RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

 

The Department of Applied Sciences which was established in the year 2001 has evolved into a multidisciplinary department which functions in diverse yet complementary fields and helps the students to improve their technological and communication skills. The department encourages research in various fields enabling the faculty members to innovate, create and disseminate knowledge. The faculty members of the department are working in diverse and exciting fields like Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Communication Skills, Literature and are involved in continuous up gradation of their knowledge to guide and shape the careers of students in a better way.

In the study, the effect of leachate recirculation on degradation of municipal solid   wastes will be determined by laboratory scale landfill reactors. The options that will be studied and compared with the traditional landfill are: leachate recirculation, landfill aeration, and aeration with leachate recirculation. Leachate quality will be regularly monitored by the means of pH, alkalinity, total dissolved solids,  conductivity, oxidation–reduction potential, chloride, chemical oxygen demand, ammonia, and total Kjeldahl nitrogen etc. The goals of leachate recirculation typically are: Speed waste stabilization, Enhance gas production, Increase available landfill airspace, Improve leachate storage and treatment; thereby reducing leachate management costs, reduce the length and cost of post-closure activities.

 Graft Copolymerization of acrylonitrile onto dextrin using potassium persulphate (PPS)/ferrous ammonium sulphate(FAS) as a redox pair was studied in an aqueous medium. Optimum conditions for grafting were worked out adopting procedure of keeping one parameter variable and all others constant at a time. Reaction conditions for optimum grafting were evaluated for constant weight of dextrin. These included amount of solvent , concentrations of monomer and initiator, reaction time and temperature. Optimum percent grafting (Pg ) 209.3% was reported in 25ml of solvent and at 1.525mol L-1 concentration of acrylonitrile.. The Optimum concentration of potassium persulphate (KPS) and ferrous ammonium sulphate (FAS) was 6.000 X10-2and 5.785 X 10-2respectively,  for the highest percent grafting (Pg). The optimum temperature for grafting was 600C. and reaction time is one hour. The graft copolymers were characterized by FTIR and nitrogen analysis.     

Name Mr. Anand Bajaj
Designation Lecturer- Communication Skills
Title Shashi Tharoor’s Show Business and Riot: A  Bakhtinian Perspective
Status Ongoing

In the dissertation life of Mikhail Bakhtin—a Russian critic, scholar and philosopher has been discussed and various concepts given by him to analyze a novel have been explained. It has also been pointed out how it is difficult to classify Bakhtin as he combines tenets of both Formalism and Marxism. Then the literary world- view of Shashi Tharoor has been established by referring to  his views about India and Indian Democracy. Further the similarities between the life experiences of Bhakhtin and Shashi Tharoor have been highlighted. Thereafter concepts like Heteroglossia, Dialogism, Chronotope and Carnivalization have been used to analyze Show Business and Riot --the second and third novels of Shashi Tharoor. Through the application of these concepts it has been established how these two novels are Post Modernistic at the level of form but  go beyond Post Modernism at the level of content.

Name Mr. Narinder K Sharma
Designation Lecturer- Communication Skills
Title Signification of Desire in Selected Novels of Anita Desai
Status Ongoing

The fictional world of Anita Desai offers a wide range of duality-ridden structures having strong psycho-semantic renderings / interpretations. The major dualities spread in the fiction of Desai are of masculine vs. feminine, tradition vs. modernity, illusion vs. reality, body vs. soul, self vs. other, oriental vs. occidental, spirit vs. flesh, rational vs. irrational, emotion vs. intellect, esoteric vs. exoteric, lack vs. desire, presence vs. absence, attachment vs. detachment etc. The mentioned dualities become foregrounded with the use of the technique of counter-pointing one issue with the other connoting darker or brighter aspects of existence. The supporting technical characteristics of her writing connected with the motif of dualities are of recurrent metaphors, metonymic parallelism, ironic reversals, frequent flashbacks, cultural coding, stream-of-consciousness etc.  The patterns that she weaves are essentially dualistic in nature. The present research study aims at exploring a new dimension in the fiction of Anita Desai as extensive and detailed research is possible in this direction.

Microwave chemistry has opened up several new avenues in organic chemistry.MAOS has changed the world of organic chemistry and drug discovery and it would be wise to embrace this new technology or be left lagging behind with conventional heating methodologies. Heterocyclic compounds like pyridine, benzimidazole, triazoles, thiazolidinone etc. represent a very important group of organic compound because many of these exhibit significant biological activity. In view of these importances we have planned to synthesize a new class of combinational molecules in which these moieties are present with enhanced biological activity under microwave irradiation.

Name Mr. Ashwani Kumar
Designation Lecturer - Mathematics
Title Non Bipartite Matching and Tutte-Berge Formulae
Status Ongoing

A basic result on matching in arbitrary graphs, not necessarily bipartite graphs, was found by Tutte [1947]. It characterizes graphs that have a perfect matching. A perfect matching or a 1-factor is a matching M that covers all the vertices of the graph. So M partitions the vertex set of the graph.
            Berge observed that Tutte’s theorem implies a min-max formula for the maximum size of matching in a graph, which is the Tutte-Berge formula.