Department SummaryName of the Programmes Offered

UG & PhD

No of Faculty Members

09

Areas of specialization

Fluidization Engineering, Hydrodynamics, Mass Transfer, Biochemical Engineering,

Environmental Engineering, Polymer technology, Energy Engineering, Design,

Modeling, Simulation and Control, Heat Transfer and Microwave heating, Bio-fuels,

Bio-separation Technology and Modeling on air quality control

Department SummaryOngoing PhD (as on winter sem 2011-12) 11

Number of ongoing sponsored research 1

Value of the ongoing projects 17 lakhs

Number of ongoing FRG project 5

Number of conference/Workshops conducted

3

Number of FDP program conducted 2

Vapor Liquid Equilibrium Wetted Wall Column Tray drier Rotary drier Cooling tower Steam distillation Simple distillation Bubble cap distillation

column Sieve type distillation column Vapor diffusion Packed bed column York Scheibe’s Extractor

VLE apparatus

Vapor Diffusivity

Roll crusher Plate and frame filter

press Pulverizer Ball mill Jaw crusher Air elutriator Hammer mill Leaf filter Rotary vacuum filter Ribbon mixer Rotary drum drier Cyclone separator

Pulverizer

Heat pipe Composite wall apparatus Agitated vessel Pin-fin apparatus Double pipe heat exchanger Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Natural convection apparatus Forced Convection Apparatus Open Pan Evaporator Thermal Conductivity

Measurement Plate heat exchanger Stefan Boltzmann apparatus Fluidized bed heat transfer unit

Thermal Conductivity Measurement

Agitated Vessel

Centrifugal Pump Bernoulli’s Apparatus Reynolds Apparatus Pitot Tube Loss due to Pipe Fittings Friction loss in 3’ and 4.5’ pipe Orifice and Venturi-meter Packed Bed apparatus Fluidized Bed apparatus Drag Coefficient Flow through Orifice & Mouthpiece Flow through Notches & Weirs

Fluidized Bed Reactor

Laminar Fume hood Low Temperature

Cabinet BOD Incubator Rotary Shaker Centrifuge Autoclave Hot Air Oven Muffle Furnace UV Spectrophotometer Freezer Water Bath

UV-VIS spectrophotometer

Autoclave

Isothermal batch reactor Isothermal semi batch reactor Pressure control trainer U-tube manometer RTD of packed bed reactor Plug flow reactor Continuous stirred tank reactor Interacting & non-interacting

tank Temperature control trainer Flow control trainer Calibration of thermocouple

and thermometer

Plug Flow Reactor

Orbital shaker cum Incubator Laminar flow chamber Autoclave Atomic Absorption spectroscopy Fluidized bed reactor

AAS Fermentor

Muffle furnace Hot oven Electronic balance Saybolt apparatus Redwood viscometer Distillation apparatus Smoke point

apparatus

Muffle Furnace

Faculty

Shiny Joseph, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorPh. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, IndiaResearch Areas: Energy and separation processes

V.Sivasubramanian, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorPh. D. Chemical Engineering, Anna University, Madras, IndiaResearch Areas: Fluidization Engineering, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering

Lity Alen Varghese, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorPh. D. Chemical Engineering, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi, IndiaResearch Areas: Polymer Technology

K Aparna, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorPh. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, IndiaResearch Areas: Heat Transfer and Microwave heating

N Selvaraju, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorPh. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, IndiaResearch Areas: Microfluidics and Micro Reactors & Computational Fluid Flow and  Heat transfer

Malladi Pavan Kumar, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorPh. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, IndiaResearch Areas: Design, Modeling, Simulation and Control & Adsorption (Reactive and Non-reactive)

Smt S Bhuvaneshwari, M.Tech.Assistant ProfessorM.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy Research Areas: Bioseparation Technology

Mr Vineeshravi, M.Tech.Assistant ProfessorM.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy Research Areas: Fuel cell Technology

Mr K Haribabu, M.Tech.Assistant ProfessorM.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, Annamalai University, Tamilnadu Research Areas: Fluidization Engineering

Year Journals Conferences

International National International National

2011 - 12 4 1 7 3

2010 - 11 2 1 6 3

2009 - 10 1 - - 5

2008 - 09 1 - 3 -

2007 - 08 - - 3 1