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Dr. Smita Raghuvanshi

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Process Engineering / Intensification (emphasis on Carbon capture
Department of Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus.
Pin # 333031
Rajasthan. India.

BE Projects – Study Project / Lab Project / Design Project

  1. Application of environmental impact assessment method for integrated solid waste management activities.
  2. Implementation of Process Integration in LCA
  3. Physicho-Chemical Analysis & Environmental Impact Assessment of Textile Industry Effluent
  4. E- waste management
  5. Life Cycle Inventory Analysis on Bio-Medical Waste Management between different Health Care Institutions of Southern Tamilnadu, India
  6. Life cycle for coal fired power plants assessment
  7. A detailed study on carbon credits and carbon footprints
  8. Environmental rules, regulations and permits
  9. Risk Management for Chemical Industries
  10. Life cycle assessment for urea production plant
  11. Life cycle inventory analysis for sugar plant
  12. Role of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Nanotechnology
  13. Implementation of Fuzzy Logic for Environmental Impact Assessment
  14. Solvent-Solvent extraction of products from Carbon dioxide mitigation
  15. Removal of heavy metals from waste water using graphene oxide based nano adsorbents
  16. Non-photosynthetic conversion of flue gases (CO2/SOx/NOx) in lab scale bioreactor
  17.  Experimental approach for design & development of anaerobic reactor for conversion of mess waste (solid waste) into bio-gas
  18.  Life cycle assessment (LCA) of RO systems
  19.  Estimation of emission factors from various data sets available in literature or other sources/ Bodies.
  20.  Life cycle assessment studies of flue gas
  21.  Life cycle inventory analysis (LCI) for comparative analysis for removal of flue gases from various methods
  22. Development of effective technology for defluoridation of drinking water using nanoadsorbents
  23.  Solvent solvent extraction for the recovery of products from carbon dioxide mitigation
  24.  Modeling and simulation of continuous bioreactor for the CO2 mitigation
  25.  Lab to pilot scale studies for effective development of biofilter system
  26.  Strategies of data collection for life cycle assessment of process
  27.  Life cycle assessment of fuel cells using Umberto Nxt tool (LCA tool)
  28. Anaerobic digestion of food waste
  29. Life cycle inventory studies of anaerobic digestion of food waste
  30. Analysis of design parameters for anaerobic digestion of food waste
  31. Life cycle assessment of fuel cells using Umberto Nxt tool (LCA tool)
  32. Design of Anaerobic digester for the Food waste
  33. LCA of Microbial CO2 Fixation process
  34. Bacterial Bio Refinery based Flue gas mitigation process
  35. Integrated design based Anaerobic digestion of Food waste
  36. Studies of Empirical Models for Climate Change from Life Cycle Impact Assessment perspective
  37. Review of Food waste : Reactor configurations ; Operating conditions ; Current trends
  38. Applications of ClO2 in controlling bio - growth over Heat exchangers 
  39. Biofiltration Studies for SOx and NOx Removal
  40. Bio-mitigation of carbon dioxide and extraction of fatty alcohols and lipids from the biomass

 

 


Research Projects

Title of the Project

Funding Agency

Participation

Amount (Lakhs)

Year

Status

Bio mitigation of Carbon di oxide (CO2) via bacterial species and biological Carbon concentration mechanism (CCM) in selected bacterial species

BITS Pilani

PI

20

2023 - 2025

Ongoing

Process development for bio-mitigation of flue gases (CO2, SOx, and NOx) using chemolithotrophs and production of value-added products.

SERB

PI

31.61

2019 - 2022

Completed

Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds (Chlorinated  VOCs, Non methane hydrocarbons, ethylene glycol) from waste streams using Biofiltration 

DST-  fast-track

PI

14.5

2012 – 15

Completed

Removal of Heavy Metals from Industrial Wastewater using Biofiltration

UGC

PI

5.50

2012 – 15

Completed

Experimental Studies on Bio-mitigation of CO2

BITS Pilani

PI

1.2

2011-2013

Completed