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Research Laboratories
The department is organised into small research groups and laboratories. The following are the major such subdivisions. Please consult the links to know more about the people in each lab and the facilities and chemicals available in each of them.
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Research and Development Projects
The following is a list of selected sponsored R&D projects taken up in the department. The trend of number of ongoing projects is shown elsewhere.
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Faculty Positions
The department is looking for qualified candidates. Please contact the Head of the Department for further details. Email Contact Form to contact the Head.
Facilities
The department hosts several experimental and computational facilities. These are classified according to their physical location and the broad category of use. Please select from the options below (choose ALL for no specific value) to view the list of your interest.
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Research Areas
The department is involved in a variety of frontier and traditional areas in chemical engineering research, under the broad areas of:
A separate list of research areas ordered by faculty is also available here.
- Biological Systems Engineering
- Energy & Environment
- Materials Engineering
- Process Systems Engineering
- Reactor Engineering
- Transport Phenomena and Complex Fluids
A separate list of research areas ordered by faculty is also available here.
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
- Pollution
- Renewable Resources
Materials Engineering
(Nano-Materials and Polymers)- Biomaterials
- Drug Delivery
- Food Engineering
- Microscopy
- Molecular Simulations
- Nano-composites
- Nanoparticles
- Polymer Physics
- Polymer Processing
- Product Development
- Statistical Themodynamics
- Supercritical Fluids
- Surface Science
- Thin films
Process Systems Engineering
(Systems Engineering and Control)- Data Analysis
- Identification
- Modelling
- Optimisation
- Process Control
- Process Safety Analysis
- Data Analysis
Reactor Engineering
(Reactor Engineering and Catalysis)- Catalysis
- Multiphase Reaction
- Reaction Engineering
- Reactor Modelling
Transport Phenomena and Complex Fluids
(Fluid Mechanics and Rheology, Soft-Matter)- Adsorption
- Aerosols
- Coatings
- Colloids
- Computational Flow Modelling (CFD)
- Electrohydrodynamics
- Fluid Mechanics and Stability
- Granular Flow
- Heat and Mass Transfer
- Porous Media
- Rheology
- Separations
- Surfactants
- Adsorption