PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, April 26: National Metallurgical Laboratory ( NML ), a leading CSIR lab based at Burmamines here is organising One Week One Lab campaign to showcase technological innovations.
The main objective of the CSIR-NML One Week One Lab program is to identify the needs of the region and industries and provide scientific solutions.
The third day of events today at the laboratory included the continuation of “Technology Challenge Hackathon” for students, researchers and technocrats of ITI, Diploma, UG, PG, PhD and Industries, with a vision to obtain outreach to society at large. Around 11 teams were selected for the final round presentation in the Industrial Problem Solving (IPS) contest.
Problem statements received from Tata Steel, Jindal Steel, Saint Gobain and CSIR NML R&D projects were attempted to be solved by the participating teams.
The participants presented detailed ideas and solutions for problems on ferroalloys, steel making, Industrial and e-waste management and mineral processing.
A panel of senior scientists Sanjay Agarwal, Ganesh Chalavadi and Lalit Kumar Meena interacted with the teams and judged the presentations.
Sovan Kumar Patra and Yashraj Kanaskar from Tata Steel stood as first award winners for their presentation on the solution for the problem “Reduction of Carbon Footprint in Ferroalloys”, and Adhiraj Kanrar and Sambit Tripathy, Project Assistants from CSIR-NML received second award in the competition for their solution for the problem “Utilizing AI Based Nozzles in Continuous Casting Operations to Minimize Water Consumption”.
