The Department of Fuels, Mineral and Metallurgical Engineering is one of its kind departments, having a global footprint in the pioneering research, development of critical processes, and consulting industries across various interdisciplinary domains. Faculty members, along with the technical staff and the research scholars, are engaged in leading the department with various externally sponsored and consultancy projects. These agencies are government as well as prestigious private bodies, including the Ministry of Steel, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Ministry of Mines, Tata Steel, Jindal Stainless Steels, TEXMiN, Coal India Limited, Sentra.world.  

 

Completed R&D Projects

 

Characterization, Beneficiation and coke making of Low Volatile Medium Coking coals

Funding Agency: UGC, New Delhi

Principal Investigator: Prof. Shalini Gautam

Duration: Completed

 

Designing of two-zone High Temperature Muffle Furnace

Funding Agency: IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

Principal Investigator: Prof. Shalini Gautam

Duration: Completed

 

Characterization and Assessment of utilization potential of coal for Power Plants

Funding Agency: PTPP Jhansi

Principal Investigator: Prof. Shalini Gautam

Duration: Completed

 

Assessment of utilization potential of coal for Power Plants

Funding Agency: OTPP, Obra

Principal Investigator: Prof. Shalini Gautam

Duration: Completed

 

Sampling and analysis of 58000 MT of reject Dahibari Coal Washery 

Funding Agency: BCCL

Co-PI: Prof. Shalini Gautam

Duration: Completed

 

Studies on the Applicability of biomass char for the reduction of iron ore pellets

Funding Agency: TEQIP II

Principal Investigator: Prof. Shatrughan Soren

Duration: Completed

 

Synthesis of Cu-deficiency induced various Copper chalcogenides films for optoelectronic applications 

Funding Agency: NPIU

Co-PI: Prof. Shatrughan Soren

Duration: Completed

 

Assessment of losses and improvement of efficiency of Jajpur Thermal Power Plant, JSL

Funding Agency: Jindal Stainless Limited

Principal Investigator: Prof. Anand Anupam

Duration: 15.02.2022 to 15.02.2024

 

Effect of feed characteristics on the performance of Dense Medium Cyclones treating metallurgical coal

Funding Agency: DST-SERB

Principal Investigator: Prof. Anand Anupam

Duration: 01.07.2014 to 01.01.2018

 

Pure Iron Oxide Synthesis from Ferrous Chloride
Funding Agency: Nipuna International
Principal Investigator: Prof. Kesavan Ravi
Duration: 01/03/2021-16/01/2022

 

Formation of Spray Technique for Sand Crust with Binder Solution and Laboratory Testing of Sand Crust
Funding Agency: DRDO
Principal Investigator: Prof. Sarthak S Singh; Co-Principal Investigator:  Prof. Kesavan Ravi
Duration: 27/09/2023-26/09/2024

 

Multiscale simulation of weld solidification cracking in Ni-based superalloys used in aerospace applications
Funding organisation- ISRO (VSSC)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Rahul M R
Duration: 6/12/2021 to 13/04/2024

 

Machine learning-enabled framework for the design of new multicomponent alloys
Funding organisation- DST (SRG)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Rahul M R
Duration: 18/10/2022 to 18/10/2024

 

Treatment of contaminated drinking water using a hybrid low-cost process

Funding agency: INNO INDIGO, through DBT

Principal Investigator: Prof. B. K. Nandi

Duration: November 2015-May 2019

 

Comparative assessment of coal combustion characteristics

Funding agency: Santaldih Thermal Power Station (WBPDCL)

Principal Investigator: Prof. B. K. Nandi

Duration: January 2019 to December 2020

Identification of optimum blending ratio of two coals for santaldih thermal power station

Funding agency: Santaldih Thermal Power Station (WBPDCL)

Principal Investigator: Prof. B. K. Nandi

Duration:  January 2019 to December 2020

 

Development of empirical relationship between proximate analysis & heat value of Patherdih reject coal

Funding agency: BCCL

Principal Investigator: Prof. B. K. Nandi

Duration: July 2019-December 2019

Development of modalities for fixation of import parity price for washed coking coal produced by BCCL

Funding agency: BCCL-SAIL,

Co-Principal Investigator: Prof. B. K. Nandi

Duration: January 2021 to July 2021

Effect of coal quality on the performance of JSL thermal power plant

Funding agency: Jindal Stainless Limited

Principal Investigator: Prof. B. K. Nandi

Duration: February 2022 to January 2024

Assessment of Properties of Coal Imported by Damodar Valley Corporation

Funding agency: Damodar Valley Corporation

Principal Investigator: Prof. B. K. Nandi

Duration: April 2022 to March 2024

Assessment of losses and improvement of efficiency of Jajpur thermal power plant

Funding agency: Jindal Stainless Limited

Principal Investigator: Prof. B. K. Nandi

Duration: February 2022 to January 2024

Assessment of Imported Coal Properties of Damodar Valley Corporation

Funding agency: Damodar Valley Corporation

Principal Investigator: Prof. B. K. Nandi

Duration: August 2023 to July 2024

 

 

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology