Achievements:
- First person to join the Department of Chemical Engineering, and was instrumental in Designing and commissioning of equipments in most of the Laboratories.
- As Group Director of the Foundation for clean Energy and Environment responsible for the operation and maintenance of the 100KWe Biomass gasifier plant of R V College of Engineering.
- Guided more than 50 Undergraduate Projects leading to B.E Chemical Engineering and 2 Post graduate students and 1 PhD Student.
- As a Principal Coordinator RVCE-TIFAC-Hydrogen Economy Technology Program, worked on various project related to Hydrogen production and gas separation in collaboration with BHEL
- Undertaken various funded projects.
List of Publications:
Papers Published in National and International Journals:
- “Various factors related to the development of bio-energy in the power sector”, International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Applications in Engineering,Technologies and Sciences (IJ-ETA-ETS).
- Heat transfer studies on Glass Epoxy Composite Laminates-Effects of Heating rate and fiber fraction, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites,Vol.25, No.13/2006.
- Cyclone reactor-A Novel Method for hydrazine Synthesis, Institute of Engineers ( I ) journal-CH, Vol 56,September 2005.
- A Sedimentation Study to Optimize the Dispersion of Nano-Alumina Particles in water CERAMICA, Vol 51 (2005) 121-127, Brazilian Journal of Ceramics.
- Permeability and filtration studies of ceramic filters and membrane,Porocer-2008, International workshop on Porous Ceramics,Central Power Research Institute,8-11 January 2008.
- A Novel Method for Hydrazine Synthesis, National conference on Novel products and processes in chemical engineering and biotechnology, St.Joseph’s college of Engineering Chennai, Jan 2005.
International and National Conference:
- Studies on Extraction of Honge Oil from Pomgammia Pinnota to produce Bio-diesel, National Conference on Development cum Environment Friendly Future Industrial Fuels, Centre for Energy Studies, Kumara guru College of Technology, Coimbatore, May 2005.
- Preparation and Characterization of Polymer Composites Developed using Plant Fibers, National Conference on Recent Trends in Polymer Science and Technology, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, May 2005.
- Membrane Candidate for Fuel Cell, National Conference on Recent Trends in Polymer Science and Technology, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, May 2005.
- Hetero structured ZN/Cubic (ZN/MG)O nanorod based biosensor for E.coli detection, National conference on Emerging Trends in Bio-medical Signal Processing,ETBMSP-08,26th April 2008.
Projects:
- Synthesis of Hydrazine using cyclone reactor ( Completed),AICTE, New Delhi,Rs. 9,00,000/-.
- Development of Bio-fibre reinforced Sandwich structures (On-going),Ministry of Environment and Forests, Rs. 9,85,000/-.
- Permeability and filtration studies on ceramic filters (ongoing),BHEL, CTI, Bangalore,
Rs.8,50,000/-.
- Fabrication and characterization of fiber metal laminates for gun barrel application using filament winding method Armament Research Board, DRDO,New Delhi,Rs 10,00,000/-.
- Design and synthesis of metal based sensitizers for nanocrystaline TiO2 Solar Cells Naval Research Board,DRDO, New Delhi,Rs. 10,00,000/-.
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