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2011 Information Booklet

Department of Chemical EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology ‐ Delhi



Contents Message from Head of Department Overview Programs Faculty

Faculty index Faculty profiles

Staff Research Faculty research index Publications Patents Sponsored research/consultancy Laboratories/Facilities Faculty office and laboratory maps Contact/How to reach ©Copy Right Department of Chemical Engineering 2011, Indian Institute of Technology‐Delhi


Welcome to the Department, Season’s greetings, and Best Wishes (which are never too late) for an exciting new year! We had been feeling the need to bring out this brochure the predecessor of which has all but fossilized. New twigs and all babies are a sublime sight in any case! Our department has witnessed a number of inevitable changes. A number of faculty members have retired after long years of contribution to the education and research here. Some we are fortunate to retain. And we are perhaps equally, if not more, fortunate in getting outstanding new faculty members on board so that the eternal cycle of academic life goes on with renewed energy. The department has introduced several new undergraduate and graduate courses, admitted a number of research students, received substantial research and infrastructure grants, brought in new areas of research activity together making it a vibrant and cohesive entity. I am delighted to share this compilation of information about the people, facilities, and achievements of the department especially in the recent years. Ashok N. Bhaskarwar March 2011

Message from the Head of Department


The Department offers a two year M. Tech. Program with an intake capacity of 37 students and integrated masters (dual‐degree) program with an intake capacity of 40 students. At present, there are about 60 research scholars (full time + part time) enrolled for their Ph.D. at the Department of Chemical Engineering. M. Tech. students need to complete 60 credits (Core subjects: 40 credits, Program electives: 14 credits, Open Courses: 6 credits). The integrated masters (dual degree) students need to complete 48 credits (in addition to their undergraduate credit requirement of 170 credits). Further details of 2 year M. Tech. and integrated Masters (dual degree) programs and courses offered are enclosed. Besides the core chemical engineering subjects, the Department offers several elective courses for post‐graduate students to cater their research interests and to train them in emerging areas of chemical engineering (e.g. energy, environment, fuel cells, CFD, membrane separations, petroleum refinery engineering, separation processes, bio‐separations, polymer science and engineering, interfacial science and engineering, multiphase flows, etc). The department lays a strong emphasis on their research projects that begin in the second semester and continue till the fourth semester (22 credits). They are provided with all the research facilities available at the department. As a result, several M. Tech. students have made good contributions in terms international publications and participation in national conferences. All the Ph.D. students have to complete and qualify certain number of courses (depending on their past degree) prescribed by the department and qualify their comprehensive examination (both written and oral examination) before their candidature for Ph.D. program is confirmed. They have been provided all research facilities available at the department (and also outside the department) to cater to their research needs. Several Ph.D. students are provided partial support for their participation in national and international conferences. In addition, many Ph.D. students spend short and long research stays at universities outside India through several ongoing international students exchange programs/collaborative research projects at the institute and department.

Programmes



Faculty Index

A. N. Bhaskarwar Head of the department Off: II‐95 ( 1028) Lab: II‐94 ( 6242) Email id: ashoknb

D. Phaneswararao Professor Off: II‐282 ( 1016) Lab: II‐188 ( 6178) email: dprao

Krishna D.P. Nigam Professor Off: II‐186 ( 1020) Lab: II‐188 ( 6178) [email protected]

Sharad K. Gupta Professor Off: I‐21 ( 1023) Lab: II‐94 ( 6242) sgupta@***

Suddhasatwa Basu (Professor) Off: III‐386 ( 1035) Lab: III‐390 ( 6115) sbasu@***

Ratan Mohan (Associate Professor) Off: II‐289 ( 1033) Lab: II‐288 ( 6179) ratan@***

K. K. Pant (Associate Professor) Off: III‐386 ( 6172) Lab: II‐185 ( 6177) kkpant@***

Rajesh Khanna (Associate Professor) Off: II‐95 ( 1031) Lab: II‐96 ( 6174) rajkh@***

Anil K. Saroha (Associate Professor) Off: II‐274 ( 1032) Lab: II‐1 ( 6245) aksaroha@***

Shantanu Roy (Associate Professor) Off: I‐314 ( 6021) Lab: I‐304 ( 6252) roys@***

Anurag Rathore (Associate Professor) Off: II‐95 ( 1098) Lab: II‐94 ( 6242) [email protected]

Sanat Mohanty Associate Professor Off: II‐273 ( 1024) Lab: Email id: sanatm@***

Anupam Shukla Associate Professor Off: II‐286 ( 6290) Lab: II‐288 ( 6179) anupam@***

Sreedevi Upadhyayula (Assistant Professor) Off: I‐209 ( 1083) Lab: I‐107 ( 6134) sreedevi@***

Vivek V. Buwa (Assistant Professor) Off: I‐309 ( 1027) Lab: II‐185 ( 6177) vvbuwa@***

Sudip K. Pattanayek (Assistant Professor) Off: I‐310 ( 1018) Lab: III‐186 ( 6345) sudip@***

Munawar Sheik (Assistant Professor)

Jayati Sarkar (Assistant Professor)

Shalini Gupta (Assistant Professor) Off: I‐315 ( 1070)


Off: II‐375 ( 1038) Lab: II‐13 ( 6162)

munawar@***

Off: II‐312 ( 1163)Lab: II‐291 ( 6180) jayati@***

Lab: II‐291 ( 6180)Email id: shalinig

Complete email address: [email protected]

Complete telephone number: +91‐11‐2659 xxxx

Emiretus Professors

B. Pitchumani Off: II‐290 ( 1022) Lab: II‐291 ( 6180) [email protected]

Ashok K. Gupta Off: II‐385 ( 1019) Lab: III‐390 ( 6115) gupthaak@***


A. N. Bhaskarwar Professor and Head of the Department

• B.Tech. (LIT, Nagpur) • M.Tech.(IISc, Bangalore) • Ph.D .(IISc, Bangalore (1987))

Contact: Office: II‐??? (Tel:26591021). Lab: II‐??? (Tel:2659????) email: [email protected]

Personal webpage: http://www.ashoknbhaskwar.freeservers.com

Research Interests:

Chemical Reaction Engineering; Interfacial Engineering; Chemical Product Design; Pollution‐preventing technologies (inks, paints and fuels); Nanotechnology platforms for effective and safe cancer diagnostics and therapeutics

Selected Publications/Patents: Jana, S.K., and Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2011, Measurement of surface‐transfer coefficient values for CO2 absorption in lime solutions in presence of surfactants. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (In press) Jana, S.K., and Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2010, Modeling gas absorption accompanied by chemical reaction in bubble column and foam‐bed slurry reactors. Chemical Engineering Science, 65(11), 3649‐3659. Gaikwad, A.A., Niyantha, C., and Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2009, Carbonation of barium sulfide in a foam‐bed reactor. Chemical Engineering Communications. Chem. Eng. Comm., 197(6), 804‐829. Bhimania, S., Bhatia, D., Goel, G., and Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2005, Characterization and drainage kinetics of colloidal gas aphrons. AIChE Jounal 51(11), 3048‐3058. Srivastava, N., Roy, A., Pant, N., Nagpal, H., Vohra, C.R., and Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2005, Pollution preventing microemulsion inks. Chemical Engineering Science 60(6), 1725‐1731.

Awards/Honors: BOYSCAST Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (1994) INSA Medal for Young Scientist (1991)


D. PhaneswararaoProfessor

• B.tech (Chem. engg,, IIT, Bombay, 1966), • M.Tech Chem. engg, (IIT, Kanpur,1968) • Ph.D Chem.engg.(UI, Moscow, ID , USA,1971) • Rresearch Associate, IIISc, Bangalore,1972 and ETH,

Zurich, 1973‐74

Contact: Office: II‐282 (Tel:26591016) email: [email protected]

Personal webpage: http://chemical.iitd.ac.in/dprao

Research Interests:

Dynamics and Control of reactors; Micro‐mixing; Multi‐component Mass transfer with chemical reaction; Hydrodynamics ,Heat and mass transfer in packed beds; Hydrodynamics and mass transfer in bubble columns and mechanically agitated gas‐liquid contactors; Pilot plant studies for CO2 removal.

Selected Publications/Patents:Authors "Experimental studies on limit cycle behaviour of the sulphuric acid catalysed hydrolysis of acetic anhydride in a CSTR", 1991,Chem. Engng. Sci., 46, No. 4, 1197. Authors "Power input measurement from temperature rise data in mechanically agitated contactors", 1993, Trans. Inst. Chem.Engrs(London), 71, Part A, 24. Authors "Volumetric mass transfer coefficients from de‐sorption data", 1994, Chemical Engineering Research and Design Jl. 72, 633. Authors "Modeling and simulation of NOx absorption into water in a countercurrent flow packed column",1996 Computers Chem. Engg. No. 8, 1059. Authors “Effect of Gas re‐dispersion and liquid height on gas‐liquid hydrodynamics in a multi‐stage bubble column”, 2007, Chemical Engineering Research and Design Authors Mechanical vapor recompression of steam‐carbon dioxide mixture for energy recovery”,Indian patent No. 1080/DEL/2010 filed.(format?) Authors A high efficiency low pressure drop gas distributor cum support plate for countercurrent gas‐liquid packed beds, Indian patent under process, 2010.

Awards/Honors:


Sigma Xi Second Best paper award, 1971, (University of Idaho, Moscow,ID,USA )Kuloor memorial award for best paper, 1983 (Indian Chemical engineer) Kuloor memorial award for best paper, 1988 ( Indian Chemical engineer) Best presented paper award, 2001, in the area of modeling and simulation (CHEMCON)2002 (NCL Research Foundation)


Krishna D.P. NigamProfessor

• Ph.D. (Tech.), UDCT, Mumbai, 1976 • PDF , Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1979‐80

Contact:

Office: II‐186 (Tel: 26591020), Lab.: II‐188 (Tel: 26596178) email: [email protected], [email protected] Personal webpage: http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/~kdpnigam

Research Interests:

Multiphase Reactors, Process Intensification, Transport Phenomena, Modeling & Simulation, Interfacial Sciences

Selected Publications/Patents: Saxena A.K. and Nigam K.D.P., 1984, “ Coiled Configuration for Flow Inversion and its effect on Residence Time Distribution”, AIChE Journal, 30 , 363 ‐ 368 Haque M.W., Nigam K.D.P. and Joshi J.B., 1986, “ Hydrodynamics and Mixing in Highly viscous Pseudo plastic Non‐Newtonian Solutions in Large Diameter Bubble Columns”, Chemical Engineering Science, 41 , 2321 – 2331 Kundu A., Saroha A.K. and Nigam K.D.P., 2001, “Liquid Distribution Studies in Trickle‐ Bed Reactors”, Chemical Engineering Science, 56, 5963‐5967 Kumar V., Mridha M., Gupta A.K. and Nigam K.D.P., 2007, “Coiled Flow Inverter as a Heat Exchanger”, Chemical Engineering Science, 62, 2386 – 2396 Kumar V. and Nigam K.D.P., 2010 “Single‐Phase Fluid Flow and Mixing in Micro Channels”, Chemical Engineering Science, In Press. Awards/Honors:

Member Editorial Board 2007 & 2010 (for Elsevier Journals such as ChERD, CEP‐Process Intensification, Education for Chemical Engineering and Guest Editor for Special Issues of CES ) Visiting Professor at INP‐ENSIAC ET, Toulouse, 2002, UNSW Sydney 2005, ECPM, Strasbourg 2007 & 2008 and Chinese Academy of Sciences 2009. Member of Board of Director for Public Sector Companies such as NFL(2003 – 2006) and EIL (2010‐2013). Council Member 1998‐2001 (All India Council of Technical Education AICTE) Total number of Research publications more than 120, which has received about 1100 citations.


Sharad K. Gupta Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), Polytechnic Institute of New York, 1979

Contact: Office: I‐21 (Tel: 26591023) email: [email protected]

Personal webpage: http://chemical.iitd.ac.in/sgupta

Research Interests: Membrane separation processes, Transport phenomena

Selected Publications/Patents: Senthilmurugan .S and Gupta Sharad K., 2006 “Modeling of a radial flow hollow fiber module and estimation of model parameters for aqueous multi‐component mixture using numerical techniques”, Journal of Membrane Science, 279, 466–478 Abhijit Chatterjee, Aruj Ahluwalia, S. Senthilmurugan, and Sharad K. Gupta, 2004, “Modeling of a Radial flow hollow fiber module and estimation of model parameters using numerical techniques”, Journal of Membrane Science, 236, 1‐16 Jain Semant, Gupta Sharad K., 2004, “Analysis of modified surface force pore flow model with concentration polarization and comparison with Spiegler‐Kedem model in reverse osmosis systems”, Journal of Membrane Science, 232, 45‐62. Z. V. P. Murthy, Gupta Sharad K, 1996, “Sodium cyanide separation and parameter estimation for reverse osmosis thin film composite polyamide membrane”, Journal of Membrane Science, 154, 89‐103 Gupta Sharad K, 1985, “Analytical design equations for reverse osmosis systems”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Process Design and Development, 24, 1240‐4. Ackerberg, R.C., Patel, R.D. and Gupta Sharad K., 1978, The heat/mass transfer to a finite strip at small Peclet numbers, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 86, 49 – 65

Awards/Honors: Member SEIA , (Year)Delhi Government, Member CMC under orange category and MSW, (Year) Delhi Pollution Control Committee,


Suddhasatwa BasuProfessor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), I.I.Sc., Bangalore 1994 • Post doc fellow/Sessional faculty, Dept. of Chem. and

Mat. Eng., University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 1994‐1997

Contact: Office: II‐386 (Tel: 011 26591035), Fuel Cell Lab. II‐390/387(Tel:01126596115),email: [email protected] Personal webpage: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~sbasu

Research Interests:

Interfacial & Electro‐Chemical Eng.; Electrocatalyst, Membrane‐electrode‐assembly; Fuel Cell – DAFC, AFC, SOFC; Hydrogen generation, CO2 electro‐reduction, Enhanced oil Recovery

Selected Publications/Patents:Book Basu S. (Ed.), Recent Trends in Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Springer, N. Y. (2007)

Patent An Improved Process for De‐dyeing of Liquid Waste, Patent Filed: 377/DEL/2003 Direct Alcohol Fuel Cell, Patent Filed: 1139/DEL/2010

Journal D. Basu, Basu S., “A Study on Direct Glucose and Fructose Alkaline Fuel Cell”, 2010, Electrochim Acta, 55, 5575‐5579. Pramanik, H., Basu, S., 2008, “Studies on operating parameters and cyclic voltammetry of a direct ethanol fuel cell”, J Appl. Electrochem., 38(9) 1321‐1328. Gupta, A. K. and Basu, S., 2008, Deformation of an oil droplet on solid substrate in simple shear flow, Chem. Eng. Sci., 63, 5496‐5502. Verma, A, and Basu.S., 2007, “Experimental Evaluation and Mathematical Modeling of A Direct Alkaline Fuel Cell”, J. Power Sources, 168(1), 200‐210. Verma A., and Basu, S., 2007, “Direct Alkaline Fuel Cell for Multiple Liquid Fuels: Anode Electrode Studies”, J. Power Sources, 174, 180‐185. Verma, A., A. K. Jha, Basu, S., 2005, MnO2 as a cathode catalyst in flowing alkaline electrolyte direct alcohol or sodium borohydride fuel cell, J. Power Sources 141 30‐34. Basu, S., Kumar, R., and K. S. Gandhi, 1997, Detachment of a coalesced phase blob from a circular obstacle in a Hele Shaw cell, Chem. Engg. Sci., 52 2849‐2855. Basu, S., “A study on effect of wetting on mechanism of coalescence in a model coalesce”, 1993, J. colloid and Interface Sci., 159 68‐76 ()

Awards/Honors:


• FITT Award best M.Tech. thesis 2010, equally shared Rs 40,000 with student, A. Awasthi • Distinguished Alumni Award,(year) Dept of Chemical Engineering, Calcutta University • UKIERI 2009 (Award by British Council) • Visiting Fellow, 2008, Royal Soc. UK, Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, • DAAD faculty Research award, 2006, on Fuel cell Tech., Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany • Visiting Professor, 2000, 2002, University Alberta, Edmonton, Canada,


Ratan Mohan Associate Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT‐Kanpur

Contact: Office: II‐289 (Tel: 26591033), Lab.: II‐288 (Tel: 26596179) email: [email protected]

Personal webpage: http://chemical.iitd.ac.in/ratan

Research Interests:

Computational fluid dynamics, Multiphase flows and reaction, Phase equilibrium thermodynamics, Process engineering

Selected Publications/Patents:

Awards/Honors:


K. K. Pant Associate Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT‐ KANPUR, 1997 • Visiting Scientist Auburn University, USA (2006‐07)

Contact: Office: (Tel: 26596172), Lab.: II‐185 (Tel: 26596177) email: [email protected]

Personal webpage: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~kkpant

Research Interests: Heterogeneous Catalysis and Reaction Kinetics, Hydrocarbon Conversion Processes, Green Technologies for sustainable energy and environment, Water treatment

Selected Publications/Patents: Patel Sanjay, Pant K.K ,2006, “Influence of Preparation Method on Performance of Cu(Zn)(Zr)‐Alumina Catalysts for the Hydrogen Production via Steam Reforming of Methanol”, Journal of Porous Materials, 13, 373‐378. Nandini A, Pant K.K , Dhingra S.C, 2006, “Kinetic study of the catalytic carbon dioxide reforming of methane to synthesis gas over Ni‐K/CeO2‐Al2O3 catalyst”, Applied Catalysis A: General 308,119‐127 Akanksha, Pant K.K., Srivastava, V. K., 2007, “arbon dioxide absorption into monoethanolamine in a continuous film contactor”, Chemical Engineering Journal 133, 229‐237. Byrd A.J., Pant K.K., Gupta R.B. 2007, “Hydrogen production from Glucose using Ru/Al2O3 catalyst in supercritical water”, Ind. Eng. Chem. 46, 3574‐3579. Zaidi, H.A and Pant K.K. 2008, “ Activity of oxalic acid treated ZnO/CuO/HZSM‐5 catalyst for the transformation of methanol to gasoline range hydrocarbons”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 47 (9), 2970‐2975. Sanjay Patel and K.K Pant, 2009, “Kinetic Modeling of Oxidative Steam Reforming of Methanol over CU/ZnO/CeO2/Al2O3 Catalyst”, Applied Catalyst A, 356, (2), 189‐200.

Awards/Honors:


Dr A V Rama Rao Foundation’s Best Ph.D. Thesis Supervised and Research Award in Chemical Engineering/Technology Chemcon 2009, Vishakapatnam. INAE Award , 2002 on M. Tech. project (Student Ms. S. Ghorai) Best Paper award on Research paper, 2004, presented in the technical session of Chemical Reaction Engineering during IICHE conference CHEMCON, Mumbai. Best Poster Award, 2007 at 5th International conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology (FUELCELL2007), New York USA, 18‐20 June. Best Poster Award 2009, during PETROTECH, Delhi.


Rajesh Khanna Associate Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT‐Kanpur, 1998 • Post doctoral fellow, Institut de Chimie des Surfaces

et Interfaces, Mulhouse, France, 1998‐2000 Contact:

Office: II‐95 (Tel: 26591031), Lab.: II‐96 (Tel: 26596174) email: [email protected]

Personal webpage: http://chemical.iitd.ac.in/rajkh

Research Interests:

Phase separation, pattern formation and dewetting in unstable thin liquid films, interfacial engineering, microreactor, mist reactors

Selected Publications/Patents: Khanna, R., Agnihotri, N. K., M. Vashishtha, Sharma A., Jaiswal, P. K. and Puri, S., Kinetics of spinodal phase separation in unstable thin liquid films, 2010, Physical Review E (82), 011601,. Khanna, R. and Nigam K. D. P., 2002, Partial wetting in porous catalyst: wettability and wetting efficiency, Chemical Engineering Science 57, 3401‐3405. Khanna, R., Sharma A. and Reiter G., 2000, The ABC of pattern evolution in self‐destruction of thin polymer films, EPJDirect (online) E2, 1—9 . Reiter G. and Khanna R., 2000, Real‐time determination of the slippage length in autophobic polymer dewetting, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2753—2756. Sharma A. and Khanna R., 1998, Pattern formation in unstable thin liquid films, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3463—3466.

Awards/Honors: Government of India Residential Scholarship, 1980 to 1984.

Institute Color, 1989, (Highest award in sports by IIT Kanpur) Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Medal, 1998 (For best all round performance of the post‐graduate programs of study awarded by IIT Kanpur) Republic Day Award (2002) (For excellence in sports and sportsmanship awarded by IIT Delhi


Anil K. Saroha Associate Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT‐Delhi, 1999 • Post doctoral research, University of Liege, BelgiumI

2006


Personal webpage: http://chemical.iitd.ac.in/aksaroha

Research Interests:

Multiphase Reactors

Selected Publications/Patents:Saroha, A. K., 2010 “Solid‐Liquid Mass Transfer in Trickle‐bed Reactors”, Chem. Eng. Res. & Des., 88,744. Indraneel Nandi and Saroha, A. K., 2008, “Pressure Drop Hysteresis in Trickle Bed Reactors”. Chem. Eng. Sci., 64(12), 3114. Said Aferka, Michel Crine, Saroha, A. K., Dominique Toye and Pierre Marchot, 2007, “In situ Measurements of the Static Liquid Holdup in Katapak SP12TM Packed Column using X‐ray Tomography”, Chem. Eng. Sci., 62, 6076. Saroha, A. K., and Ritesh Khera, “Hydrodynamic Study of Fixed Beds with Cocurrent Upflow and Downflow”, 2006, Chem. Eng. and Processing, 45(6), 455‐460.

Saroha, A. K., and Nigam K. D. P, “Trickle Bed Reactors”, 1996, Reviews in Chem. Engg,

12, 207‐304.

Awards/Honors: Honorary Editor, Indian Chemical Engineer (Quarterly Journal of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers published by Taylor and Francis & Anamaya Publishers) (year)


Shantanu Roy Associate Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), Washington University in St. Louis, USA, 2000

Contact: Office: I‐314 (Tel: 26596021), Lab.: I‐304 (Tel: 26596252) email: [email protected]

Personal webpage: http://chemical.iitd.ac.in/roys

Research Interests: Multiphase reactor engineering, non‐invasive monitoring of multiphase flows, computational reaction engineering, monoliths and structured reactors

Selected Publications/Patents: Upadhyay Rajesh K. and Roy Shantanu, 2010, “Investigation of Hydrodynamics of Binary Fluidized Beds via Radioactive Particle Tracking and Dual‐Source Densitometry”, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 88, 601‐610. S. Vaishali., Roy Shantanu., and Patrick L. Mills. 2010, “Modeling of Partial Oxidation in Gas‐Solids Downer Reactors”, AIChE Journal 56(8), 2150‐2162. S. Vaishali., Roy, Shantanu and P. L. Mills, 2008, “Hydrodynamic Simulation of Gas‐Solids Downflow Reactors”, Chemical Engineering Science 63, 5107‐5119. W. Liu., Roy, S. and X. Fu, 2005 “Gas‐Liquid Catalytic Hydrogenation Reaction in Small Catalyst Channel”, AIChE J. 51(8), 2285‐2297. Roy Shantanu., A. Kemoun, M. H. Al‐Dahhan and M. P. Dudukovic, 2005, “Experimental Investigation of the Hydrodynamics in a Liquid‐Solid Riser”, AIChE J. 51(3), 802‐835. W. Liu and Roy S., 2004, “Effect of Channel Shape on Gas/Liquid Catalytic Reaction Performance in Structured Catalyst/Reactor”, Chemical Engineering Science 59, 4927‐4939 . Roy Shantanu, A. K. Heibel, W. Liu and T. Boger, 2004, “Design of Monolithic Catalysts for Multiphase Reactions”, Chemical Engineering Science 59, 957‐966. “Fuel Cell Device with Varied Active Area Sizes”, US Patent 7,494,732, Granted February 24, 2009 (with Ketcham, T. D., St Julien, D. J., Brown, J. L., Badding, M. E). “Flow Distributor for Monolith Reactor”, US Patent 7,032,894, Granted April 25, 2006 (with Adusei, G. Y., Campbell, S. A., Liu, W., and Odinak, M. E.). “System and Process for Pyrolysis Gasoline Hydrotreatment”, US Patent 7,014,750, Granted March 21, 2006 (with Boger, T. and Sorensen, C. M.).

Awards/Honors: DuPont Young Faculty Award, 2004(E I DuPont de Nemours Company, Wilmington, Delaware, USA).


Anurag S. RathoreAssociate Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), Yale University, CT, USA, 1998

• Director, Amgen Corporation, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA, 2003‐2009; Team Leader, Pharmacia Corporation, St. Louis, MO, USA, 1999‐2003


Personal webpage: http://www.biotechCMZ.com

Research Interests:

Development, scale‐up, technology transfer, validation and monitoring of biotech processes; Implementation of Quality by Design (QbD) and Process Analytical Technology (PAT) for biotech products and processes; Multivariate Data Analysis (MVDA); Modeling of biotech unit operations; Biosimilars

Selected Publications/Patents: Rathore. A. S., Theory of Electroosmotic Flow, “Retention and Separation Efficiency in Capillary Electrochromatography: Review”, 2002, Electrophoresis, 23,3827‐3846. Rathore. A. S. et al, “Use of Electrokinetic Measurements for Characterization of Monolithic Columns uses in Capillary Electrochromatography”, 2005, J. Chromatography. A, 1079, 299‐306. Rathore. A. S. et al, “Case Study and Application of PAT towards Bioprocessing: Use of On‐Line HPLC for Making Real Time Pooling Decisions for Process Chromatography”, 2008, Biotech. Bioengg, 100, 306‐316. Rathore. A. S. and H. Winkle, Quality by Design for Pharmaceuticals: Regulatory Perspective and Approach, 2009, Nature Biotechnology, 27, 26‐34. Rathore. A. S., “A Roadmap for Implementation of Quality by Design (QbD) for Biotechnology Products, 2009, Trends in Biotechnology”, 27, 546‐553. Rathore. A. S., “Follow‐on Protein Products: Scientific Issues, Developments and Challenges”, 2009, Trends in Biotechnology, 27, 698‐705.

Awards/Honors: Series Editor, 2003‐, Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Series, (Taylor & Francis) Editorial Board, 2004‐, Separation and Purification Reviews, (?) Advisory Board, 2009‐, GE Healthcare (Bioprocessing Division), Editor‐in‐Chief, 2010‐, Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology,


Sanat Mohanty Associate Professor

• Scientist, R&D Supervisor, Corporate Research Materials Lab, 3M, 2001‐2009

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2001

• MS (Chemical Engineering), Louisiana State University, 1997

• B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering), IIT Bombay, 1995

Contact: Office: II‐273 (Tel: 26591024), Lab.: ‐‐‐ email: [email protected]

Personal webpage:

Research Interests: Thermodynamics of soft materials, self assembly of small molecules, structure property of polymers

Selected Publications/Patents: Merheb, B., Deymier, P. A., Jain, M., Aloshyna‐Lesuffleur, M., Mohanty, S., Berker, A., and Greger, R. W., Elastic and viscoelastic effects in rubber/air acoustic band gap structures: A theoretical and experimental study. J. Appl. Phys. 104, 064913 (2008). Mohanty, S, Chou, S‐H, Brostrom, M, Aguilera, Predictive Modeling of Self Assembly of Chromonics Materials, Molecular Simulations (2006), 32(14), 1179‐1185. Mohanty, S., Molecular simulation of self‐assembly of hydrophilic functionalized aromatics in aqueous solutions. Molecular Simulations (2006), 32(8), 633‐642. Reible, Danny; Mohanty, Sanat. A Levy flight‐random walk model for bioturbation. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2002), 21(4), 875‐881 Mohanty, S.; Davis, H. T.; McCormick, A. V. Complementary Use of Simulations and Free Energy Models for CTAB/NaSal Systems. Langmuir (2001), 17(22), 7160‐7171. Mohanty, S.; Davis, H. T.; McCormick, A. V. Sorbate/sorbent phase transition during adsorption of p‐xylene in silicalite. AIChE Journal (2000), 46(8), 1662‐1675. Mohanty, S.; Davis, H. T.; McCormick, A. V. Shape selective adsorption in cylindrical pores. Chemical Engineering Science (2000), 55(17), 3377‐3383. Mohanty, S.; Reible., D. D.; Valsaraj, K. T.; Thibodeaux, L. J. A physical model for the simulation of bioturbation and its comparison to experiments with oligochaetes. Estuaries (1998), 21(2), 255‐262.

Awards/Honors:


Anupam Shukla Associate Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT‐Kanpur, 2004 • Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical

Engineering, IIT Guwahati 2003‐04 • Assitant Professor, Department of Chemical

Engineering, IIT Guwahati 2004‐05


Personal webpage: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~anupams

Research Interests:

Membrane synthesis and membrane separation, Ion exchange membrane and electrochemical systems

Selected Publications/Patents:Shukla A., and Kumar A., 2004, “Analysis of separation of chromic acid by zeolite‐clay composite membrane using space‐charge model”, J. Memb. Sci., 237, 119‐130. Workneh, S. and Shukla A., 2008, “Synthesisof sodalite octahydrate zeolite‐clay composite membrane and its use in separation of SDS”, J. Memb. Sci., 309, 189‐195 Mir, F. Q. and Shukla, A., 2010, “Negative rejection of NaCl in ultrafiltration of aqueous solution of NaCl and KCl using sodalite octahydrate zeolite‐clay charged ultrafiltration membrane”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 49, 6539‐6546. Sow, P. K. Sant, S. and Shukla, A., 2010 “EIS studies on electro‐electrodialysis cell for concentration of hydriodic acid”, Intl. J. Hydrogen energy, 35, 8868‐8875.

Awards/Honors: Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship, 2008‐2013 (Indian Institute of Technology‐Delhi) Best Industry related Ph. D. thesis supervision, 2009 (FITT, IIT Delhi)


Sreedevi Upadhyayula Assistant Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT Kharagpur, 2003 • Post doctoral research, Department of Chemical

Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA 2001‐‘03

Contact: Office: I‐209 (Tel: 26591083), Lab.: I‐107(Tel: 26596134) email: [email protected]

Personal webpage: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~sreedevi

Research Interests: Catalytic Reaction Chemistry, Mechanism of catalytic reactions, Kinetics of Heterogeneous reactionsCatalyst Synthesis, Characterization and improvement of Catalysts.Green Catalysis using Ionic Liquids, heterogenization of IL catalyzed reactions Zeotype, Mesoporous materials and tailored heterogeneous catalysts for utilization of energy and resources in Petrochemical & Refinery Chemical processes

Selected Publications/Patents: Upadhyayula, S., Rao U., Pradhan, B. K. B., Narayan C.,Tambe, S. S., Satyanarayana, C. V. and Rao, B. S., 2001,”Kinetics of Isopropylation of Benzene Over Hbeta Catalyst”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 40(14), 3133‐3138. Upadhyayula. S., Rao U., Pradhan, B. K. B., Narayan C., Satyanarayana, C. V. and Rao, B. S., 2002, “Alkylation of Benzene with Isopropyl Alcohol over SAPO‐5 in an Integral Pressure Reactor”, Cat. Letters, , 79, 1‐4. Upadhyayula. S., Bokade, V. V, Satyanarayana, C. V. V., Rao, B. S., Pradhan, Narayan C. and Rao, B. K. B., 2002, “Kinetics of Propylation of Benzene over H‐Beta and SAPO‐5 Catalysts: A Comparison”, J. Mol. Catal. A: Chemical, 181, 257‐262. Kondamudi Kishore, Upadhyayula S, 2008, “Transalkylation of Diisopropyl Benzene with Benzene over SAPO‐5 catalyst ‐ a Kinetic Study”. J. of Chem. Technol. Biotechnol., 83, 699‐706. Kondamudi Kishore, Pandian Elavarasan, Paul J. Dyson and Upadhyayula S, “Alkylation of p‐cresol with tert‐butyl alcohol using benign Bronsted acidic ionic liquid catalyst”, 2010, J. Mol. Catal. A: Chemical, 321, 34‐41.

Awards/Honors: • Best industry relevant M.Tech project award, 2009( FITT ) • National award for best M Tech thesis in Chemical Engineering, 1993. (ISTE‐IPCL) • Senior Research Fellowship, 1999( Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)


Vivek V. Buwa Assistant Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT‐Bombay, 2004 • Post doctoral research, Institute of Fluid Mechanics

(LSTM), University of Erlangen ‐ Nürnberg, Germany, 2004‐06

Contact: Office: I‐309 (Tel: 26591027), Lab.: II‐387 (Tel: 26596252) email: [email protected]

Personal webpage: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~vivek

Research Interests:

Computational flow modeling and simulation, Single/multiphase flows, Multiphase reactor engineering, Transport phenomena and reactions in multiphase systems, Micro‐reactors

Selected Publications/Patents: Buwa, V. V. and Ranade, V. V., 2002, “Dynamics of gas‐liquid flows in rectangular bubble columns: Experiments and single/multi‐group simulations”, Chemical Engineering Science, 57, 4715‐4736. Buwa, V. V. and Ranade, V. V., 2004, “Characterization of dynamics of gas‐liquid flows in rectangular bubble columns”, A.I.Ch.E. Journal, 50, 2394‐2407. Buwa, V. V., Gerlach, D., Durst F. and E. Schluecker, 2007, “Numerical simulations of bubble formation on submerged orifices: Period‐1 and period‐2 bubbling regimes”, Chemical Engineering Science, 62, 7119‐7132. Goel, D. and Buwa, V. V., 2009, “Numerical Simulations of Bubble Formation and Rise in Micro‐Channels”, Industrial and Engineerig Chemistry Research, 48, 8109–8120. Rabha, S. and Buwa, V. V., 2010, “Volume‐of‐Fluid (VOF) Simulations of Bubbles in sheared liquid”, Chemical Engineering Science, 65, 527‐537.

Awards/Honors: Visiting Scholar, The Erasmus Mundus programme (European Commission) "Computer Simulations for Science and Engineering" (COSSE) is a joint initiative of four European universities: KTH ‐Stockholm; TU‐Berlin, TU‐ Delft, FAU‐Erlangen‐ Nürnberg, Germany (2011) Young Engineer Award, 2008 (Indian National Academy of Engineering) Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship, 2008‐2013 (Indian Institute of Technology‐Delhi) Research Fellowship, 2005 (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany) Post Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2004 (Bavarian Science Foundation, Germany) Keerti Sangoram Endowment Award for Best Research Scholar in Engineering Sciences, 2002 (NCL Research Foundation)


Sudip K. Pattanayek Assistant Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT‐Bombay, 2002 • Post doctoral research: Department Chem. Engg.,

POSTECH, South Korea, 2002‐03; School of AMME, University of Sydney, Australia, 2003‐06; Department of Chem. Engg., Monash University, Australia, 2006‐07

Contact: Office: I‐310 (Tel: 26591018), Lab.: III‐186 (Tel: 26596345) email: [email protected]

Personal webpage: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~sudip

Research Interests: Design and Synthesis of bio‐compatible surface: Protein adsorption, Protein crystallization; Rheology of polymeric solutions; Static properties of polymeric‐Surfactant‐ionic complex: Utilization of the complex for enhanced oil recovery.

Selected Publications/Patents: Pattanayek, S.K., Juvekar, V.A.; 2002, “Prediction of Adsorption of Nonionic Polymers from Aqueous Solutions to Solid Surfaces”, Macromolecules, 35, 9574. Jeong Ho, C.J., Ho, L.D., Sung, S. H., Pattanayek, S. K.; Ryu, C. Y., Cho, K.W., 2004, “Exploiting Poly(dimethylsiloxane)‐Modified Tips To Evaluate Frictional Behavior by Friction Force Microscopy”, Langmuir, 20, 11499. Pattanayek, S.K., Pham, T.T., Pereira, G.G., 2005, “Morphological structures formed by grafted polymer in poor solvents”, J. Chem. Phys, 122, 214908. Pattanayek, S. K., Pereira, G. G., 2007, “Pearl‐necklace (Rayleigh) instability for strongly absorbed Polyelectrolytes”, Physical Review E, 75, 051802. Pattanayek, S.K., Prakash, J.R., 2008, “Is the electrostatic blob model relevant to dilute polyelectrolyte solution undergoing shear flow?”, Macromolecules, 41, 2260. Badoga, S., Pattanayek, S. K., Kumar, A. and Pandey, L. M. , 2010,”Effect of polymer‐ surfactant structure on its solution viscosity”, Asia‐Pacific J. Chem. Engg., n/a. doi: 10.1002/apj.461

Awards/Honors:


Munawar A. ShaikAssistant Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT‐Bombay, 2005 • Post Doctoral Research, Princeton Univ., 2005‐07

Contact: Office: II‐375 (Tel: 26591038), Lab.: II‐13 (Tel: 26596162) e‐mail: [email protected]

Personal webpage: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~munawar

Research Interests:

Process Systems Engineering, Process Operations: Planning & Scheduling of Batch and Continuous Processes, Process Synthesis, Modeling and Optimization, Energy Integration, Evolutionary Computation.

Selected Publications/Patents: Shaik, M.A. and Gudi, R.D., 2005, “A Multi‐level, Control‐theoretic Framework for Integration of Planning, Scheduling and Rescheduling”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 44, 4001‐4021. Shaik, M.A. Janak, S.L. and Floudas, C.A., 2006, “Continuous‐Time Models for Short‐Term Scheduling of Multipurpose Batch Plants: A Comparative Study”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 45, 6190‐6209. Shaik, M.A. and Floudas, C.A., 2007, “Improved Unit‐Specific Event‐based Continuous‐Time Model for Short‐Term Scheduling of Continuous Processes: Rigorous Treatment of Storage Requirements”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 46, 1764‐1779. Babu, B.V. and Shaik, M.A., 2007, “Differential Evolution Strategies for Optimal Design of Shell‐and‐Tube Heat Exchangers”, Chem. Eng. Sci., 62, 3720‐3739. Shaik, M.A. and Floudas, C.A., 2009, “Novel Unified Modeling Approach for Short‐term Scheduling”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 48, 2947‐2964. U.S. Patent (no: 20060282343) entitled ‘Paper Manufacturing System and Method’ filed on May 05, 2005. The work was part of a sponsored research project of Honeywell (Bangalore), undertaken at IIT Bombay during my Ph.D.

Awards/Honors: Young Scientist Award, 2008‐09 (Indian Science Congress Association) Kusuma Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship, 2008‐2013 (IIT Delhi) 1st Prize for Best Paper in the Technical Session: 2004 “Process Control‐1” at CHEMCON


Jayati Sarkar Assistant Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT‐Kanpur, 2005 • Post doctoral research, Max Planck Institute for

Dynamics and Self‐Organization, Göttingen, Germany, 2007‐2008.


Personal webpage: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~jsarkar

Research Interests: Instabilities, Adhesion, Debonding, Dewetting and Pattern formation of soft thin films, Interfacial Science, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Self Organization of Complex Fluids and Granular Materials

Selected Publications/Patents: Sarkar, J., and Sharma, A., 2010, “A Unified Theory of Instabilities in Viscoelastic Thin Films: From Wetting to Confined Films, From Viscous to Elastic Films, From Short To Long Waves”, Langmuir, 26 ,8464–8473 Sarkar, J., Sharma, A. and Shenoy, V., 2008, “Electric‐field induced instabilities and morphological phase transitions in soft elastic films”, Physical Review E, 77, 031604. Gonguntla, M., Sharma, A., Sarkar, J., Subramanian, S.A., Ghosh, M., and Shenoy, V., 2006, “Contact Instability in Adhesion and Debonding of Thin Elastic Films” Physical Review Letters, 97, 018303. Sarkar, J., Sharma, A. and Shenoy, V., 2005, “Adhesion and Debonding of Soft Elastic Films: Crack Patterns, Metastable Pathways and Forces”, Langmuir, 21, 1457‐1469. Sarkar, J., Shenoy, V and Sharma, A., 2004, “Patterns, forces, and metastable pathways in debonding of elastic films”, Physical Review Letters, 93 , 018302. Also a selected paper in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Sceince and Nanotechnology, 10 (2).

Awards/Honors:


Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship, 2008‐2010 ( Kusuma Trust sponsored in thearea of Engineering at IIT Delhi) Standing first in B.ChE, Jadavpur University, 2000: University Medal; Chemical Engineering Diamond Jubilee Gold Medal; Chitta Ranjan Khastagir Memorial Gold Medal; Bandana Ghosh Memorial Gold Centered Silver Medal; Jatindra Krishna Memorial Bronze Medal, Hiralal Roy Smriti Padak (Silver Medal). R. Debnath Memorial Award (1999‐2000) for Merit and Academic Activities. Sumona Memorial Book Prize, 2000


Shalini Gupta Assistant Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA 2007

• Post doctoral research, Imperial College London, UK 2008 ‐ 2010


Personal webpage: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~shalinig/

Research Interests:

Colloid interactions and nanoscale engineering, self‐assembly of molecules at interfaces, on‐chip devices for particle manipulation and assembly of colloidal structures, biosensors for diagnostic applications, bioresponsive nanomaterials, microfluidics and nanolithography

Selected Publications/Patents:

Gupta S.*, Andresen H.A.* and Stevens M.M., ‘Kinetic Investigation of Bioresponsive Nanoparticle Assembly as a Function of Ligand Design’ Nanoscale accepted (2011) DOI: 10.1039/c0nr00469c (*Equal contribution) Gupta S., Andresen H.A. and Stevens M.M., ‘Single‐Step Kinase Inhibitor Screening using a Peptide‐Modified Gold Nanoparticle Platform’ Chem. Commun. 47, 2249‐2251 (2011) Gupta S., Andresen H.A., Ghadiali J.E. and Stevens M.M., ‘Kinase‐Actuated Immunoaggregation of Peptide‐Conjugated Gold Nanoparticles’ Small 6, 1509‐1513 (2010) Gupta S., Alargova R.G., Kilpatrick P.K. and Velev O.D., ‘Directed Assembly of Live Cells into Functionalized Biomaterials using Dielectrophoresis on a Chip’ Langmuir 26, 3441‐3452 (2010) Velev O.D. and Gupta S., ‘Materials Fabricated by Micro and Nanoparticle Assembly – The Challenging Path from Science to Engineering’ Adv. Mater. 21, 1‐9 (2009) Gupta S., Alargova R.G., Kilpatrick P.K., and Velev O.D., ‘On‐chip Electric Field Driven Assembly of Biocomposites from Live Cells and Functionalized Particles Soft Matter 4, 726‐730 (2008) Gupta S., Huda S., Kilpatrick P.K. and Velev O.D., ‘Characterization and Optimization of Gold Nanoparticle Based Silver Enhanced Immunoassays’ Anal. Chem. 79, 3810‐3820 (2007)

Awards/Honors:

Best research poster award, AIChE annual meeting, Cincinnati, OH, USA (2005) Ph.D. research scholarship at NC State University (2002‐2007)


B. Pitchumani Emeritus Professor

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT‐Madras, 1975


Personal webpage:

Research Interests:

Powder characterization, Production of nano particles, Gas solid separation in reverse flow and uniflow cyclones, Silo design and retrofitting for reliable powder flow.

Selected Publications/Patents: Pradeep and Pitchumani. B, 2010 , “Effect of operating variables on the production of nanoparticles by stirred media milling”, “Asia‐Pacific Jornal of Chemical Engineering” (in press) Sakthivel, S., Pitchumani, R, & Pitchumani, B. 2008, “Estimation of specific rate of breakage parameters to optimize the industrial ball mill, Industrial Ceramics, Volume 28, 1 – 5, Sakthivel, S., Krishnan, Venkatesan V., & Pitchuman, B. 2008 , “Influence of Suspension Stability on wet grinding for production of mineral nano particles, Particulogy, issue – 2, Selva Ganapathy. R and B. Pitchumani, (Year) “Coal Storage Bunkers – a Case Study”, Bulk Solids Handling Rajan K.S, Srivastava S.N, Pitchumani B, Mohanty B, 2007, “Simulation of counter currnet gas‐solid heat exchanger: Effect of solid loading ratio and particle size”, Applied Thermal Engineering, 27 (8‐9), 1345‐1351,. Mohan Medhe, Pitchumani B.and J. Thomas, 2005, “Flow characterization of fine powder using material characteristic parameters, Advanced Powder Technology”, 1‐13,.

Awards/Honors: Republic Day National award , 1971,(for development of Fluid Energy Mill from President of India, Sh. V. V. Giri) Award for excellence , 1986 (from Powder Advisory Board, USA for contribution to Science Powder Technology)


Ashok K. Gupta Emeritus Fellow

• Ph. D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT‐Kanpur, 1973 • Post doctoral research, Dept. of Chemical

Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK, 1973 – 1975

Contact: Office: II‐385 (Tel: 26591019) email: [email protected]

Personal webpage:

Research Interests: Adsorption and Ion Exchange, Mass transfer.

Selected Publications/Patents: Bajpai, R.K., Guptha,A.K., M Gopala Rao., 1974, “single particle studies of binary nad ternary cation exchange kinetics, AICHE Journal, 20, 989. Guptha,A.K., M Gopala Rao., Mann R,S.,1979, isotrpic ion exchange studies in heteroionic system, Chem. Engg. Science34,279. N. Anand, B.G.R Manoja, Guptha,A.K.,1994, “ Kinetics of adsorptionon bioprocess solids with rectangular equilibrium reanalyzed”, Chem. Engg. Science, 49,3277. M.G Labhe, Guptha,A.K., 1984, “Sorption of dissolved oxygen from water by anion exchange resign”, Reactive polymers, 2, 291. Koul, V.K., Guptha,A.K.,2004, “uptake of sodium Chloride by mixture of weakly acidic and weakly basic ion exchange resigns, equilibrium and kinetic studies, Chem. Engg. Science, 59, 1423.

Awards/Honors:


Supporting Staff

Name of Employee DesignationSh. N. K. Gupta Senior Technical Superintendent

Sh. A. A. Rasheed Senior Technical Superintendent Sh. Sewa Ram Technical Superintendent Sh. Vishesh Kumar Junior Technical Superintendent

Sh. Pradeep Kumar Junior Technical SuperintendentSh. Dilbag Singh Junior Technical SuperintendentSh. Chandan Singh Junior Lab Assistant

Sh. Ramesh Kumar Junior Technical Superintendent Sh. Krishna Kumar Junior Mechanic Sh. A. K. Kala Superintendent Sh. Narendar Kumar Junior Technical Superintendent

Mrs. Leela Sagar Junior SuperintendentMrs. Tajinder Kaur Senior Assistant

Sh. R. K. pandey Attendant Sh. Ram Dev Attendant Sh. Kartar Singh Cleaner

Sh. Om Prakash Cleaner


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♦ Refereed international journals : 12345 ♦ Number of publications in referred journals: 244 ♦ Total impact factor: 417.41 ♦ Average impact factor: 1.75 ♦ Referred National/international conference proceedings: 172 ♦ Major journals:

AIChEJ, Chem. Eng. Sci., Phys. Review E., Phy. Rev. Let., I&EC Research, Int. J. Multiphase Flow, Int. J. Heat & Mass Trans., Chem. Eng. Res. Des., J. Power Source, J. Appl. Electrochem., Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, J. Mol. Cat, Can J. Chem. Eng., Chem. Eng. Proc., Chem. Eng. Commun., J. Polymer Sci., Appl. Cat. A, J. Energy Fuel, J. Envir. Res. Dev., J. Adhesion, J Mem. Sci., Nature Biotechnol. , Trends in Biotechnology, Biotechnol. & Bioeng

Publications from the Department


♦ An Improved Process for De‐dyeing of Liquid Waste, S. Basu, IIT Delhi, Copy right: IIT Delhi, Patent Filed

♦ Direct alcohol alkaline fuel cell stack, S. Basu, IIT Delhi, Copy right: IIT Delhi, Filed. ♦ System and Process for Pyrolysis Gasoline Hydro treatment, S. Roy, US Patent 7,014,750,

Granted March 21, 2006 (with Boger, T. and Sorensen, C. M.). ♦ Flow Distributor for Monolith Reactor, S. Roy US Patent 7,032,894, Granted April 25, 2006

(with Adusei, G. Y., Campbell, S. A., Liu, W., and Odinak, M. E.). ♦ Fuel Cell Device with Varied Active Area Sizes, S Roy, US Patent 7,494,732, Granted February

24, 2009 (with Ketcham, T. D., St Julien, D. J., Brown, J. L., Badding, M. E). ♦ Paper manufacturing system and method, Munawar Shaik, U.S. patent (no: 20060282343)

entitled ‘filed on May 05, 2005. The work was part of a sponsored research project of Honeywell Technology Solutions Laboratory, Bangalore, undertaken at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay during my doctoral work.

♦ Two Indian Patent Applications have been filed by FITT, K.D.P. Nigam, United States Patent 7337835 (March 2008)

♦ Extraction of Nickel from spent catalysts using EDTA as Chelating Agent K.D.P. Nigam, K.K. Pant, V.V. Krishnan, Bina singh (Indian Patent under consideration).

♦ Mechanical vapor recompression of steam‐carbon dioxide gas mixture, D P Rao, Indian patent in the process of filling.

♦ Separation of Methanol, Ethanol and/or Dimethyl Ether from Hydrocarbon mixtures’, US Patent 6,984,765 B2 (01/10/2005); Sebastian C. Reyes, Venkatesan V. Krishnan, Gregory J. DeMartin, John H. Sinfelt, Karl G.Strohmaier, Jose Guadalupe Santiesteban.

♦ One‐step process for making near‐micron sized particles in a foam‐bed reactor, Gaikwad, A.A., and Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2006

♦ Temperature‐sensitive inks, Chatterjee, A., and Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2006 ♦ A novel energy‐efficient process of soap manufacture. Nagpal, P., and Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2006 ♦ Pollution‐preventing writing, stamping, screen‐printing, and lithographic inks, Maji, C.S., and

Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2006 ♦ A new robust low‐cost electro‐coagulation process for removal of ions and particles or drops

dispersed in liquids, Goel, G., Gaikwad, A.A., and Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2006 ♦ A novel fuel for cleaner combustion., Arora, M., Arora, R., Mourya, S., Gaikwad, A.A., Singh,

K.G., Paliwal, L.K., Meena, R.K., Mehendale, L., and Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2005, ♦ A continuous process for production of CLAs, Nagpal, P., and Bhaskarwar, A.N., 2005

Patents in the Last 5 Years


1. Quality by Design for Biopharmaceuticals: Perspectives and Case Studies, Ed. by A. S. Rathore and R. Mhatre, Wiley Interscience, 2009, New Jersey.

2. Elements of Biopharmaceutical Production Series, Ed. By A. S. Rathore, Advanstar Communications, New York, 2007.

3. Process Validation in Manufacturing of Biopharmaceuticals, Ed. By A. S. Rathore and G. Sofer, CRC Press, 2005.

4. Recent Trends in Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Springer By S. Basu, 2007 5. Basu, S., Report on Challenges in Fuel cell Technology: India’s Perspective, Dec 1 & 2,

2006, New Delhi (DST) 6. Basu, S., Fuel Cell Technology in India’s Roadmap to Hydrogen Economy, Ed. T. K. Roy and

P. K. Mukhopadhya, Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2006

Booked authored/edited by the faculty


Institutional funding received in last TWO years: 2008‐09: 101.6 lacs (Planned/Equipment) + 39.7 lacs (Recurring) 2009‐10: 163.8 lacs (Planned/Equipment) + 36.4 lacs (Recurring) Total institutional funding received in last 2 years: 341.5 lacs

External funding received in last five years: 2005‐06: 359.86 lacs 2006‐07: 91.40 lacs 2007‐08: 390.45 lacs 2008‐09: 410.86 lacs 2009‐10: 253.83 lacs* Total external funding received in last 5 years: 1506.40 lacs

Major educational projects: ♦ IIT Delhi‐Addis Ababa University Post Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering (Rs. 404 lacs,

Ministry of Education, Ethiopia, 2009‐2012) ♦ National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)‐Phase II (12 courses are being

offered by the Department of Chemical Engg‐IIT Delhi)

Major sponsored research projects: ♦ Studies on chemical desorption of carbon dioxide in packed columns (168 lacs, Ministry of

Chemicals & Fertilizers) ♦ Pilot plant studies on coiled flow inverter (110.52 lacs, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers) ♦ Studies on the catalytic decomposition of sulfuric acid in the I‐S process for hydrogen

production (98.83 lacs, ONGC) ♦ Studies on Bunsen reactor for production of H2SO4 and HI using membrane electrolysis and

concentration of HLX solution using electro‐electrodialysis (99.72 lacs, ONGC) ♦ Development of direct alcohol fuel cell and test protocols (85.61 lacs, MNRE)

Major sponsors : ♦ ONGC, IOCL, BPCL, EIL, Shell India, Evonik Energy, Thermax, GE Healthcare, Corning Inc, Air

Products, BHEL, …. ♦ DST, DRDO, BRNS, Ministry of Non‐Renewable Energy, Ministry of Fertilizers & Chemicals, Oil

& gas ministry, Center for High Technology, PCRA , ….

Spin offs: ♦ EnNatura Technology Ventures Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi ♦ Simplyfeye Software Limited

Sponsored Research


Workshops/Seminars/Schools conducted by the Department in last 5 years:

♦ QIP Course on “Recent Advances in Multiphase Reactors”, 2010 (School) ♦ Multiphase Reactor Engineering For The Process Industry, 2009 (School) ♦ Simulation and Modeling in Process Industry”(Refineries & Petrochemicals Focus), 2009

(School) ♦ DST‐SERC School on Tomography and Velocity Imaging in Multiphase Reactors, 2008

(School) ♦ 8th International Conference on Gas‐Liquid and Gas‐Liquid‐Solid Reactor Engineering

(GLS‐8), 2007 (International Conference) ♦ DST sponsored National Seminar On Challenges In Fuel Cell Technology: India’s

Perspective, 2006 (Workshop) ♦ 58th Annual Meeting of IIChE (CHEMCON‐2005) , 2005 (National Conference)

Workshops/ Seminars/ Schools


Award Awarded by Recipient Year Kusuma Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship

IIT Delhi Anupam Shukla 2008‐2013

Vivek Buwa 2008‐2013

Munawar Shaik 2008‐2010

Jayati Sarkar 2008‐2010

ISCA Young Scientist Award

Dr. Munawar A. Shaik

2008‐2009

DuPont Young Faculty Award

E I DuPont de Nemours Company, Wilmington, Delaware, USA.

Dr. Shantanu Roy 2004

Young Engineer Award

Indian National Academy of Engineering

Dr. Vivek V. Buwa 2008

Recent Awards


• High pressure continuous flow reactor system • FTIR spectrometer • BET surface area analyzer • HPC Cluster (8 nodes) • High speed camera • DTA/TGA

o Fuel Cell Test Station o Potentiostat/Galvanostat o Optical microscope Zeiss with camera

• Radioactive Particle Tracking setup • Dual Source Densitometry – Tomography setup • Multi‐channel analyzers • Quartz Crystal Microbalance • Zeta meter • Rheometer • Spray dryer • Vapor pressure osmometer • BET Surface area and pore size analyser • TPD /TPR Apparatus • X‐ray fluorescence analyzer for sulfur analysis • TGA –DTA apparatus • GCMS • UV Spectrometer • Akta explorer • Akta Purifier • TOC analyzer • Diaphragm compressor • Absorption column with packing and internals • Desorption column with packing and internals

Department • Two Computer Laboratories each equipped with 20 PCs of latest configuration. • CFD Laboratory with 10 high‐end PCs (Department is fully networked)

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