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Arghya Ghosh 

Research Scholar

  • Selected as an International Advisory Board Member for Symposium on Circular Economy and Urban Mining (SUM) 2022, 2024 & 2025 (A flagship event organized annually by IWWG–International Waste Working Group).
  • Partial Travel Grant by the Organizing Committee to attend the Sixth EurAsia Waste Management Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2022.
  • Selected as a speaker for ISWA 2023 World Congress under the theme ‘Protecting human health & the quality of the environment’.
  • Student Activity Reimbursement Fund (STAF) by IIT Guwahati to attend ISWA 2023 World Congress at Muscat, Oman, October 2023.
  • ISSMGE Foundation grant to attend the fifth Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Materials and Sustainable Engineering Conference (EGRWSE 2024) in Warsaw, Poland, July 2024.

2024
Awards

Suryateja Pottipati

Senior Research Scholar

IIT Guwahati's Waste Management Research Group: Architects of Sustainable Solutions for a Greener Tomorrow

  • The researchers have developed a novel technology to minimize biodegradation time, yielding vermicompost in 27 days for urban waste management and reduces the waste volume by 71% and producing a nutrient-rich soil conditioner with 4.2% total nitrogen.
  • Application extends to efficiently converting invasive aquatic weeds like Water hyacinth into nutrient-rich soil conditioner.
  • Mati Dhan, a high-quality organic vermicompost produced by the IIT Guwahati researchers by the novel Two-Stage Biodegradation Technique is available in the market and benefiting local farmers.

2024
Awards

Monish Goswami

Research Scholar

  • Recieved 2nd Best Student Paper award for submission titled "Optimization of Alum-Based Coagulation Flocculation for Solid Liquid Separation in Swine Wastewater Treatment and Valorisation of Sludge for Brick Manufacturing" in ENVIRONMENT 2024 (An International Conference on Environmental Challenges, Opportunities and Sustainable Solutions) held on 9-11 December 2024 conducted by Centre for Environment, IIT Guwahati. 
  • PRESENTATION ON Efficacy of Combined Processes for Treating High Strength Raw Swine Wastewater AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED BIOPROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES FOR BIOMASS CONVERSION SUSTAINABILITY AND BIORESOURCE MANAGEMENT (IBA IFIBIOP XI, 2024) held in Hong-Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong) and Dongguan University of Technology, China

 

2024-12-09 2024
Awards