Ongoing JEEP (Joint Environmental Education Programme) under EU-India Programme with Lund University, Sweden, Twente University, Netherlands, EPTRI and IITB.

"Improvement in enzyme productivities shear sensitive aerobic systems" (DST). Ongoing

"Surface Tension of Mixtures: Measurement and Prediction" (Unilever).

Mixing and segregation of granular materials, Swarnajayanti Fellowship project, Department of Science and Technology, (Ongoing)

Formation of High Dielectric PVDF Films, BARC, (Ongoing)

Simulation of soap flow in an extractor, (Unilever), (Ongoing)

Improved granular processing. Towards energy efficiency and resource conservation in the cement industry, (CSIR)(Ongoing)

Proposed plan of research to undertake in the area of bioprocess development, IRCC, (Ongoing)

Financial Assistance to Centre for Environment Science & Engineering – Equipment – FIST Programme (DST), (Ongoing)

Meeting of Chemical Engineering PAC at IIT Bombay (DST), (Ongoing)

The feasibility analysis of potential reactive (DST), (Ongoing)

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Consultancy

During the year under report, the department undertook 122 jobs, generating revenue amounting to Rs.65.25 lakhs.

The consultancy jobs involved process development and equipment design, experimental investigations, technical expertise, specialized evaluation of products, energy analysis, retainer consultancy, etc. undertaken for various chemical and allied industries and Government organizations.

Extension Activities

Prof. P. Wangikar

CEP course on "Bioinformatics" was organized from 11-16 June, 2001 at IIT-Bombay.

CEP course on "Bioinformatics" was organized from Nov.26 - Dec.01, 2001 at IIT-Bombay.

In-house CEP course on "Bioinformatics" was organized from 19-20 Oct, 2001 at Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Pune.

Prof. T.S. Raghunathan / Prof. G.K. Sureshkumar

Week-ends Chemical Engg. Programme for Reliance Industries at Patalganga,

Batch-III, Module 1, 36-39 hrs instruction.

Prof. A.S. Moharir

Certificate course on "Piping Engineering" was conducted during May & Dec. 2001.

Intensive course on "Piping Engineering" was conducted for Larsen & Toubro at Baroda in July 2001

Lectures (8 days) on "Computer Aided Process Engineering" during Sept.-Oct. 2001.

Prof. Kannan Moudgalya

National Training Programme on "Industrial Mathematics", University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka during 26-30 Dec. 2001.

Prof. K.V. Venkatesh

Visiting Research Professor in the Dept. of Chemical Engg., University of Delaware Newark, Delaware, USA, Jan-Dec. 2001.

Prof. G.K. Sureshkumar / Prof. A.K. Suresh

Organized a CEP course, ‘Principles of Bioprocess Design and Operation’, 6-8 Mar., 2002, IIT Bombay.

Prof. Sandip Roy

Co-Instructor: Short Term Course on "Risk Assessment in Industry", National Safety Council, Mumbai, 25-27 July, 2001.

CEP course on “Hazard and Risk Assessment in Chemical Process Industry: Current Methodologies”, 1-2 Feb. 2002, IIT-Bombay

Prof. S.P. Mahajan

Virtual Classroom lecture on “Advances in Chemical Engineering – Separation of Particles from gases”, through satelite for Engineering Colleges in Gujrat, Gandhinagar, Feb.1, 2002.

Prof. Jayesh Bellare

Organised an International Conference on “Electron Microscopy and Allied Fields” from 19-23 Feb. 2002.

Acquisition of New Infrastructure

Gas Chromatograph, High Pressure Autoclave, Experimental Rigs for UG Lab., UV-Visible Spectrophotometer, Laminar Flow Wood, Isothermal Titration Colorimeter,

Extruder with cast film line, film blowing assembly and HPLC with UV-vis & RI detector..

Significant Awards and Distinctions

Prof. Ashok Misra

Elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.

Prof. S. Roy

P.K. Patwardhan Technology Development Award for Development and transfer of Supercritical Fluid Extraction Technology 2000-2001.

Prof. V.A. Juvekar

Prof. G.M. Abhyankar Distinguished Fellow in Chemical Engineering for year 2001-2002, UDCT, Mumbai

Prof. M.C. Dwivedi

Prof. J.G. Kane, Chair Professor, 2001-02 at UDCT

Prof. S. Baser

P.K. Patwardhan Technology Development Award-2001

Prof. H.S. Shankar

Excellence in Teaching Award 2001, IIT-Bombay.

Prof.(Mrs.) M. Mukhopadhyay

Dr.P.K. Patwardhan Technology Development Award 2001.

Prof. A.K. Suresh

Visiting Academic, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Australia (June-July 2001).

Prof. D.V. Khakhar

Excellence in Teaching Award 2001, IIT-Bombay.

Prof. K.V. Venkatesh

Best paper award for Ms. Jyoti Bajpai Dikshit, in the Session on Biochemical Engineering and Industrial Biotechnology at Biohorizon 2002, I.I.T. Delhi, March 1-2, 2002.

Best paper award for Mr. Malkhey Verma, in the session on Pharmacology, Medical Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine at Biohorizon 2002, I.I.T. Delhi, March 1-2, 2002.

Prof. J. Bellare

Best paper award with Mayur Temgire at the EMSI conference on Electro Microscopy and Allied Fields, IIT Bombay, Feb.2002.

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Publications

Books/Chapters in Book

Book

Self-study module on Air Pollution Control under Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Canada.

Pollution Control in Process Industries, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi.

Chapter in Book

M.M. Sharma and S.M. Mahajani, Industrial Applications of Reactive Distillation (A review), in "Reactive Distillation" by Sundmacher K. and Kienle A. (Eds.), Wiley VCH, Germany, in press.

Prof. S.P. Mahajan

Revision and Transformation of Environmental Engineering Modules into Self Learning Materials, Completed 4 Chapters on Air Pollution Control for Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Canada.

Papers in Proceedings

International

Shankar, H.S.

"Waste Processing in Engineered Ecosystems" 4^th World Congress in Chemical Engineering, Melbourne, Sept. 23-28, 2001.

M. Mukhopadhyay

"Purification of Phytochemicals by Selective Crystallization Using Dense Carbon Dioxide as Antisolvent". Proc. Of 10^th Int. Symp.on Supercritical Fluid Chromatography, Extraction and Processing, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA, Aug.2001.

Divya Sinha, Shyam R. Asolekar and S.L. Narayanamurthy

"Identification of CP Focuses in Typical Reaction - Separation Sequences: Case Study of Pesticide Manufacture. ERCP 2001, 7^th European Roundtable on Cleaner Production, 2-4 May 2001, LUND, Sweden.

Shreesha C. and Gudi, R.D.

“MISO based Control-relevant Identification of MIMO systems”, American Control Conference (ACC2001)

Shreesha C. and Gudi, R.D.

“Control-relevant Identification of MIMO system with steady state gain matching”, European Control Conference (ECC2001).

Aswin Venkat and Gudi, R.D.

“Neuro Fuzzy modeling of nonlinear multivariable processes”, American Control Conference (ACC 2001).

Sudip Roy, Gudi, R.D., Shah S.S and Venkatesh, K.V.

“Optimal Control of Fed-batch Fermentations with multiple feeds”, International Conference on Computer Applications to Biotechnology, CAB2001, Quebec, Canada (2001).

Aswin Venkat and Gudi R.D.

“Fuzzy Segregation based Nonlinear Identification of Chemical Processes”, American Control Conference, ACC2001.

Vijaysai, P., Gudi, R.D., and Lakshminarayanan, S.

“A new recursive PLS structure for rapid identification on demand”, DYCOPS2001, held at Korea (2001).

Moharir, A.S., Shah, S.S., Gudi, R.D., B. M. Devereux, K. Vanden Bussche, G. Venimadhavan

"Generalized Reactor Modeling: An object oriented approach", ESCAPE-11, June 2001.

Venkat, A., Vijaysai, P., Gudi, R.D.

“Identification and Control of Complex Nonlinear Processes by Fuzzy Decomposition", AIChE Annual Meeting held in November 2001, Reno, Nevada, USA (2001).

Ranganathan,S. , Vijaysai, P., Gudi, R.D. and Rengasamy, R.

“Design of Input Signals for Fast Identification of Large Multivariable Systems", AIChE Annual Meeting held in November 2001, Reno, Nevada, USA (2001).

M.K. Trivedi

“Polymers in Packaging”, International Seminar on Biodegradable Polymers and Packaging Materials”, IICT, Hyderabad, Nov.17-18, 2001.

M.K. Trivedi, S. Singh and V. Ramchandran

“Ultrafiltration of Process Streams - Preparation and Characterization of Membranes”, International conference on ‘Desalination and Membrane based Techniques for drinking water’, CGCRI, Kolkata, India, February 15-16, 2002.

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National

Chinikrishna Nakka, A.K. Suresh and G.K. Sureshkumar

"Inner Filter Effects in the Culture Fluorescence of molds".

Y. Manjula Rao, A.K. Suresh and G.K. Sureshkumar

"Quantification of Free radicals in bioreactors employing the liquid phase oxygen supply strategy".

V. Govardhana Rao

"Photochemical Oxidation of Phenol in water using TiO₂ Catalyst in a Fluidized Bed Reactor", in CHEMCON-2001, Chennai, Dec. 2001.

"Phase holdup characteristics in Annular Gas-Liquid-Solid Fluidization".

Both presented in CHEMCON-2001, Chennai, Dec. 2001.

Shreesha, C., Gudi, R.D. and Nataraj, P.S.V.

“Frequency Domain based Control Relevant Blinear Model Estimation", International Conference on Quality, Reliability and Control, Mumbai, December 2001.

G.K. Sureshkumar, Y. Manjula Rao and A.K. Suresh

"Quantification of fee radicals in bioreactors employing the liquid-phase oxygen supply strategy, CHEMCON 2001, Chennai, Dec. 2001.

G.K. Sureshkumar, N. Chinni Krishna and A.K. Suresh

"Inner filter effects in the culture fluorescence of molds", CHEMCON 2001, Chennai, Dec. 2001.

S. Roy

"Computer Simulation of Flocculation of Colloidal Particles by Polymeric Bridging" at Tenth National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions & Biocolloids, At Shillong, Oct. 2001.

P. Wangikar

“Recent Advances in Fermentation Monitoring, Control & Modeling”, invited paper presented at Bangalore Bio 2002.

“Detection of Recurring Patterns in Protein 3-D Structural Database”, Conference on “Discussion Meeting on Structural Biology”, Jan. 2002.

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Papers in Journals

International

M. Mukhopadhyay

"Partial Molar Volume Reduction of Solvent For Solute Crystallization Using Carbon Dioxide as Antisolvent" (Accepted for publication in March 2002) J. Supercritical Fluids.

M. Mukhopadhyay and Sanjay Singh

"Purification of Lecithin Using Dense Carbon Dioxide as Antisolvent", communicated to J. Supercritical Fluids, March 2002.

Kolah A., Zhiwen Q. and Mahajani S.

"Dimerization Process: An alternative to MTBE, Chem. Innovations, 31, 3, 2001, 6-11.

Mahajani S.M., Sharma M.M. and Sridhar T.

"Extractive Hydration of n-Butene with Solid Acid Catalysts in Liquid Phase and under Supercritical Conditions, Chem. Eng. Sic., 56, 2001, 5625-5633.

Zhang H., Mahajani S.M., Sharma M.M. and Sridhar T.

"Cyclohexene Hydration with Solid Acid Catalysts in Extractive Mode", 2001, Chem. Eng. Sci.

Mahajani S.M., Sharma M.M. and Sridhar T.

"Direct Hydration of Propylene in Liquid phase and under Supercritical Conditions", Chem.Engg. Sci., 2001 (in press).

K. Moudgalya and Ryali

"A class of discontinuous dynamical systems I. An ideal gas-liquid system", Chemical Engg. Sci., Vol.56, pp 3595-3609, 2001.

K. Moudgalya and S. Jaguste

"A class of discontinuous dynamical systems II. An industrial HDPE reactor", Chemical Engg. Sci., Vol.56, pp 3611-3621, 2001

K. Moudgalya

"A class of discontinuous dynamical systems III. Degrees of freedom analysis", Chemical Engg. Sci., Vol.56, pp 5443-5447, 2001

A. Bhunia, S. Durani, P.P. Wangikar

:Horse radish Peroxidase Mediated Degradation of Dyes", Biotechnol. Bioeng., Vol.72, 562-567 (2001).

N. Gandhi, N.S. Patil, S. Sawant, J.B. Joshi, P Wangikar, D. Mukesh

"Lipase Catalysed Esterification", Catalysis Reviews, 42 (4) (2001.

B.K. Chaturvedi, A.K. Ghosh, V. Ramachandran, M.K. Trivedi, B.M. Misra

"Preparation, Characterisation and Performance of Polyethersulfone Ultrafiltration Membranes", Desalination 133, 31-40 (2001).

Anurag Mehra, P. Basu and A.K. Suresh

"Reactive Dissolution of Particle Clusters" , Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 40, 4050-4057 (2001).

G.K. Sureshkumar, Subodh Rawool, Susmita Sahoo and K. Krishnamurthy Rao

"Improvement in Enzyme Productivities from Mold Cultivations using the Liquid Phase Oxygen Supply Strategy", Biotechnology Progress, 17 832-837 (2001).

G.K. Sureshkumar, G. Sriram

"Culture Fluorescence Dynamics in Xanthomonas Campestris", Process Biotechnology, 36, 1167-1173 (2001).

Banerjee R. and Bellare Jayesh R.

"Comparison of ivivi surface properties of clove oil-phospholipid suspensions with those of ALEC, Exosurf and Survanta, Pulm.Pharmacol.Thearapeutics, 10, 106, 2001.

Banerjee R. and Bellare Jayesh R.

"Ultrastructure of exogeenous surfactants using cryogenic scanning electron microscopy, J. Biomater. Appl. 15(3), 230-240 (2001).

Banerjee R. , Puniyani R.R. ,Bellare Jayesh R.

"Analysis of dynamic surface properties of therapeutic surfactants and lung phospholipids", J. Biomater. Appl., 15(2), 140-159 (2001).

Khan, S., Ghosh, A.K. , Ramachandran, V.; Bellare, J., Hanra, M.S., Trivedi, M.K., Misra, B.M.

"Synthesis and Characterisation of low molecular weight cut off ultrafiltration membranes from cellulose propionate polymer", Desalination, 128(1), 57-66 (2001).

J. Bellare, R. Iyer, A.R. Mainkar, C.I. Jolly

"A study on the conditioning effects of natural shampoos using the Scanning Electron Microscope", International Journal of Cosmetic Science, page 13l9, Vol.23, June 2001.

Banerjee R. and Bellare Jayesh R.

“Comparison of invivi surface properties of clove oil-phospholipid suspensions with those of ALEC, Exosurf and Survanta, Pulm. Pharmacol. Therapeutics, 2001, 10, 10006.

Banerjee R. and Bellare Jayesh R.

“Ultrstructure of exogenous surfactants using cryogenic scanning electron microscopy”, B. Biomater. Appl. 15(3): 230-24-, 2001.

Banerjee R. ; Puniyani R. R. ; Bellare Jayesh R.

“Analysis of dynamic surface properties of the therapeutic surfactants and lung phospholipids”, Biomedical Engineering, I.I.T. Bombay, India J. Biomater. Appl. (2000), 15(2), 140-159.

V. Govardhana Rao, A.K. Saxena and V. Venkat Raj

"Experimental Studies on Rewetting of hot vertical annular channel", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 208, 283-303 (2001).

T.K. Sen, S.P. Mahajan and Kartic C. Khilar

"Colloid-Associated Contaminant Transport in Porous Media: Studies on Adsorption and Column Flows", Prof.B.N. Ghosh Memorial Issue, J. Surface Sci. & Technology, 2001.

G. Hota, J. Bellare, Kartic C. Khilar & C. Manohar

"Reactive Organization of Particles into Macroscopic Length Scales by Mydin Growth" Current Science, Vol.80, No.11, p 1406, 2001.

A. Batra, S. Paria, C. Manohar and Kartic C. Khilar

"Removal of Surface Adhered Particles by Surfactants and Fluid Motions", AIChE J., Vol.47, No.11, p 2557, 2001.

Mehra, A., Basu, P. and Suresh, A.K.

"Reactive Dissolution of Particle Clusters", Ind. Chem.Res., 40 4050-4057, 2001.

Nandi, A., Khakhar, D.V. and Mehra, A.

"Coalescence in Surfactant Stabilized Emulsions subjected to Shear Flow", Langmuir, 17, 2647-2655, 2001.

N. Jain, D.V. Khakhar, R.M. Lueptow and J.M. Ottino

Self-Organization in granular slurries, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3771-3774 (2001).

D.V. Khakhar, A. Orpe and J.M. Ottino

Continuum model of mixing and size segregation in a rotating cylinder: Concentration-flow coupling and streak formation, Power Technol., 116, 234-247 (2001).

A. Nandi, D.V. Khakhar and A. Mehra

Coalescence in surfactant stabilized emulsions subjected to a shear flow, Langmuir, 17, 2647-2655 (2001).

D.V. Khakhar, A.V. Orpe, P. Andresn and J.M. Ottino

Heap formation in quasi 2d flows, J. Fluid Mech., 441, 255-264 (2001).

A.V. Orpe and D.V. Khakhar

Scaling relations for granular flow in quasi-two-dimensional rotating cylinders, Phys. Rev. E, 64, 031302 (2001).

J.M. Ottino and D.V. Khakhar

Fundamental research in heaping, mixing and segregation of granular materials: challenges and perspectives, Powder Technol., 121, 117-122 (2001).

D.V. Khakhar, A.V. Orpe and J.M. Ottino

Surface granular flows: Two related examples, Adv. Complex Sys., 4, 1-11 (2001).

P. DeRoussel, D.V. Khakhar and J.M. Ottino

Mixing of viscous immiscible liquids. Part 1: Computational models for strong weak and continuos flow systems, Chem.Eng.Sci., 56, 5511-5529 (2001).

P. DeRoussel, D.V. Khakhar and J.M. Ottino

Mixing of viscous immiscible liquids. Part 2: Overemulsification interpretation and use, Chem.Eng.Sci., 56, 5531-5537 (2001).

K.P. Madhavan, Khandavilli Muralikrishnan and Sunil S. Shah

“Development of the design space of a dividing wall distillation column for a specified separation, Chemical Engineering Research & Design, Tarns. I ChemE, Vol.80, Part A, p 155-166, 2002.

National

M. Mukhopadhyay and Niyati Bhattacharya

"Supercritical Fluid Dyeing of Textile Fibres with Natural Dyes", Colourage, Aug. 2001.

K.P Madhavan

"Process Automation: Potential and Benefits", Chemical Engineering World, Vol.36, No.9, p.70-73, 2001.

Sandip Roy

“Globalization and the Indian Chemical Industry”, Chemical World, March 4, Vol.1(9), 2002.

A.K Suresh and S. Bhalerao

“Rate Intensification of mass transfer processes using Ferrofluids”, Ind. J. Pure Appl. Physics 40, 172-184 (2001).

A.K Suresh and Anurag Mehra

“Modelling, Analysis and Optimization of Industrial Processes”, Chemical World 1(11) Mar 18, 28-32 (2002).

A.K Suresh and Anurag Mehra

“Modelling and Analysis for the Chemical Process Industry”, Chemical Weekly, Mar 12, 187-188 (2002).

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Papers in Conferences/Workshops/Seminars

International

Shankar, H.S.

"Waste Processing in Engineered Ecosystems" 4^th World Congress in Chemical Egineering, Melbourne, Sept. 23-28, 2001.

M. Mukhopadhyay

"Purification of Phytochemicals by Selective Crystallization Using Dense Carbon Dioxide as Antisolvent". Presented at the 10^th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluid Chromatography, Extraction and Processing, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA, August 19-22, 2001.

V.A. Juvekar

"Surface Tension of Aqueous Solutions of Polyethylene Oxide" at European Polymer Federation Congress 2001, 15-20^th July 2001, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

M.M. Sharma and S.M. Mahajani

"Industrial Applications of reactive distillation (A review)", First International Workshop on Reactive Distillation held in Max Plank Institute, Magdeburg, Germany, 2001.

A.V. Orpe and D.V. Khakhar

Granular flow in quasi-2d rotating cylinders, Powders and Grains 2001, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Micromehanics of Granular Media, Sendai, Japan, 21-25 May, 2001, Y. Kishino, Editor, pp. 471-474, A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2001.

D.V. Khakhar

Polymerization of rodlike molecules, Europolymer Congress, Eindhoven, Netherlands, July 15-20, 2001.

D.V. Khakhar and A.V. Orpe

Surface granular flows: Two related examples, Research Workshop on ‘Challenges in Granular Physics’, Trieste, Italy, August 7-11, 2001.

D.V. Khakhar

Segregation in granular flows, Statphys Kolkata, Kolkata, Jan. 2002.

Patil, P. ; Patwardhan, S. C.

"State Estimation Using Extended Kalman Filter Based on Quadratic Perturbation Model", Proc. Of International Conference on Industrial Mathematics, Chennai, 12-14 Aug, (2001).

Manuja, S.; Patwardhan S. C. and Narasimhan, S.

"Fault Tolerant Control of High Dimensional Sytems", Proc. Of International Conference on Industrial Mathematics, Chennai, 12-14 Aug, (2001).

Yamuna Rani K , Patwardhan S. C.; Rao V. S. R.,

"Input-Output Data Based Modeling for Batch/Semi-Batch Processes,"Proc.of International Conference on Industrial Mathematics, Chennai, 12-14 Aug, (2001).

Manuja, S.; Patwardhan S. C.; Narasimhan, S. and Shah, S.L.

"Fault Tolerant Control of A Distillation Column Using Optimal State Observer Identified From Input-Output Data", presented at CSChE National Meeting, Halifax, 14-17 Oct. (2001).

Patil, P. ; Patwardhan, S. C.

"Nonlinear Inferential Control of a CSTR Exhibiting Input Multiplicity Using Quadratic perturbation Model", presented at CSChE National Meeting, Halifax, 14-17 Oct. (2001).

Yamuna Rani K ; Rao, V. S. R. ; Patwardhan, S. C.

"Data Driven Modeling for Operating Trajectory Optimization of a Fed-Batch Fermenter", presented at CSChE National Meeting, Halifax, 14-17 Oct. (2001).

Patwardhan, S.C. ; Shah S.L.,

Predictive Control of Multivariable Systems subject to Unmeasured Disturbance Using Orthonormal Filters", presented at CSChE National Meeting, Halifax, 14-17 Oct. (2001).

Prakash, J., Shankar Narasimhan ; S. C. Patwardhan

"Integrating Model Based Fault Diagnosis with Model Predictive Control", presented at AIChE National Meeting, Reno, 4-9 Nov. (2001).

Patwardhan, S.C. ; Shah S.L.

"Simultaneous Estimation of Time Delays and Unmeasured Disturbance Models for Multivariable Systems Using Orthonormal Filters", presented at AIChE National Meeting, Reno, 4-9 Nov. (2001).

P. Wangikar

“Recent Advances in Fermentation Monitoring Control & Modeling” – Bio 2002, Bangalore.

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National

P. Wangikar,

"Comparison of Protein 3-D Structures", University of Pune, July 2001, Workshop for Engineers from Satyam.

"Proteonics: Algorithms & Applications", University of Pune, Aug. 2001, Workshop for Engineers from Satyam.

"Cryptic Gene Duplication in Laccases", CIRCOTT, Mumbai, Dec. 2001, Seminar Organized by AMIC.

"Data-Mixing in Biological Databases", University of Hyderabad, Dec. 2001, Seminar on "Changing 3 horizons of human Genetics"

"Organisation of biological data", 3^rd IITB-PSPL Symposium on Databases & Datamining.

“Detection of Recurring Patterns in Protein 3-D Structural Database” – Conference on Discussion Meeting on Structural Biology, January 2002.

S.L. Narayanamurthy

"Generation of Resources in Universities", National Seminar , Association of Indian Universities, Nov.21-22, 2001, Chennai.

Invited paper entitled "Resource Generation through Alumni - Sustainability, Accountability and Follow up Systems".

M.C. Dwivedi, Ms. S. Sapre

"Total Vegetable Oil Greases (TVOG) from castor oil" SL01.1, LAWPSP Publication, Vol.12, 2001.

M.C. Dwivedi

"Fuels and Lubricants in 21^st Century", LAWPSP Publication, Vol.12, 2001.

K.V. Venkatesh, Jyoti Bajpai Dikshit and A.K. Suresh

“Flux Analysis of Metabolic Network of Lactobacilly Vhamuosus Effect of Multiple Substrates”, Biohovizon 2002, I.I.T Delhi, March 1-2, 2002.

K.V. Venaktesh

“Quantitative Model and Experimental Verification of GAL/MEL regular in Saccharmyces cererisial, Biohovizon 2002, I.I.T Delhi, March 1-2, 2002.

Invited Lectures

H.S. Shankar

Principles of Ecological Engineering - CREDAI - 2001 - Confederation of Real Estate Developers of India, Dec. 10-11, 2001.

Principles of Ecological Engineering - PAN IIT Alumni Association, 28 Sept.2001.

Waste Processing in Engineered Ecosystem, Govt. of Goa, Panaji, Feb.2002.

S.R. Patwardhan

"Human Resources - Faculty & Students" in Bombay Management Association, Mumbai, Nov. 2001.

"Accreditation" in Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering, Pune, Dec. 2001.

M. Mukhopadhyay

"Purification of Lecithin by Selective Crystallization Using Carbon Dioxide as Antisolvent, Departmental Seminar at Univ. of Auburn, U.S.A., Aug.24, 2001.

M. Mukhopadhyay

"Thermodynamic Analysis of Gas Antisolvent Crystallization for Purification", Departmental Seminar at Univ. of Houston, U.S.A., Aug.29, 2001.

S. Roy

"Hazard and Risk Evaluation Techniques for Chemical Process Industry", National Safety Council, Mumbai, 8-9 Oct. 2001

S. Mahajani

"Reactive Distillation", Panandikar Research Laboratory, Goa, Aug.2001.

M.K. Trivedi

"Speciality Papers" at Indian Institute of Packaging" on 7^th Sept. 2001.

"Plastics for Packaging" at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, 18 Oct. 2001

“Role of Speciality Papers in Packaging”, at SIES School of Management, Matunga, Mumbai on March 8, 2002.

V.A. Juvekar

"Polymers at Interfaces" at Hindustan Lever Research Centre, 9 Aug. 2001.

K.C. Khilar

"Contaminants Transport in Porous Media Containing Colloidal Fines", Dept. of Chemical & Environmental Engin., NUS, Singapore, Nov.22, 2001

A.K. Suresh

"FCCU: A case study in Object Oriented Modelling and Simulation" Computatioal Design of Catalytic Materials & Kinetic Modeling of Chemical Processes", organized by IICT, Hyderabad & the Catalysis Society of India, Hyderabad Chapter, Oct.30, 2001 at IICT, Hyderabad.

"Understanding Interfacial Polycondensation" University of Melbourne Victoria, Australia, 19 July 2001.

"Understanding Interfacial Polycondensation" CSIRO, Highett, Vic, Australia, 23 July 2001.

P. Wangikar

"Detecting Patterns in 3-D Structural Databases", Oct. 2001, Satyam Advanced Technology Center, Hyderabad.

"Advances in monitoring control and modeling of fermentation processes" Lupin Labs, Tarapore, Maharashtra, Dec. 2001.

"Business Opportunities in Bioinformatics", Corporate Strategy Center, Aditya Birla Group, Mumbai, June 2001.

"Application of Bioinformatics tools in Pharma Industry", Dr. Reddy's Research Foundation, Hyderabad, Oct 2001.

"Comparison of Protein 3-D structures" Guest lecture for "Bioinformatics" Diploma Students at University of Pune, April 2001.

"Datamining in micro-array Data" Guest lecture for "Bioinformatics" Diploma Students at University of Pune, April 2001.

Lecture at Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calcut, Kerala, Jan. 2002

Lecture at “Biohorizon March 2002” at IIT Delhi on “Bioinformatics”.

K.P. Madhavan

"Dynamic Simulation in Process Design, Operation and Control" Hyprotech Users Meet., Mumbai, Oct. 18, 2001

"Global Competitiveness through Instrumentation and Control", International Techno-Economic Summit, May 19, 2001; Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai.

V. Govardhana Rao

"Industrial wastewater Treatment" Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla, A.P., Dec.24, 2001.

K. Moudgalya

"IPR of inventors Perspectives from IITB experience" National Conference on Intellectual Property Rights, IIM Bangalore, 14 Dec. 2001.

Santosh Noronha

"Recombinant Protein Expression in Yeast", 16^th August 2001 at the Chemical Engg. Deptt., IIT-Bombay

Sachin C. Patwardhan

“On-line Fault identification Using Kalman Filters”, Matrikon Consulting, Edmonton, Canada, 9th May, 2001.

“Predictive Control of Systems Subject to Unmeasured Disturbances Using Orthonormal Filters”, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, 3rd Oct., 2001.

Jayesh Bellare

Elected as President, Indian Society for Surface Science, Western India Chapter.

Patents

S.R. Patwardhan

"Anthracene, Phenanthrene and Carbazole from Anthracene mud" jointly with SAIL-RDCLS, Ranchi (application filed).

K.C. Khilar

"Low Temperature Process for Synthesis of Rutile Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles and Titanium Dioxide Particles Coated with Zinc Oxide" jointly with ICI India R &T Center) (application filed).

G.K. Sureshkumar

Indian Patent No.186358 dt. 20^th June, 1997, ‘A process for the sorption of toxic trace and heavy metals and organic chemicals from effluent using grannulated non-living biomass of the fungus

Rhizopus species: Sealed on 8^th March, 2002.

Honorary Work

H.S. Shankar

Visitor's Nominee - IIT Roorkee (Institute of Paper Technology)

Member Maharashtra State Planning Board Ninth Plan Expert Committee Water & Sanitation - 1997-2002

S.P. Mahajan

Selection Committee, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, (NEERI), Nagpur.

Executive Committee Member, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers,

Member, Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Technology.

S.R. Patwardhan

Member of AICTE

Member of UGC

Member of TIFAC

Member of DSIR

M.K. Trivedi

Member Research Review Committee, I.I.P. Bombay

Member - Presidents Nominee - Professors Selection Committee, Roorkee University

Member - Research Advisory Committee, Indian Lac Research Institute, Ranchi.

Member -Syllabus Committee – Garware Institute of Management, Kalina, Mumbai University.

Member - Research Advisory Commitee – Indian Institute of Packaging, Bombay

K.C. Khilar

Vice President, ISSST (Indian Society for Surface Science & Technology)

T.S. Raghunathan

Panel of Selection Committee - AICTE

K.P. Madhavan

Member of Energy Expert Committee, ICMA

Member of Heavy Water Board, AEC.

M.C. Dwivedi

Editorial Committee - Journal of Synthetic Lubrication, France, U.K.

Editorial Committee - Chemical Engineering World, Bombay

A.S. Moharir

Member of Scientific Advisory Committee - Hydrocarbons, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Govt. of India.

T.S. Raghunathan

Member of Committee of AICTE for approval of PG Programme in Polymer/Chem.Engg.

Member of NBA Committee

Sandip Roy

Review of paper for “Journal of Colloid and Interface Science”.

P. Wangikar

Examinership for B.Chem.Engg. End-Sem.Exam., Univ. of Mumbai.

Sachin C. Patwardhan

External examiner for evaluation of Ph.D. thesis titled “ARMarkov Model Based Predictive Control: Design and Stable Tuning” by Mst Kamarunnahar submitted to

Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering at University of Alberta, Canada.

Review of manuscripts for Journal of Process Control

Prof. Kannan Moudgalya

Evaluation of a Ph.D. Thesis entitled “On-line Fault Tolerant Control Strategies for Linear Multivariables Systems”, by J. Prakash.