CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute

"Innovation in Ceramics and Glass for the mankind"

Ceramic Membrane

Overview

The activity of ceramic membrane started in 1993-94 in this institute. Ceramic Membrane Division was came to existance on December, 2004 and building was constructed in June, 2007. The Division achieved international recognition when it organized “International Conference on Catalysis in Membrane Reactors” (ICCMR8) during 18-21, Dec., 2007.

The R&D activities primarily focused on development of low cost ceramic membranes in tubular configuration including system design and development of prototypes for membrane based separation process.

The ceramic membrane used as support for coating of organic/inorganic materials to get desired size for specific applications at water/wastewater and gas separation process.

The Division is equipped with analytical facility for characterisation of ceramic materials and fluid components. It have in-house facility for fabrication of ceramic hollow fiber, zeolite composite, Pd coating, high temperature gas separation, silicon carbide composite membranes etc.

The Division managed 38 projects including 6 international collaboration till date and currently have 4 ongoing projects. Currently division has 4 scientist and 1 technician.

Areas of Research

Technology Developed

Projects

Current/Ongoing projects

Sl. no	Title	PI/Co-PI	Duration	Funding
1	Development of layered SiC ceramic filter for off –gas cleaning	PI: Dr. Nijhuma Kayal	March 2018-March 2021	DST
2	Development of palladium based membrane over porous stainless-steel substrate for selective separation of hydrogen from mixture of gases	PI: Dr. Subrata Dasgupta	April 2018-April 2021	BRNS

Completed Projects

1.Membrane Technology for Hydrogen Recovery from Low Hydrogen Bearing Refinery off gas by Carbon Molecular Sieve (CMS)-Energy Efficient Technologies (E2++)

2.Development of palladium based membrane for selective separation of hydrogen from hydrogen – helium mixture

3.Preparation of all silica zeolite membrane for gas separation of HI decomposition reaction

4.Feasibility studies of enrichment of BF gas for enhancement of calorific value

5.Ceramic Hollow Fibre Membrane Based Contactor for Natural Gas Purification

6.Ceramic membranes for CO2 Capture in Smelter Off-Gas – Stage

7.Ceramic Materials For Emerging Technologies Involving Liquid and Gas Separation – CSIR Supra Institutional Project of CGCRI (Task- I: Development of technology for manufacturing monolith/ Hollow Fibre support structures & Task- II: Development of Industrial Waste Water Purification Technology based on Ultra-filtration Membrane developed under task I)

8.Cleaning of hot gas from high ash containing low grade Indian Coal

9.Synthesis of oxide bonded porous SiC ceramics by bond phase precursor infiltration technique

10.Synthesis of Novel composite material using coir fibre for engineering application-Coir Board

11.Prototype development using SiC based tubular substrate from cellulosic material for coal based IGCC technology (under task 5 of Supra Institutional Project ‘Ceramic materials for emerging technologies for liquid and gas separation)

12.Development of Hydrophobic Ceramic Hollow Fiber Membrane (HCHFM) for MD-based Domestic Water Purification System

13.Development of Ceramic Membranes for Gas Separation Applications in S-I and Cu-Cl cycles For Clean Energy Production

Divisional Facilities

Scientists

Dr. Subrata Dasgupta, Chief Scientist & Head

Dr. Nandini Das

Dr. Nijhuma Kayal

Dr. Mahesh Kumar Gagrai

Technical/Support Staff

Name	Designation	Contact no.	Expertise
Mr. Gouranga Chalak	Technician (2)	Mob:9800437548, Email: g_chalak@cgcri.res.in, Extn: 3253	Fitting of module & permeability determination, Dimension measurement of ceramic tubes. Operating the Extruder & Mixture machine.

Scholars/Students

Name	Status	Project Title	Joined On	Supervisor
Sarbasree Dutta	SRF		May, 2017	Dr. Nandini Da
Sonali Das	PA		Nov, 2018	Dr. Nandini Das
Hillol Acharjee	JRF		May, 2017	Dr. Nandini Das
Dulal Das	JRF	Development of layered SiC ceramic filter for off –gas cleaning (GAP0261)	May, 2018	Dr. Nijhuma Kayal
Saheli Bhattacharjee	PA		Nov, 2020	Dr. Subrata Dasgupta
Arpita Banerjee	JRF		Aug, 2020	Dr. Subrata Dasgupta

Alumni: Completed Ph.D.

Name	Supervisor
Dr. Jugal Das	Dr. Nandini Das
Dr. Mitali Sen	Dr. Nandini Das
Dr. Biswajeet Bera	Dr. Nandini Das
Dr Sushmita Ghosh	Dr. Subrata Dasgupta
Dr. Debaleena Bhattacharjee	Dr. Subrata Dasgupta
Dr. Sanchita Baitalik	Dr. Nijhuma Kayal
Dr. Ankita Bose	Dr. Nandini Das
Dr. Marakkar Kutty P V Mailam Veedu	Dr. Subrata Dasgupta