Ms. Navya Subray Bhat PhD student working under the guidance of Dr. Saikat Dutta has received best oral presentation award at National Conference on Energy and Chemicals from Biomass (AICTE sponsored), conducted at Pondicherry Engineering College during 10-11 Oct, 2019. The title of the paper was "High-yielding synthesis of alkyl stearates from stearic acod within a closed batch reactor using heteropolyacids as efficient and recyclable catalyst"