Research plays a fundamental role in the pursuit of vision of Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE) to be an eminent academic institute. The IIPE motivates and encourages new faculty members to become part of this rich heritage through conducting cutting-edge research. In order to enable them setup their independent research facilities and initiate their own research at the IIPE, Institute Research Grant (IRG) is being provided.
The following are the Revised Guidelines:
IRG Forms
IRG Projects
| Sl. No. | Name of PI | Department | Project Entitle | Project No | Starting Date | Non-recurring | Recurring | Total |
| 1 | Dr. H. Sharon | Mechanical Engineering | Development and Demonstration of Solar Thermal Pyrolysis System for Waste Valorisation | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0027 | 26-12-2023 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 2 | Dr. Roshan Kumar Singh | Petro & Earth Sciences | Revealing the origin of a giant oceanic plateau by 3D mantle structure analysis using multi-parameter inversion | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0026 | 20-11-2023 | ₹ 18,00,000 | ₹ 10,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 3 | Dr. M. Ravikiran | Chemical Eng | Development of catalytic materials for CO2 mitigation, hydrogen generation and alkene production through dehydrogenation of light alkanes | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0025 | 21-08-2023 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 4 | Dr. B. Mounika | Chemical Eng | Non-isothermal interaction behaviour of a pair of horizontal and aligned bubbles placed in a self-rewetting fluid | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0024 | 21-08-2023 | ₹ 16,00,000 | ₹ 2,30,000 | ₹ 18,30,000 |
| 5 | Dr. Sridhar Palla | Chemical Eng | Experimental and theoretical investigation of metal organic framework (MOF) adsorbents for post combustion carbon capture | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0023 | 22-05-2023 | ₹ 22,21,330 | ₹ 5,75,000 | ₹ 27,96,330 |
| 6 | Dr. Nilanjan Pal | Chemical Eng | Polymer-Assisted Smart Water Injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery and Water Control | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0022 | 22-05-2023 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 7 | Prof. A. Seshagiri Rao | Chemical Eng | Machine learning methods for prediction of water quality and predictive control in wastewater treatment plants: Optimizing Water-Energy Nexus | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0021 | 22-05-2023 | ₹ 18,00,000 | ₹ 10,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 8 | Dr. Geetanjali Chauhan | Petro & Earth Sciences | Research on Development of Novel Ester-Based Synthetic Drilling Mud for Deepwater Drilling Application | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0020 | 22-05-2023 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 9 | Dr. K. V. Krishnasri | Chemical Eng | Enhanced recovery of lithium from sea water using mixed matrix polymeric beads and membranes | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0019 | 22-05-2023 | ₹ 18,30,000 | ₹ 9,70,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 10 | Dr. Ravi Kumar Sonwani | Chemical Eng | Development and performance assessment of advanced integrated system for the treatment of recalcitrant organic pollutants (ROPs): Awastewater-energy nexus perspective | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0018 | 15-05-2023 | ₹ 20,00,000 | ₹ 8,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 11 | Dr. P. Venkata Reddy | Chemical Eng | Interconnected CPS: A testbed for interconnected critical infrastructure-Water distribution system and power supply | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0017 | 27-04-2022 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 12 | Dr. Deepak Amban Mishra | Petro & Earth Sciences | Characterization of the Strength and Deformational Behaviour of Anisotropic Rocks Using Non Destructive Tests & DIC Technique | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0016 | 27-04-2022 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 13 | Dr. Nagesh | Electrical, Other | Control of Solar PV Generation in Grid Interactive Systems with Power Quality Enhancement | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0015 | 25-04-2022 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 14 | Dr. Aparoy. P | Biology, H&S | Application of bioinformatics and structure-based molecular modeling approaches for Trichoderma reesei Cel7A engineering | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0014 | 25-04-2022 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 15 | Dr. Ranjan Pramanik | Petro & Earth Sciences | Stability Analysis of Geothermal Wellbore: Experimental Investigation and Development of Numerical Framework | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0013 | 25-04-2022 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 16 | Dr. Himangshu Kakati | Petro & Earth Sciences | Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) by CO2 foam for HPHT formation | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0012 | 21-04-2022 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 17 | Dr. Siva Sankar P | Petro & Earth Sciences | Mechanistic Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Low Salinity Assisted Chemical EOR Methods | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0011 | 21-04-2022 | ₹ 24,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 27,00,000 |
| 18 | Dr. Raka Mondal | Chemical Eng | Novel composite ion-conducting membranes for polymer electrolyte fuel cell | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0010 | 08-04-2022 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 19 | Dr. Dipankar Pal | Chemical Eng | Development of Antifouling Membranes for Wastewater Treatment in Membrane Bioreactor | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0009 | 08-04-2022 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 20 | Dr. T. Hemanth Kumar | Chemical Eng | Application for Bio-oil from microwave-assisted pyrolysis of Agricultural waste to enhance refinery waste and chemical production | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0008 | 08-04-2022 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 21 | Dr. Pratibha Biswal | Chemical Eng | Heat flow visualization during phase change of nano and eutectic PCMs for solar thermal energy storage application | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0007 | 08-04-2022 | ₹ 17,00,000 | ₹ 2,50,000 | ₹ 19,50,000 |
| 22 | Dr. Ramunaidu | Mathematics, H&S | The Role of Uni-modular Tight Frames for Sparse Quadratic and Linear Inverse Problems | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0006 | 04-04-2022 | ₹ 4,00,000 | ₹ 1,75,000 | ₹ 5,75,000 |
| 23 | Dr. Rajat Jain | Petro & Earth Sciences | Design of completion fluids for enhanced productivity of the hydrocarbon wells | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0005 | 17-03-2022 | ₹ 19,50,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 22,50,000 |
| 24 | Dr. Ch. Gupta Chandaluri | Chemistry, H&S | Amorphous-to-Crystalline Transformation of Fluorescent Molecular Materials for Memory Devices | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0004 | 22-12-2021 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 25 | Dr. Somnath Ghosh | Chemistry, H&S | Development of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) from Carbon dioxide (CO2): Synthetic Design and Optimization | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0003 | 22-12-2021 | ₹ 25,00,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 28,00,000 |
| 26 | Dr. Arun Kumar Pujari | Mechanical, Others | To predict secondary flow losses in a gas turbine engine due to the presence of film cooling holes at different locations of the nozzle guide vane surface | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0002 | 10-06-2021 | ₹ 22,50,000 | ₹ 3,00,000 | ₹ 25,50,000 |
| 27 | Dr. Samala Rathan | Mathematics, H&S | Design and Analysis of Numerical Techniques for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws | IIPE/IRG-PROJECT/0001 | 03-06-2021 | ₹ 5,25,000 | ₹ 60,000 | ₹5,85,000 |
