Research

The research behind SAFR: what a cheap, mobile set of sensors can catch on a real factory floor.

• Covers how the sensors work together, the baseline readings, and what the field tests found.
• Won Best Paper and runner-up for Best Presentation at the Global Confluence Review conference.
• Accepted for publication in NHSJS Reports. It’s being typeset now.

How easy is it to buy acid in India, and who checks? I went through the research to find out where the rules have gaps.

• A PRISMA-style systematic review of 186 open-access Scopus records.
• Looks at licensing, tracking, who is allowed to buy, how much, storage, inspection and enforcement.

Turning food waste into biogas faster, by stopping the digester from going sour.

• Used natural zeolite microbeads to keep the pH steady in high-rate anaerobic digestion.
• Got the retention time under 48 hours, with more methane and a more stable reactor.
• Presented at ICABB 2026 at JIIT Noida, where it got a Special Mention, and published in the conference proceedings.

A cheap battery made from recycled aluminium, and a lot of tests to see which liquid makes it work best.

• Built cells from recycled materials and tested 5+ electrolytes, including NaOH, KOH and salt water.
• Compared open-circuit voltage and how steady the discharge was.
• Looked at how stronger electrolytes boost output but also eat the aluminium faster.

Bioplastics have been around for decades. Why haven’t they replaced normal plastic?

• Went through 60+ academic sources with a PhD mentor on cost, infrastructure and other barriers.
• Ran a survey on what people in India know about bioplastics and how they throw them away.

Where and when the river is most polluted, using a decade of public data.

• Analysed CPCB data from several sites for dissolved oxygen, BOD and coliform levels across the seasons.
• Compared it with BIS and WHO standards to find the likely pollution hotspots.
• Received the CREST Gold Award from the British Science Association.

Testing how cast metal parts hold up to the heat inside renewable energy equipment.

• Looked at corrosion resistance, thermal fatigue and microstructure in precision-cast alloys.
• Wrote up recommendations on which materials would last longer at high temperatures.

How do you actually measure the carbon a forest stores? I compared the tools.

• Tested drone-based canopy scans, AI carbon models and open-source monitoring platforms.
• Worked on carbon market policy in India and prototyped a carbon credit tracking dashboard.
• Turned IPCC, Verra and FAO methods into a step by step carbon calculation handbook.

Where SAFR started. I spent the month watching how a brewery really works.

• Studied the fluid dynamics in fermentation tanks and blending kinetics at production scale.
• Looked at corrosion and temperature control in the reactors.
• Came back in December 2025 to pilot SAFR there.

Two weeks at Yale. My capstone was a concrete that slowly pulls CO₂ out of the air.

• Proposed 3D-printed gyroid concrete mixed with diatomaceous earth, shaped to soak up atmospheric CO₂ on its own.
• Suggested CFD and FTIR to study how gas moves through it and how the pores fill up.
• Lectures on dwarf galaxies, teaching robots and listening to the body, and seminars on metal crystals and hospital flooding.

Growing algae in sewage water and turning it into fuel.

• Grew microalgae in sewage and pond water, then extracted oil and made biofuel from it.
• Built small test engines to compare it with petrol, diesel and used cooking oil fuel.
• Made a calorimeter to measure its energy and played with thermoelectric generators.