Dhanbad, July 31 -- IIT (ISM) Dhanbad has been granted an Indian patent for an electrochemical technology that enables the recovery of copper from wastewater, offering an environmentally sustainable solution for treating industrial effluents.
The Patent Office, Government of India, granted Patent No. 597420 for the invention titled "An Electrochemical Reactor for Cathodic Recovery of Copper from Wastewater" to Prof. Vipin Kumar of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering along with his PhD scholars Nishant Pandey and Ankur Singh. The patent was granted on July 30 against an application filed on November 29, 2023.
The technology enables cathodic recovery of copper from wastewater and is expected to have applications in the m...