Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Advanced Process Control; Process Monitoring and Control; Sensors and Microreactors; Catalysis and Pyrolysis; Reactive Distillation; Modeling and Simulation; Consciousness Studies.
Sl. No. | Name of the Candidate | Title of the Thesis | Role | Date of Completion |
1. | Ajaya Kumar Pani (2007PHXF405P) | Design of Soft Sensors for Monitoring and Control of Cement Manufacturing Processes | Supervisor | August 13, 2015 |
2. | Parikshit Kishor Singh (2007PHXF432P) (Co-supervised with Prof. Surekha Bhanot) | Design and Implementation of Intelligent Control Schemes for pH Neutralization Process | Co-Supervisor | April 22, 2016 |
3. | Shweta Sharma (2014PHXF002P) (Co-supervised with Prof. Banasri Roy) | Development of metal/ceramic oxide and related nano-catalyst systems for hydrogen and hydrogen rich fuel production from biomass derived hydrocarbon | Co-Supervisor | Feb 24, 2020 |
4. | S. Venkata Vijayan (2016PHXF0017P) (Co-supervised with Dr. Ajaya Kumar Pani) | Design of Adaptive Soft Sensor for Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes | Co-Supervisor | June 30, 2023 |
5. | Ajita Neogi (2018PHXF0004P) (Co-supervising with Dr. Priya C. Sande) | Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) Investigation of the Hydrodynamics of a Bench-Scale Fluidised Bed of Geldard A Particles | Co-Supervisor | On-going (Jan 13, 2020 – till date) |
Sl. No. | Name of the Candidate | Title of the Dissertation | Date of Completion |
1 | Sreelakshmi Rajesh
| Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Ethyl Acetate Reactive Distillation Column | May, 2022 |
2 | Aditya Ranpura
| Wavelet Neural Network Based Design of Soft Sensors for Monitoring and Control of Complex Industrial Processes | May, 2021 |
3 | Hemanand T
| Mathematical Modeling of Reactive Distillation Column Using Tearing Equations Methodology | Dec, 2018 |
4 | Pritish Prayag Sahoo | Design of Soft Sensor for a Reactive Distillation Column | May, 2018 |
5 | Dhivya Jagadish | Development of Soft Sensor for Methyl Acetate Reactive Distillation System | May, 2017 |
6 | Akanksha Pathak (Co-supervised with Dr. Banasri Roy) | Development of Metal Doped Bismuth Vanadate Nanocatalyst System for Hydrogen Production from Ethanol by Low Temperature Steam Reforming Method | May, 2016 |
7 | Annie Christina Jenifer | Application of Existing Kinetic Model for Coke Oven Gas Reforming | May, 2016 |
8 | Harshvardhan Singh | A Comparative Study on the Performance of Different Training Set Design Techniques | May, 2016 |
9 | Dhrumil Gandhi | Implementation of Advance controller in Process Control Trainer using LabVIEW | May, 2016 |
10 | Madana Venkata Sai Teja | Application of Advanced Controllers to a Fluid Catalytic Cracker | May, 2015 |
11 | Dipankar Kalita | Modeling, Simulation and Control of a Drum Boiler | May, 2014 |
12 | Yantrapati Taraka Revanth Kumar | A Comparative Control Study for Reactive Distillation of Methyl Acetate | May, 2013 |
13 | Chhayakanta Acharya | Fuzzy Logic Based Nonlinear Control of Online pH-Neutralization Process | Dec, 2012 |
14 | Vamsi Krishna Vadlamudi | Modeling and Simulation of Cement Rotary Kiln | May, 2011 |
15 | Sonal K. Thengane | Modeling and Simulation of Spray Pulse Catalytic Dehydrogenation Reactor | May, 2011 |
16 | Dipesh Shikchand Patle | Application of Generic Model Control in Online Control of Temperature in a Plate-type Heat Exchanger Unit | Dec, 2009 |
17 | Unmesh Rameshrao Dhummal | Modeling, Simulation and Control of Hydrodealkylation Process | Dec, 2008 |
18 | Amit Jaykumar Kanashetti | Modeling, Simulation and Control of Reactive Distillation | Dec, 2008 |
19 | Naga Deeepika Kommuri | Modeling, Simulation and Control of a Debutanizer Column | Dec, 2007 |
20 | Anil Kumar M. | Modeling, Simulation and Control of a pH Neutralization Process | Dec, 2006 |
21 | Nikhil Prakash | Process Control using Wavelet Transform | May, 2003 |
22 | Kunwarjit Singh | Application of Wavelet Transform in Removal of Noise from a Signal | May, 2002 |