Akash Dave, PG student, Chemical (CAPD) 2021 passout has received 3rd prize for his dissertation work under the guidance of Prof. S. M. Dutta under Interlinking of Industries, Academia and Government for the year 2021-22 by GCPC, Gandhinagar.
Mr Kaushik Solanki, Technical Sales Manager, Mazda Ltd. delivered a lecture on “Industrial Wastewater Treatment” on 5th March 2022. Around 30 students of BE 4th semester and ME 4th semester students were present in the session. Overall coordination was done by Dr S. M. Dutta and Prof. T. S. Rajaraman.
Prof. Hiral Pandya published a research paper titled "Pongamia pinnata biodiesel production using cobalt doped ZnO nanoparticles—An analytical study" in the journal "Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, Wiley".
The webinar was organized by Dr Jaimin Vasa MSME Chair in association with Chemical Engineering Department, L D College of Engineering(LDCE), Ahmedabad. The programme was attended by around 100 people including students and professors of Chemical, Plastic and Environment department of LDCE along with industrialists and members of the Advisory Committee.
A patent was published by students and faculty of chemical engineering department titled "Grey TiO2 synthesis through aluminium foil assisted NaBH4 reduction" on 7/1/22.
Dhruti Varsani of 7th sem chemical clears CAT examination with 99.33 percentile.
ME 3rd Semester Students, Rutvik Savani and Vishal Kuril presented papers in the reputed National Level event CHEMCON-2021 at Bhubaneswar, India held on 26-30th December,2021.
One week Faculty Development Program on "Research for Sustainable Progress" was organized by Department of Chemical Engineering L D College of Engineering, Ahmadabad, during 16th December to 22nd December 2021 in virtual mode. This training program was approved by AICTE and was sponsored by ISTE. Major objective of this program was to expose the participants in the field of recent technological development. More than 50 faculties from various technical institutions across India have participated in this program. The inauguration was held on 16th of December 2021 in presence of Shri Ashish Soparkar, Meghamani Organics Ltd as Chief Guest and Dr Sachin Parikh, Joint Director, DTE as Guest of Honor and Paton of the event, Dr Rajul Gajjar. All appreciated the motto of program and emphasized on the need to recent developments in the field of Chemical engineering and allied branches. The program highlighted the technological developments in the field of chemical engineering and its effective implementation in industry. Recent research trends and innovations in chemical engineering and allied fields with a focus on overall sustainable development were addressed in the program. All the sessions were very useful and informative. Newer or thirst research areas of recent and future time were brought in light. Experts were from premier academic institutes and R&D organizations and they talked about recent research developments in their fields of expertise. Special sessions on stress management (Art of Living) and NEP – 2020 were also organized in view of present pandemic and academic scenario.
An expert lecture by Prof. S. B. Thakore, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Department was organized for students of BE 3rd sem and ME 1st sem n the topic of "Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics". Around 45 students participated in the expert talk.
Prof. R. P. Bhatt, Assitant Professor of chemical engineering department, successfully completed her PhD on "Studies in Vapour Liquid Equilibria for separation of Azeotropic mixtures/Dilute solutions using salts".
