Research

Research areas:

  • Air Pollution, Applied Hydrology, Bioremediation, Composite Materials, Concrete Structures, Durability Of Concrete, Geo-Environmental Engineering, Groundwater Flow Modelling, Groundwater Quality Management, Heavy Metal Pollution Monitoring & Remediation, Intelligent Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering & Air Pollution, Mine Slope Stability Analysis, Open Channel Hydraulics, Pavement Materials, Soil Stabilisation, Solid Waste Management, Structural Dynamics, Wastewater Treatment, Water Quality Assessment, Assessment & Remediation of Emerging Pollutants in Water, Climate Change, Ecosystem Assessment & Management, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Numerical Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering, Traffic Flow Modelling, Capacity, Level of Service, Driver Behaviour.

Current Recent Projects:

Name of the Principal Investigator/ Co-Investigator and title of the project

Name of the Funding agency

Type (Government/Non-Government)

Funds provided (INR in lakhs)

Duration of the project

Tanushree Bhattacharya (PI)/ Bindhu Lal (Co-PI)

Prediction of Particulate Matter and Gaseous Pollutant Concentration Through ANN, PNN and CART Models And Comparison With Calpuff and Aermod In Singrauli Coal Mines

Coal India Limited R&D, Ministry of Coal

Govt.

85.25 Lakhs

 

2021-2024

Indrajit Roy (PI)

“Effect of Blasting on Opencast Mine Dump and development of relationship between Blast Induced Vibration and Dump Design.”

 

Coal India Limited R&D, Ministry of Coal

Govt

33

2021-2024

R Naresh Kumar (PI)/ Jawed Iqbal (Co-PI)

Modeling Carbonaceous Aerosol Source Influence and Atmospheric Effects

 

MoEFCC

Govt.

106.0774

2017-22

Sukalyan Chakraborty (PI)

Arsenic enrichment in agricultural soils with potential impacts on crops and food security of Sahibganj, Jharkhand, India”.

DST-SERB

Govt.

19

2013 - 2017

Sukalyan Chakraborty (PI)

Environmental Consequences and Reclamation Options for coal mining Activities in Charhi & Kuju of Jharkhand, India”.

UGC-BSR

Govt.

6

2014-2016

Indrajit Roy (PI), Anand Sinha, Bindhu Lal, Sudeshna Chakrabarty (Co-PI)

Development of guidelines for design of all tiers of shovel-dumper dump above dragline dump, with delineation of phreatic surface, within dragline dump, throughout the year and validation study on two dragline mines of Coal India Limited (CIL) 

Coal India Limited R&D, Ministry of Coal

Govt.

75.3

2018-2021

Indrajit Roy (PI)

Development of guidelines to predict optimum distance between dragline & Shovel-dumper dump. 

Coal India Limited R&D, Ministry of Coal

Govt.

27.3

2013-2016

Tanushree Bhattacharya (PI)

Mobility, Bioaccessibility and Source Apportionment Study of Toxic Heavy Metals in Indoor and Outdoor Dust Environment: An Isotope Fingerprinting Approach,

SERB-DST

Govt.

41.907

2017-2020

Kirti Avishek (co PI)

Drought Vulnerability Assessment for Bihar and Maharashtra

IWMI Sri Lanka

UN Organization

6.05

2014-2015

 Kirti Avishek (PI)

Validation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in 785 schools across Jharkhand state under WASH programme.

UNICEF, Ranchi

UNICEF, Ranchi

15.4 

2019-2020

 

Previous projects:

Faculty involved

Title of the project

Funding Agency

Completed date

Amount

Dr. Bindu Lal

Study of Climate changes due to global warming in Jharkhand and a new intelligent model for air pollutant concentration prediction

UGC

Completed 

1,00,000

Dr. R. R. Sahay

Flood forecasting of Kosi river through ANN

UGC

Completed

2,00,000

Dr. R. R. Sahay

Flood modeling of North Bihar rivers using soft computing techniques

AICTE

Completed

5,50,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Development of guidline for safe dump profile of dragline mines of Coal India.

Sactioning authority-Coal India Limited (CIL) R&D grant for carrying out research on coal related projects at three opencast mining sites

CIL, Kolkata

Completed

-

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope Stability Study of Fatehpur block

Visa Power, Chattisgarah

Completed

3,50,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope Stability Study of Gare-Pelma2

Lanco Coal Company

Completed

2,00,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

1.Slope Stability Study of Umer opencast mines (western quarry) of WCL

 

2.Slope Stability Study of Ummer opencast mine (eastern quarry)

3. Slope Stability Study of Surekha Lignite mine.

Wstern Coalfields Limited

 

Gujrat Mineral Development corporation

Completed

3,50,000

 

 

 

3,00,000

 

5,00,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope Stability Study of Mahan block.

Essar

Completed

3,50,000

Dr. Sidhartha Sengupta

Influence of stress path on behavior of clyey soils under plane stain condition.

UGC

2011-13

1,68,000

Dr. Sidhartha Sengupta

Behaviour of piled raft foundation in layered soils under eccentric vertical loading.

DST

2012-15

8,10,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Stability study of embedded in the back-filled dump of opencast mines of Coal India.

CMPDI, Ranchi

2008-10

5,50,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of Highwall of Tikak Extension, N E Coalfields, Assam for submission to DGMS.

N E Coalfields Assam

2008-10

2,00,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of Sasti mine of WCL

Western Coalfields Nagpur

2008-10

3,40,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of External Dump of Tikak Extn, N.E. Coalfields, Assam accepted by MOEF for environmental clearance

N E Coalfields Assam

2008-10

2,70,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of slime dam at joda iron ore mines of Tata Steel

Tata Steel

2008-10

1,20,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of Gevra, Kusmunda, Dipka and Baroud opencast mines of SECL accepted by MOEF for environmental clearance after presentatation to EAC experts of MOEF,New Delhi

S.E.Coalfield,Bilaspur

2008-10

6,00,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of jhingurdah opencast mines of NCL for submission to DGMS

Northern Coalfield,Singrauli

2008-10

4,00,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of Bhurkunda & Tapin mines of CCL

CCL,Ranchi

2011

2,50,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of Dudhichua opencast mines of NCL for submission to DGMS

NCL,Singrauli

2011

3,50,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of Chatti-Bariatu coal mining block,NTPC

Delhi

2011

2,70,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of railway cutting near Ramgarh for broad gauge line from Ranchi to Barka-kana

Mittal Group

2011

1,00,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of lignite block

Gujrat Mineral Dev. Corp Ltd.

2011

5,00,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of Bina opencast mines of NCL for submission to MoEF

NCL

2011

2,00,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope stability study of Gondegaon opencast of WCL

WCL

2011

3,50,000

Dr. Indrajit Roy

Slope Stability study of Ukni opencast mines of WCL

WCL

2011

3,50,000

Number of research scholars in the department : 31