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

• Biotechnology & Bio-Systems Engineering
• Catalysis and Reaction Engineering
• Energy & Environment
• Materials Engineering
• Process Systems Engineering
• Transport, Colloids, and Interface Science

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

• Biotechnology & Bio-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

• Catalysis and Reaction 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

• 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

• Transport, Colloids, and Interface Science

  (Fluid Mechanics, 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.
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