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Pradeep Kumar Sow

Associate Professor

Electrochemical engineering, Hydrogen energy, Surface science
Office Address
A301/18, A-wing
Department of Chemical Engineering
BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus
Zuarinagar, Goa, India

Lab address: AiMES Lab
Research Lab #12 (A-wing, Ground floor)
Room number: A-110/2 & A-110/3
Department of Chemical Engineering
BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus
Zuarinagar, Goa, India

Sponsored Research Projects

Sponsored Projects

  1. “Process Intensification of the electrochemical HI decomposition section for the IS Cycle” PI: Prof. Pradeep Kumar Sow (Chemical Engineering), Prof. Richa Singhal (Chemical Engineering), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Energy Centre, 
  2. “Improvement of Alkaline Water Electrolyzer (AWE) for Green H2 Production to Supplement CO2 to Methanol Process”, PI: Prof. Pradeep Kumar Sow (Chemical Engineering), K K Birla Goa Campus Co-PI: Prof. Kiran Vankayala (Chemistry), Prof. Richa Singhal (Chemical Engineering), Prof. Riju De (Chemical  Engineering), K K Birla Goa Campus, Siemens Ltd.
  3. “Sustainable Hydrogen Production Through Seawater Electrolysis: Defect Engineering in Non-Noble Nickel-Based Bi/Tri-Metal Sulfide Catalysts with Enhanced Sea Water Stability and Chlorine Evolution Suppression” Investigators Pradeep Kumar Sow, Teny Theresa John, BITS Pilani CDRF 
  4. “Copper cathode quality improvement & reduction in bleed to ETP” funded by HINDALCO Industries Limited, Investigators- Pradeep Kumar Sow, Jay Pandey, Mrinmoyee Basu
  5. Design, Development and Bench-scale Demonstration of Electrochemical Hydroiodic Acid (HI) Decomposition in a Continuous Flow System for I-S Cycle” funded by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Energy Centre, PI: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sow,
  6. Continuous Flow Oil-Water Separation System Using Smart Separators Capable of Low-Voltage Wettability Switching", funded by Early Career Research Award (ECR) – Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB-DST), PI: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sow
  7. “Electrochemical Process for Hydroiodic acid (HI) decomposition in Iodine-Sulfur Cycle: A feasibility study” funded by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Energy Centre, PI: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sow.
  8. Development of transition metal oxide based nanostructured surfaces for low-voltage tuning of wettability”, funded by Additional Competitive Grant – BITS Pilani,  PI: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sow.
  9. Nano-composite materials for low-voltage alteration of the surface wettability”, funded by Research Initiation Grant – BITS Pilani, PI: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sow.