Gaurav Chugh, student of third year chemical engineering, Deenbandhu Chottu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal, has received the “Certificate of Registration of Design” from the government patent office for his polymer oxy thermic reactor.He has designed the reactor for the treatment of plastic waste in which the waste is decomposed. In this process, harmful toxins and gases are not produced and industrially useful products are obtained. The reactor can be suitably scaled up for any kind of municipal or industrial waste load and is self-dependent by the power produced by the reactor itself. This design is an improvement over the two commercial designs available at the moment.
Gaurav has been working on this reactor for almost two years in the department under the guidance of faculty members. He has also filed for the patent which is under scrutiny and at final stages.He was recently felicitated by Jagannath Paharia, Governor of Haryana, at a function organised at University Guest House. The Governor congratulated him for his excellent work and encouraged him for further work in this area.
Sh. H. S. Chahal, Vice-Chancellor of the university, also congratulated Gaurav and the Department of Chemical Engineering on this outstanding achievement and said the university looked forward to many more such patents to be gained by students through their innovative work. He assured that all kind of facilities would be made available to the students to take this design to the commercial scale.
Dr J. S. Rana, chairperson of the department briefed about the design to the Governor and others present on the occasion.Deputy commissioner Pankaj Aggarwal, Registrar R. K. Arora, chairperson Rekha, PRO Mohini Ghosh, and faculty members of the department and other disciplines were also present.
