2. 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

3. 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

4.  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

5.  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

6.  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

7.  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

8.  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

9.  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

10.  Orbital shaker cum Incubator  Laminar flow chamber  Autoclave  Atomic Absorption spectroscopy  Fluidized bed reactor AAS Fermentor

11.  Muffle furnace  Hot oven  Electronic balance  Saybolt apparatus  Redwood viscometer  Distillation apparatus  Smoke point apparatus Muffle Furnace

12. 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

13. 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

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