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The department is involved in a variety of research areas in chemical engineering research. We have provided a rough classification of the patents under these areas:

• 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 patent records under various sub-headings of research. Please consult the patent records for further details.

• Biological Systems Engineering

  (Biotechnology, Systems Biology, Bio-informatics)
  • Biochemical Engineering
  • Biomolecular Engineering
  • Computational Biology
  • Enzymology
  • Systems Biology

• Energy & Environment

  (Energy, Environment, Climate)
  • Climate Change
  • Coal Gasification
  • Energy Integration
  • Green Engineering
    • Processes for treatment of organic wastes
  • Pollution
    • Processes for treatment of organic wastes
    • Process for Waste Water Renovation
    • Process for Treatment of Organic Solid Waste
  • Renewable Resources

• Materials Engineering

  (Nano-Materials and Polymers)
  • Biomaterials
    • A novel process for sterilizing of Bio-materials using Supercritical Fluid
    • A Method and an Apparatus for Synthesizing Vesicles by Interdiffusion of Stationary Phases
  • Drug Delivery
    • A Method and an Apparatus for Synthesizing Vesicles by Interdiffusion of Stationary Phases
  • Food Engineering
    • A process for cyclic supercritical fluid (SCF) CO2 extraction of fragrances (absolute or essential oils) from jasmine flowers
    • A novel process for the extraction of nutraceutical concentrate enriched with actrive ingredients using supercritical fluids
    • Lipoxygenase inactivated and sterilised legumes and cereal products
    • A nanoparticle exogenous protein free micronutrient added pulmonary surfactant composition for neonatal respiratory distress syn
    • An Improved Process For Making Natural Sweetener From Stevia Leaves.
    • An enzymatic hydrolysis process for the production of liquefacts (maltodextrins) from tapioca starch  
    • An enzymatic hydrolysis process for the production of glucose syrups from tapioca starch
  • Microscopy
  • Molecular Simulations
  • Nano-composites
    • Polylactic acid-clay nanocomposites and process for preparing them
    • Polylactic acid-clay nanocomposites by lactide polymerization in clays
    • A novel process for production of nanoparticles using subcritical carbon dioxide
    • Clays as cell openers in polyurethane foam
    • A nanoparticle exogenous protein free micronutrient added pulmonary surfactant composition for neonatal respiratory distress syn
    • A method of making a fluid separation material such as membrane of nanopore structure
    • A method of making a supported fluid separation membrane of nanopore structure
  • Nanoparticles
    • A Method and an Apparatus for Synthesizing Vesicles by Interdiffusion of Stationary Phases
  • Polymer Physics
    • Clays as cell openers in polyurethane foam
    • Method for producing lactic acid polymers of high crystallinity and molecular weight
  • Polymer Processing
    • Polylactic acid-clay nanocomposites and process for preparing them
    • Method for producing lactic acid polymers of high crystallinity and molecular weight
    • Polylactic acid-clay nanocomposites by lactide polymerization in clays
  • Product Development
  • Statistical Themodynamics
  • Supercritical Fluids
    • A process for cyclic supercritical fluid (SCF) CO2 extraction of fragrances (absolute or essential oils) from jasmine flowers
    • A novel process for sterilizing of Bio-materials using Supercritical Fluid
    • A novel process for production of nanoparticles using subcritical carbon dioxide
    • A novel process for the extraction of nutraceutical concentrate enriched with actrive ingredients using supercritical fluids
  • Surface Science
    • Reticulated Vitreous Carbon Controlled Pore Size and Enhanced Electrical Conductivity
    • A method of making a fluid separation material such as membrane of nanopore structure
    • A method of making a supported fluid separation membrane of nanopore structure
  • Thin films

• Process Systems Engineering

  (Systems Engineering and Control)
  • Data Analysis
  • Identification
  • Modelling
  • Optimisation
  • Process Control
  • Process Safety Analysis

• Reactor Engineering

  (Reactor Engineering and Catalysis)
  • Catalysis
  • Multiphase Reaction
  • Reaction Engineering
    • A nano-structured biodegradable bone graft composition having improved properties and a process for the preparation thereof
    • A nano-structured biodegradable bone graft composition having improved properties and a process for the preparation thereof
    • Process for the production of isoosctane
    • A process to manufacture highly stable and optically transparent aluminium hydroxide gel
  • Reactor Modelling

• Transport Phenomena and Complex Fluids

  (Fluid Mechanics and Rheology, Soft-Matter)
  • Adsorption
  • Aerosols
  • Coatings
  • Colloids
    • A Method and an Apparatus for Synthesizing Vesicles by Interdiffusion of Stationary Phases
  • Computational Flow Modelling (CFD)
  • Electrohydrodynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics and Stability
  • Granular Flow
    • Method for improving particulate mixing and heat transfer in tumbling mixers and rotary kiln
  • Heat and Mass Transfer
    • Method for improving particulate mixing and heat transfer in tumbling mixers and rotary kiln
  • Porous Media
  • Rheology
  • Separations
    • A process for cyclic supercritical fluid (SCF) CO2 extraction of fragrances (absolute or essential oils) from jasmine flowers
    • A process for sequential supercritical CO2 extraction and fractional of neem oil enriched with azadirachtin from neem kernels
  • Surfactants
    • A Method and an Apparatus for Synthesizing Vesicles by Interdiffusion of Stationary Phases

Alumni and friends of Professor Khilar have launched an initiative to institute an annual "Professor Kartic C. Khilar Distinguished Fellowship" in the Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay. This is to be funded by a corpus of about Rs 45,00,000 (about 100,000 USD). This is an invitation to contribute to the endowment for the establishment of this memorial fellowship.  read more »

The Godrej group and friends, family and students of the late Professor C. V. Seshadri have initiated an endowment at IIT Bombay for an Annual Institute Distinguished Lecture in Chemical Engineering, in memory of Professor Seshadri. Mr. Jamshyd Godrej, CMD, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd., has very kindly initiated this corpus with a generous contribution through the Pirojsha Godrej Foundation.  read more »

Our beloved Prof. Kartic Khilar, who was till very recently with our department, passed away in his Gandhinagar residence on 13 November 2009. The department and the institute deeply mourn this sudden death. A brief profile of Prof Khilar is given below. We invite people who have been associated with him, in any manner, to pay tributes and recall fond memories, by communicating through this page, for others to read and cherish.  read more »

The following faculty were associated with (or retired from) this department in the recent past. While their email addresses may be active, the phone numbers, if they belong to IITB (starting with 2576xxxx) will not be functional.

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