The project would deal with intensification of unit operations such as desalting of crude oil or air cleaning or phase transitions using strong electric fields. The student would be conducting experiments, simulations and theory. The simulations would be based on COMSOL multiphysics, while the experiments will involve videography and microscopy. The aim is to made new observations at microscopic levels and harness them for process intensification at industrial scale. The group has in the past demonstrated such approach for desalters and air-cleaners. This project would try to address scale up issues in these processes, while simultaneously making an endevour to discover new processes for novel applications with sustainability in mind.