Research Areas

The department is involved in a variety of frontier and traditional areas in chemical engineering research, under the broad areas of:

• Biological Systems Engineering
• Energy & Environment
• Materials Engineering
• Process Systems Engineering
• Reactor Engineering
• Transport Phenomena and Complex Fluids

The following is a rough classification of the research undertaken under these, and the names of faculty members involved. Please consult the faculty links for further details.
A separate list of research areas ordered by faculty is also available here.

• Biological Systems Engineering

  (Biotechnology, Systems Biology, Bio-informatics)
  • Biochemical Engineering
    • Ravindra D Gudi
    • Santosh Noronha
    • Supreet Saini
    • Hariharan S. Shankar
    • A. K. Suresh
    • K. V. Venkatesh
    • Pramod P Wangikar
  • Biomolecular Engineering
    • Sameer Jadhav
    • Sarika Mehra
    • Santosh Noronha
    • Supreet Saini
    • K. V. Venkatesh
    • Ganesh A Viswanathan
    • Pramod P Wangikar
  • Computational Biology
    • Sarika Mehra
    • Santosh Noronha
    • Supreet Saini
    • Ganesh A Viswanathan
    • Pramod P Wangikar
  • Enzymology
  • Systems Biology
    • Sharad Bhartiya
    • Kartic C Khilar
    • Sarika Mehra
    • Santosh Noronha
    • Supreet Saini
    • K. V. Venkatesh
    • Ganesh A Viswanathan

• Energy & Environment

  (Energy, Environment, Climate)
  • Climate Change
    • Yogendra Shastri
    • Chandra Venkataraman
  • Coal Gasification
    • Sanjay M Mahajani
  • Energy Integration
    • Ranjan K Malik
  • Green Engineering
    • Santosh Noronha
    • Yogendra Shastri
  • Pollution
    • Preeti Aghalayam
    • Arun Sadashio Moharir
    • Hariharan S. Shankar
    • Yogendra Shastri
    • Chandra Venkataraman
  • Renewable Resources
    • Sanjay M Mahajani
    • Hemant Nanavati
    • Santosh Noronha
    • Sandip Roy
    • Yogendra Shastri
    • Chandra Venkataraman
    • Madhu Vinjamur

• Materials Engineering

  (Nano-Materials and Polymers)
  • Biomaterials
    • Jayesh Bellare
    • Sameer Jadhav
  • Drug Delivery
    • Jayesh Bellare
    • Sameer Jadhav
    • Devang V Khakhar
    • P Sunthar
    • Rochish Thaokar
    • Mahesh S Tirumkudulu
    • Chandra Venkataraman
  • Food Engineering
    • Anurag Mehra
    • V. M. Naik
    • K. V. Venkatesh
    • Madhu Vinjamur
  • Microscopy
    • Jayesh Bellare
  • Molecular Simulations
    • Jhumpa Adhikari
    • Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
    • Abhijit Chatterjee
    • Anurag Mehra
    • Hemant Nanavati
  • Nano-composites
    • Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
    • Devang V Khakhar
    • Hemant Nanavati
    • Chandra Venkataraman
  • Nanoparticles
    • Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
    • Jayesh Bellare
    • Anurag Mehra
    • V. M. Naik
    • Janaky Narayanan
    • Arindam Sarkar
    • A. K. Suresh
    • Rochish Thaokar
    • Chandra Venkataraman
  • Polymer Physics
    • Vinay A. Juvekar
    • Hemant Nanavati
    • P Sunthar
  • Polymer Processing
    • Devang V Khakhar
    • V. M. Naik
    • Hemant Nanavati
  • Product Development
  • Statistical Themodynamics
    • Jhumpa Adhikari
    • Abhijit Chatterjee
    • Hemant Nanavati
    • Janaky Narayanan
    • Sandip Roy
    • Rochish Thaokar
  • Supercritical Fluids
    • Jhumpa Adhikari
    • Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
    • Anurag Mehra
    • Hemant Nanavati
  • Surface Science
    • Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
    • Jayesh Bellare
    • Abhijit Chatterjee
    • Sameer Jadhav
    • Vinay A. Juvekar
    • V. M. Naik
    • Sandip Roy
    • Mahesh S Tirumkudulu
    • Chandra Venkataraman
  • Thin films
    • Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
    • Abhijit Chatterjee
    • Mahesh S Tirumkudulu

• Process Systems Engineering

  (Systems Engineering and Control)
  • Data Analysis
  • Identification
    • Sharad Bhartiya
    • Mani Bhushan
    • Abhijit Chatterjee
    • Ravindra D Gudi
    • Sachin C Patwardhan
  • Modelling
    • Sharad Bhartiya
    • Abhijit Chatterjee
    • Ranjan K Malik
    • Arun Sadashio Moharir
    • Kannan M Moudgalya
    • Sachin C Patwardhan
    • Yogendra Shastri
    • Pramod P Wangikar
  • Optimisation
    • Sharad Bhartiya
    • Mani Bhushan
    • Abhijit Chatterjee
    • Ravindra D Gudi
    • Santosh Kumar Gupta
    • Ranjan K Malik
    • Arun Sadashio Moharir
    • Yogendra Shastri
  • Process Control
    • Sharad Bhartiya
    • Mani Bhushan
    • Ravindra D Gudi
    • Santosh Kumar Gupta
    • Kannan M Moudgalya
    • Sachin C Patwardhan
    • Yogendra Shastri
    • Pramod P Wangikar
  • Process Safety Analysis
    • Mani Bhushan
    • Ravindra D Gudi
    • Sandip Roy

• Reactor Engineering

  (Reactor Engineering and Catalysis)
  • Catalysis
    • Sanjay M Mahajani
    • Arindam Sarkar
    • A. K. Suresh
  • Multiphase Reaction
    • Vinay A. Juvekar
    • Sanjay M Mahajani
    • Anurag Mehra
    • A. K. Suresh
  • Reaction Engineering
    • Vinay A. Juvekar
    • Sanjay M Mahajani
    • Anurag Mehra
    • A. K. Suresh
    • Ganesh A Viswanathan
  • Reactor Modelling
    • Santosh Kumar Gupta
    • Devang V Khakhar
    • Arun Sadashio Moharir
    • Ganesh A Viswanathan

• Transport Phenomena and Complex Fluids

  (Fluid Mechanics and Rheology, Soft-Matter)
  • Adsorption
  • Aerosols
    • Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
    • Chandra Venkataraman
  • Coatings
    • Mahesh S Tirumkudulu
    • Madhu Vinjamur
  • Colloids
    • Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
    • V. M. Naik
    • Janaky Narayanan
    • Rochish Thaokar
    • Mahesh S Tirumkudulu
  • Computational Flow Modelling (CFD)
    • Sameer Jadhav
    • Sanjay M Mahajani
    • P Sunthar
    • Rochish Thaokar
    • Mahesh S Tirumkudulu
  • Electrohydrodynamics
    • Vinay A. Juvekar
    • V. M. Naik
    • Rochish Thaokar
  • Fluid Mechanics and Stability
    • P Sunthar
    • Rochish Thaokar
    • Mahesh S Tirumkudulu
  • Granular Flow
    • Devang V Khakhar
    • P Sunthar
  • Heat and Mass Transfer
    • S Ganeshan
    • V Govardhana Rao
    • A. K. Suresh
    • Madhu Vinjamur
    • Ganesh A Viswanathan
  • Porous Media
    • Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
    • Madhu Vinjamur
  • Rheology
    • Vinay A. Juvekar
    • Devang V Khakhar
    • V. M. Naik
    • Janaky Narayanan
    • V Govardhana Rao
    • Mahesh S Tirumkudulu
  • Separations
    • Jayesh Bellare
    • Vinay A. Juvekar
    • Sanjay M Mahajani
    • Ranjan K Malik
    • Arun Sadashio Moharir
    • Mamata Mukhopadhyay
    • V. M. Naik
    • V Govardhana Rao
    • Sandip Roy
  • Surfactants
    • Vinay A. Juvekar
    • Devang V Khakhar
    • Anurag Mehra
    • V. M. Naik
    • Janaky Narayanan
    • Sandip Roy
    • P Sunthar
    • Rochish Thaokar
    • Mahesh S Tirumkudulu

  Research Areas by Faculty

  This is a collection of research areas for each faculty; they are only indicative of broad fields, please consult the individual faculty page link, for details of expertise and problems of current interest. A separate list of faculty under a research area is also available here. Please note that the area order listed against a faculty may not be in the order of main interests.

  • Jhumpa Adhikari

    Supercritical Fluids | Statistical Themodynamics | Molecular Simulations
  • Preeti Aghalayam

    Pollution
  • Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya

    Porous Media | Colloids | Aerosols | Thin films | Surface Science | Supercritical Fluids | Nanoparticles | Nano-composites | Molecular Simulations
  • Jayesh Bellare

    Separations | Surface Science | Nanoparticles | Microscopy | Drug Delivery | Biomaterials
  • Sharad Bhartiya

    Process Control | Optimisation | Modelling | Identification | Systems Biology
  • Mani Bhushan

    Process Safety Analysis | Process Control | Optimisation | Identification
  • Abhijit Chatterjee

    Optimisation | Modelling | Identification | Thin films | Surface Science | Statistical Themodynamics | Molecular Simulations
  • S Ganeshan

    Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Partha Sarathi Goswami
  • Ravindra D Gudi

    Process Safety Analysis | Process Control | Optimisation | Identification | Biochemical Engineering
  • Venkat Gundabala
  • Santosh Kumar Gupta

    Reactor Modelling | Process Control | Optimisation
  • Sameer Jadhav

    Computational Flow Modelling (CFD) | Surface Science | Drug Delivery | Biomaterials | Biomolecular Engineering
  • Vinay A. Juvekar

    Separations | Rheology | Electrohydrodynamics | Reaction Engineering | Multiphase Reaction | Surface Science | Polymer Physics | Surfactants
  • Devang V Khakhar

    Surfactants | Rheology | Granular Flow | Reactor Modelling | Polymer Processing | Nano-composites | Drug Delivery
  • Kartic C Khilar

    Systems Biology
  • Sanjay M Mahajani

    Separations | Computational Flow Modelling (CFD) | Reaction Engineering | Multiphase Reaction | Catalysis | Renewable Resources | Coal Gasification
  • Ateeque Malani
  • Ranjan K Malik

    Optimisation | Modelling | Energy Integration | Separations
  • Anurag Mehra

    Surfactants | Reaction Engineering | Multiphase Reaction | Supercritical Fluids | Nanoparticles | Molecular Simulations | Food Engineering
  • Sarika Mehra

    Systems Biology | Computational Biology | Biomolecular Engineering
  • Arun Sadashio Moharir

    Separations | Reactor Modelling | Optimisation | Modelling | Pollution
  • Kannan M Moudgalya

    Process Control | Modelling
  • Mamata Mukhopadhyay

    Separations
  • V. M. Naik

    Separations | Rheology | Electrohydrodynamics | Colloids | Surface Science | Polymer Processing | Nanoparticles | Food Engineering | Surfactants
  • Hemant Nanavati

    Statistical Themodynamics | Polymer Processing | Polymer Physics | Nano-composites | Molecular Simulations | Renewable Resources | Supercritical Fluids
  • Janaky Narayanan

    Surfactants | Rheology | Colloids | Statistical Themodynamics | Nanoparticles
  • Santosh Noronha

    Renewable Resources | Green Engineering | Systems Biology | Computational Biology | Biomolecular Engineering | Biochemical Engineering
  • Sachin C Patwardhan

    Process Control | Modelling | Identification
  • V Govardhana Rao

    Separations | Rheology | Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Sandip Roy

    Surfactants | Separations | Process Safety Analysis | Surface Science | Statistical Themodynamics | Renewable Resources
  • Supreet Saini

    Systems Biology | Computational Biology | Biomolecular Engineering | Biochemical Engineering
  • Arindam Sarkar

    Catalysis | Nanoparticles
  • Hariharan S. Shankar

    Pollution | Biochemical Engineering
  • Yogendra Shastri

    Process Control | Optimisation | Modelling | Renewable Resources | Pollution | Green Engineering | Climate Change
  • P Sunthar

    Surfactants | Granular Flow | Fluid Mechanics and Stability | Computational Flow Modelling (CFD) | Polymer Physics | Drug Delivery
  • A. K. Suresh

    Reaction Engineering | Multiphase Reaction | Catalysis | Nanoparticles | Biochemical Engineering | Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Rochish Thaokar

    Surfactants | Fluid Mechanics and Stability | Electrohydrodynamics | Computational Flow Modelling (CFD) | Colloids | Statistical Themodynamics | Nanoparticles | Drug Delivery
  • Mahesh S Tirumkudulu

    Rheology | Fluid Mechanics and Stability | Computational Flow Modelling (CFD) | Colloids | Coatings | Thin films | Surface Science | Drug Delivery | Surfactants
  • Mukta Tripathy
  • Chandra Venkataraman

    Aerosols | Surface Science | Nanoparticles | Nano-composites | Drug Delivery | Renewable Resources | Pollution | Climate Change
  • K. V. Venkatesh

    Food Engineering | Systems Biology | Biomolecular Engineering | Biochemical Engineering
  • Madhu Vinjamur

    Porous Media | Heat and Mass Transfer | Coatings | Food Engineering | Renewable Resources
  • Ganesh A Viswanathan

    Heat and Mass Transfer | Reactor Modelling | Reaction Engineering | Systems Biology | Computational Biology | Biomolecular Engineering
  • Pramod P Wangikar

    Process Control | Modelling | Computational Biology | Biomolecular Engineering | Biochemical Engineering