ANNUAL REPORT 2003-2004

The Department of Chemical Engineering has a strong focus on excellence in education and research. The Department has a dynamic faculty with a wide range of research specializations. Research activities in the Department are supported by excellent research students (75 Ph.D., 80 M.Tech. and 20 Dual Degree) very competent technical staff, and good experimental and computational facilities.

Two faculty members have joined the faculty in the year 2003-2004 - Professor Mahesh Tirumkudulu and Professor Madhu Vinjamur. Professors K. P. Madhavan, S.L. Narayanamurthy, and S.R. Patwardhan retired in this period, each after a long and valued service to the Department. The recruitment of students into the PhD programme has been very good this year and has contributed to the increase in research activity in the Department. The Department also received good funding for sponsored projects this year.

The Department-Industry interactions were multifold this year including continuing education courses, consultancy and technology transfer. The Department also received generous support from its alumnus, Mr. Avi Nash. The Manudhane Excellence Awards have been instituted and the renovation of 6 classrooms and undergraduate laboratories has been initiated from his donation.

The activities and achievements of the Department in the year 2003-2004 are given in the following sections.

Academic Programmes

Degrees Awarded

B.Tech. 60

Dual Degree

(B.Tech., M.Tech.) 16

M.Tech. 33

Ph.D. 03

R & D Activities

The Department received grants from various sources towards many new projects during the year apart from various ongoing projects. A list of the sponsored projects initiated and ongoing are as follows:

Sponsored Research Projects

Sponsored Projects 21

Sanctioned Amount Rs.348.13 Lakhs

Emissions of Aerosols and Radiation perturbing chemical constituents from Biofuel Combustion in India (ISRO)

Atmospheric Modeling to study Aerosols & Climate in the Indian Region (MHRD)

Engineering and compaction of Cationic Nanodiscs (INDO-US)

Scheme of MODROB-Polymer Characaterization Undergraduate Lab (MHRD)

Career Award for Young Teachers (CAYT) of AICTE

VolkswagenStiftung Foundation Project (INDO-US)

Value added Polymeric materials from renewable resources: Lactic acid and Lactic acid based Polymers (CSIR)

Scheme of Tat-Micronisation of Pharmaceuticals using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (MHRD)

Coarse Grain Molecular Modelling of Polycarbonates (CSIR)

R&D / High Performance Biodegradable Lactic Acid Polymers (MHRD)

Kinetics of Selective Reduction of NO by Hydrocarbons (DST)

Development of a recombinant Pichia pastoris system for himan beta-interferon (PRIVATE ORG.)

Scheme of Modernisation & Removal of Obsolescence (MHRD)

Optimal strategies for grade transition in large-scale distributed Systems (DST)

Research on Physiochemical and biological characterization of Ayurvedic Bhasmas (DONATION)

Tat/Intensification of Physical Rate Phenomena in Multiphase Rate Processes, through the Use of Nanomagnetic particles in the near-interface region (MHRD)

Scheme of R&D-Nanoparticles as Bio-active agents extension of Bhasma Concept in Veterinary applications (MHRD)

Development of bioreactors for shoot cultures of patchauli (Pogostemon cabin) (DBT)

Scheme of R&D-Improvement in Performance of Bioreactor employing recombinant organisms using the Liquid Phase Oxygen Supply (LPOS) strategy (MHRD)

Food Engineering Laboratory Development (MFPI)

BOYSCAST Fellowship (DST)

Consultancy

During the year the Department undertook 71 jobs generating Rs.42.60 lakhs. The total number of faculty involved were 12.

Extension Activities

S. Bhartiya

Basic Chemical Engineering, Reliance Industries Limited, Patalganga, 2003

Fermentation and Downstream Processing conducted for the employees from Biotech Industry, 2003.

S. Roy

CEP Course on “Quantitative Risk Assessment for Chemical Processes”, 19 – 20 September, 2003, IIT Bombay

CEP Course on “Hazid and Hazan”, 14 – 16 January, 2004; conducted for the Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd., Nagothane, Maharashtra.

CEP Course on “Risk Assessment in Refineries and Petrochemical Industries,” 9 – 14 February, 2004, IIT Bombay; conducted for Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, India.

CEP Course on Risk Analysis and Management, Oct. 2003

S.C. Patwardhan

Series of 33 hour lectures on process control in training programme at Reliance, Patalganga during June, 03 to Sept.,03.

CEP course on Process Control at Birla Cellulosic during 6-7 Feb, 04.

CEP course on Process Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis during 3-5 March, 2004.

A. Mehra

CEP course on Process Principles for Chemical Plant Operations for Vasant Chemicals, Hyderabad in December 2003.

A. Mehra & A.K. Suesh

CEP Course on Modelling, Analysis and Optimization of Industrial Processes, April 2003

CEP Course on Modelling, Analysis and Optimization of Industrial Processes, Nov. 2003

R.K. Malik

CEP Course on Process Simulation in Industry at UHDE India Limited, Mumbai, May 16-17, & May 23-24, 2003.

CEP Course on Process Simulation at IPCL – Nagothane Complex in Maharashtra, August 25-27, 2003.

CEP Course on Analytical Techniques & Good Laboratory Practices for IPCL – Nagothane Complex in Maharashtra, November 13-14, 2003.

CEP Course on HAZOP/HAZAN for IPCL – Nagothane Complex in Maharashtra, January 14-16, 2004.

CEP Course on Process Modeling & Simulation for IPCL – Baroda Complex in Gujarat, January 29-31, 2004.

S. Mahajani

CEP Course on Reactive distillation: Status and future directions, Sept. 2003

CEP Course on Reactive distillation: Status and future directions, Oct. 2003

P. Wangikar

CEP Course on Recent development in fermentation and downstream processing, Oct. 2003

CEP Course on Bioinformatics, Nov. 2003

A.K. Suresh

Process principles for Chemical plant operations, Dec. 2003.

Acquisition of New Infrastructure

The Department acquired the following laboratory facilities during the year.

Olympus Microscope Model BX51

Motionpro 2000 Monochrome Camera

On-line Dual Channel Biochemistry Analyzer

HPLC Unit

Condensation Particle Counter

Batch Rotary Kiln

Shoot Culture Bio-Reactor

SAXSess Small Angle X-Ray Scattering System

Aerosol Spectrometer

Conferences and Symposia

ChEA symposium 2004

The Chemical Engineering Association of IIT Bombay (ChEA) organized a symposium "Biotechnology - A New Dimension to Chemical Engineering" on March 13, 2004. The focus of the symposium was on providing glimpses of cutting-edge research and on providing perspectives on intellectual property protection and the regulatory process for approval of biotherapeutics. Eminent experts from industry and academia delivered lectures at the symposium. Invited technical lectures were given by Mr. Satish Velankar, Lupin Ltd., Mumbai, Mr. Dhananjay Patankar, Indus Biotherapeutics Ltd., Ahmedabad, Dr. Prabuddha Ganguly, Advisor, VISION-IPR, Dr. Harikrishna Varma, SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram, Dr. Surekha Zingde, ACTREC, Navi Mumbai, and Dr. Jayant Udgaonkar, NCBS, Bangalore. The symposium attracted wide participation by students and industry professionals. The convener of the symposium was Prof. S. Noronha and the co-convener was Prof. K. V. Venkatesh.

Departmental Seminars

Prof. Sharad Bhartiya, Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Modeling and control of a continuous pulp digester with grade transition, April 3, 2003

Dr. V. R. Pavoor, IVP Ltd., You can make a mark in the chemical industry, April 10, 2003

Prof Nivedita Gupta, Dept of Che Engineering , University of New Hampshire Durham New Hampshire USA, Marangoni Stresses at strongly deforming interfaces, Jan 08, 2004

Rajat Duggal, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Rice University, Texas ,Houston, USA, Visualization of individual DNA molecules in small scale coating flows, Jan 12, 2004

Prof Uday Agarwal, Dept  of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Eindhoven Institute of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Polymer based nano architectures for performance : design and synthesis, Jan 12, 2004

Prof Mukund Karwe, Dept of Food Science, Rutgers University, Newbrunswik, New Jersey, USA, Flow field in twin screw extruder: Numerical and experimental studies, Jan 22, 2004

Pankaj Doshi, Purdue University, West Laffaytte, Indiana, USA, Persistence of memory in drop breakup, The breakdown of universality, Feb. 05, 2004

Prof A Kienle, Max-Plank Institute for Dynamic Komplexer Technsher system sandstorstr Magdeburg, Germany, Synthesis Dynamics and Control of reactive distillation processes, Feb. 22, 2004

Prof. Chandra Venkatraman, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Modelling aerosol transport and source contributions during Indian NE monsoon, Mar 11, 2004

Ashish Orpe, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Surface flows in granular materials, Mar 25, 2004

Significant Awards and Distinction

C. Venkataraman

Haagen-Smit Award Committee, Atmospheric Environment (2001-present), to judge recent publications in the journal for this award.

S. Roy

Recipient of "ICQESMS & NCBE 2004 Excellence Award” for paper presented at 3^rd Indian Congress on Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems & 1^st National Conference on Business Excellence, February 5-7, 2004, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

D.V. Khakhar

R. Kumar - Perkin Elmer CHEMCON Distinguished Speaker Award, 2003.

KSS Raghavan Visiting Professor, PPV Division, UICT, Mumbai, 2003-2004.

K.C. Khilar

Elected Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering

P. Wangikar

Fellowship, BOYSCAST DST

Publications

Faculty Publications:

No. of books /chapters : 02

Papers in International Proceedings : 10

Papers in National Proceedings : 13

Papers in International Journals : 58

Papers in National Journals : 01

Papers in International Conferences : 15

Papers in National Conferences : 07

Book / Chapters in Books

M. Mukhopadhyay

Phase Equilibrium in Solid-Liquid-Supercritical Fluid Systems, Chapter-2 in Supercritical Fluid Technology for Drug Product Development, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, USA, March, 2004

Saurabh Tejwani and Jayesh Bellare

Nanotechnology on Bioengineering, Chapter 2 in "Advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology" Ed. by Ashutosh Sharma, Jayesh Bellare, Archana Sharma. Published by NISCIR, SCIR, New Delhi, 2004 (in press).

Papers in Proceedings

International

M.Mukhopadhyay and S.V. Dalvi

A New Thermodynamic Method for Solid-Liquid –Vapor Equilibrium in Ternary Systems from Binary Data for Antisolvent Crystallization” in the Proc. of the 6^th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluids, Versailles, France, April 2003

Tessy Vincent and Mamata Mukhopadhyay

Separation of heavy metal oxides using TTA-modified supercritical CO₂, Proc. of SuperGreen-2003 held in Japan, November, 2003.

S. Rawool, S. Bhartiya, and K.V. Venkatesh

Ultrasensitive responses in genetic regulatory networks, published abstracts of International Conference on Mathematical Biology, IIT Kanpur, February 19-21, (2004)

H.S. Shankar

Soil Biotechnology for wastewater Treatment and Utilisation,13^th International Water Association Asia Pacific Regional Conference,13-18 Oct 2003,Cebu City, Philippines, pp181-186

M. A. Arunagirinathan, C. Manohar and Jayesh R. Bellare

Cryo-Electron Microscopic studies of the Pentaethoxy Nonylphenyl Ether / Water surfactant system. Proceedings of XXVII Annual Meeting of EMSI and Conference on Electron Microscopy and Allied Fields, April 1-3, 2004, p182-183.

Kumkum Kahali, Kumar Varoon and Jayesh R. Bellare

Preparation of Lacey Polymer Film as Efficient Specimen supports for TEM and Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscpe (Cryo-TEM) Proceedings of XXVII Annual Meeting of EMSI and Conference on Electron Microscopy and Allied Fields, April 1-3, 2004, p150-151.

T. Bhowmick, S. G. Kane, A. K. Suresh, A. Joshi and Jayesh Bellare

Quantitative Estimation of Indian Traditional Medicine (Jasada bhasma) with Multi-point ESEM-EDAX Analysis. Proceedings of XXVII Annual Meeting of EMSI and Conference on Electron Microscopy and Allied Fields, April 1-3, 2004, p180-181.

Shenoy, U.V. and Fraser, D.M.

A New Method for Sizing Mass Exchange Units without the Singularity of the Kremser Equation, Proceedings of the European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering-13, ESCAPE-13, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 1-4, 2003.

Dalal, Nirav M., and Ranjan K. Malik

Solution Multiplicity in Multicomponent Distillation – A Computational Study In: Proceedings of European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering-13, Edited by Andrzej Kraslawsky & Ilkka Turunen, Elsevier (2003).

Nayak K. and Nanavati H.

Molecular Modeling of the Elasticity and Photoelasticity Relationships of Elastomeric Networks”, Proceedings Of The American Chemical Society, Division Of Polymeric Materials: Science And Engineering, Volume 90, Spring Meeting, March 28 – April 1, 2004, Anaheim, California, USA, pp 825-826

National

Tessy Vincent, P.K. Wattal, and Mamata Mukhopadhyay

In-situ chelation and extraction of heavy metal oxides using modified supercritical carbon dioxide, Proc. of Chem-Con , I.I.Ch.E. Convention, 2003

M.Mukhopadhyay and S.V. Dalvi

Prediction of Supersaturation Behaviour in Supercritical Antisolvent Crystallisation from PMVF of solvent in binary (CO₂-solvent) mixture, Proc. of Chem-Con , I.I.Ch.E. Convention, 2003

Mamata Mukhopadhyay and S. V. Dalvi

Process Modeling and Analysis of Supercritical Antisolvent Crystallization Technique for Formation of Nanoparticles, In-House Symposium on Nanotechnology @ IITB, September 13, 2003

Mamata Mukhopadhyay

Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Herbal Medicines and Nutraceuticals in Emerging Trends in Herbal Technology, Proc. of All-India Seminar by Institution of Engineers (India), WBSC, Kolkata , Nov 28-29, 2003

M.Mukhopadhyay

Recovery of Nutraceuticals and Herbal Medicines by Supercritical Fluid Extraction, Indian Chemical Industries Association , Chennai, Feb. 2004

S. Verma, C. Venkataraman, O. Boucher, M.S. Reddy, D. Muller, B. Crouzille

Sea-breeze effects on lofting and vertical distribution, Workshop on Tropospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, March 25-26, 2004, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.

S. Bhartiya,

“Feedstock grade transition in a continuous pulp digester using model based management of Kappa profile”, Preprints of Indian Pulp and Paper Technical Association Annual General Meeting and Annual Seminar on Environmental Management and Technologies in Pulp and Paper, Kolkata, 6-7 February, (2004)

M.A. Arunagirinathan, Ravi Shankar Choudary, C. Manohar and Jayesh R. Bellare

Non-Equilibrium Microstructures of Polyoxyethylene Sorbitan Triolete. Proceedings of Eleventh National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions and Biocolloids, Dec 11-13, Publised by Indian Surface Science Society, Matunga, 2003, A127-128.

R. S. Choudary, M. A. Arunagirinathan, C. Manohar and J. R. Bellare

Non-Equilibrium Microstructures in Surfactants. Indian Chemical Engineering Congress 2003, CHEMCON-2003, Dec 19-22, 2003, p173-174.

Sen, P. K., and Roy, S.

Determination of Critical Contaminant Particle Diameter in Supercritical CO₂ – based Cleaning, presented in the 11th National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions and Biocolloids, Mumbai, 2003.

Roy, S.

Adapting Total Quality Management in the Academia, in Proceedings of 3^rd Indian Congress On Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems & 1^st National Conference On Business Excellence, February 5-7, 2004, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Roy, S.

Using Quantitative Risk Assessment Optimally for Process Safety Management, in Proceedings of 3^rd Indian Congress On Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems & 1^st National Conference On Business Excellence, February 5-7, 2004, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Nayak K. and Nanavati H.

Elasticity And Photoelasticity Relationships Of Elastomeric Networks By Molecular Simulation, Proceedings of Indian Chemical Engineering Congress-2003 (CHEMCON-2003), 56^th Annual Session of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, 19^th - 22^nd December, 2003, Bhubaneswar, CHM-187

Papers in Journals

International

M.Mukhopadhyay

Partial Molar Volume Reduction of Solvent For Solute Crystallization Using Carbon Dioxide as Antisolvent, J. Supercritical Fluids, vol. 25, No.3, pp.213-223, April 2003

M.Mukhopadhyay and S.V. Dalvi

Partial Molar Volume Fraction of Solvent in Binary (CO₂-Solvent) Solution for Solid Solubility Predictions, The Jr. Supercritical Fluids, available online, 11 June 2003

M. Mukhopadhyay and Sanjay Singh

Purification of Lecithin Using Dense Carbon dioxide as Antisolvent, The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, Available online 8 October 2003

M.Mukhopadhyay and S.V. Dalvi

Mass and heat transfer analysis of SAS: effects of thermodynamic states and flow rates on droplet size, The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, available online, Available online 13 December 2003

M.Mukhopadhyay and S.V. Dalvi

Prediction of ternary solid-liquid–vapor equilibrium compositions from PMVF of solvent in binary (CO₂-solvent) mixture Journal of Supercritical; Fluids, accepted for publication on 25 March 2004

Vivek K. Mutalik, Aditya P. Singh, Jeremy S. Edwards and K. V. Venkatesh

Robust global sensitivity in multiple enzyme cascade system explains how the downstream cascade structure may remain unaffected by cross-talk, FEBS Letters, [558] (1-3), 79-84, 2004.

Shwetal Patel, K. V. Venkatesh, Jeremy S. Edwards

An integrated mechanistic model for transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair, DNA Repair, [3], 343-348, 2004.

Malkhey Verma, PJ Bhat and KV Venkatesh

Expression of GAL genes in a mutant strain of Saccharomyces cerevisae lacking GAL80: Quantitative Model and Experimental Verification, Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry [39] (1), 89-97, 2004.

Malkhey Verma, Paike Jayadeva Bhat, and K. V. Venkatesh

Quantitative analysis of GAL genetic switch of Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals that nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of Gal80p results in a highly sensitive response to galactose, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, [278] (49), 48764-48769, 2003.

Vivek K. Mutalik, Parag Shah and K V Venkatesh

Allosteric Interactions and Bifunctionality Make the Response of Glutamine Synthetase Cascade System of Escherichia coli Robust and Ultrasensitive, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, [278] (29), 26327-26332, 2003.

Sharad Bhartiya, Subodh Rawool, K.V. Venkatesh

Dynamic Model of Escherichia coli Tryptophan Operon Shows an Optimal Structural Design, European Journal of Biochemistry, [270], 2644-2651, 2003.

Jyoti BD, AK Suresh and KV Venkatesh

An optimal model to represent the kinetics of growth and product formation by Lactobacillus rhamnosus on multiple substrates, Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering [96] (5), 481-486, 2003.

Jyoti BD, AK Suresh and KV Venkatesh

Diacetyl Production and Growth of Lactobacillus rhamnosus on Multiple Substrates, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, [19] (5), 509-514, 2003.

Turale, N., A. Devulapalli, R. Manchanda, K. Moudgalya, G. Sivakumar

A simulation framework for electrophysiological networks: application to synaptic potentials in syncytical smooth muscle. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, (2003), 41, 589-594.

Boucher, C. Moulin, S. Belviso, O. Aumont, L. Bopp, E. Cosme, R. von Kuhlmann, M. Lawrence, M. Pham, M.S. Reddy, C. Venkataraman

DMS atmospheric concentrations and sulphate aerosol indirect radiative forcing: A sensitivity study to the DMS source representation and oxidation, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 3, 49-65 (2003).

Franke, A. Ansmann, D. Mueller, F. Althausen, C. Venkataraman, M.S. Reddy, F. Wagner and R. Scheele

Optical properties of the Indo-Asian haze layer over the tropical Indian Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 108(D2), AAC 16-1 to 16-17, doi:10.1029/2002JD002473 (2003).

C. Venkataraman, P. Joshi, V. Sethi, S. Kohli and M.R. Ravi

Aerosol and Carbon Monoxide Emissions from Low Temperature Combustion in a Sawdust Packed-Bed Stove, Aerosol Science and Technology, 38, 50-61(2004)

K.V. Venkatesh, S. Bhartiya, and A. Ruhela

Multiple feedback loops are key to a robust dynamic performance of tryptophan regulation in Escherichia coli, FEBS Letters, 563, pp 234-240, (2004)

H.S. Shankar

Residence Time Distribution in Soil Filters, Water Environment Research, pp 69-75,Jan/Feb 2004

P. Ghosh and V.A. Juvekar

Effect of Temperature on Permeation of Air through Thin Liquid Films, J. Chem. Eng. Japan, 36, 711-715 (2003)

Shenoy, U.V. and Fraser, D.M.

A New Formulation of the Kremser Equation for Sizing Mass Exchangers, Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 58, pp 5121-5124, 2003.

Bandyopadhyay S., Malik R.K., and Shenoy U.V.

Feed Preconditioning Targets for Distillation through Invariant Rectifying-Stripping Curves, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Volume 42, No.26, pp 6851-6861, December 2003.

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

"Free radical aspects in Xanthomonas Campestris cultivation with the liquid phase oxygen supply strategy", Process Biochemistry, 38, 1301-1310 (2003).

Jyoti B. D., Suresh A. K. and Venkatesh K. V.

Effect of preculturing conditions on growth of Lactobacillus rhamnosus on medium containing Glucose and Citrate, Microbiol. Research, 159(1), 35-42 (2004).

Ramesh Kumar, A., Hota, G., Mehra, A. and Khilar, K.C.

Modeling of Nanoparticles Formation by Mixing of Two Reactive Microemulsions, AIChE J, accepted.

Bandyopadhyay, S., Malik, R. K., and Shenoy, U. V.

Feed Preconditioning Targets for Distillation through Invariant Rectifying-Stripping Curves Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 42(26); 6851-6861 (2003).

S. K. Hajra and D. V. Khakhar

Sensitivity of granular segregation of mixtures in quasi-two-dimensional fluidized layers, Phys. Rev. E, 69, 031304 (2004)

Pravakar Mondal and D. V. Khakhar

Hydraulic resistance of rigid

polyurethane foams: 1. Effect of different surfactants on foam structure and properties, J. Appl. Polym. Sci., in press (2004).

Pravakar Mondal and D. V. Khakhar

Hydraulic resistance of rigid polyurethane foams: 2. Effect of variation of surfactant, water and nucleating agent concentrations on foam structure and properties, J. Appl. Polym. Sci., in press (2004).

Pravakar Mondal and D. V. Khakhar

Hydraulic resistance of rigid polyurethane foams: 3. Effect of variation of the concentration of the catalysts on foam structure and properties, J. Appl. Polym. Sci., in press (2004).

Shreesha, C., and Gudi, R.D.

MISO structure based control relevant identification of MIMO systems, (Accepted; To appear in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2004).

Munawar, S.A, Bhushan, M., Gudi, R.D, and Belliappa, A.M.

Cyclic Scheduling of Continuous Multiproduct Plants, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 42, pp. 5861-5882, 2003.

Kapdi, M and Gudi, R.D.

Optimal control of fed-batch fermentation involving multiple feeds using differential evolution, (Accepted; To Appear in Process Biochemistry, 2003).

Meel, A. , Venkat, A. and Gudi, R.D.

Disturbance Classification and Rejection using Pattern Recognition methods”, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 42 pp. 3321-3333, (2003).

Shreesha, C. and Gudi, R.D.

Control relevant identification for two degrees of freedom control, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Vol. 81, Part A, pp 679-688, (2003).

Shreesha, C. and Gudi, R.D.

Analysis of Prefilter based Closed Loop Control Relevant Identification Methodologies, to Appear in the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (October / December 2003).

Mandal, C., Kapdi, M, Sureshkumar, G.K and Gudi, R.D.

Productivity improvement in Xanthan gum fermentations using Multiple substrate optimization”, Biotechnology Progress, 19 ,1pp. 190-1198, (2003).

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

Identification and Control of Complex Nonlinear Processes by Fuzzy Decomposition”, Journal of Process Control, 13, pp 473-488, (2003).

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

A New Recursive PLS approach for Dynamic Model Identification on Demand“, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 42, pp. 540-554, (2003).

Kumar, PR, Chaudhari, S, Khilar, KC, Mahajan, SP

Removal of arsenic from water by electrocoagulation, CHEMOSPHERE, Vol.55, p.8, Jun 2004

National

M. Mukhopadhyay and Nitin Joshi

Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Fractionation of Vitamins E & A from Vegetable Sources, Indian Chemical Engineer, Section A, Vol. 45, No.3, July-September, 2003

Conferences

International

M. Mukhopadhyay

The 6^th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluids, Versailles, France, April–May 2003

Malkhey Verma, P. J. Bhat and K. V. Venkatesh

Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling of Gal80p causes ultrasensitivity of GAL gene expression to galactose in Saccharomyces cerevisae : Mathematical modeling and experimental verification, at the International Workshop for integrated Yeast Sciences 2004, held at Okinawa, Japan from March 14-20, 2004.

Vivek K. Mutalik and K. V. Venkatesh

Steady State Analysis of Enzyme Cascades in Cellular Regulation at the International Conference on Mathematical Biology (ICMB)-2004, held at IIT Kanpur from Feb 19 to 21 , 2004.

Subodh Rawool, Sharad Bhartiya and K. V. Venkatesh

Ultrasensitivity in genetic regulatory networks, at the International Conference on Mathematical Biology (ICMB)-2004, held at IIT Kanpur from Feb 19 to 21 , 2004.

Ian S Mudway, Sean T Duggan, Chandra Venkataraman, Frank J Kelly and Jonathan M Grigg

Particulates derived from the burning of biomass fuel display considerable levels of intrinsic oxidative activity, Annual Meeting of the European Respiratory Society, Glasgow, April, abstracts in European Respiratory Journal (2004).

Reddy, M. S., C. Venkataraman, and O. Boucher

Decadal trends in fossil fuel energy consumption and related air pollutant emissions, Joint Assembly of the European Geophysical Society – American Geophysical Union, Nice, France, 06-11^th April (2003).

S. Bhartiya

International Conference on Mathematical Biology, IIT Kanpur, February 19-21, (2004)

Dalal, Nirav M., and Ranjan K. Malik

Solution Multiplicity in Multicomponent Distillation – A Computational Study, Presented at ESCAPE-13, June 1-4, 2003, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland.

A. V. Orpe and D. V. Khakhar

Rheology of surface granular flows, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 17-21, 2003, San Francisco.

Rajat Duggal, Shashank Bansal, D. V. Khakhar and J. M. Ottino

Onset of axial segregation of granular mixtures in a rotating cylinder, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 17-21, 2003, San Francisco.

D. V. Khakhar

Granular flow in rotating cylinders, Workshop on Granular and particle laden flows, Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, November 23 - December 8, 2003.

D.V. Khakhar

The rotary kiln: Analysis of particle flow, mixing and segregation, International Symposium on Mineral Processing, CHEMCON 2003, Bhubaneswar, December 19-23, 2003.

Kapileswar Nayak and Hemant Nanavati

Elasticity and Photoelasticity Relationships of Real Elastomeric Networks by Molecular Simulation, Annual APS March Meeting 2004, March 22-26, 2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Kapileswar Nayak and Hemant Nanavati

Molecular Modeling of the Elasticity and Photoelasticity Relationships of Elastomeric Networks, 227^th National Meeting of The American Chemical Society, March 28 – April 1, 2004, Anaheim, California, USA, Division Of Polymeric Materials: Science And Engineering

Hemant Nanavati

General Papers/New Concepts in Polymeric Materials; Surface Properties: 227^th National Meeting of The American Chemical Society, March 28 – April 1, 2004, Anaheim, California, USA, Division Of Polymeric Materials: Science And Engineering

National

Vivek K. Mutalik and K V Venkatesh

Steady State Analysis of Signaling Pathways in Living Systems: Use of Dimensionless Parameters Akin to Chemical Plants, at CHEMCON-2003, Indian Institute Chemical Engineers (IIChe), Bhubaneshwar, India.

S. Bhartiya

Annual General Meeting and Annual Seminar on Environmental Management and Technologies in Pulp and Paper organized by Indian Pulp and Paper Technical Association, Kolkata, February 6-7, (2004)

H.S. Shankar

Inovative Technologiey for Distillery Waste water" All India Distlillers Association Annual Session ,New Delhi 13-16 Dec 2003

Roy S.

Organized 11th National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions and Biocolloids, Mumbai, 11 – 13 December, 2003.

Participated (& presented papers) in 3^rd Indian Congress On Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems & 1^st National Conference On Business Excellence, February 5-7, 2004, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Nayak K. and Nanavati H.

“Elasticity And Photoelasticity Relationships Of Elastomeric Networks By Molecular Simulation”, Proceedings of Indian Chemical Engineering Congress-2003 (CHEMCON-2003), 56^th Annual Session of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, 19^th - 22^nd December, 2003, Bhubaneswar, CHM-187

Sushanta Das, Kapileswar Nayak and Hemant Nanavati

Molecular Modeling of the Elasticity and Photoelasticity Relationships of PET Fiber Networks by the RIS-Monte Carlo Approach, Indian Chemical Engineering Congress-2003 (CHEMCON-2003), 56^th Annual Session of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, 19^th-22^nd December, 2003, Bhubaneswar

Invited Lectures

International

K. V. Venkatesh

Systems Biology-linking genotype to phenotype at the International Conference on Mathematical Biology (ICMB)-2004, held at IIT Kanpur from Feb 19 to 21 , 2004

C. Vekataraman

Regional Emissions Estimates, and Aerosol Emissions from Small Biomass Fires, Atmospheric Brown Cloud: Science Team Meeting and South Asia Workshop on Air Pollution, Aerosols and Regional Impacts, February 2-4, 2004, TERI, New Delhi.

Source and species contributions to aerosol distributions during the Indian north-east winter monsoon,” Indo-US Workshop on Modelling Atmospheric Transport of Pollutants, November 11-13, 2003, NEERI, Nagpur.

Gudi, R.D.

Overview of Bioprocess Estimation and Control, at Curagen Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut, USA on April 12, 2003

Issues in Control Relevant Identification, at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, April 17, 2003.

Improve Fermentor Productivity, at Merck Pharmaceutical Company, West Point, Pennsylvania, May 30, 2003.

Clustering and Classification Strategies for Process Monitoring and Control, at Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, June 9^th, 2003.

Issues in Continuous Plant Scheduling, at the Anderson School of Management Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, June 10^th , 2003.

Identification for Decentralized MPC”, at the Texas-Wisconsin Modeling and Control Consortium Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 22, 2003.

National

M. Mukhopadhyay

Process Modeling and Analysis of Supercritical Antisolvent Crystallization Technique for Formation of Nanoparticles”, In-House Symposium on Nanotechnology @ IITB, September 13, 2003

“Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Herbal Medicines and Nutraceuticals” in Emerging Trends in Herbal Technology, All-India Seminar by Institution of Engineers (India), WBSC, Kolkata , Nov 28-29, 2003

“Recovery of Nutraceuticals and Herbal Medicines by Supercritical Fluid Extraction”, Indian Chemical Industries Association , Chennai, Feb. 2004

K. V. Venkatesh

In Silico analysis of Biological systems, at Biohorizon-2004, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, March 12-13, 2004

Santosh Noronha

Department of Chemical Engg, IISc, on February 19, 2004, on Analysis of acetate metabolism in E. coli.

Bombay College of Pharmacy, Mumbai, November 29, 2003, on Recombinant DNA technology.

Cancer Chemotherapy at ACTREC Mumbai, on Bioinformatics in Drug Development

H.S. Shankar

Water harvesting and Purification for Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad

Roy S.

Technical Education: Global Trends, delivered at “CII-AICTE Summit on Technical Education”, Nov 5-6, 2003, Pune.

Chemical Engineering: Past, Present and the Future, Workshop on “Globalization: A Driving force for Innovative Ideas in Chemical Industries,” at Maharashtra Academy of Engineering, 9-10 Jan 2004, Pune.

S.C. Patwardhan

Selection of Modeling Techniques for Process Industries at Honeywell Technology Research Lab, Bangalore in May, 2003.

Fault Tolerant Control of Linear Multivariable Processes at G.E. Research Centre, Bangalore, May 2003.

Series of 24 lectures on Advanced Process Control at BARC Training school during March-April, 03 and March-April, 04.

Series of 8 lectures on numerical methods in SERC School on Numerical and Analytical Methods in Chemical engineering held in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, 12-16 Jan, 2004.

Lecture on “Primary Process Modeling: Distillation/Reactive Distillation, Extraction, & Stripping”, Workshop on Modeling & Simulation in Petroleum Refining Industry, organized by Indian Oil Corporation R&D, Faridabad, November 20, 2003.

D.V. Khakhar

CFD for viscous flows. IIChE-MRC Worshop on CFD, Mumbai, Sep 2003.

Global challenges in Chemical Engineering : Focus on Theory and Computations, IICT Diamond Jubilee, Hyderabad, January 10, 2004.

Synthesis of rodlike molecules, UICT, Mumbai, March 15, 2004.

Shear flow of granular materials, DCMPMS, TIFR, Mumbai, March 25, 2004.

Honorary Work

C. Venkataraman

Technical Working Group, Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2001-present).

ISRO-GBP Working Group on Aerosols, Atmospheric Chemistry and Radiation (2002-present).

Reviewer, Atmospheric Environment, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, Aerosol Science and Technology, Environmental Science and Technology, Tellus – Series B.

Jayesh Bellare

Editor: Advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Published by NISCIR, SCIR, New Delhi, 2004 (in press).

V.A. Juvekar

Member of the Committee Constituted by the State Government of Maharashtra to revise the rules for assessment of the losses of ethanol during the manufacture, storage, transport and distribution.

Roy S.

Chairman, Technical Committee, National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions, and Biocolloids, 11–13 December, 2003. (UICT, Bombay)

S.C. Patwardhan

Review of manuscripts for DYCOPS 7 to be held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. during 5-7 July, 2004.

Review of manuscript for Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

A.K. Suresh

Reviewed papers for International journals in chemical. biochemical and food engineering.

Reviewed proposals for national funding agencies such as DST.

A. Mehra

Industry Consultation: Vasant Chemicals, Hyderbad (General advice on specific processes), Unilever Research Centre, Bangalore (Studies on spontaneous emulsification).

R.K.Malik

Member, Heavy Water Board, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India (Since 2001).

Member, Technology & Energy Expert Committee, Indian Chemicals Manufacturers Association (ICMA), Mumbai (Since January 2003). 

Vice Chairman, Executive Committee, Mumbai Regional Chapter of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (Since 2003).

Co-chair, Session on CAPE in Pulp & Paper Industry, ESCAPE-13, June 1-4, 2003, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland.

Expert Member, National Board of Accreditation of AICTE, July 25-27, 2003, Vishakapatnam.

Session Chair, Seminar on Water Resource Management in Chemical Industry, organized by Indian Chemical Manufacturers Association (ICMA), October 10-11, 2003, Mumbai.

Subject Expert for monitoring of AICTE R&D, TAPTEC, & MODROBS projects, September 29-30, 2003, New Delhi.

Expert Member, Selection Committee, Indian Institute of Technology – Roorkee, October 27-28, 2003.

Expert Member, Board of Studies in Chemical Engineering, U.P. Technical University.

Member, International Relations Committee, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (2004).

Paper Reviewer (one manuscript), Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, U.S.A.

Paper Reviewer (two manuscripts), Indian Journal of Chemical Technology (NISCAIR), New Delhi.

D.V. Khakhar

Reviewer for journals (Phys. Fluids, Eur. J. Mech. B, Europhys Lett., Chem. Eng. Sci., Chem. Eng. Processing, Proc. Roy Soc., AIChE J., Ind. J. Chem. Tech., Chem. Eng. Res. Des.) and proposals (DST, CSIR, Indo-French Centre).

C. Venkataraman

Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science, (2004-present), National Research Council, Canada, NRC Research Press.

Faculty Members and Specialisations

Preeti Aghalayam (Ph.D., U. Massachusetts, 2000)

Catalytic oxidation        

Jayesh Bellare (Ph.D., U. Minnesota, 1988), Head, Bio-School

Microscopy, surface science, nanotechnology

R.D. Gudi (Ph.D., U. Alberta, 1995)

Process control, biochemical engg.

V.G. Gurjar (Ph.D., I.I.T. Bombay, 1978)

Electrochemical engg., corrosion

V.A. Juvekar (Ph.D., U. Bombay, 1976)

Multiphase reactions, polymers, interfacial engg.

Kannan Moudgalya (Ph.D., Rice U., 1985),

Process control, simulation, software engg.

D.V. Khakhar (Ph.D., U. Massachusetts, 1986), Head, Chemical Engg.

Polymerization, polymer materials, powders

K.C. Khilar (Ph.D., U. Michigan, 1981), Dean (R&D)

Colloids, interface science, porous media

S. Mahajani (Ph.D., U. Bombay, 1996)

Reaction engg. and catalysis, CFD

R.K. Malik (Ph.D., U. Wisconsin, 1979), Head, CAD Centre

Process modeling, simulation, energy integration

A. Mehra (Ph.D., U. Bombay, 1987)

Multiphase reactions, surface science

A. Misra (Ph.D., U. Massachusetts, 1974), Director

Polymer science and engineering

A.S. Moharir (Ph.D., I.I.T. Kanpur, 1981)

Modeling, simulation, adsorption, optimization

M. Mukhopadhyay (Ph.D., Ohio State U., 1969)

Thermodynamics, separations, supercritical extraction

H. Nanavati (Ph.D., Georgia Tech., 1998)

Polymer physics, structure-property relationships

S.B. Noronha (Ph.D., U. Maryland, Baltimore County, 1996)

Biochemical engg., recombinant biotechnology

S.C. Patwardhan (Ph.D., I.I.T. Bombay, 1994)

Computer control systems, adaptive & predictive control, system identification & fault tolerant control

T.S. Raghunathan (Ph.D., U. Birmingham, 1977)

Reaction engg.: polymers & catalysts, thermodynamics

V. Govardhana Rao (Ph.D., I.I.T. Madras, 1979)

Heat transfer, trickle beds, polymer rheology

Sandip Roy (M.S., SUNY, Buffalo, 1982)

Colloids, thermodynamics, safety

H.S. Shankar (Ph.D., Monash U., 1976)

Biochemical engg., vermiculture

A.K. Suresh (Ph.D., Monash U., 1986)

Biochemical engg., multiphase reactions

G.K. Suraishkumar (Ph.D., Drexel U., 1993)

Biochemical engg., aerosol processes

K.V. Venkatesh (Ph.D., Purdue U., 1993)

Biochemical and food engg.

P. Wangikar (Ph.D., U. Iowa, 1995)

Applied enzymology, drug discovery, bioseparations

Chandra Venkataraman (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles,1992) Aerosols and climate, Air pollution, Toxicity / risk assessment, Aerosol science and engineering.

Mahesh Tirumkudulu, Ph.D., City Univ. of New York, 2001),  Fluid Mechanics, Colloids, interface science

Vinjamur Madhu

(Ph.D., Drexel University, 2001) Drying of coatings, Oil recovery from porous rocks, Fluid mechanics of coating flows

Bhartiya Sharad (Ph.D., Oklahoma State U., 2000) Modeling, Identification and Control

Adjunct and Visiting Faculty

U.V. Shenoy (Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon U., 1988)

S.A. Baser (Ph.D., IIT Bombay, 1992)

S.G. Kane (Ph.D., Ex-Head R&D, NOCIL)

C. Manohar (Ph.D., Ex-Head Interfacial Chemistry Division, BARC)

S. Ganeshan (Ph.D., IIT Bombay, Toyo Engineering)