Overview

 

The research activities in the Department of Chemical Engineering are increasing by leaps and bounds each year. The faculty members are involved in basic research fields of chemical engineering such as energy engineering, environmental engineering, separations, CFD to interdisciplinary research fields such as modeling & simulation, multi objective optimization and biochemical engineering. The faculty members attended various seminars, conferences and have numerous publications in international journals to their credit in the academic year 2010-11. The department research work has resulted in publications of 21 research papers in highly rated and reputed international journals and 22 papers in International Conferences / Proceedings.

The faculty members have attended several International Conferences such as Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON), International Congress on Renewable Energy (ICORE), India International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies in Intelligent Systems and Control (EISCO), Symposiums in Biosciences held at Coimbatore, International Congress of Chemistry and Environment(ICCE-2011) in Malaysia.

 

• Achievements

  Achievements in Energy Engineering

  • Published Seventeen International Research Papers
  • Offered Consultancy Services to MERC, Mumbai
  • Completed One PhD
  • Continuing One PhD
  • Completed Nine ME Dissertations
  • Completed Two BE Theses
  • Completed Several Student Projects

  Achievements in Reaction Engineering

  • Published 3 books and monographs
  • 12 research Publications
  • 12 conference presentations

  Achievements in Evolutionary Computation

   

  • Published Fourteen Research Papers
  • Two Books Published (Springer-Verlag, Oxford University Press India)
  • One EDD Notes Published
  • Continuing Two PhD
  • Completed Six ME Dissertations
  • Continuing One ME Dissertation
  • Completed Five BE Theses
  • Completed Several Student Projects 

  Achievements in Environmental Engineering

   

  • Published Thirty One Research Papers
  • Organized a Seminar and Intensive Course on “Environmental Pollution and its Control”, March 11-13, 1999.
  • Organized a two day conference on "Technological Advancement in Chemical and Environmental Engineering (TACEE)-2012", March 22-23, 2012.
  • Completed Four PhD
  • Completed Eight ME Dissertations
  • Continuing Five PhD Theses
  • Continuing Three ME Dissertation
  • Completed Several Student Projects 

   

   

   

   

• Recent Publications 2011

   

  • Gupta, S., Raghuvanshi, S. and Majumder , S., Removal of Heavy Metals from Industrial Waste Water by   Biofiltration Technique: A review. Water Digest , 2011.
  • Datta, D. and Kumar, S., Reactive Extraction of Glycolic Acid using Tri-n-Butylphosphate and Tri-n-Octylamine in Six Different Diluents: Experimental Data and Theoretical Predictions.Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research , 50, pp. 3041-3048, 2011.
  • Pani, A.K. and Mohanta, H.K., A Survey of Data Treatment Techniques for Soft Sensor Design. Chemical Product and Process Modeling , 6, 2011.
  • Gujarathi, A.M. and Babu, B. V., Multiobjective Optimization of Industrial Processes Using Elitist Multiobjective Differential Evolution (Elitist-MODE). Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 26, pp. 455 - 463, 2011.
  • Chattopadhyay, P., Shah, A. and Jain, A., Experimental Determination of Foaming Characteristics of Aqueous Iso-Propanol Solution by Addition of Surfactants. Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment , 15, pp. 672-676, 2011.
  • Majumder, S., Raghuvanshi, S. and Gupta, S., Biodegradation Kinectics of Cr(VI) by Acclimated Mixed Culture. Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment ,l 15, pp. 181-184, 2011.
  • Aditya, D., Parmar, R. and Gupta, S., Nano-adsorbents for Wastewater Treatment: A Review. Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment , 15, pp. 1033-1040, 2011.
  • Maheshwari, U. and Gupta, S., Kinetic and Equilibrium Studies of Cr (VI) Removal from Aqueous Solutions using Activated Neem Bark. Research Jounal of Chemistry and Environment , 15, pp. 939 - 943, 2011.
  • Datta, D.  and Gupta, S., “Modeling and Simulation of Isothermal Fixed-bed Adsorption Column: Comparison of Pore and Solid Diffusion Mass Transfer”,  International Journal of Chemical Modeling , 3, pp. 167-181, 2011.
  • Datta , D., Kumar, S. and Wasewar, K.L., Reactive Extraction of Benzoic Acid and Pyridine-3-Carboxylic Acid using Organophosphoric- and Aminic Extractant Dissolved in Binary Diluent Mixtures.  Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data , 56, pp. 3367–3375, 2011.
  • Gujarathi, A. M. and Babu, B. V., Hybrid Multi-objective Differential Evolution for Multi-objective Optimization of Industrial Polymeric Materials. Computer Methods in Materials Science , 11, pp. 463-468, 2011.
  • Kumar, S., Datta, D., Babu, B.V. Estimation of Equilibrium Parameters using Differential Evolution in Reactive Extraction of Propionic Acid by Tri-n-Butyl Phosphate Dissolved in n-Decane & 1-Decanol. Chemical Engineering Processing: Process Intensification. 2011, 50(7), 614-622.
  • Kumar, S., Datta, D., Babu, B.V. Differential Evaluation Approach for Reactive Extraction of Propionic Acid using Tri-n-Butyl Phosphate (TBP) in Kerosene and 1-Decanol. Material and Manufacturing Processes. 2011, 26, 1-7.
  • Datta, D., Kumar, S. Reactive Extraction of 2-Methylidenebutanedioic Acid with N, N-Dioctyloctan-1-amine Dissolved in Six Different Diluents: Experimental and Theoretical Equilibrium Studies at (298 ± 1) K. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data 2011, 56(5), 2574-2582.
  • Chattopadhyay, P., Foam Over Temperatures Using Glass Coker Experimentation- A Case Study, The IUP Journal of Chemical Engineering, Accepted, 2011.
  • Kumar, S., D atta, D. , Wasewar, K.L. and Babu, B.V., Comparative Study on Reactive Extraction of Picolinic Acid with Six Different Extractants (Phosphoric and Aminic) in Two Different Diluents (Benzene and Decane-1-ol).  Separation Science & Technology , (Accepted, In press ).
  • Datta, D. and Kumar, S., Reactive Extraction of Itaconic Acid with N, N-Dioctyloctan-1-amine Dissolved in Six Different Diluents: Experimental and Theoretical Equilibrium Studies at 298 K. Journal of Chemical Engineering and Data, (Accepted, In Press).

   

• Research Publications 2010

   

  • Raghuvanshi, S and  Babu , B.V., Biodegradation kinetics of methyl iso-butyl ketone (MIBK) by acclimated mixed culture. Biodegradation . 21, pp. 31-42, 2010.
  • Raghuvanshi, S. and  Babu , B.V., Biofiltration for removal of Methyl Iso Butyl Ketone (MIBK): Experimental Studies and Kinetic Modeling. Environmental Technology . 31, pp. 29-40, 2010.
  • Gujarathi, A.M. and  Babu , B.V., Hybrid Multi-objective Differential Evolution (H-MODE) for optimization of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) reactor .  International Journal of Bio-inspired Computation . 2, pp. 213-221, 2010.
  • Gujarathi, A.M. and  Babu , B.V., Optimization of Adiabatic Styrene Reactor: A Hybrid Multi-Objective Differential Evolution (H–MODE) Approach. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research , 48, pp. 11115–11132, 2009.
  • Gupta, S and  Babu , B.V., Experimental-, kinetic-, equilibrium- and regeneration studies for adsorption of Cr (VI) from aqueous solutions using low-cost adsorbent (activated flyash).Desalination and Water Treatment . 20, pp. 168-178, 2010.
  • Gujarathi, A.M. and  Babu , B.V., Multi-objective Optimization of Industrial Styrene Reactor: Adiabatic and Pseudo-isothermal Operation. Chemical Engineering Science , 65, pp. 2009-2026, 2010.   
  • Gupta, S. and  Babu , B.V., Experimental and modeling aspects in column studies for removal of Cr (VI) using activated tamarind seeds. Journal of Water Resource and Protection . 2, pp. 706-715, 2010.
  • Sheth, P.N. and Babu , B.V., Production of hydrogen energy through biomass (waste wood) gasification. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy , 35, pp. 10803-10810, 2010.
  • Kumar, S., Datta, D. and Babu , B.V., Experimental data and Theoretical (Chemodel using DE Approach and LSER Model) Predictions on Reactive Extraction of Mono-Carboxylic Acids using Tri-n-Octylamine. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 55, pp. 4290-4300, 2010.
  • Rungta, S. and Sheth, P.N., “Study of the Production Technologies of Heavy Crude Oil”, The IUP journal of chemical engineering , 2, pp.22-32, 2010.
  • Datta, D.  and Patle, D.S., Sensitivity Analysis of Steady State Methyl Acetate Synthesis Reactive Distillation Column using ASPEN PLUS.  The IUP Journal of Science & Technology , 6, pp. 24-35, 2010.