User:Ravi Kumar Arun

Ravi Kumar Arun is a Scientist working in the Department of Material Processing and Microsystem Laboratory, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, West Bengal. He joined the institute as Scientist Fellow in 2010. Before that, he completed his B.Tech-M.Tech (Dual Degree) from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2009. . He has completed his Ph.D. degree from Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India in 2017.

Arun specializes in the field of microfluidics and Lab on chip devices. . He was instrumental in initiating the Microfludics research in the Department of Microsystems Technology Laboratory of CSIR-CMERI.In the area of microfluidics based energy generation, his research includes design and development of energy generation and harvesting systems for small to large scale energy storage applications particularly in the domain of membrane-less fuel cells and batteries. Here, he has developed PDMS and paper based membrane-less microfluidics fuel cells for low power applications. The novel and simple paper-pencil based microfluidic fuel cell device functions for longer duration without compromising with the performance of the microfluidics based membrane-less fuel cell. The developed fuel cell consumes ~ 1ml of fuel for 24 hrs as compared to PDMS based microfluidic fuel cells in which 10 ml of the fuel gets consumed within 10 minutes of the flow rate is fixed at 100 micro liters/min. For the first time, a novel and simple fuel cell has been demonstrated which is open to the environment and does not need an external pumping source like syringe pump and other ancillary parts. These paper based fuel cells can be used for portable power source for miniaturized devices such as cell phones, laptops, GPS, micro-sensors, explosive detection, biosensors and so on. He has developed a micro fuel cell which can power toys, sensors and other electronic devices. Arun has also worked in the area of diagnosis of diseases such as malaria and pathogens. He has been involved in water purification research in the institute. The domestic Arsenic water filtration technology developed in his lab can filter ground water contaminated with Arsenic and other contaminants.

Arun has been the recipient of Gandhian Young Technological Innovation award-2014. . His paper-pencil fuel cell was one of the top 16 innovations at Power of Shunya (Season-2). . He was also the recipient of Indian Merchant Chambers Inclusive Innovation award-2014 in the government organizations category. . He also participated in DST sponsored Indian Innovation Growth Program-2015.