Course Name: Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery

Course abstract

Since last two decades, researchers worldwide have drawn their attention to biomass based fuels as well as other value added products as biomass is not only renewable but also CO2 neutral. This course will provide an insight to the basics of biomass, various conversion technologies and the different types of products that can be obtained upon successful conversion. In first few lectures types biomass, their structure and composition has been discussed followed by details on various pre-treatment technologies currently adapted to produce cellulose.


Course Instructor

Media Object

Prof. Kaustubha Mohanty

Kaustubha Mohanty has obtained his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute Technology Kharagpur and is currently working as a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute Technology Guwahati. He has more than 12 years of teaching and research experience at IIT Guwahati. His key research areas are biofuels, bioseparation, biological wastewater treatment, membrane technology, ionic liquids, and microalgae biorefinery and biomass pyrolysis. He has published more than 120 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited one book on Membrane Technology and Applications (Taylor & Francis, USA). He has an h-index of 27 and i10 index of 57 along with more than 2950 citations. He has supervised twelve PhD students and fifteen more are currently pursuing their PhD research under his supervision. He is involved in various sponsored and consultancy projects, four of which are currently running. He is an Editor of Journal of Chemistry; Associate Editor of The Journal of Institution of Engineers (India) Series: E; Associate Editor of Research Journal of Environmental Sciences; Review Editor of Frontiers in Bioenergy and Biofuel and Editorial board member of various journals. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK and fellow of Institution of Engineers, India. He is also Member of Society of Chemical Industry, London; Member of Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers and Life Member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has served IITG in various capacities as Chairman of Cultural board and Head of Career Development Centre.
More info

Teaching Assistant(s)

No teaching assistant data available for this course yet
 Course Duration : Jan-Apr 2022

  View Course

 Enrollment : 14-Nov-2021 to 31-Jan-2022

 Exam registration : 13-Dec-2021 to 18-Mar-2022

 Exam Date : 23-Apr-2022

Enrolled

Will be announced

Registered

Will be announced

Certificate Eligible

Will be announced

Certified Category Count

Gold

Will be announced

Silver

Will be announced

Elite

Will be announced

Successfully completed

Will be announced

Participation

Will be announced

Success

Elite

Gold





Legend

Final Score Calculation Logic

Enrollment Statistics

Total Enrollment: 1379

Assignment Statistics




Score Distribution Graph - Legend

Assignment Score: Distribution of average scores garnered by students per assignment.
Exam Score : Distribution of the final exam score of students.
Final Score : Distribution of the combined score of assignments and final exam, based on the score logic.