Department: Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities-Chemistry

Date: 04-08-2020

Time: 11.00 am To 12.30 am

The department of Basic Sciences and Humanities –Chemistry organized a webinar on 4 August 2020, (Tuesday) at 11 AM, the topic “Fuels from co-
processing of waste plastics”. The speaker was Dr. Shelly Biswas, Assistant
Professor, Department of Space Engineering and Rocketry, Birla Institute of
Technology, Mesra. The webinar was conducted on gotomeeting platform.
Dr. Shelly spoke on the uncontrollable usage of non-biodegradable plastics, due
to Industrialization and modernization, which leads to all kinds of pollution. She
gave her inputs on the material composition of various plastics, utilization of
waste plastics, co-processing of plastics with vacuum residue and plant oil,
characterization of liquid products. The session ended with participant’s questions
and answers. 540 registration were there for the webinar. E-certificate provided
to all participants.