Piyush Parkhey
National Institute Of Technology, Raipur, India
Biography
Piyush Parkhey has completed his PhD in 2015 from the Department of Biotechnology at National Institute of Technology, Raipur. He has received the prestigious INSPIRE-AORC Fellowship in the year 2010 from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. His PhD title was “Biological production of Hydrogen: Development of a two-step bioprocess for conversion of rice straw into hydrogenâ€. During the course of his PhD, he has published 5 research papers and presented his work in 3 international conferences. He has also filed a provisional patent in 2014 titled “A Continuous Microbial electrolytic cell reactor (CMECR) for biohydrogen production using lignocellulosic hydrolysate by electrohydrogenesisâ€.