Dr. S. V. Ranade Resume
Part III - 1987-1997
The period from 1987 to 1997 was full with variety of activities both in college and our environmental protection research foundation.
With the help of our post graduate students, we expanded our consultancy activities to many different types of industries.
Engineering industries – Ghadge-Patil Industries and Kolhapur Steel Mills in Kolhapur, Rollay mills in Aurangabad, Racold appliances, S.K. Bearings, Kirloskar Oil Engines in Pune, Nagarjun Steel and Alwyn in Hyderabad. We gave designs for removal of iron from steel mill waste, Cynide and chromium removal from heat treatment wastes, Oil removal plants for bearings etc.
Textile industries – Madhavnagar Cotton Mills, Small Textile units and Yashavant Process in Ichakaranji. The treatment flowsheet included segregation mercerizing , kier and dye wastes and separate treatments like neutralization , aerobic treatment and anaerobic treatment .
Pulp and paper industry – Datta Pulp and Paper Industry, Aurangabad paper industry, Jolly Board, Sangli, Warana Paper and pulp unit, Padamji Pulp and paper unit, Pune. The treatment included floatation and settling for paper effluent with recycling and anerobic followed by aerobic treatment for pulp waste.
Dairy – Warana Dairy. Miraj Dairy Extended aeration system
Tannery wastes from small tannery units in Kolhapur – Removal of chromium
Slaughter house Waste – Koregaon Slaughter house – Anaerobic treatment
Anaerobic lagoon technology , though proved to be most effective in removing pollution load was well accepted by distilleries needed modifications to prevent ground water and air pollution. It was found that mere provision of black cotton layer at bottom and in the core of embankments was not enough. We introduced plastic lining at the bottom to prevent ground water pollution. In order to hold the plastic sheet in place, we recommended brick lining or laying of stone slabs. In order to prevent air pollution and loss of biogas to atmosphere, covering of lagoons was done in Ugar Sugar works. The biogas trapped in the floating plastic sheet was used in boiler.
Incineration plants were installed at Gadhinglaj and Krishna S.S. K. Ltd. But the plants cost and maintenance proved the options not feasible. A new option of aerobic composting of spentwash with sugar factory pressmud gave promising results and extensive research was conducted on this technology to make it techno-economically feasible. Distilleries readily adopted this new technology. Research was conducted to prepare bacterial culture for enhancing the rate of composting. EPRF established a pilot scale plant in Kupwad MIDC for preparing such culture on large scale.
Environmental status studies for Pandharpur and Kolhapur cities and Krishna pollution detection camp were the main projects completed in this period.
Water Treatment - Design of Water treatment plants at Kopargaon S.S.K.Ltd, Sanjivani S.S.K.Ltd., Rahuri S.S.K.Ltd, Village Padmale, Tilarinagar, Walchandnagar
We also prepared a Comprehensive Sugar Document under project sponsored by Dept of Envt. And Forests, New Delhi
We conducted many more training programs and workshops for technocrats of industries in subjects of Water and Wastewater analysis, Waste treatment technologies and Legal Control laws. In order to create a separate platform with virtual training as main objective, we registered a new public trust \" International School of Environmental Management Studies\" under the presidentship of Dr. Subbarao and launched a website www.enviroschool.org with the help of our Dnyandeep Infotech Pvt. Ltd.to provide such education.
On the college front, I was given Engineering Management subject for teaching degree students and I could learn many crucial aspects of project planning, optimization techniques, business management, financial analysis and leadership. I liked the subject and soon mastered the PERT and CPM techniques. I had an opportunity to teach engineers at Central Design Office of Irrigation Dept in Mumbai. along with Dr. P.A. Kulkarni, Prof. Santpur, Prof. Jogalekar. We also conducted short term courses for students.
My entry to computer programming also due to my inclusion in computer group of college. We had one month training in COBOL and Unix system at Bangalore. College purchased Omni computer and we undertook job of software development for examination system for Shivaji University. We also conducted many Computer diploma courses for teachers of other colleges during this period.