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DINESH BALKISAN MANTRI

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

                                           Date of Birth                : 18th June 1978

                                           Father’s Name             : Mr. Balkisan R. Mantri

                                           Nationality                    : Indian

                                           Sex                                 : Male

                                           Marital Status              : Single

                                           Languages Known       : English, Hindi, Marathi

                                           E-Mail Id                      : dinesh_mantri1@iitb.ac.in

                                           Phone                            : 91-22-25764231

                                                                                    91-9969117505

 

ACADAMIC RECORD

Examination

Board

Year of Passing

% of Marks

Division

Ph. D.

(Chem. Engg.)

IIT, Bombay, Mumbai

Expected to complete in Jan ’07

-

-

M. Tech.

(Chem. Engg.)

Banaras Hindu University,Varanasi

(U.P.)

2003

8.83

(CGPA)

First class With honors

B. Tech.

(Chem. Engg.)

Amravati University,    Amravati (MH)

2001

78.17 %

First class with dist.

H.S.C. (12th)

Maharashtra State                            Board

1996

81.50 %

First class with dist.

S.S.C. (10th)

   Maharashtra State

             Board

1994

83.42 %

First class with dist.

 

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE

Languages: C, MATLAB

Utilities: PolyMath, CONTENT, CHEMKIN

Operating system:  DOS, windows95/98/XP, Linux    

      

PROJECTS

Study and Fabrication of Batch Dryer (B. Tech.)

Toor dal is the major agricultural product in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. Drying of the Toor Dal after water-oil treatment is one of the problems faced by Dal Mill.  We have fabricated a batch dryer of 1000 Kg capacity for Toor Dal with modified design to solve the problems of Toor Dal Association Akola, Maharashtra.

 

Target Organophilic Separation by Pervaporation (M. Tech.)

Target organophilic pervaporation is a membrane process to remove organics from organic-organic mixture. PTFE membrane has great separation potential for methanol-benzene and methanol-ethyl acetate (which forms an azeotrope at 40-vol% and 45-vol% methanol in feed respectively) over wide range which can yield highly methanol enriched permeate, thus overcoming azeotropic separation limitation. PTFE membrane is found to more permiselective towards methanol than benzene and ethyl acetate. Used alone or in combination with other units like distillation, provides an economical, reliable and efficient route to recover or remove methanol.

Kinetics of Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx by Hydrocarbons (Ph. D.)

Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are the most important gaseous pollutants emitted by automobile and stationary industries. In the last decade, the use of different hydrocarbons as reducing agents (HC-SCR) for NO reduction is a promising alternative to the catalytic converter. The details of the reaction mechanism are of great importance in order to optimize the system properties. However, the exact reaction mechanism for such reactions is unclear. To determine the kinetics and reaction mechanism for HC-SCR reaction, we have proposed elementary reaction mechanisms for NO-CO, NO-CO-O2, NO-H2-O2, NO-C3H6-O2 and NO-C3H8-O2 systems on Pt group catalysts, based on NO dissociation. Reaction mechanisms are simulated using CHEMKIN 4.0.2 with CSTR/PFR/Series models. Experiments are also performed on backed bed reactor to test the activity of various noble metal catalysts for the NO-CO system. The results found by the model shows good agreement with literature/our experimental results, including temperature dependence of NO conversion and selectivities to N2O and N2.

 

SKILLS

 

ACHIVEMENTS/ ACTIVITIES

 

PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCES

·         Dinesh Mantri, Preeti Aghalayam, “Detailed Surface Reaction Mechanism for Reduction of NO by CO”, Catalysis Today (In press).
 
·         Dinesh Mantri, Preeti Aghalayam, “Microkinetic model for NO reduction on Pt group catalysts”, International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (submitted).
 
·         Dinesh Mantri, Preeti Aghalayam, “Activity of MCM-41 supported noble metal catalysts for NO reduction”, In Preparation

 

·         Dinesh Mantri, Preeti Aghalayam, "Bi-Functionlity of Cu-ZSM-5 catalyst for NO reduction", 5th International Symposium on Multifunctional Reactors ISMR-5, Pune, India (14-17 Jan 2007)
 
·         Dinesh Mantri, Viral Mehta, Preeti Aghalayam, “Bifurcation Behavior on Pt(111) and Ir(111) for NO Reduction by CO” ChemCon2005, Delhi (14-17 Dec. 2005).
 
·         Dinesh Mantri, Viral Mehta, Preeti Aghalayam, "Surface Reaction Mechanism for Reduction of NO by C3H6 under Lean Burn Condition", AIChE 2005, Cincinnati, OH, USA, (Oct. 30-Nov. 4, 2005). 
 
·         Dinesh Mantri, Preeti Aghalayam, “Detailed Surface Reaction Mechanism for Reduction of NO by CO”, APAC 2005, Krakow, Poland (21-25 Sept. 2005).
 
·         Dinesh Mantri, Saugata Gon, Sonal Patel, Preeti Aghalayam, "Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitric Oxide by CO" ChemCon2004, International Conference, Mumbai (27-30 Dec. 2004).  

 

·           Preeti Aghalayam, Dinesh Mantri, “Plasma reactor for NOx reduction”, DAE-BRNS Symposium PBAMP-2006, BARC, Mumbai, India (20-21 Sept. 2006) (Accepted)

 

·           Dinesh Mantri, Saugata Gon, Sonal Patel, Preeti Aghalayam, "Catalyst Discrimination for SCR of NO by CO", 17th National Symposium on Catalysis, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar (17-20 Jan. 2005).

·            Dinesh B. Mantri, P.K. Mishra, "Separation of Methanol-MTBE Mixture by Pervaporation using PTFE Membrane", Proceedings of SPI-2003, IT, BHU, Varanasi (14-16 Feb., 2003).

 

·            Doulat M. Nangare, Dinesh B. Mantri, P. K. Mishra "Treatment of Synthetically Prepared Chromium Bearing Wastewater Using Thermal Parametric Pumping", Proceedings of SPI-2003, IT, BHU, Varanasi (14-16 Feb., 2003). 
 
 

REFERENCES

Prof. Preeti Aghalayam                                                           Prof. Sanjay Mahajani

Dept. of Chemical Engg.                                                         Dept. of Chemical Engg.

IIT Bombay, Mumbai                                                              IIT Bombay, Mumbai

preeti@iitb.ac.in                                                                      sanjaym@che.iitb.ac.in

91-22-25767295                                                                      91-22-25767246  

 

 

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