A visit was organized for third year students of Chemical Engineering at Gujarat Vepari mahamandal Sahakari Audyogik Vasahat Limited, CETP-Odhav plant on 16th Sep, 2021. This common effluent treatment plant was set up in 1986 and has over 300 member units. The unit collects all the wastewater generated by the cluster of units and does primary and secondary treatment of the wastewater. The final treated effluent conforms to the norms set by the Gujarat pollution control Board. The unit has online monitoring facility of the final treated effluent which can be monitored by GPCB. The treated water is discharge in the Odhav Kharikat canal of 3.20 km long H.D.P.E. pipe line through Naroda-Pirana pipe line. Dr. P. H. Rana and Dr. S. M. Dutta coordinated and accompanied the students for the visit.
A meeting of Industry Advisory Board of Chemical Engineering Department with the Head of the Department and faculty members of Chemical Engineering Department was held on 7th September, 2021 at 4:00 pm in online mode. Shri Ashishbhai Soparkar, Shri J. K. Vyas and Shri Mayank Parikh were present in the meeting to share their valuable inputs.
NBA Accreditation team visited the Chemical engineering Department (virtual mode) from 20/08/21 to 22/08/21
Ashutosh Mishra, a 7 th semester student of Chemical Engg. Dept. secured 2nd position in “Unfold” competition at LAKSHYA 2021: PERCEPTION, a National Level Edu-Tech organized by TEAM ROBOCON, LDCE on 10-14 August, 2021.
3 students of chemical engineering department, Bhaktik Patel, Kamani Hardik and Kyada Mihir participated in various technical events of LAKSHYA 2021: PERCEPTION a National Level Edu-tech fest organized by TEAM ROBOCON, LDCE at L. D. College of Engineering.
Mr Ankit Mishra, University of Heidelberg, has delivered an online lecture on “Introduction to Polymeric Material and Their Applications” on 12th August 2021. Around 55 students of the 3rd semester were present in the online session. Overall coordination was done by Dr Anjali Bishnoi. During the talk, Mr Ankit Mishra discussed about various fundamentals of polymeric materials. Polymer and their structures, unique properties were well explained by him. Applications of polymers were elaborated in detail and importance of the same was also part of the talk. The session was very interactive and informative. Students raised their queries and all were satisfied by the speaker.
Meghmani Organics Ltd., Ahmedabad provided 16 very useful equipments for modernizing the laboratories of Chemical Engineering Department as a part of industry-institute initiative. The equipments will benefit the students of Chemical department to perform the practicals and gain hands-on experience in the laboratory. Also it will strengthen their theoretical knowledge by applying various principles of chemical engineering and check the results after performing the experiments. The equipments are related to fluid flow operations, heat transfer operations, mass transfer operations, instrumentation and process control and reaction engineering. The department appreciates the generous and benevolent gesture from M/s Meghmani Organics Ltd. which will benefit of students immensely.
The online Kaizen 2021 for Chemical Engineering Department was conducted on 19th and 20th April 2021 for reviewing 15 teams of final year IDP/UDP projects (total 70 students) and 10 PG dissertation projects. The projects were evaluated by experts from Industry and Professor from other university accompanied by internal evaluators from the institute. Event was conducted on MS Teams from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.
An expert lecture on “Steam cracker” was arranged by the chemical engineering department on 10th April 2021 through Teams online platform. Mr Utkarsh Mishra, Senior Manager, Reliance Industries Ltd, Jamnagar was the invited speaker of the session. Around 100 students of final and pre-final year were present in the session. Mr Utkarsh had given an overview of the refinery and focused on the steam cracker unit. He explained the role, importance, major key points associated with the cracker unit. He started with the basic fundamentals and explained the cracking and its mechanism in detail. He also talked about the major issues and problems of the unit.
Department of chemical engineering had arranged an online expert talk on “Overview of Large Industry functional groups – Role of Chemical Engineers” on 31st March 2021 for 4th and 6th sem students. Around 120 participants were there in the session delivered by Mr Pradip Shah, Ex VP, RIL. Mr Pradip Shah briefed about the functioning of the chemical plant. He explained very minute details of the same and exposed the students about the real functioning of industry. He explained the basic difference between small, medium and large scale industries and talked about each component of a large scale industry. During his lecture, Mr Pradip had shed some light on the major roles of chemical engineers and talked about designing, troubleshooting, plant maintenance, plant operation, utilities in the plant etc. He also discussed the current scenario of chemical industries and variation into the role of chemical engineer with time.
