Spotlight Innovation

No Severe Ozone Depletion in the Tropics

No Severe Ozone Depletion in the Tropics

A ground-breaking study led by Prof. Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath from the Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-Kharagpur), in collaboration with international researchers, has refuted previous claims of a severe ozone hole in the tropical stratosphere. The study provides reassurance that there is no significant ozone depletion in the tropics and no associated health threat. The recent study entitled “No Severe Ozone Depletion in the Tropical Stratosphere in Recent Decades," challenges earlier assertions of a year-round massive ozone hole in the tropics. The previous research suggested that such an ozone hole…
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The Paperless Professor

The Paperless Professor

The e-Library of India developed by IIT Kharagpur wins at World Summit Award 2021 As we know a book is a gift that you can open again and again and this thought has inspired the ingenious innovators of IIT Kharagpur to develop the National Digital Library of India (NDLI). NDLI, developed by Dr. Partha Pratim Das, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering and his team of researchers from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and sponsored by the Ministry of Education, India- has won the prestigious World Summit Award (WSA) 2021 for Learning and Education. The National Digital Library of…
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REALIZING THE METAVERSE: ‘BETAVERSE’ WINS THE SAMSUNG INNOVATION AWARD 2021

REALIZING THE METAVERSE: ‘BETAVERSE’ WINS THE SAMSUNG INNOVATION AWARD 2021

A few weeks prior to Facebook’s Meta announcement plunged the world into a new era of social media connectedness and metaverses, some of the most brilliant minds of the country were competing to create metaverse technologies of their own in the 2021 Samsung Innovation Award Silver Jubilee Edition. This year’s competition was won by Ojas Deshmukh, a third-year dual degree B.Tech Biotechnology student at IIT Kharagpur for his Betaverse project. He is also the Managing Head of Computer Graphics Society and a Head at SWARM Robotics at the institute. The project intends to act as a platform that users and…
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IITKGP Entry, CodAR, Wins The Serious Games Showcase and Challenge (SGS&C)-2021

IITKGP Entry, CodAR, Wins The Serious Games Showcase and Challenge (SGS&C)-2021

IIT Kharagpur’s entry to The Serious Games Showcase and Challenge (SGS&C)-2021, Cod AR, has won this year’s challenge in the Innovation category. The Serious Games Showcase and Challenge is a premier destination for recognition of excellence in the field of Serious Games development. This year, awards were presented in the following categories - Best Government Game, Best Student Developed Game, Best Business Developed Game, and Best XR Game. CodAR, developed by Mr. Vandit Sharma, a 2021 graduate from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, under the supervision of Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhagat, Assistant Professor in the Advanced Technology…
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IIT Kharagpur invented an automatic supplemental oxygen therapy device for treating COVID-19 and COPD patients at home

IIT Kharagpur invented an automatic supplemental oxygen therapy device for treating COVID-19 and COPD patients at home

A team of researchers and doctor from IIT Kharagpur has devised an automatic oxygen therapy system as home solution for the patients with respiratory dysfunction including Covid infected patients. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur has developed an Android application based a new medical device named “Senflex: Oxigenio”, for providing supplemental oxygen therapy to the COVID-19 patients at home. The system comprises of an electronic flow controller, a pulse oximeter and an Android app. The device would also be suitable for the patients with any other respiratory dysfunction, requiring long term oxygen therapy (LTOT), such as patients diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive…
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Indigenous development of PSA technology based medical grade oxygen plant

Indigenous development of PSA technology based medical grade oxygen plant

In IIT Kharagpur’s assistance, Nektor Health Science System, Ahmedabad has developed an indigenous prototype plant for generation of medical grade oxygen. Globally, the shortage of medical oxygen has become a major challenge for treating COVID-19 patients. Considering the fact, in corroboration to IIT Kharagpur researcher, the highly experienced team of Nektor Health Science System, Ahmedabad, has developed an indigenous Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen manufacturing plant with required purity and pressure. “One of the best methods to generate oxygen with the purity level of 93% to 96% directly from compressed air is PSA technology, where the molecular sieve selectively adsorbs…
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IIT Kharagpur has set “Specialty Friction Reducers” in motion

IIT Kharagpur has set “Specialty Friction Reducers” in motion

IIT Kharagpur researchers have contributed to product development and commercialization of specialty friction reducers for challenging unconventional oilfield environments. Recently, IIT Kharagpur researchers have contributed towards a new domain of indigenous innovation, “Specialty Friction Reducers” for unconventional oilfields and most significantly, this technique has led to commercialization of this product by an Indian Manufacturer, for the first time, for the global oil and gas industry. “We have developed the technique for characterizing the specialty friction reducers involves a unique combination of drag reduction and viscometric measurements, specifically replicating the complex oilfield environment. The work further enabled correlation between the fundamental…
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Global Launch of COVIRAP – Nucleic acid-based Point-of-Care Diagnostic Device for COVID-19 and beyond

Global Launch of COVIRAP – Nucleic acid-based Point-of-Care Diagnostic Device for COVID-19 and beyond

Highlights A generic step-wise isothermal nucleic acid-based testing technology for the rapid diagnostics of pathogenic infections including but not limited to SARS-CoV-2 in individuals. Nasal Swab/ Saliva to result from integration in about 45 minutes in a highly affordable pre-programmable portable device developed by the team, without requiring any separate facility for RNA extraction. Kit supplemented with a free smartphone app to facilitate unambiguous results interpretation and automated dissemination to the patients. The test may be performed by unskilled personnel outside the controlled lab with no intermediate manual intervention between sample loading and result dissemination. Patents filed in the India, USA,…
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SARS-CoV-2 Alters Lung Cell Metabolism – IIT Kharagpur Research Model Shows, Model Could Help Therapeutics

SARS-CoV-2 Alters Lung Cell Metabolism – IIT Kharagpur Research Model Shows, Model Could Help Therapeutics

Model development by IIT Kharagpur researchers predicting alteration in metabolic reaction rates of lung cells post SARS-CoV-2 infection The research would lead to a better understanding of metabolic reprogramming and aid the development of better therapeutics to deal with the viral pandemics COVID-19 pandemic has been posing unprecedented threats to the whole world. Among its many perils is the cellular metabolic system of those who tested positive. Coronaviruses are known to hijack the metabolism of lung cells. This threat makes it absolutely imperative to understand the mechanism of metabolic reprogramming of host human cells by SARS-CoV-2. Researchers at IIT Kharagpur…
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ERP Software Developed by IIT Kharagpur Adopted by other IITs

ERP Software Developed by IIT Kharagpur Adopted by other IITs

The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software developed and extensively used by IIT Kharagpur is now to be adopted by IIT Ropar and IIT Jodhpur for institutional use. IIT Kharagpur has signed MoU with both the IITs for customization, installation and deployment of the ERP system. “This indigenously developed software was deployed across all major functions of the Institute, to improve organizational administration and shifting operations to e-management, through both intranet and internet as well as desktops and mobiles. Close to 2000 of our teaching and non-teaching staff and more than 14000 students are using this software regularly; additionally, a large…
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