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Item 2D Nanosheets of Transition Metal Chalcogenides for Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Water-Splitting(BITS, Pilani, 2021) Mahala, ChaviItem A 7-cell, stackable, Li-ion battery monitoring and balancing system for electric and hybrid vehicles(BITS, Pilani, 2018) Vulligaddala, Veeresh babuItem A.C. polarography in aqueous and nonaqueous media(BITS Pilani, 1967-07-31) Chatterjee, Malay KumarItem Accelerated expansion of the universe in nonmetricity based modified gravity(BITS PILANI, Hyderabad campus, 2025) Gadbail, Gaurav NarayanraoItem Accelerating expansion of the universe in modified symmetric teleparallel gravity(BITS PILANI, Hyderabad campus, 2025) Solanki, RajaItem ACCESSIBILITY OF WOMEN TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND CUSTOMER ORIENTATION OF POLICE PERSONNEL TOWARDS WOMEN(BITS Pilani, 2005-05-11) B., SANDHYAItem Achieving excellence in construction safety: a study of Indian scenario(BITS Pilani, 2005-12-16) Banerjee, NikhileshItem Adaptation of Japanese management practices to Indian organizations :some studies(BITS, Pilani, 1998) Iyer, KrishnamurthyItem Adoption of Open Source Software in Information Technology Outsourcing Organizations(BITS, Pilani, 2016-08-22) Lakshmanan, RItem Adsorption Studies on Indian Clay Minerals(BITS Pilani, 1976-03-30) Gupta, Vijai KumarItem Advanced studies on neutron stars and pulsars(BITS PILANI, Hyderabad campus, 2023) Nobleson, KItem Advancement in electric vehicle battery thermal management with innovative cold plate designs(BITS PILANI, Hyderabad campus, 2024) Kokkula, MonikaItem Advances in spatial-temporal visualization of falling-film flow behaviour and heat transfer characteristics for desalination systems(BITS PILANI, Hyderabad campus, 2024) Prudviraj, KandukuriItem Agile and adaptive qos aware management and discovery in service oriented systems(BITS, Pilani, 2016) Sikri, MonikaItem The Airline Time Tabling Problem Use of Perturbation and Parallel Search Techniques(BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, 2003) Sasikumar, MItem Albumin polymer nanoassemblies for combination chemotherapy in cancer(BITS PILANI, Hyderabad campus, 2023) Soniya, KumbhamItem Algorithms for obnoxious facility dispersion problems in the plane(BITS PILANI, Hyderabad campus, 2024) Reddy, S VishwanathItem Alterations and Adaptations: An Analysis of the Indigenous Spaces of Nilgiris Irulas(BITS, Pilani, 2019-02-14) Gnana, Bharathi BItem Amphiphiles Design Syntheses Studies on Their Biomolecular Interactions and Micellar Catalysis(BITS, Pilani, 2017) Kumar, VikasItem Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste in A Horizontal Plug Flow Reactor(BITS Pilani, 2013) Dessai, Vidhya PrabhuFood waste is the single largest component of the waste stream by weight These organic newlinewastes needs to be managed in a sustainable way to avoid depletion of natural resources newlineminimise risk to human health reduce environmental burdens and maintain an overall newlinebalance in the ecosystem Anaerobic digestion is a promising technology which could newlineeffectively address the problem of food waste disposal yielding valuable outputs like biogas newlineand fertilizers The main focus of this research work was to evaluate and optimize the newlinemethane potential of food wastes and to have a process for sustainable energy production for newlinesmall communities Our institute is a residential campus with two cafeterias catering to 2500 newlinestudents per day and generating one ton of food waste per day Four different categories of newlinefood waste collected from the institutes mess were studied cooked vegetables CV cooked newlinedals CD cooked rice CR and a mixture of these food wastes MFW Biochemical newlinecharacterization of the waste fractions was carried out and linked to their anaerobic newlinebiodegradation The biogas and methane yield of food waste was evaluated using newlinebiochemical methane potential assays and batch anaerobic digestion tests performed at 37oC newlineThe experimental study in batch reactors reveals that all the four wastes degrade to the same newlineextent Mixing different fractions of food wastes was neither detrimental nor synergistic to newlinebiodegradation in anaerobic digestion process newlineThis study was followed by construction of a horizontal plug flow reactor for anaerobic newlinedigestion of food wastes generated in the institutes cafeteria The performance of this reactor newlinewas monitored for approximately two years and microbial community of the anaerobic newlinedigester was studied by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism The parameters newlinemonitored during the study were pH solid content chemical oxygen demand and biogas newlineproduction Methanoculleus sp was found to be the dominant in all samplings done newlineindicating hydrogenotrophic pathway of methanogenesis Diversity indices like Shannon.