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               TEQIP III National Short Term Courses on

           "State-of-the-art Computational Tools in Science and Engineering"
                                               (Module I: July 9 - 13, 2018)
                                                               &
     "Recent Advances in Materials, Energy and Environmental Engineering"
                                               (Module II: July 16 - 20, 2018)

Recent Advances in Materials, Energy and Environmental Engineering

Bio-fuels:
Biodiesel with its price & environmental benefits has a wide usage across industries and can play a vital role in substituting (partly) diesel in gen sets for example remotely located mobile cell towers across the North East part of India. But the major challenge is nonexistence of commercial scale production facility in this region. In Indian context, use of edible oils for biodiesel production is unaffordable and rather illogical as India is an importer of edible oils. This module briefs the supply chain network and related problems of the biodiesel industry in North East India and the synthesis of biodiesel from non-edible oil seeds and waste oil which are abundant in North East part of India.

Resource Persons: Prof. Nageswara Rao Peela, Prof. Vaibhav Goud

Gas & Coal Gasification:
Fossil fuels are getting depleted and it creates energy scarcity problem. Coal is the fossil fuel, which is consumed rapidly for the generation of electricity in thermal power plant industries. However, significant coal reserves in deep coal mines are unspent due to uneconomic condition of conventional mining operation. In focus of that, unconventional fossil fuel technologies such as coal bed methane (CBM), underground coal gasification (UCG), coal to liquid (CTL) will be discussed in this module. Emission of CO2 to the atmosphere from thermal power industries causes health hazard, global warming etc. Thus, it is essential to capture CO2 from flue gas. In this module, various capture technologies will be discussed. The merits and demerits of conventional and advanced technologies will be elaborated. Another part of the module will cover the aspects of production of natural gas, gas well deliverability, inflow performance relationship (IPR), tubular performance relationship (TPR), choke performance relation (CPR), and Nodal analysis, separation, dehydration, sweetening and pipeline design.

Resource Persons: Prof. Mahuya De, Prof. Pankaj Tiwari, Prof. Prabu Vairakannu

Polymer Nanocomposites& Smart Materials:
Smart materials are created such that they respond to the stimuli like temperature, pressure, electric field, etc. These if manipulated properly can help in curbing various social aspects. In this module, introduction to smart materials: definition, working principle, classification, examples. Sensors and actuators. Chromomeric materials, smart polymer, piezoelectric materials: mechanical characteristics, electrical characteristics, origin of piezoelectric behaviour, capacitor model, constitutive coupled relationship, operating modes and shape memory alloy: shape memory effect, pseudoelastic effect, origin of shape memory property, stress-strain–temperature phase diagram, heat engine and mathematical model development. Stress, strain and constitutive equations, electrostatics. Polymer nanocomposite synthesis would be taken up as a hands-on-session in the lab hour discussion to enable the participants to learn the art of synthesising polymer nanocomposites.

Resource Persons: Prof. G. Pugazhenthi, Prof. Vimal Katiyar, Prof. Partho Sarathi Gooh Pattader

Wastewater Treatment:
The first lecture on this module covers treatment of industrial oily wastewater for onshore oil production supplied by ONGC eastern region, Nazira, Assam, India using cross flow filtration cell. Membrane performance and permeate quality are compared at laminar and turbulent flow regime with variation of trans membrane pressure drops. Different diffusion models are assumed to predict the theoretical flux and compared with experimental flux values. The second lecture is about hybrid membranes from cellulose acetate (CA) and titanium oxide (TiO2) nanoparticles (NPs), which were fabricated using a novel electro-spinning technique and evaluated as an adsorbent for the elimination of lead and copper metal ions. The impacts of various adsorption parameters, namely, pH, the amount of TiO2 nanoparticles, contact time, temperature, and kinetics on metal uptake were investigated using batch adsorption experiments.

Resource Persons: Prof. Chandan Das, Prof. Animes Kumar Golder, Prof. Mihir Purkait

Corrosion Prevention Mechanisms:
Corrosion is considered to be one of the most significant factors responsible for serious operational problems experienced in various industries. India loses around Rs. 3, 75,000 crores only because of corrosion every year. Thus, to control and prevent corrosion, it is imperative to understand the basic mechanism behind its occurrence. Supercapacitors are becoming an interesting and important area of research because of its potential to deliver higher power than the conventional batteries. Recent advances in the field of supercapacitors have drawn the attention of scientists for its use in various technologies. In this module, corrosion basics and various electrochemical techniques which are widely employed to understand the corrosion mechanism and kinetics will be discussed. Also, a brief review on various types of supercapacitors, its applications and understanding their characteristics using various electrochemical techniques.

Resource Persons: Prof. Prasanna Venkatesh

Special Topics:
Energy harvesting in micro devices, Microfluidic photovoltaic cell, Fluid Mechanics at Smaller Scale: Theory and Experiments, Micro-Nano-Science to Micro-Nano-Technology.

Resource Persons: Prof. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Prof. Tapas K Mandal

Recent Advances in Materials, Energy and Environmental Engineering

Bio-fuels:

Biodiesel with its price & environmental benefits has a wide usage across industries and can play a vital role in substituting (partly) diesel in gen sets for example remotely located mobile cell towers across the North East part of India. But the major challenge is nonexistence of commercial scale production facility in this region. In Indian context, use of edible oils for biodiesel production is unaffordable and rather illogical as India is an importer of edible oils. This module briefs the supply chain network and related problems of the biodiesel industry in North East India and the synthesis of biodiesel from non-edible oil seeds and waste oil which are abundant in North East part of India.

Gas & Coal Gasification:

Fossil fuels are getting depleted and it creates energy scarcity problem. Coal is the fossil fuel, which is consumed rapidly for the generation of electricity in thermal power plant industries. However, significant coal reserves in deep coal mines are unspent due to uneconomic condition of conventional mining operation. In focus of that, unconventional fossil fuel technologies such as coal bed methane (CBM), underground coal gasification (UCG), coal to liquid (CTL) will be discussed in this module. Emission of CO2 to the atmosphere from thermal power industries causes health hazard, global warming etc. Thus, it is essential to capture CO2 from flue gas. In this module, various capture technologies will be discussed. The merits and demerits of conventional and advanced technologies will be elaborated. Another part of the module will cover the aspects of production of natural gas, gas well deliverability, inflow performance relationship (IPR), tubular performance relationship (TPR), choke performance relation (CPR), and Nodal analysis, separation, dehydration, sweetening and pipeline design.

Polymer Nanocomposites& Smart Materials:

Smart materials are created such that they respond to the stimuli like temperature, pressure, electric field, etc. These if manipulated properly can help in curbing various social aspects. In this module, introduction to smart materials: definition, working principle, classification, examples. Sensors and actuators. Chromomeric materials, smart polymer, piezoelectric materials: mechanical characteristics, electrical characteristics, origin of piezoelectric behaviour, capacitor model, constitutive coupled relationship, operating modes and shape memory alloy: shape memory effect, pseudoelastic effect, origin of shape memory property, stress-strain–temperature phase diagram, heat engine and mathematical model development. Stress, strain and constitutive equations, electrostatics. Polymer nanocomposite synthesis would be taken up as a hands-on-session in the lab hour discussion to enable the participants to learn the art of synthesising polymer nanocomposites.

Wastewater Treatment:

The first lecture on this module covers treatment of industrial oily wastewater for onshore oil production supplied by ONGC eastern region, Nazira, Assam, India using cross flow filtration cell. Membrane performance and permeate quality are compared at laminar and turbulent flow regime with variation of trans membrane pressure drops. Different diffusion models are assumed to predict the theoretical flux and compared with experimental flux values. The second lecture is about hybrid membranes from cellulose acetate (CA) and titanium oxide (TiO2) nanoparticles (NPs), which were fabricated using a novel electro-spinning technique and evaluated as an adsorbent for the elimination of lead and copper metal ions. The impacts of various adsorption parameters, namely, pH, the amount of TiO2 nanoparticles, contact time, temperature, and kinetics on metal uptake were investigated using batch adsorption experiments.

Thermal Processing of Foods:

Food needs to be processed to suit the needs of the human body. The lectures would enable the participants to gain thorough understanding of food processing technologies, especially thermal processing of foods, so that they can be involved in the design and development of safe, nutritious, and tasty food products and processes at the local and global scale in an economically sound and environmentally responsible manner using locally available agricultural commodities.

Corrosion Prevention Mechanisms:

Corrosion is considered to be one of the most significant factors responsible for serious operational problems experienced in various industries. India loses around Rs. 3, 75,000 crores only because of corrosion every year. Thus, to control and prevent corrosion, it is imperative to understand the basic mechanism behind its occurrence. Supercapacitors are becoming an interesting and important area of research because of its potential to deliver higher power than the conventional batteries. Recent advances in the field of supercapacitors have drawn the attention of scientists for its use in various technologies. In this module, corrosion basics and various electrochemical techniques which are widely employed to understand the corrosion mechanism and kinetics will be discussed. Also, a brief review on various types of supercapacitors, its applications and understanding their characteristics using various electrochemical techniques.