Faculty and staff members have received accolades in various National and International platforms:
Appointed as Nirma Limited Chair Professor in Chemical Technology
01 Dec 2021
An Indian Patent Granted on A Novel Production Process of Biodiesel to Institute of Technology
02 Nov 2021
Dr M H Joshipura received Best Paper Award at International Conference ADCHE-2020 Dehradun February 2020
07 Feb 2020
Dr Jayesh Ruparelia was awarded with Charutar Vidya Mandal, Vallabh Vidyanagar Gujarat Award for Best Engineering College Teacher on 29th November 2019.
29 Nov 2019
Member of Expert Appraisal Committee constituted by MoEFCC, Government of India
01 Feb 2019
ISTE-IPCL National Award for guiding Best M Tech Thesis in Chemical Engineering 2018
29 Jan 2019
ISTE-IPCL National Award for guiding Best M Tech Thesis in Chemical Engineering 2017
08 Jan 2018
Best Paper Award for the paper presented on “Comparative study of electrolytes used in the synthesis of cocktail dye based dye sensitised solar cell” in International Conference on Energy and Infrastructure Management ICEIM, on 15-16 February 2018 organised by School of Petroleum Management, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University.
16 Feb 2018
Best Paper Award in National Conference on 'Environmental Challenges for New India' organized by ESDA in collaboration with CSIR-NEERI and NESA, Delhi
11 Jun 2018
Best Paper Award at International Conference on Energy and Infrastructure Management ICEIM, PDPU Gandhinagar, 18-19 February 2016
19 Feb 2016
Nilesh Khalse and Narasimha Reddy Ravuru won first prize (Certificate of merit and 2000.00Rs Cash) for poster presentation at VNIT, Nagpur
03 Apr 2016
won first prize (Certificate of merit and 2000.00Rs Cash) for paper presentation at VNIT, Nagpur
02 Apr 2016
Best Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Department for teaching methodology for the year 2015 awarded by Nirma University
01 Jan 2016
Best Paper Award for the paper presented on "Recent Advances in the Fabrication of Polymer based organic Solar cell" in International Conference on Energy and Infrastructure Management (ICEIM), on 18-19 February 2016 organised by School of Petroleum Management, Pandit Deendayal Petroluem University, Gujarat.
19 Feb 2016
Indian patent Published 1829/DEL/2014 in collaboration with IIT Delhi and FITT entitled 'Triethylenetetrammonium Lactate Ionic liquid as carbon dioxide absorber, method of its synthesis, compositions and use thereof'
12 May 2016
Indian Patent (Published) on “A novel process for preparing perovskite catalysts by reactive grinding”
17 Jul 2015
Indian Patent (Published) on "An improved Planetary Ball Mill"
26 Jun 2015
Editorial Board Member in Journals
20 Mar 2014
ISTE-IPCL award for Guiding M.Tech Thesis entitled "Design and Simulation of Cryogenic Columns in Air Separation Unit" in year 2014
01 Nov 2014
Authored technical article on “Polymer solar cell as energy option” received First position in competition organised by Nandini Chemical Journal organised at National Level in December 2013
31 Dec 2013
ECMA's Learning Initiative Project Award for guiding PhD Student
15 Sep 2012
Best Engineering-College-Teacher Award (Gujarat State) by ISTE
10 Nov 2012
Certificate of participation for Earthian initiative (Earthian-2012) by Wipro
16 May 2012
Best Research Paper published by UG Student in High Impact Factor International Journal by IIChE
24 Dec 2011
ISTE’s Kerala Government Best Design Project National Award 2010
10 Dec 2010
INAE’s Innovative Student Project National Awards 2009 and 2010
26 Nov 2010
Biographical-Note with photograph published in Asian Admirable Achievers, (2010) Vol. IV, page no. 351, published by Rifacimento International (Publisher of Reference Books in the Genre of Who's Who and Business Directories)
24 Aug 2010
Best Paper in Journal of Indian Chemical Engineer (Tailor and Francis) in year 2010 for the paper titled "Development of Compound Specific Cohesion Function Relationship for SRK Equation of State"
29 Dec 2010
Consultancy Research Fellowship for the year 2009-2010 by Consultancy Development Center of Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India to the B.Tech. Project
09 Apr 2009
IIChE’s Achary P C Ray Best Design Project Natioanl Award
19 Dec 2009
Best Project Mentor Award by NirmaLabs
17 Apr 2009
Dr A V Rama Rao Best Ph.D. Thesis and Research National Award by IIChE
18 Dec 2009
Best Polytechnic Teacher for Gujarat State for year 2009
30 Dec 2009
Best Paper Award for the paper presented on “Biofuel (Ethanol & Biodiesel):Applications as sustainable fuel for Internal Combustion Engine” in National Conference on 8 February 2008, organised by Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology (SKIT), Jaipur.
10 Feb 2008
Second best poster presentation at National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Supramolecular Research, Department of Chemistry, Gujarat University; 30-31 March 2007
31 Mar 2007
The Storm Case Challenge “Industrial Problem Solving” competitions organized by the Thermax Global Pvt. Ltd. for Chemical Engineering Students across India. The challenge involved a real-life industrial problem.The top five teams, selected from across India, proceeded into the final round. The Department takes immense pride as all the Three Prizes 1st, 2nd and 3rd were bagged by students from Chemical Engineering Department. The winning teams received cash prizes of Rs. 50,000/-, Rs. 30,000/- and Rs. 20,000 respectively.
Date of Winners Announced:
10th February, 2020
Names of student winners (team wise)
1st Position:
Nayan Sharma (Team Leader)
Stuti Vora
C Divya
Shikruti Mardaraj
Naimish Mavadiya
2nd Position:
Parin Shah (Team Leader)
Bhavya Mehta
Vikram Kataria
Jay Asalaliya
Sahil Bhimani
3rd Position
Shankhesh Nahta (Team Leader)
Ruchit Patel
Urvish Mehta
Hunny Kukdeja
Poorvesh Sanghavi
Dhananjay Dileep, an alumnus of the department now, received “Graduate Research Initiative Fellowship” and the “James Katzer Energy Fellowship” as a graduate student at Iowa State University
Ms Shivangi Goswami, a student of MTech (EPD), won the first position in ISTE-IPCL Best M Tech Thesis Award in Chemical Engineering for the thesis titled, “An Environment Friendly Approach : In-Vessel Composting and Anaerobic Digestion for Methane Gas Generation from Secondary Sludge of GESCSL, CETP-Vatva, Ahmedabad” (January 2019)
Ms Parwathi Pillai, a student of MTech (EPD), won the second position in ISTE-IPCL Best MTech Thesis Award in Chemical Engineering for the thesis titled, “Instantaneous Generation of Sodium Hypochlorite Disinfectant by Electrochemical Method”(December 2017)
Ms Darshana Poshiya, a student of MTech (EPD), won the first position in ISTE-IPCL Best MTech Thesis Award in Chemical Engineering for the thesis titled, “Affordable Pd Doped Perovskite based Catalytic Converter for Abating Automotive Emission” (December 2017)
Mr Rushabh Patel and Mr Meet Shah, students of BTech Semester VI, won the best paper award in the National Youth Summit for their paper titled, “Solar Photoreactors: A Comprehensive Review” held at B.K. School of Management (January 2017)
Ms Ashwini Karlekar, a student of MTech (ES), won the first position in ISTE-IPCL Best MTech Thesis Award in Chemical Engineering for the thesis titled, “Pinch Analysis and Process Integration in Petrochemical Plant” (February 2016)
