DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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Department Summary Department Summary
Name 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
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Department Summary Department Summary
Ongoing 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
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Mass Transfer Laboratory
VLE apparatus

• 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 Scheibes Extractor

Vapor Diffusivity
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Mechanical Operation Laboratory

• 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
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Heat Transfer Laboratory
Thermal Conductivity Measurement

• 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

Agitated Vessel
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Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Fluidized Bed Reactor

• Centrifugal Pump
• Bernoullis 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

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Environmental Engineering Laboratory
UV-VIS spectrophotometer

• Laminar Fume hood
• Low Temperature Cabinet
• BOD Incubator
• Rotary Shaker
• Centrifuge
• Autoclave
• Hot Air Oven
• Muffle Furnace
• UV Spectrophotometer
• Freezer
• Water Bath

Autoclave
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CRE Process Control Laboratory
Plug Flow Reactor

• 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

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Research and Project Laboratory

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

Fermentor
AAS
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Chemical Technology Laboratory

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

Muffle Furnace
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• Faculty
• Shiny Joseph, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, India
• Research Areas Energy and separation processes
• V.Sivasubramanian, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, Anna University,
  Madras, India
• Research Areas Fluidization Engineering,
  Biochemical and Environmental Engineering
• Lity Alen Varghese, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, Cochin University of
  Science Technology, Kochi, India
• Research Areas Polymer Technology
• K Aparna, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor

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• N Selvaraju, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, India
• Research Areas Microfluidics and Micro Reactors
  Computational Fluid Flow and  Heat transfer
• Malladi Pavan Kumar, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
• Research Areas Design, Modeling, Simulation and
  Control Adsorption (Reactive and Non-reactive)
• Smt S Bhuvaneshwari, M.Tech.
• Assistant Professor
• M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy
• Research Areas Bioseparation Technology
• Mr Vineeshravi, M.Tech.
• Assistant Professor

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Recent Publications
Year Journals Journals Conferences 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
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