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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M.Tech Seminar topics offered are listed here under various faculty. A list of project categorised by research areas is also available.

Jhumpa Adhikari

Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya

Jayesh Bellare

Sharad Bhartiya

Mani Bhushan

Ravindra D Gudi

Santosh Kumar Gupta

Sameer Jadhav

Vinay A. Juvekar

Sanjay M Mahajani

Sarika Mehra

Arun Sadashio Moharir

Kannan M Moudgalya

Santosh Noronha

V Govardhana Rao

Sandip Roy

Hariharan S. Shankar

A. K. Suresh

Rochish Thaokar

Mahesh S Tirumkudulu

Chandra Venkataraman

K. V. Venkatesh

Madhu Vinjamur

Pramod P Wangikar

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 are the various topics offered for MTech Students for Seminar. The topics categorised by faculty is available here.

• Biological Systems Engineering

  (Biotechnology, Systems Biology, Bio-informatics)
  • Biochemical Engineering
    • Quantification and Analysis of metabolism
    • Topic 1:Ammonia & Nitrate removal from water
    • Topic 2:Theromdynamics of the liquid state
    • Statistical design of experiments for fermentatin optimization
  • Biomolecular Engineering
    • Experiments and models of interaction and uptake of nanoparticles by cells
    • Fluctuations in enzymatic cascades
    • TNF-alpha signaling
    • Systems biology of leukocyte spreading
  • Computational Biology
    • Genome scale metabolic reconstruction
  • Systems Biology
    • Signaling pathways in Stem Cell differentiation
    • Stochastic Models of Gene Networks
    • Reaction-diffusion-advection models for cell migration
    • Fluctuations in enzymatic cascades
    • TNF-alpha signaling
    • Cell cycle modeling using discrete event systems

• Energy & Environment

  (Energy, Environment, Climate)
  • Climate Change
    • Green house gases and their impact on the Environment
  • Coal Gasification
    • Circulating fluidised bed coal gasifiers
  • Pollution
    • Topic 1:Ammonia & Nitrate removal from water
    • Topic 2:Theromdynamics of the liquid state
    • Green house gases and their impact on the Environment

• Materials Engineering

  (Nano-Materials and Polymers)
  • Drug Delivery
    • Systems biology of leukocyte spreading
    • Thermal fluctuations of vesicles
    • Spontaneous emulsification
  • Food Engineering
    • Modeling of drying of foods
    • Pressurized Hot Water Extraction: Application to Herbal Products
  • Microscopy
    • Electron tomography and 3D reconstruction tools for nanoparticles
  • Molecular Simulations
    • Prediction of thermodynamic properties of fluids confined in nanoporous media using molecular simulations
    • Molecular simulation study of VLE of caprolactam-water-Nylon 6
  • Nano-composites
    • Technological applications of superhydrophobic coatings: Needs and challenges
  • Nanoparticles
    • Experiments and models of interaction and uptake of nanoparticles by cells
    • Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) of nanomaterials
    • Droplet formation in collision atomization
    • Thermophoresis for aerosol nanoparticle measurement and collection
    • Thermal fluctuations of vesicles
    • Spontaneous emulsification
  • Polymer Physics
    • Molecular simulation study of VLE of caprolactam-water-Nylon 6
    • 1. Electrocoalescence
    • 2. Stability of emulsion under shear.
  • Statistical Themodynamics
    • Prediction of thermodynamic properties of fluids confined in nanoporous media using molecular simulations
    • Molecular simulation study of VLE of caprolactam-water-Nylon 6
    • Thermal fluctuations of vesicles
    • Spontaneous emulsification
  • Surface Science
    • Technological applications of superhydrophobic coatings: Needs and challenges
    • Droplet formation in collision atomization
    • 1. Electrocoalescence
    • 2. Stability of emulsion under shear.
  • Thin films
    • Technological applications of superhydrophobic coatings: Needs and challenges

• Process Systems Engineering

  (Systems Engineering and Control)
  • Identification
    • Nearest Neighbor Classifiers and Voronoi Diagrams
    • RD1
    • RD2
  • Modelling
    • Differential equation solvers in open source
    • Fault diagnosis using Bayesian networks
    • Petroleum Refinery Restructuring Possibilities
    • Nearest Neighbor Classifiers and Voronoi Diagrams
    • RD1
    • RD2
  • Optimisation
    • Differential equation solvers in open source
    • Petroleum Refinery Restructuring Possibilities
    • Statistical design of experiments for fermentatin optimization
    • Nearest Neighbor Classifiers and Voronoi Diagrams
    • RD1
    • RD2
  • Process Control
    • Differential equation solvers in open source
    • Fault diagnosis using Bayesian networks
    • Statistical Process Control Based Approaches for Chemical Process Monitoring
    • Model Based Techniques for Fault Detection and Diagnosis
    • RD1
    • RD2
  • Process Safety Analysis
    • Risk-based Process Plant Maintenance Management
    • RD1
    • RD2

• Reactor Engineering

  (Reactor Engineering and Catalysis)
  • Multiphase Reaction
    • Circulating fluidised bed coal gasifiers
    • 1. Electrocoalescence
    • 2. Stability of emulsion under shear.
    • Experiments and modeling of coal gasification kinetics
  • Reaction Engineering
    • Circulating fluidised bed coal gasifiers
    • Perturbation Mehods in Chemical Engineering
    • Experiments and modeling of coal gasification kinetics
  • Reactor Modelling
    • Circulating fluidised bed coal gasifiers
    • Rice Refinery
    • Experiments and modeling of coal gasification kinetics

• Transport Phenomena and Complex Fluids

  (Fluid Mechanics and Rheology, Soft-Matter)
  • Coatings
    • Diffusion in and thermodynamics of multicomponent polymer solvent systems
    • Technological applications of superhydrophobic coatings: Needs and challenges
  • Colloids
    • Particle ordering in colloidal crystals
    • Cracking of dry river beds
    • Thermal fluctuations of vesicles
    • Spontaneous emulsification
  • Computational Flow Modelling (CFD)
    • Reaction-diffusion-advection models for cell migration
    • Systems biology of leukocyte spreading
    • Thermal fluctuations of vesicles
    • Spontaneous emulsification
  • Electrohydrodynamics
    • Thermal fluctuations of vesicles
    • Spontaneous emulsification
    • 1. Electrocoalescence
    • 2. Stability of emulsion under shear.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Stability
    • Pressure drop and Pressure fluctuation analysis in Spouted bed columns
  • Rheology
    • Reaction-diffusion-advection models for cell migration
    • 1. Electrocoalescence
    • 2. Stability of emulsion under shear.
  • Separations
    • 1. Electrocoalescence
    • 2. Stability of emulsion under shear.
  • Surfactants
    • Systems biology of leukocyte spreading
    • Thermal fluctuations of vesicles
    • Spontaneous emulsification
    • 1. Electrocoalescence
    • 2. Stability of emulsion under shear.

Consult the following links for M.Tech Seminar Topic by Research Area and by Faculty.

As a special drive to popularise among undergraduate students (with GATE scores) an option of direct admission to a PhD degree, the department of chemical engineering welcomes select candidates (from the applicants of the M.Tech programme) to appear for the research project interviews. Special invitations to this effect are despatched close to the project position interview dates. These students need not send a separate application for these positions. Their application data provided for the M.Tech programme will be used for processing.  read more »

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.

Please consult the following links for soft copies of Department Brochure, Publicity Materials, and Annual Reports.

• View Faculty Annual Report Data (HTML)

Positions in Sponsored Research Topics

The following research fellowships are available; for details on the position/projects and specific qualifications, please follow the respective links.

Eligibility

BTech/MTech/MSc in Chemical Engineering or a related discipline (Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Polymer/Plastics Eng., Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Sc., etc). A minimum qualification of 70% or equivalent aggregate in Bachelors and Masters is essential.

Fellowship

Rs 12,000-15,000/month plus HRA (30%)

General Instructions

• Submit an online application for these positions here: Apply Now
• Only one application is required even for multiple projects.
• Consult the links below for the general structure of the stipend/salary for the named positions.
• In some of the above projects, one may work towards a PhD degree on others one may work as staff without pursuing any higher degree
• Projects not listed above and funded by IIT Bombay Teaching Assistantships www.che.iitb.ac.in/research/phdtopics-ta.html can be pursued through the PhD program. However, number of such PhD seats available in the department is limited (about 10-14/year). For deadlines and application procedure to the PhD program, visit this link.

This is an open advertisement so it is possible that when your application is considered, some positions are already filled.