2024 IEEE Flagship International BIT Conference
Chemical Engineering
Established in 1956, the Department of Chemical Engineering is one of the oldest Disciplines at BIT Sindri. It grew over the years and set very high standards for educating aspiring Chemical Engineers and Scholars. The department offers a four-year B.Tech degree course and a Postgraduate program for an M.Tech degree with a specialization in Chemical Plant Design in Engineering. The National Board Of Accreditation (NBA) has accredited the B.Tech program for the next two years in 2021. The department features highly qualified and experienced faculties dedicated to teaching and promoting Research and Development in basic and advanced areas. Since its establishment, a well-balanced curriculum of theory and practice and well-equipped laboratories, such as the Unit operations lab, process control lab, Petroleum refinery engineering lab, and Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics lab, have been its defining characteristics. Numerous contemporary instruments have been added to the laboratories to keep up with the rapidly evolving technologies.
The students graduating from the department are well-positioned in their fields in India and Abroad. Additionally, many students pursue higher education in India and foreign lands like Germany, Singapore, the USA, etc. Consequently, the Alumni network of the department is incredibly robust.
To create the environment in the department of Chemical Engineering for all round development of Chemical Engineering students so that they can compete in the global market.
- To impart quality technical education to UG and PG course in Chemical Engineering
- To activate and pursue research in thrust/emerging areas of technology in Chemical Engineering
- To provide consultancy services to Industries and entrepreneurs
- To create qualified human resources to cater the needs of sound national economy through developmental activities.
- To make the department a center of excellence for research and development in Chemical Engineering and related fields.
PEO1: Knowledge: To generate high quality human with fundamental knowledge resources in our core areas of chemical engineering competence and in the emerging fields of research, as well.
PEO2: Design Abilities: To make valuable contribution in technology with problem solving skills, laboratory skills, and design skills for technical careers in solving critical problems for social and economic development of the nation.
PEO3: Professional concern: To exert focused efforts to generate graduate students, competent for finding their place in the leading companies and work as an effective team member with communication and teamwork skills as well as an appreciation for ethical behavior necessary to thrive in their careers.
PEO4: Specialization aspects: Graduates of the program will be prepared to pursue career choices in chemical engineering, allied and interdisciplinary fields of industries and renowned educational institutes for pursuing higher education that benefit from a strong background in applied sciences or engineering.
PEO5: Self-Learning: Graduates will be practiced to persist their professional development through education and personal development established on their awareness of library resources and professional societies, workshops, industrial visits, expert talks, industry interactions, etc.
PSO1: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science and chemical engineering basics and to solve complicated problems, critical issues in chemical Engineering and to design equipments in core chemical and allied industries.
PSO2: Development of new process plant with study of basic requirements and feasibility studies with knowledge in instrumentation, process dynamics and control, process design perform modelling and simulation using modern chemical tools such as CHEMCAD, MATLAB and etc.
PSO3: Be prepared to work in Chemical Industries and able to identify the health, safety, legal, environmental and cultural issues and to excel in careers in the chemical, petroleum, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food, biotechnology, energy, materials processing or other related industries and organizations.
Dr. Amit Kumar Gupta List of Faculty Members | ||||
| Chemical Engineering | ||||
| SN | Name | Designation | Phone No | Email ID |
| 01. | Dr. Amit Kumar Gupta | HOD & Associate Professor | +91-9835785852 | |
| 02. | Dr. Amar Kumar | Assistant Professor | +91-9334281501 | |
| 03. | Dr. Ajay Oraon | Assistant Professor | +91-8579079171 | |
| 04. | Dr. Usha Kumari | Assistant Professor | +91-7060334072 | |
05. | Assistant Professor | +91 8146006288 | ||
06. | Assistant Professor | +91-7903382124 | [email protected] | |
07. | Assistant Professor | +91-9792072467 | ||
| 08. | Assistant Professor | +91-7992284162 | ||
| 09. | Dr. Ashok Kumar Baranwal | Assistant Professor | +91-9113751108 | [email protected] |
| 10. | Dr. Nirupama | Assistant Professor | +91 9771313741 | [email protected] |
| 11. | Mr. Pitho Hansda | Assistant Professor | +91-8986697152 | [email protected] |
| 12. | Dr. Ch. V Raghunath | Assistant Professor | +91-9177490481 | [email protected] |
13. | Ms. Devina Ratnam | Assistant Professor | +91-7069504767 | [email protected] |
| 14. | Ms. Poornima Pandey | Assistant Professor (Contract) | +91-8423640410 | [email protected] |
FLUIDISATION LAB–
Prof.-Incharge: Dr. Amar Kumar, Dr. Abhishek Anand Hembram
The lab deals with processes involving heat and mass transfer to or from the food material, achieved from fluidization. The college has an enormous no. of equipment such as the ultra sonicator with titanium probe, hot air cyclone separator, and fluidised bed.
LOCATION: Fluidisation engineering lab. ROOM NO. - MC 7; right side of the entrance to the Chemical Department.
CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY LAB–
Prof.-Incharge: Dr. Ajay Oraon, Dr. Usha Kumari, Mr. Pitho Hansda
The technology department produces industrial products from a series of chemical processes. During studies, the student will gain a reliable basic knowledge of general and inorganic, organic, physical, and analytical chemistry. Chemical technologies enrich our quality of life by providing new solutions to problems in health, materials, and energy usage problems.
LOCATION: Chemical Technology Lab. ROOM NO. - MC 11, left side to the entrance of the Chemical department.
CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING LAB-
Prof.-Incharge: Dr. Diwakar Pandey, Dr. Ch. V. Raghunath, Dr. Sunil Kumar Singh
In this laboratory course, students will perform experiments related to chemical reactions, chemical reaction kinetics, and basic operations of a chemical reactor. The aim is to train the students to combine the grip and awareness of reaction chemistry and chemical engineering for design or optimization purposes.
LOCATION: Chemical Reaction Engineering Lab. ROOM NO. - MC 11; left side to the entrance of the Chemical department.
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM LAB –
Prof.-Incharge: Dr. Diwakar Pandey
The lab aims to observe the effects of changes in concentrations of products and reactants on the position of the equilibrium of given chemical reactions.
LOCATION: Chemical Reaction Engineering Lab. ROOM NO. - MC 11; left side to the entrance of the Chemical department.
COMPUTER LAB-
Prof. Incharge: Dr. Amit Kumar Gupta, Dr. Ch. V Raghunath, Dr. Ashok Kumar Baranwal
The lab allows the students to learn and develop computational skills. It has a sufficient no. of computers to make the students learn about their curriculum.
LOCATION: Computer Lab. ROOM NO. - MC 29, on the first floor of the Chemical department.
INSTRUMENTATION LAB-
Prof. Incharge: Dr. Usha Kumari
Instrumentation Lab offers instruments, reagents, diagnostic products, blood gas systems, and more. Our lab contains a pressure control system, vertical drum, test skid, bimetallic hygrometer, hair type, and dead weight pressure gauge.
LOCATION: Instrumentation lab. ROOM NO. - MC 16; left side to the entrance of the Chemical department.
UNIT OPERATION (HTO/MTO/FPO) LAB -
Prof. Incharge: Mr. Pitho Hansda, Dr. Ch. V. Raghunath, Dr. Usha Kumari, Dr. Nirupma, Mrs. Devina Ratnam
The lab provides students with many industrially relevant learning opportunities. Chemical engineering students are equipped with personal protective equipment (PPE) to operate a liquid extraction unit. The lab follows proper process safety gear and practices. Students are well-equipped to learn the intricacies of chemical process units. The objective of the Unit Operations Laboratory is to allow students to get hands-on experience in chemical engineering while studying the fundamental principles.
The various equipment that the lab inculcates is a multistage distillation column, cooling tank, boiler oil fired, oil tank, feed tank, bod incubator, heat exchanger control system, single and triple effect evaporator, drill machine, jacketed kettle, composite wall apparatus, small cyclone separator, plate rolling machine, shell, and tube heat exchanger, hydraulic power hacksaw, hand milling machine, vibrating screen, bowl mill, rotary crusher, plate cutter machine, blake jaw crushers, grinder, shaker, globe disintegrator, ball mill, diffusion of liquid in the air, dorr thickener, mixer machine, double motion paddle mixer, plate bed lathe machine, wilfley table.
LOCATION: Unit Operations lab. ROOM NO. - MC 13, situated on the right side of the Chemical department.
THERMODYNAMICS/FLUID MECHANICS LAB –
Prof. Incharge - Dr. Ajay Oraon, Mr. Manish Kumar, Dr. Ch. V. Raghunath
The lab furnishes our Chemical engineering students with the study of "the conversion of energy into work and heat" and its relation to macroscopic variables such as temperature, volume, and pressure. The lab has equipment such as a refrigeration cycle test rig, centrifugal, thermal conductivity of metal rod, waste plastics to fuel oil, single-cylinder two-stroke engine, Calibration of orifice meter, and mechanical heat pump.
LOCATION: Thermodynamics Lab. ROOM NO. – MC 6, situated on the right side of the Chemical Department.
P.R.E. /E.O. LAB-
Prof. Incharge: Dr. Ch.V Raghunath MC -5
The types of equipment are loud and pourpoint hot air oven, flow control system – (level, temperature, pressure) and viscometer.
LOCATION: P.R.E./E.O. Lab. ROOM NO. – MC 6; situated on the right side of the Chemical Department.
Characterisation Lab:
Prof. Incharge: Dr. Ch. V. Raghunath, Dr. Nirupma,
The lab deals with characterisation of materials. Instruments available in this lab are FTIR-ATR, GC-TCD/FID, UV Visible Spectrophotometer-2 port/8port.
PDC Lab:-
Prof-Incharge: Dr. Sunil kumar Singh, Dr. Nirupma
This lab deals with UG test rigs of Temperature, Pressure, Flow and level control.
CATALYSIS Lab:-
Prof-Incharge: Dr. Ch. V. Raghunath, Dr. Ashok Kumar Barnwal
This lab deals with research equipements for catalysist preparation.
1) DR. AMIT KUMAR GUPTA
Assistant Professor
Research Area:
- Deformation of an oil droplet on solid substrate in shear flow.
- A systematic approach for optimal positioning of heated side walls in a side vented open cavity under natural convection and surface radiation.
- Coupled laminar natural convection surface radiation in partially right side open cavities
- Deformation and detachment of CCL4 droplet in the presence of different concentrations of surfactant
- Deformation and detachment of Crude oil droplet in the presence of different concentrations of surfactant.
- To study the effect of Ph in red mud for adsorption of arsenic and mathematical modeling.
2) DR. AMAR KUMAR
Assistant Professor
Research Area:
- Deformation and detachment of CCL4 droplet in the presence of different concentrations of surfactant
- Deformation and detachment of Crude oil droplet in the presence of different concentrations of surfactant.
3) DR. Usha Kumari
Assistant Professor
Research Area :
- A novel acid modified alumina adsorbent with enhanced defluoridation property: Kinetics, isotherm study and applicability on industrial wastewater,
- Effective defluoridation of industrial wastewater by using acid modified alumina in fixed-bed adsorption column: Experimental and breakthrough curves analysis
- Facile method to synthesize efficient adsorbent from alumina by nitric acid activation: Batch scale defluoridation, kinetics, isotherm studies and implementation on industrial wastewater treatment
- Calcium and zirconium modified acid activated alumina for adsorptive removal of fluoride: performance evaluation, kinetics, isotherm, characterization and industrial wastewater testing
- Defluoridation characteristics of modified ferroalloy electric arc furnace slag: Batch, column, isotherm, kinetic study and treatment of industrial wastewater
- Defluoridation of synthetic and industrial wastewater by using acidic activated alumina adsorbent: characterization and optimization by response surface methodology
- Batch and continuous closed circuit semi-fluidized bed operation: Removal of MB dye using sugarcane Bagasse Biochar Alginate Composite adsorbents
- Performance analysis of a double-chambered microbial fuel cell employing a low-cost sulfonated polystyrene proton exchange membrane
- A synergetic study of reaction kinetics and heat transfer with multi-component modeling approach for the pyrolysis of biomass waste
- Extensive thermogravimetric and thermo-kinetic study of waste motor oil based on iso-conversional methods
- In-depth physicochemical characterization of detailed thermo-kinetic study of biomass wastes to analyze its energy potential.
- A review of chemical leaching of coal by acid and alkali solution
- A comprehensive insight into devolatilization thermo-kinetics for an agricultural residue: Towards a cleaner and sustainable energy
- A comprehensive review of the pyrolysis of waste lubricating oil to generate high grade fuel oil.
- Hydrodynamic study and particulate matter removal in a self-priming venturing scrubber
- Utilizing agricultural residue for the cleaner bio-fuel production and simultaneous air pollution mitigation due to stubble burning: A net energy balance and total emission assessment
Achievements
- Winner (first runner-up) of an innovative research based competition titled Rural Drinking Water Hackathon, 2019, organized by IIT Kharagpur, and MHRD, India, in association with University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Certificate and cash prize awarded by deputy director (Dr. S.K. Bhattacharya) of IIT Kharagpur.
- Selected as Best Researcher by the website www.sciencefather.com for one of the research papers published in Elsevier.
- Awarded for securing School Top Rank in matriculation
4) Sunil Kumar Singh
Assistant Professor
Research Paper :
- Efficient microextraction process exploiting spontaneous interfacial convection driven by Marangoni and electric field induced instability: A computational fluid dynamics study
- Nanometer-Thick Superhydrophobic Coating Renders Cloth Mask Potentially Effective against Aerosol-Driven Infections
- Carbon dots and Methylene blue facilitated photometric quantification of Hemoglobin
- Chiral Resolution of Racemic Amines in µ-ReactorCrystallizer (under review)
- Noise Activated DNA Translocation in Gel Electrophoresis for Faster Resolution (under review).
5)Prof. (Ms.) Devina Ratnam
Assistant Professor
Research Area
- Nanotechnology (Synthesis of a Boron Based Nanosheet Through Ultrasonication)
6)Prof.Mahendra Ram
Assistant professor
Research area
- )Biomass Thermochemical Conversion
- )Water Treatment
International Journal
- ) Comparative study of native and impregnated coconut husk with pulp and paper industry waste water for fuel gas production.
- ) Pyrolysis of chemically treated corncob for biochar production and its application in Cr(VI) removal.
Achievement
- ) Awarded the “First Prize” in the group seminar presentation during BRNS-AEACI, SAC-12, held at BITS Pilani Goa campus during 15-22 Nov 2016.
7) Dr Ch V Raghunath
Assistant professor
Research Area
- )Air pollution control Multi-component absorption
- )Process development
International Journal
- ) New experimental results of simultaneous SO2 and NO removal from simulated gas stream by NaClO as low-cost absorbent.
- ) Solubility SO2 in aqueous blend of Sodium citrate and sodium hydroxide.
- ) Removal of SO2 and NO by complex absorbent using wet Scrubbing.
- ) Reactive absorption of NO and SO2 into aqueous NaClO in a counter current spray column.
- ) New experimental data for absorption of SO2 into DMA solution.
- ) Absorption phenomenon of (SO2 + NO + NaClO) system.
8) Professor (Ms).Poornima Pandey
Assistant professor:
Research area
- )Air pollution control
- )Catalytic Separation process
International Journal
- ) SO2 absorption in aqueous Sodium Perborate.
- ) Optimization of Fenton oxidation for the removal of methyl parathion in aqueous solution.
- ) Absorption of SO2 and NO through an integrative process with a cost-effective aqueous oxidant.
9) MR. MANISH KUMAR
Assistant professor
RESEARCH:
- Experimental study of friction factor during convective heat transfer in miniature double tube Hair-pin heat exchanger.
- Experimental convective heat transfer in miniature double tube Hair-pin heat exchanger.
- AREA OF INTEREST: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics etc.
10) DR. DIWAKAR PANDEY
Assistant professor
- RESEARCH:
- Diwakar Pandey and Monoj Kumar Mondal, Thermodynamic modeling and new experimental CO2 solubility into aqueous EAE and AEEA blend, heat of absorption, cyclic absorption capacity and desorption study for post-combustion CO2 capture, Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier Publication), (2021), 410, 128334. Impact factor: 13.273.
- Diwakar Pandey and Monoj Kumar Mondal, Experimental data and modeling for density and viscosity of carbon dioxide (CO2)-loaded and -unloaded aqueous blend of 2-(ethylamino) ethanol (EAE) and aminoethylethanolamine (AEEA) for post-combustion CO2 capture, Journal of Molecular Liquids (Elsevier Publication), (2021), 330, 115678. Impact factor: 6.165
- Diwakar Pandey and Monoj Kumar Mondal, Viscosity, density, and derived thermodynamic properties of aqueous 2-(ethylamino)ethanol (EAE), aqueous aminoethylethanolamine (AEEA), and its mixture for post-combustion CO2 capture, Journal of Molecular Liquids (Elsevier Publication), (2021), 332, 115873 . Impact factor: 6.165.
- Shweta Singh, Diwakar Pandey, and Monoj Kumar Mondal, New experimental data on equilibrium CO2 loading into aqueous 3-dimethylamino-1-propanol and 1,5-diamino-2- methylpentane blend: Empirical model and CO2 absorption enthalpy, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data (ACS Publication), (2021), ), 66, 740-748. Impact factor: 2.694.
- Diwakar Pandey and Monoj Kumar Mondal, Equilibrium CO2 solubility in the aqueous mixture of MAE and AEEA: Experimental study and development of modified thermodynamic model, Fluid Phase Equilibria (Elsevier Publication), (2020), 522, 112766. Impact factor: 2.775.
- Diwakar Pandey and Monoj Kumar Mondal, Experimental data and modeling for viscosity and refractive index of aqueous mixtures with 2-(methylamino)ethanol (MAE) and aminoethylethanolamine (AEEA), Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data (ACS Publication), (2019), 64, 3346-3355. Impact factor: 2.694.
- Achievement:
- Published 6 research papers in the Science Citation Index (SCI) journals of the Q1 quartile indexed.
- Qualified 8 times in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) with a very good score in the Chemical Engineering discipline.
11) DR. ABHISHEK ANAND HEMBROM
Assistant professor
- RESEARCH :
- Evaluation of the performance of water-only cyclone for fine coal beneficiation using the optimization process.
- Cleaning performance of high ash Indian coal fines < 3 mm using a Water Only Cyclone.
- Area of Specialization:
Coal and Mineral processing and its Beneficiation, Coal Preparation, Fluid-Particle interaction, Gravity Separation, Size Enlargement Processes, Fine particle operation, Fluidization Engineering, Water-only cyclone, Modelling and Optimization by BoxBehnken design- Response Surface Methodology (BBD-RSM), Iron ore pelletization.
12) DR. ASHOK BARNWAL
Assistant professor
- RESEARCH:
- Effect of Prandtl number on free convection from two cylinders in a square enclosure.
- Free convection in confined power-law fluids from two side - by - side cylinders in a square enclosure.
- Effect of Prandtl number on free convection in Newtonian and power - law fluids from a cylinder adjacent to an adiabatic wall.
- Effect of fluid yield stress on natural convection from horizontal cylinders in a square enclosure.
- Laminar forced convection in power law fluids from two heated horizontal cylinders in a square duct.
- Effect of fluid yield stress on free convection from an isothermal cylinder adjacent to an adiabatic wall.
- Laminar Free convection in power law fluids in a right angle triangular duct with heated base.
- Achievement:
- GATE RANK : 465
13) DR. NIRUPAMA
Assistant professor
- RESEARCH:
- Thermo-chemical potential of solid waste seed biomass obtained from plant Phoenix dactylifera and Aegle marmelos L. Fruit core cell.
- Cadmium removal from aqueous solution by jackfruit seed bio adsorbent.
- Thermal degradation of coir fiber reinforced low-density polyethylene (LDPE) composites.
- Hybridization effect of coir fiber on physico-mechanical properties of polyethylene banana/coir fiber hybrid composites.
- Banana Fiber Reinforced Low Density Polyethylene Composites: Effect of Chemical Treatment and Compatibilizer.
- Physico-mechanical properties of coir fiber/LDPE composites: Effect of chemical treatment and compatibilizer.
- ACHIEVEMENT:
- GATE RANK : 530