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Prof. Mohan Vithalrao Aware

Professor, Electrical Engineering

Research Areas: Current Loop, Induction Motor, Power Electronics converters, Electric Vehicles, Grid integration, Power Quality Issues for RE

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Research Projects

1. ‘Small-scale Anaerobic Digestion’ under the “Rural Hybrid Energy-Enterprise Systems (RHEES)”, Indo – UK Collaborative Research Initiative on ‘Bridging the Urban and Rural Divide’

Funding Agency : Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi
Principal Investigator : Prof. P. Mahanta, Prof. P.S. Robi,Prof. A.K. Das,Dr. K. Kalita,Dr. L. Barbora
Starting Year : 4-
Funding Amount : 82.68 lakhs
Status: Completed

2. ICom Fluid, International Collaboration on modelling of Fluidized Bed system for clean energy technologies (Marie-Curie project FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES)

Funding Agency : European Commission
Principal Investigator : Prof. Sai Gu, Cranfield University, Prof. P Mahanta ,Prof. Juray De Wilde, UCL Belgium, Dr. P. Chatterjee, CSIRCMERI, Durgapur
Starting Year : 4-
Funding Amount : Exchange programme
Status: Completed

3. Design and Development of Digester for Utilization of Lignocellulosic Waste for Biogas Production

Funding Agency : Defense Research Laboratory, Tezpur
Principal Investigator : Prof. P. Mahanta
Starting Year : 4-
Funding Amount : 9.99 lakhs
Status: Completed

4. Development of Bioelectrodes for Biofuel Cell Applications

Funding Agency : Ministry of New and Renewable, Energy,New Delhi
Principal Investigator : Prof. P. Goswami, Prof. P Mahanta
Starting Year : 3-
Funding Amount : 33.73 lakhs
Status: Completed

5. Studies on structure of enzymes and their interaction with nanostructured materials for bioelectronics devices & other applications

Funding Agency : Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi
Principal Investigator : Prof. P. Goswami, Prof. Vikash Kr. Dubey, Prof. P Mahanta
Starting Year : 3-
Funding Amount : 390.00 lakhs
Status: Completed

6. Design of a 25 KW Electrical Pressurized Circulating Fluidized Bed Unit

Funding Agency : Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore
Principal Investigator : P. Mahanta, U.K. Saha, P. Kalita
Starting Year : 3-
Funding Amount : 35.00 lakhs
Status: Completed

7. Development of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell using indigenously prepared low cost composite bipolar plate

Funding Agency : Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi
Principal Investigator : Dr. A. Verma,Prof. P Goswami and Prof. P Mahanta
Starting Year : 3-
Funding Amount : 13.00 lakhs
Status: Completed

8. Process development for fluoride removal from drinking water utilizing solar energy

Funding Agency : Assam Science Technology & Environment Council (ASTEC),Assam
Principal Investigator : Prof. P.Mahanta, Mrs. L. Barbora, Dr. P. Kalita
Starting Year : 3-
Funding Amount : 2.54 lakhs
Status: Completed

9. Design, development and commercialization of a circulating fluidized bed biomass gasifier

Funding Agency : Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, New Delhi
Principal Investigator : Dr. V.S. Moholkar, Prof. P. Mahanta,Dr. P. Kalita
Starting Year : 3-
Funding Amount : 53.00 lakhs
Status: Completed

10. Design and development of a high performance biogas digester for north eastern region of India

Funding Agency : Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, New Delhi
Principal Investigator : Dr. P. Mahanta, Dr. A. Dewan, Dr. U.K. Saha
Starting Year : 3-
Funding Amount : 9.98 lakhs
Status: Completed

11. Setting up of a technical backup unit (TBU) at IIT Guwahati for R&D interface with KVIC sector

Funding Agency : KVIC, Mumbai
Principal Investigator : Prof. A.D. Sahasrabudhe, Prof. P. Mahanta, Prof. U.K. Saha, Prof. S.K. Kakoty, Prof. R.M. Punkear, Prof. A.K. Das, Prof. A.K. Sarma
Starting Year : 3-
Funding Amount : 42.43 lakhs
Status: Completed

12. Earth radiation budget

Funding Agency : ISRO, Ahmedabad
Principal Investigator : Prof. S.C. Mishra and Prof. P. Mahanta
Starting Year : 3-
Funding Amount : 5.00 lakhs
Status: Completed

13. Biogas Development and Training Centre

Funding Agency : Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, New Delhi
Principal Investigator : Prof. P.Mahanta
Starting Year : 2006-
Funding Amount : 83.85 lakhs
Status: Completed

14. Hybrid Renewable Energy Sustainable Systems for Drying of Agricultural Products

Funding Agency : Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, New Delhi
Principal Investigator : Prof. P. Mahanta, Dr. Anup Paul and Dr. Pankaj Kalita
Starting Year : 2-
Funding Amount : 1.21,68,960 Crores
Status: Ongoing

15. Development and performance evaluation of a 3 kWe biogas based power generation system utilizing lignocellular biomass

Funding Agency : Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, New Delhi
Principal Investigator : Prof. P. Mahanta, Prof. N Sahoo and Dr. Lepakshi Barbora
Starting Year : 2-
Funding Amount : 29.27 lakhs
Status: Ongoing

16. Building Global Engagements for Optimizing Nutrient Recovery from wastes

Funding Agency : ESPRC,UK
Principal Investigator : Prof. Michele L Clarke, University of Nottingham, UK, Prof. P. Mahanta
Starting Year : 2-
Funding Amount : 2.50 lakhs
Status: Completed

17. Development and Analysis of Twisted Two-bladed, Two-stage Savonius Rotor for 500 W Power Generation

Funding Agency : ADnENERGY, U.K
Principal Investigator : Dr. U.K. Saha, Prof. P Mahanta, Dr. N. Sahoo, Mr. D. Bhagawati
Starting Year : 2-
Funding Amount : 8.83 lakhs
Status: Completed

18. Synthesis of green transportation fuels (biomass gasification integrated fischer tropsch)

Funding Agency : Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, New Delhi
Principal Investigator : Dr. V.S. Moholkar, Prof. P.Mahanta
Starting Year : 2-
Funding Amount : 24.70 lakhs
Status: Completed

19. Development of a multi-fuel cooking stove

Funding Agency : Petroleum Conservation and Research Association
Principal Investigator : Prof. P. Mahanta
Starting Year : 2-
Funding Amount : 13.13 lakhs
Status: Completed

20. Development of model to calculate radiactive heat transfer in fuel channel of PHWRS

Funding Agency : AERB, Mumbai
Principal Investigator : Prof. M. Pandey and Prof. P. Mahanta
Starting Year : 2-
Funding Amount : 5.00 lakhs
Status: Completed

21. Modelling and Computation of three dimensional turbulent convective heat transfer for design of energy efficient pin heat exchanger

Funding Agency : Department of Science and Technology
Principal Investigator : Prof. A. Dewan and Prof. P. Mahanta
Starting Year : 2-
Funding Amount : 12.29 lakhs
Status: Completed

22. Design and Development of Compact Cistern System for Blackwater Utilization

Funding Agency : Defense Research Laboratory, Tezpur
Principal Investigator : Prof. P. Mahanta
Starting Year : 18-
Funding Amount : 4.93 lakhs
Status: Completed