Pritam Biswas    PhD Scholar    Room No: 145    Department of Chemical Engineering    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay    Powai, Mumbai – 400 076      Email   : pritam.b@iitb.ac.in, pritam035528@gmail.com    Tel      : 022 - 2576 4264    Fax     : 022-2572 6895

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Research Interests:

Silver nanoparticle-activated carbon composites for water disinfection.

Thesis abstract:

    Silver is well known for its antibacterial activity. In the present work silver nanoparticles are  

synthesized and impregnate on activated, porous carbon blocks for developing the technology 

of water purification and disinfection. The goal is to provide low cost, potable water, free of 

microbes. Silver nanoparticles interact and kill the microbes  (like E. coli) present in drinking

water, whereas activated carbon acts as efficient adsorbent. Nanoparticle structure and related 

adsorption and diffusion issues in carbon nanopores is also investigated by performing

Molecular dynamics simulations.

Awards:

1.      IIChE Ambuja's Young Researcher's Award in CHEMCON 2010.

Conferences:

1.      P. Biswas., ,R.Chowdhury, C.Bhattacharjee, “Production of Bioethanol from Dairy Waste”, presented in National conference

     on Green Energy and Sustainable Development, Heritage, Institute of Technology, Kolkata, 2010.