ANURAG MUDGAL, Dr.

ANURAG MUDGAL, Dr.

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I am working at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar as Associate Professor since January 2014. I started my career as an Industrial engineer before coming to academia. I did my M. Tech and Ph.D from IIT Delhi. Few credentials for understanding and building up an idea are:

 

1.          My whole Ph.D thesis on water desalination was published in the journal of desalination in 2011 in form of three papers.

2.          I received a grant of £ 6000/- under Newton fund scheme by Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, last year for a collaborative project work at Aston University, Birmingham under Newton Collaboration Programme (NRCP/1415/189).

3.          I worked on feasibility of Robust and efficient desalination powered by sustainable thermal energy along with Dr Philip Davies of Aston University jointly for a period of three months starting from May 2015 to August 2015. During his visit to UK, I also attended – together with Dr Philip Davies of Aston University– an international workshop held at University of Oxford (5th Oxford Water and Membranes Research Event, June 28-30) where he met and interacted with a number of prominent researchers in the fields of water treatment and desalination.

4.           I received a Financial support for project entitled “Solar Powered High Recovery Desalination (SPHRD) to provide clean water” in form of a grant to     support fabrication of a prototype of the proposed mechanism. The three year duration project (DST/TM/WTI/2K15/219) is funded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Main objectives of the project are:

 

•             Design and development of a thermodynamically efficient desalination system that will run on Steam Rankine cycle or Organic Rankine Cycle

 

I have also contributed to multidisciplinary research work focusing on the impacts of salinization and the potential of desalination even to increase productivity and quality in agriculture. Thus he has co-authored joint papers on the issue of presence of heavy metals and salts that are discharged by industries as effluent and adversely affect yield and quality of crops. This is becoming a serious threat for human health especially in emerging economies where process industries are mushrooming in the race for development and many social issues related to human health are being compromised. I believe that the awareness and first-hand exposure of these broad issues may be helpful in resolving some of these in coming time.

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Industry experience

Education: PhD

Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor

Years of experience: 20 years or above

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