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Dr Pratik N Sheth

Professor & Head of Department, Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Department of Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Research

 

Research Interests

  1. Biomass Gasification and Pyrolysis
  2. Modeling Simulation and Optimization
  3. Computational Fluid Dynamics
  4. Alternate Energy Resources

PhD Students

S.No.

Name of the Candidate

Title of Ph.D. Thesis

Supervisor/Co-supervisor

Status

1

Rajeev Sharma

Experimental and Theoretical Study of Biomass Pyrolysis & Product Characterization.

 Supervisor

Completed

2

Tapas Kumar Patra

Production of hydrogen-rich fuel gas from jatropha residue cake

 Supervisor

Completed

3

Prateek Sharma 

Process design and integration of refuse derived fuel (RDF) gasification in cement manufacturing process 

 Supervisor

Thesis Submitted

4

Bhavya Tripathi 

Biochar from agricultural residue: production, characterization and soil amendment

 Supervisor

Continuing

Bhoopendra Pandey

Performance Enhancement of a Downdraft Biomass Gasifier: Modified Air Distribution, Gasifying Agent Variation and CFD Analysis 

 Co-supervisor

 Completed


ME Dissertation (completed)

S.No.

Name of the Candidate

Title of Dissertation

1

Pratik D Pande
(2013H101028P)

CFD simulation of downdraft gasifier using ANSYS

2

Nimisha KR
(2013H132034P)

Modeling and simulation of biomass gasifier

3

Shweta Sharma
(2012H101020P)

Experimental and Theoretical investigations on steam gasification of biomass to produce hydrogen rich gas

4

Purva Goel
(2011H132022)

Pyrolysis of Jatropha De-oiled Cake and Characterisation of bio-oil

5

Prashanth Gudla
(2010H101022P)

Biomass pyrolysis and bio-oil characterization

6

Akshay Nipane
(2010H101018P)

Modeling and simulation of downdraft biomass gasifier

7

Rajeev Sharma
(2009H101024P)

Experimental & theoretical study of Pyrolysis of solid waste wood Bio-mass and product characterization

8

Satish Madsau
(2009H101444P)

Steam Gasification of wood waste in a Downdraft Biomass Gasifier