Department Summary
Name of the
Programmes Offered
No of Faculty Members
Areas of specialization
UG & PhD
09
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 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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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
 Pulverizer
 Ball mill
 Jaw crusher
 Air elutriator
 Hammer mill
 Leaf filter
 Rotary vacuum filter
 Ribbon mixer
 Rotary drum drier
 Cyclone separator
Pulverizer
press
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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
Agitated Vessel
Thermal Conductivity
Measurement
Plate heat exchanger
Stefan Boltzmann apparatus
Fluidized bed heat transfer unit
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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
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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
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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
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Muffle furnace
Hot oven
Electronic balance
Saybolt apparatus
Redwood viscometer
Distillation apparatus
Smoke point apparatus
Muffle Furnace
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
Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, India
Research Areas: Heat Transfer and Microwave heating
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
M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy
Research Areas: Fuel cell Technology
Mr K Haribabu, M.Tech.
Assistant Professor
M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, Annamalai University, Tamilnadu
Research Areas: Fluidization Engineering
Year
Journals
International
Conferences
National
International
National
2011 - 12
4
1
7
3
2010 - 11
2
1
6
3
2009 - 10
1
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5
2008 - 09
1
-
3
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2007 - 08
-
-
3
1