Burhan Abdur Rasheed Kalshekar

Burhan Rasheed Kalshekar has completed his graduation in Gharda Institute of Technology, Maharashtra. He has done internship at Gharda Chemicals and other chemical plants. He is currently working in a chemical company in Mahad, Maharashtra, India. He has done projects on dissolved oxygen content of wastewater and removal of heavy metals from wastewater. He has presented papers in many national and international conferences. The papers on conversion of waste into useful products presented at Advanced materials and processing for sustainable application, a national conference, was well appreciated. His recent investigation is based on applications of waste cellulosic feedstock for useful products. He has synthesized and characterized the microcrystalline cellulose from various agricultural waste namely cassava waste, rice husk and pineapple waste.

Publications

Preparation and Extraction of Alpha Cellulose and Synthesis of Microcrystalline Cellulose From Agro-Waste (Pineapple Leaves)
Sunil Jayant Kulkarni, Burhan Abdur Rasheed Kalshekar. © 2023. 14 pages.
Microcrystalline cellulose (C6H10O5) is purified, white free-flowing powder partially depolymerized cellulose prepared by treating alpha cellulose, obtained as a pulp from...