IIT Bombay Chemical Engineering

Undergraduate Project Topics

Undergraduate Research and Design projects are offered as part of BTP and SLP credits (available only for fourth year B.Tech and DD students). Please find a link to the allotment rules here. Please contact the respective faculty for more information. Faculty can add new projects to this list by accessing this link (after logging in with their LDAP credentials). 

Name of Faculty: Ojus Mohan
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Machine Learning and DFT-Driven Catalyst Design for CO2 Conversion 26 Jul 2024
Name of Faculty: Guruswamy Kumaraswamy
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Effect of mechanical forces on microplastic formation 25 Jul 2024
Microplastics from PP and their effect on cells 25 Jul 2024
Microplastic and nanoplastic formation by LLDPE 25 Jul 2024
Name of Faculty: Supreet Saini
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Design principles of bioogical networks. 25 Jul 2024
Principles of protein evolution. 25 Jul 2024
Name of Faculty: Madhu Vinjamur
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Sterilization and preservation with supercritical cabon dioxide 25 Jul 2024
Name of Faculty: P Sunthar
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Battery pack simulation 25 Jul 2024
Name of Faculty: Yogendra Shastri
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Optimization for addressing food-energy-water nexus 25 Jul 2024
Name of Faculty: Sanjay M Mahajani
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Computational Fluid dynamics of producer gas burner 24 Jul 2024
Name of Faculty: Mani Bhushan
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Root cause identification using causal AI 24 Jul 2024
Creation of pollution sources database using NLP based Machine Learning approaches 02 Aug 2023
Process data digitization using low cost software and hardware interventions 02 Aug 2023
Name of Faculty: Sayantan Dutta
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Quantifying dynamics of drug resistant colonies using advanced image processing and computational models 27 Feb 2024
Name of Faculty: Partha Sarathi Goswami
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CFD analysis for improving freeze-dryer design 11 Jan 2024
Name of Faculty: Sandip Roy
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Enabling Effective Industrial Risk Governance 10 Jan 2024
Performance and Strategy for R&D in the Indian Chemical Industry 02 Jan 2024
Prediction of Controlled Amorphous and Crystalline Drug Release 02 Aug 2023
Risk-based layout of multi-level process plant 02 Aug 2023
Preventive Maintenance Scheduling using Markov Chain Analysis 24 Jul 2022
Supercritical Fluid-based Study of Molten Sulphur Penetration in Ceramic Materials 18 Jul 2022
On Assessing the Role of MSMEs in the Indian Chemical Industry 26 Jul 2021
Name of Faculty: Ateeque Malani
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Computational screening of Porous Materials for Adsorbed Natural Gas 04 Jan 2024
Microscopy-guided first-principles-based modeling of optical properties of carbonaceous aerosols 15 Jan 2021
Name of Faculty: Jason R. Picardo, Akkihebbal K Suresh
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Modeling dispersion of a gas pulse in a TAP reactor 03 Jan 2024
Name of Faculty: Akkihebbal K Suresh
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Precise kinetic characterization of CO2 reduction catalysts by Temporal Analysis of Products (TAP) technique. 02 Jan 2024
Carbon capture materials by flame synthesis 28 Dec 2021
Name of Faculty: Jyoti Seth
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Simulating the Rheology of Particulate Networks in Complex Fluids 02 Jan 2024
Name of Faculty: Sonali Das
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Catalyst and process development for Sustainable Plasma-catalytic Methane Valorization 01 Jan 2024
Catalyst development for sustainable conversion of CO2 to chemicals 31 Dec 2023
Name of Faculty: Jason R. Picardo
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Global dynamics of glaciers 01 Jan 2024
Liquid-liquid counter-current flow in microchannels 26 Jul 2023
Name of Faculty: Amol Subhedar
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Minimization of discrete errors in two-phase flow modeling with unequal densities 01 Jan 2024
Analysis of discrete Boltzmann equation 29 Jul 2023
No-slip boundary condition for moving boundary in two-phase flow 28 Jul 2023
Name of Faculty: Abhijit Majumder, Venkat Gundabala
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Cancer Tumours and CAF interactions 31 Dec 2023
Name of Faculty: Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
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A microfluidic device for deciphering bacterial motion in presence of nanoparticles for household water treatment systems 29 Dec 2023
Development of polymeric implant for nanoparticle mediated drug delivery in pancreatic cancer 29 Dec 2023
Chemical sensor development for water contaminants and technology for their removal 29 Dec 2023
Engineering nanoparticle size and shape: Multiscale modeling, simulation and applications 29 Dec 2023
An Autonomous Water Quality Monitoring System with Sensors, for Water Quality Parameters 28 Jul 2022
Modeling of a solar photocatalytic reactor using fluid flow and mass-energy conservation equations 01 Jan 2022
Developing population balance models of particle size distribution of polymers in a reactor 01 Jan 2022
Modeling adsorption and reaction of contaminants by nanoparticle impregnated polymeric fibers 31 Jul 2021
Name of Faculty: Mahesh S Tirumkudulu
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Controlled Drug Delivery: Experiments 23 Dec 2023
Coating Flows in Viscoelastic Fluids: Experiments 23 Dec 2023
Coating flows in Viscoelastic Fluids:Theory 23 Dec 2023
Name of Faculty: Pramod P Wangikar
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GCMS-based metabolomics studies. 07 Aug 2023
Plastic degrading bacteria. 07 Aug 2023
Metabolic modeling of Pre-Diabetes 30 Dec 2021
New biological insights by mapping of metabolomics data to metabolic pathways and by generating qualitative models 13 Jan 2021
Deep learning methods for metabolite identification from high resolution LC-MS data. 13 Jan 2021
Name of Faculty: Hemant Nanavati
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Data Refinement and Modeling of Elasticity of Solid Propellant Matrix 05 Aug 2023
Name of Faculty: Abhijit Majumder
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Development of a micorlfuidic chip to study cell migration 29 Jul 2023
Development of a multi-dimensional concentration gradient generator 31 Dec 2022
Developing Brain Tumor on Chip 31 Dec 2022
Replicative senescence in human mesenchymal stem cells. 26 Jul 2022
Name of Faculty: Jayesh Bellare
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UTM for soft solids 06 Jan 2023
In silico experiments on human bone remodeling to explore the effects of Romosozumab treatment for metabolic diseases 31 Jul 2021
Name of Faculty: Sarika Mehra
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Genome Scale Flux Balance Metabolic Models for recombinant CHO cells 04 Aug 2022
Name of Faculty: Rochish Madhukar Thaokar
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Understanding electroporation using simulations 25 Jul 2022
Effect of electric field on neurons 25 Dec 2021
Development of a quadrupolar trap for investigating ice formation and cloud electrification 15 Jan 2021
Name of Faculty: K V Venkatesh
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Modeling immune response in diabetic patients to evaluate effects of co-morbidity during covid infection 05 Jan 2022
Modeling the disease state of fibrosis 26 Jul 2021
Name of Faculty: Ravindra D Gudi
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Dynamics of Airborne SARS-CoV-2 (for only Joint Masters Program Students with WashU) 05 Jan 2022
Name of Faculty: Bharatkumar Suthar
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Modeling and simulation li-ion battery with Si/Graphite anode 30 Dec 2021
Modeling diffusion in li-ion battery active materials 30 Jul 2021
Li-ion Battery: Modeling impedance response 13 Jan 2021
Name of Faculty: Ganesh A Viswanathan
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Transition of spatiotemporal patterns in packed-bed reactors 27 Dec 2021
Decoding edges in state transition graphs 13 Jan 2021
Name of Faculty: Rochish Madhukar Thaokar, Y. S. Mayya
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Development of quadrupole and acoustic traps to levitate charged drops, rain drops, cough droplets and pollen to study their dynamics, instability and interaction with aerosols for environmental and health effects applications. (Wash U programme) 24 Dec 2021
Name of Faculty: Chandra Venkataraman
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Filter-based Correction Algorithm for Aerosol Optical Properties in Support of the COALESCE network 13 Jan 2021
Atmospheric chemistry of organic aerosols: Insights from aerosol mass spectrometry 13 Jan 2021