Completed Research Projects
Project 1:
Title of the Project : Biochar from solid wate a sustainable green approach for solid waste management and climate change mitigation
Principal Investigator : Dr. S. Sri Shalini, Women Scientist, CCCDM, Anna University, Chennai
Funding Agency : Department of Science and Technology (WOS) - New Delhi
Government of India, New Delhi, India
Duration : 2019- 2022 (3 years)
About the Project
This research project is funded by the Women Scientists Scheme– A (WOS-A) of DST, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India (SR/WOS-A/EA-37/2018) for three years (2019-2022) period. The project directly addresses the sustainable development goals of SDG 7, 11 and 13. The aim of the study is to produce biochar from municipal solid waste (MSW) and evaluate its climate change mitigation potential by soil carbon sequestration studies. The pyrolysis reactor was fabricated and procured from the project for converting the waste materials to valuable carbon compounds (as biochar).
Project 2:
Title of the Project : Establishing/Strengthening the State Climate Change Centre/Cell
Under NMSKCC (SCCC:-NMSKCC) in the State of Tamil Nadu
Duration : 2016-2021
Cost of the Project : 1,99,00,000/-
Coordinator : Dr. K. Palanivelu, CCCDM, Anna University, Chennai
Funding Agency : Department of Science and Technology
Government of India, New Delhi, India
Duration : 2016- 2021 (5 years)
About the Project
This DST-SPLICE sponsored project work was executed by CCCDM, Anna University jointly with Department of Environment, Govt. of Tamil Nadu with a focus to develop the knowledge base (knowledge creation, knowledge collection and knowledge dissemination) that supports the SAPCC strategies in order to adapt/mitigate to the consequences of changing climate through Tamil Nadu State Climate Change-Knowledge Management Cell. The duration of the project was sanctioned from October 2017 to November 2021. The major works involved are developing State’s climate profile; vulnerability assessments in all SAPCC identified sectors; developing knowledge portal and data bank; and conducting capacity building programs. The State’s past and future climate change scenarios were collected and analyzed to develop a climate profile. The sectoral vulnerability to climate change was assessed using IPCC vulnerability assessment methodology. An exclusive climate knowledge portal for the State Tamil Nadu State Climate Change Knowledge Portal was developed to access knowledge/multisectoral information on climate change.
Data collection have been done for data bank through archival records, documents and authorized websites. Data Bank created would serve as a definite repository for storing and retriving the climate change information at State. Knowledge Resources are also collected i.e scientific reports and publications related to State's climate change and its impacts on different sectors. Periodical Newsletters are being prepared on Global Climate news, recent reports on Climate change and its implications related to Tamil Nadu State, climate related projects and the events conducted by the Nodal and line departments and published through web portal. The climate awareness and outreach programs are part of the activity to provide an improved understanding on changing climate. The trainings and outreach programmes was conducted to build capacity by leveraging inter-sectoral cooperation. Climate Change Quiz 2019 was conducted to create awareness on climate change among college students.
Project 3:
Title of the Project : Dynamic Downscaling to Study Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in India
Duration : 2019-2021
Cost of the Project : 62,50,000/-
Co-Principal Investigator : Dr. K. Palanivelu, CCCDM, Anna University, Chennai
Funding Agency : Ministry of Water Resources, New Delhi
Government of India, New Delhi, India
Duration : 2019- 2021 (3 years)
About the Project
This project is sponsored by MoWR, Government of India during the year 2018-2021. The project aims to develop the future climate dataset for India using the regional climate model under IPCC-AR5 emission scenarios thereby using it for the impact studies on Water Resources. This study uses the regional climate model, PRECIS (Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies) developed by the Met Office Hadley Centre, UK to generate national scenarios of climate change. PRECIS has been run at 25 x 25 km horizontal grid resolution in a large domain that covers India (3.5° N to 38.5° N, 62.5° E to 101.6° E) using the boundary data from the Global Climate Model (GCM), HadGEM2-ES under AR5 simulations. The major climate parameters from the downscaled model such as temperature, rainfall, relative humidity, solar radiation and wind speed provided for the baseline period of 1970 to 2000 and the future period of 2006 to 2099 for the scenarios of Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and RCP 8.5.
Project 6:
Title of the Project : Impacts of Climate Change on Fluvial and Pluvial
Duration : 2016-2017
Cost of the Project : 19,00,000/-
Flooding in selected area of Chennai Metropolitan area
Principal investigator I : Dr. K. Palanivelu, CCCDM, Anna University, Chennai
Funding Agency : State Planning Commission, Ezhilagam, Chennai
Government of India, New Delhi, India
Duration : 2016- 2017 (One and half year)
Project 7:
Title of the Project : Identification of Pollution Source, Biodiversity Degradation and Adaptive Mechanism for Sustainable Management of Pallikaranai Marshland-Phase II
Duration : 2009-2010
Cost of the Project : 5,00,000/-
Principal investigator I : Dr.A.Ramachandran, CCCDM, Anna University, Chennai
Funding Agency : Tamil Nadu Forest Department,
Government of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Total Budget : Rs. 5 Lakhs
Project 8:
Title of the Project : Mineral CO2 sequestration by carbonation of industrial, alkaline solid residues
Duration : 2011-2014
Cost of the Project : 46,17,789/-
Principal Investigator-I : Dr.A.Ramachandran, CCCDM, Anna University, Chennai
Principal Investigator-II : Dr. K.Palanivelu, CES, Anna University, Chennai
Funding Agency : Department of Science & Technology (DST)
Government of India, New Delhi, India.
Project 9:
Title of the Project : Induction of UV-B Radiation Resistance in
Commercially important Micro-algae and their
application in enhanced Carbon Sequestration and
Synthesis of Secondary Metabolites
Principal investigator II : Dr.A.Ramachandran, CCCDM, Anna University, Chennai
Funding Agency : Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government
of India, New Delhi, India
Project 10:
Title of the Project : Land Use Change and Surface Groundwater
Duration : 2015-2016
Cost of the Project : 4,99,000/-
Contamination and Greenhouse Gas Inventories in
Municipal Solid Waste Dumpsites in Chennai
Principal investigator I : Dr. K. Palanivelu, CCCDM, Anna University, Chennai
Funding Agency : State Planning Commission, Ezhilagam, Chennai
Government of India, New Delhi, India
Project 11:
Title of the Project : Providing climate change information for establishing Climate change cell
Duration : 2016 (6 months)
Cost of the Project : 1,98,000/-
Principal investigator I : Dr. K. Palanivelu, CCCDM, Anna University, Chennai
Funding Agency : Department of Environment, Government of Tamil Nadu
CDMM Completed Projects
Geo-structural mapping for Dharmapuri District
Earthquake design features in civil engineering structures for Tamil Nadu. (Budget: 4,50,000/-, Duration: 2 years)
Review and redesign of cyclone shelters for the coastal belt of Tamil Nadu.(Budget: 10,00,000/-, Duration: 1 year)
Delineation of earthquake prone zones in northern part of Tamil Nadu (Budget: 13,38,000/-, Duration: 2 Years)
Landslide Vulnerability Atlas of India (Budget: 9,98,000/-, Duration: 2 Years)
Seismic Microzonation (Budget: 15,00,000/-, Duration: 2 years)
Compendium of Landslides (Budget: 4,90,000/-, Duration: 2 Years)
Disaster Knowledge Network (Budget: 5000EURO, Duration: 2 Years)
Guidelines for selection of sites for landslides in Hilly areas (Budget: 12,00,000/-, Duration: 2 Years)
Monitoring Seismic Activity around Tiruppattur and Establishment of Seismic Observatory at Kavalur, Tamil Nadu (Budget: 53,63,000/- , Duration: 4 YEARS)
Integrated study to combat drought on sustainable basis through space applications in Dharmapuri district.
Identifying recharge areas in using remote sensing and GIS in 386 blocks of Tamil Nadu.
Panchayat level resources information system for Salem and Thanjavur districts.
Remote sensing based agricultural drought information using GIS.
Development of GIS based information system for critical habitats.
Coastal Zone management status and trends of pollutants in eco-system of Tamil Nadu.
Methodology for mitigating slope instability and landslide hazards.
Planning,analysis, design and testing of cyclone shelters for coastal districts of Tamil Nadu.
Ductility of reinforced fibrous concrete structural members in earthquake resistant design of structures.
Failure assessment and remedial measures for cut slope of Krishna water canal.
