Indian origin scientist develops world’s first microfactory for e-waste.
Professor Veena Sahajwalla, an IIT-Trained Australian Scientist and researcher of Indian origin, propelled the world’s first microfactory that can change electronic waste into material that can be reused. The microfactory is assembled considering e-waste or electronic waste like mobiles, smartphones, Personal computers and laptops that produce a high measure of waste like computer circuit boards. Amalgams like copper and tin, alongside glass and plastic can be changed over into earthenware production and plastic fibers for 3D printing.
A material researcher from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Director of the Center for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) at the college, Veena is a IIT Kanpur graduated from the metallurgical division. Her work in the field of sustainable development won her the recognized and prestigous alumnus award, alongside the Eureka Prize (2005), and Pravasi Bhartiya Samman for exceptional accomplishment in science (2011).
The microfactory, since it was set up, has been fruitful in drawing in Indian students to its Sydney grounds. The logical research focus, SMaRT, utilizes innovation to lessen electronic waste and prevents it from going to landfills. In a meeting with IANS, she says:
Our e-waste (microfactory) and another under development for other consumer waste types offer a cost-effective solution to one of the greatest environmental challenges of our age, while delivering new job opportunities to our cities but importantly to our rural and regional areas, too.
The green manufacturing technologies separated from changing the neighborhood squander work with nearby organizations and prompt business esteem when these squanders are isolated. As per Veena, microfactories are a “genuinely feasible answer for our developing waste issue while offering financial advantages accessible to neighborhood groups”. This accomplishment could be transformational in the assembling division, particularly in island markets where transportation is a not a cost-effective solution.
As of late, Veena was one of the three ladies who were named on the 2015 AFR-Westpac 100 Women of Influence list for their separate commitments, joining 400 of Australia’s most motivating and influencing ladies, said The Indian Disaspora.
The college has collaborated with Australian Research Council and a couple of different associations like e-waste recycler TES, mining producer Moly-Cop, and Dresden, which makes displays. Positioned 45th on the planet, the University of New South Wales has a notoriety of being the world’s biggest research and and training institutes and houses more than 52,000 students from 130 countries.
