Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure (DST-FIST) Initiative
With assistance from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the FIST initiative, the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Guwahati has started a transformative journey to improve its research capacity. Through this funding, the department has been able to establish state-of-the-art research facilities that support study in cutting-edge fields of science and technology, encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, and inspire innovation.
The following DST-FIST funded facilities have been successfully installed and implemented:
High pressure TGA is being used by many Faculty members for wide applications, such as pyrolysis, gasification, combustion, adsorption, catalyst characterizations.
Groups working on underground coal utilization techniques, thermal degradation of carbonaceous materials under pressurized environment, performance of materials at elevated applications, integration of processes such as catalytic reaction and selective separation in high pressure environment are exploring HPTGA facilities.
In the area of Fluid Mechanics, stereo-PIV facility is being used for flow visualization, velocity measurement, phase distribution, temperature distribution and species distribution in single phase as well as gas-liquid, liquid-liquid and gas-liquid solid flows for large scale systems as well as microfluidic systems.
Some of the projects are hydrodynamics of jet-driven liquid-liquid mixing column, velocimetry measurements of pore-scale velocity field during nanoparticles assisted alkaline flooding, droplet size distribution in a spray, hydrodynamics of gas-liquid flow in stirred tank reactors, multiphase flow in microreactors and flow studies in in-vitro vascular vessels.
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is a surface-sensitive analytical technique used to measure the elemental composition, chemical states, and electronic structure of materials by analyzing the ejected photoelectrons from a sample exposed to X-ray radiation.
XPS is installed at the Central Instruments Facility, IIT Guwahati and being utilized by different faculty members from across the institute.
The PIV and HPTGA facilities are open to outside the department (Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Biosciences and Bioengineering) and Centers/Schools (School of Energy, Centre for Environment etc.) at IIT Guwahati as well as North East institutes (such as Tezpur University, Dibrugarh University) for effective and wide utilization.
The XPS facilities is installed at Central Instruments Facility (CIF), IIT Guwahati and being used extensively by Institute community as well as other institutes from North East region.
