S.No.

Name of the Project

Sanctioned by

Total Amount (Rs.)

1

Flash Pyrolysis of Agro, Industrial and Municipal Wastes

PI : Dr. B.C. Pillai

MNRE

(203/01/07/2002-BM

dated 29.09.2003)

54.20 lakhs

(MNES: 38.70 +

KITS : 15.50)

2

An investigation on the Low Temperature Flash Vapourisation Process for Desalination

PI : Dr. Justin Robert

DST

(SP/S9/Z-05/2002

dated 25.06.2002)

22.76 lakhs

(DST - 14.30 + KITS - 8.46)

3

Design and Development of Phase Change Heat Sinks for Electronic Cooling Systems

PI : Dr. B.C. Pillai

M/s. Hewlett Packard, Bangalore

(GPS/L/GEN/41038/03 dated 24.04.03)

6.0 lakhs

S.No.

Name of the Project

Sanctioned by

Total Amount (Rs.)

1

Low Pressure Vapourisation studies using high Flow Conical Swirl Jets for Desalination

PI : Dr. Justin Robert

DAE

(2004/36/3-BRNS/291 dated 02.06.2004)

28.71 lakhs

2

Studies on low pressure distillation for Desalination in Thermal Power Stations using waste heat energy

PI : Dr. Justin Robert

DST

(SR/S3/MECE/15/2004 dated 12.07.2004)

22.80 lakhs

S.No.

Name of the Project

Sanctioned by

Total Amount (Rs.)

1

Setting up multiproduct line FPTC in the field of fruits and vegetables processing and bakery products at University

Ministry of Food Processing Industries

Ref: 4-56/2004 FPRC dated 30.06.2005

7.50 lakhs

2

Setting up of Quality Control laboratory for Food testing

Ministry of Food Processing Industries (Ref: MFPI/LAB/ 2004/ 153 dt. 22.11.2005

82.99 lakhs

3

Creation of infrastructure facilities for B.Tech. and M.Tech. courses in Food Technology

Ministry of Food Processing Industries (Ref: 5-58/2004 HRD dated 14.03.2006)

50.00 lakhs

S.No.

Name of the Project

Sanctioned by

Total Amount (Rs.)

1

R&D project on 'Preservation of selected vegetables and fruits by 1) improving quality and shelf life of minimally processed products and 2) development of a new range of dehydrated products having superior rehydration and keeping qualities'

Ministry of Food Processing Industries

Ref: 68/MFPI/R&D/2004 dated 04.09.2006

253.80 lakhs

S.No.

Name of the Project

Sanctioned by

Total Amount (Rs.)

1

Heat Pipe based heat flux measurement system

PI: Dr. Z. Robert Kennedy

DAE

No.2007/36/25-BRNS/1146

Dt. 23.08.07

20.37 lakhs

2

Study of the Factors affecting the Long-term oxidation stability of jatropha and pongamia Bio-diesel'

PI: Dr. S. Vasanth Kumar

DST

DST/TSG/AF/2006/22 Dt.26.03.2008

27.28 lakhs

S.No.

Name of the Project

Sanctioned by

Total Amount (Rs.)

1

'Impact of socio economic changes with Special reference to the construction of roads, establishment of plantations and forest department policies in the indigenous belief systems and nutritional intake of the primitive tribals of the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu'

PI: Dr. Mathew K. Sebastian

ICSSR

F.No. RP 02 / 061 / 2008 / RP, dated 08/12/2008.

3.69 lakhs

2

'Software for exam time-tabling and scheduling using hybrid genetic algorithm'

PI: Dr. R. Mercy Shanthi

DST

SR/S4/MS:525/08, dated 20.04.2009

2.80  lakhs

'Conservation of Traditional Knowledge about medicinal plants among the Kurumba tribals of Nilgiri District through survey, documentation, awareness generation and capacity building'

PI: Dr. Mathew Sebastian

Tamil Nadu State Council for Science & Technology 

TNSCST/S&T Projects/TD/SS/

2008-2009, dated 18.5.2009

'Stylistic and Computational Linguistic study of selected Indian Literary Works in English for Indianization of English'

PI: Dr. J. Sundarsingh

UGC

(Sanctioned but amount not received)

'Survey and Proximate and Mineral Analysis of Edible Wild Plants of the Tamil Nadu Part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve'

PI: Dr. Mathew K. Sebastian

UGC

(Sanctioned but amount not received)

'Study on the status of p53 protein and dendritic cells in HPV - associated uterine cervical cancer'

PI: Dr. V.M. Berlin Grace

UGC

(Sanctioned but amount not received)

Launching M.Tech. course in  Nanotechnology

PI: Dr. B.C.Pillai

DST

SR/NM/PG-04/2008, dated 25.02.2009