faculty fellowship) | 5.0 | Dr. Poonam Sharma | Ongoing |
Electrical Engineering
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the project |
| 1 | A Solution for Stable and Combined Operation of multiple Renewable Sources: Intelligent DC Microgrid (IMP/2018/000179) | DST-SERB IMPRINT-II | 42.55 | Dr. Makarand S. Ballal Dr. H. M. Suryawanshi | Completed |
| 2 | Multiphase (Six Phase) Matrix Converter for Traction, | (Science and Engg Research Board, (SERB), New Delhi, | 42 | Dr. M. V. Aware Dr. B. S. Umre | Ongoing |
| 3 | Modelling , Stability and Fault Analysis of BLDC type Multimachine System | BARC 15th Nov 2018 | 45 | Dr. Sunil Bhat Dr. Arghya Mitra | Ongoing |
| 4 | Development of 5kW Wireless Charger for Light Electric Vehicles | NaMPET Ph-III (CDAC-T) MEITY | 98.89 | Dr. Ritesh Kumar Keshri Dr. H.M. Suryawanshi | Ongoing |
| 5 | Sustainable Technology for Smart Off-Grid Renewable Energy Transformation and Electrochemical Storage Management | DST-SERB | 144 | Dr Pradyumn Chaturvedi, Prof. H. M. Suryawanshi, Dr. M. A. Chaudhari, Dr Siba Kumar Patro | Ongoing |
| 6 | SUSTainable ENergy System for Achieving Novel Carbon Neutral Energy Communities | DST India under EU Horizon 2020 Consortium | 57.79 | Dr Pradyumn Chaturvedi, Dr Siba Kumar Patro, Dr. Sunil Bhat | Ongoing |
| 7 | Highly Efficient and Reliable Solid State Transformer for Future Distribution Network with Renewable Energy Suppor | DST-GITA under India-Taiwan Collaborative Research Program | 27.30 | Dr Pradyumn Chaturvedi | Ongoing |
| 8 | Design and Development of Distributed Energy Resources Assisted Highly Efficient and Reliable Power Electronic Transformer for Off-Grid Rural Electrification | DST-SERB | 62.67 | Dr Pradyumn Chaturvedi, Prof. H. M. Suryawanshi | Ongoing |
| 9 | RE-EMPOWRED (India EU Consortium Project) | DST/Horizon 2020 01 July 2021 | 67.8 | Dr. Ritesh Kumar Keshri, Dr. Arghya Mitra Dr. H.M. Suryawanshi | Ongoing |
| 10 | Planner Magnetics for Renewables and Electric Vehicle Charging | DST/SERD | 79.8 | Dr. Ritesh Kumar Keshri Dr. H.M. Suryawanshi | Ongoing |
Electronics & Communication Engineering
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the project |
| 1 | Development of Fully-Automated Liver Cancer Detection and Severity Estimation System from H&E Stained Histopathological Images using Deep Learning-based Image Processing Methods | SERB (2022-2025) | 24.62 | Dr. Deep Gupta, Dr. Ankit Bhurane, Dr. Nisha Meshram (AIIMS Nagpur) | Ongoing |
| 2 | Analysis Design and Implementation of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) Assisted Wireless Communication Systems | MeitY (2021-2024) | 56.0 | Dr. Prabhat Sharma, Dr. Ajeet Srivastava, Dr. KM Bhurchandi | Ongoing |
| 3 | Development of a simple and low cost unified smart video surveillance system for suspicious human activity recognition in wide area surveillance | SERB (2019-2022) | 42.16 | Dr. V.R. Satpute | Ongoing |
Centre for VLSI & Nanotechnology
| Sr. No | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects ( Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator (s) | Present status of project |
| 1 | Center for Innovation, (Incubation Centre) VNIT. Nagpur | Rajiv Gandhi Science and Technology Commission Government of Maharashtra (RGSTC) | 227 | Dr. R. M. Patrikar Dr. R. B. Deshmukh | Ongoing |
| 2 | Chip to system design special Manpower development program | Ministry Of Communication and Information Technology | 150 | Dr. R. M. Patrikar Dr. R. B. Deshmukh | Ongoing |
| 3 | Exploration of Micro-cantilever platform for Agricultural Applications | DST | 60.0 | Dr. R. M. Patrikar | Ongoing |
| 4 | IoT based Soil Parameter Tester for Comparison of Fertilizer Free Natural Farming and Chemical Fertilizer based Farming | DST, SEED Division | 23.64 | Dr. Ganesh C. Patil, Dr. Vasu Pulijala | Ongoing |
| 5 | MEMS Based Biomemetic Instrumental odor monitoring system | DST | 35.0 | Dr. Sharvari Deshmukh | Ongoing |
| 6 | Development of Photodetector for low intensity light levels in UV/VIS/IR wavelength regions | Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) | 22.0 | Dr. Nikhil Deep Gupta | Ongoing |
Mathematics
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the project |
| 1 | Direct and Inverse Voronovskaya Results for the Sampling Operators | DST, SERB, 15 Feb 2022 | 6.6 | Dr. Sathish Kumar A | Ongoing |
| 2 | Classification of Frobenius Forms and F-pure threshold | SERB, DST, 21 February, 2022 | 6.6 | Dr. Jyoti Singh | Ongoing |
| 3 | Development of Fractal Numerical Methods and Application in Solving Differential Equations | SERB, DST, 19 February, 2022 | 6.6 | Dr. Vijender Nallapu | Ongoing |
| 4 | WENO Reconstruction Methods for Compressible flows | DST-SERB (MATRICS) 05/02/2020 | 6.6 | Dr. Naga Raju Gande | Ongoing |
| 5 | High resolution numerical schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws and its related problems | DST-SERB 18 Feb., 2022 | 19.5 | Dr. Naga Raju Gande | Ongoing |
| 6 | Frozen iterative methods for regularization of nonlinear ill-posed operator equations in Banach spaces | MATRICS SERB(DST) 11 February-2020 | 6.6 | Dr. Pallavi Mahale | Ongoing |
Mechanical Engineering
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the project |
| 1 | BeTiC project | RGSTC&DST | 369.0 | Dr. A.M. Kuthe | Ongoing |
| 2 | Smart foundry | DST | 139.0 | Dr. A.M. Kuthe | Completed |
| 3 | Metal additive manufacturing using laser cladding | SERB-DST, GoI | 68.0 | Dr. T. V. K. Gupta | Ongoing |
| 4 | Centre of Excellence for setting up Pedal Operated Making cluster under Wellness and Cosmetic Industry (WCI). | Khadi and Village Industry Commission | 32.32 | Dr. R. V. Uddanwadikar | Ongoing |
| 5 | Wooden Toy Pilot Project | Khadi and Village Industry Commission | 14.37 | Dr. R. V. Uddanwadikar | Ongoing |
| 6 | Setting Up of High Skill Wooden Furniture Centre/Lab | Khadi and Village Industry Commission | 18.02 | Dr. R. V. Uddanwadikar | Ongoing |
| 7 | Experimental Investigation of Weldability by Cold Metal Transfer | SERB-DST, GoI | 34.10 | Dr. N. Lautere | Ongoing |
| 8 | Design of 1kW Roof Top Vertical Axis Wind Turbine | SERB-DST, GoI | 23.09 | Dr. S. Roga | Ongoing |
| 9 | Development of a Vascular Anastomosis Device for Arteriovenous Fistula Creation | DST, New Delhi | 21.6 | Dr. P.M. Padole, Dr. S.B. Thombre Dr. R.V. Uddanwadikar | Ongoing |
Mining Engineering
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the project |
| 1 | Removal of metal ions contamination from mine water at deposit- 14/11C and deposit 11 B mines of BIOM | NMDC | 7.08 | Dr. A. K. Agarwal Dr. R D Lokhande Dr. I L Muthreja Dr. R R Yerpude Dr. S Zodape | Ongoing |
| 2 | Physico-mechanical response of rocks under varied thermal environments | SERB-SRG | 31.46 | Dr. N. N. Sirdesai | Completed |
| 3 | Risk investigations for slope failure of benches and dumps using geo-technical characteristics of rocks and their monitoring mechanism in Dudhichua opencast mine of Northern Coalfields Limited | Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) | 51.401 | Dr. R R Yerpude Dr. I L Muthreja Dr. A. K. Agarwal Dr. R D Lokhande | Ongoing |
| 4 | Risk investigations for slope failure of benches and dumps using geo-technical characteristics of rocks and their monitoring mechanism in Jayant opencast mine of Northern Coalfields Limited | Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) | 56.215 | Dr. R R Yerpude Dr. I L Muthreja Dr. A. K. Agarwal Dr. R D Lokhande | Ongoing |
| 5 | Feasibility study on Flyash filling of open cast mine at Manikpur, Korba | Bharat Aluminum Company Limited, 23/10/2021 | 69.45 | Dr. S Wanjari Dr. Y. B. Katpatal Dr. D Z Shende Dr. K Wasewar Dr. A K Agarwal Dr. A A Kher | Ongoing |
| 6 | Effect of blasting on buffer zone of forest by MOIL opencast mines | MOIL Pvt Ltd | 4.51 | Dr. N R Thote | Ongoing |
Physics
| Sr. No. | Project Title | Funding Agency (with date of award) | Cost of Projects (Rs. In Lakhs) | Investigator(s) | Present status of the project |
| 1 | Investigations on Ag-substituted Cu2ZnSnSe4 thin film absorber layers for the fabrication of heterojunction solar cells | DST- SERB CRG/2019/006520 dated18/01/2020 | 33.65 | Dr. G. Hema Chandra | Ongoing |
| 2 | Development of lithium disilicate based Nano glass ceramics for armor applications | ARMREB, DRDO 28-11-2016 | 41.88 | Dr. (Mrs.) A. V. Deshpande | Completed |
| 3 | Development of exchange coupled magnetic nanocomposites for magnetic energy storage through tuning ultrathin interfaces. | DST- SERB March 2022. | 39.6 | Dr. K. Mohan Kant | Ongoing |