Appendix - 4

CONFIDENTIAL PROGRESS REPORT

Six-Monthly Progress Report of the Research work done for the period from 01-01-2021 to 30-
06-2021 of the research scholar.

1. Name of the Research Scholar: Radhesh Atul Bobdey

2. Subject: Chemistry (Faculty of Science and Technology)

3. Topic Registered for Ph.D. Degree: Studies on The Structural Effect of Organic
Ligands in Surface Modification of Coal Based
Absorbent for The Removal of Lead from Aqueous
Phase
4. Name of the Supervisor: Dr. Neeta Gupta
5. Name of Co-supervisor: Dr Ramdas Khope

6. Description of the guidance on the topic:

Candidate has been with me for total of 46 days for research work. The dates of his presence
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Remarks of the Supervisor on the work done by the Candidate on Topic.

The research scholar has regularly done the required work during the 6 months period. He has
taken adsorption data of 15 systems of different combination of GACs and surface
modification material.

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 Candidate was registered for Ph.D. degree)

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Work Done by the Candidate in this Six Months Period

In this period of six months, I started taking adsorption data of various systems which lets me
know the capacity of particular granular activated carbon to adsorb the lead from aqueous
solution after the modification of its surface by using various chemical compounds. I first took
adsorption data of the lead adsorption capacity of granular activated carbons Filtrasorb F-100,
F-300, F-816, F-820 and Norit-830. Then I experimented and modified the surface of all these
carbons using catechol and collected adsorption data of the lead adsorbed by this surface
modified granular activated carbon. I also modified the surface of all the five granular activated
carbons mentioned earlier with 4- methyl catechol. Total 15 systems were run with care being
taken of the precision and clean environment for the chemicals. All the systems were working
under same temperature conditions and at a maintained pH of 5. All the adsorbtion data was
stored in a tabulated form in an MS Excel file. All the experimental work was done under the
supervision of supervisor.

Signature of the Candidate

Remark of the supervisor on the work done by the candidate on topic:

Research scholar has done a satisfactory work during these 6 months. He took adsorption data of all the
available activated carbons using a spectrophotometer. He also modified the surface of granular
activated carbons using catechol and 4- methyl catechol. Adsorption data of these modified
carbons was also experimented and tabulated. Research scholar did a good job maintaining all
the conditions including constant temperature and pH level. Precision level of work is
satisfactory and adequate. Total of 15 systems were successfully recorded with tabulated
adsorption data.

Signature of the Supervisor