Areas of Interest: • Catalysis and Catalytic Materials • Reaction Engineering and Kinetic Modelling • Nanomaterial Synthesis and Applications • Porous Materials and Metal Oxides • Hydrocarbon Oxidations • Bitumen Allied Products • CO2 Utilization • CO2 Hydrogenation to Value Added Products • Process Plant Safety • Environment Remediation and Rejuvenation

Brief Profile: Dr. Ashish Unnarkat, is currently Heading the Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Energy Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He associated with PDEU for more than 8 years. He completed PhD from IITB-Monash Research Academy, a unique collaboration of IIT Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia and worked in Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Field. He holds a Master's Degree from BITS Pilani and Bachelor's Degree from Amravati University. Prior to PhD, he worked for couple of years with Vedanta Resources, as Process Engineer with Hindustan Zinc Limited at Dariba in Rajasthan and HSE Engineer with Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu. He has over 15 years of Industrial, Research and Teaching experience. He has been awarded a research grant from GUJCOST for ~24 Lakhs for working on novel nanomaterials for improvement in the properties of bitumen. He is also working with the CO2 utilization project with L&T Technology Services with a grant of ~50 Lakhs. He has published more than 20+ research articles and 7+ book chapters in international journals of high repute and been part of numerous conferences. He has been associated to different professional bodies; Institution of Engineers India (IoE) Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) and American Chemical Society (ACS). He has 02 students for PhD under him (ongoing), 10 MTech, and about 40 B.Tech students. He is reviewer for variety of international journals from Elsevier and Springer.

Areas of Interest: Dr. Manish Kumar Sinha has interest in synthesis and characterization of functional material and their application for the modification of polymeric membranes for water purification. He is also working in the field of membrane gas separation, lignin based hydrogels for water treatment, MEUF for heavy metal separation.

Brief Profile: Dr. Manish kumar Sinha has done his B.E. in Chemical Engineering form Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Pune. Afterwards, he joined M.Tech program in Petroleum Refinery Engineering at India Institute of Technology, Guwahati in 2009. He received PhD degree in 2015 from Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati. His PhD thesis title was "Preparation and Characterization of Fouling Resistant Ultra Filtration Membrane". He has published several research papers in reputed journals like Journal of Membrane Science (Elsevier), Desalination (Elsevier), RSC Advances ( Royal Society of Chemistry) etc. In 2009 and 2011, he was awarded with MHRD Govt. of India scholarship for perusing M.Tech and PhD respectively.

Areas of Interest: Fluid Mechanics, Energy and Environment, Biofuels, Waste water treatment, process optimization, Nano materials for structural applications, Polymer nanocomposites, Sustainable Engineering

Brief Profile: Dr. Pravin Kodgire is currently serving in the department of Chemical Engineering at Pandit Deendayal Energy University. After completing Ph D from IIT Bombay, Dr Kodgire worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Colorado School of Mines, Colorado, USA prior joining as a former head of department of Chemical Engineering at PDEU (formerly PDPU). He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience. He has taught various chemical engineering and environmental engineering courses at UG and PG level students with a focus on out come based education. His research focus areas are bio-fuels and bio-energy, energy and environment, structure property relationship of polymer nano-composites and blends, waste water treatment for providing clean and green technological options. Dr Kodgire has published a very good number of research articles in high impact factor peer reviewed international journal publishing houses as well as filed process/product patents and industrial design. Currently, he is supervising 4 doctoral students and guided more than 22 PG students for master's dissertation and two students thesis has been already submitted. Dr Kodgire is founder member of Center for Bio-fuel and Bio-energy Studies at PDEU. Dr Kodgire is carrying out various research projects funded by various funding agencies where the fundamentals and application of chemical and energy engineering are focused.

Areas of Interest: Energy and Environment; Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU): Process Modeling and Simulation: Aspen and Hysis. Process Intensification in CO2 absorption, energy analysis, Pinch Technology, Industrial implementation, and pilot plant data validation using Aspen Plus®. Modeling and simulation using Aspen Plus®. Gas Processing. Global warming and Climate Change. Student Research Projects. Doctoral Research work Subject teaching 1. Carbon Sequestration and Clean Development Mechanism, M.Tech Chemical Engineering and M.tech Environmental Engineering 2. Computer-Aided Process Design- Aspen Tech 3. Chemical Reaction Engineering I and II 4. Computer-Aided Process Engineering 5. Process Simulation (Aspen and Hysis) 6. Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics -2 National Projects; 1. India-CO2: Integrated Design, Development of Process Intensified and Cost-effective CO2 capture 2. Collaborative project with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) 3. Collaborative Project with L&T Technology Services Ltd. (LTTS) International Projects: 1. Collaborative project with Carbon Clean Ltd, London, United Kingdom. 2. Collaborative project with Susteon Inc, North Carolina, United States, 3. Other collaborative projects

Brief Profile: Dr. Sukanta Dash has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Chemical Engineering, PDEU since 2013. Dr. Dash has 22 years of experience in teaching (UG, PG, Ph.D.), R&D; Industrial Consultancy; and Institute collaborations. Sukanta Dash has done M.Tech from NIT Rourkela, PhD from IIT Kharagpur. He has about 40 credible publications on CO2 Capture and Utilization. Energy and environment. Modeling, and simulation. Aspen/Hysis, etc. He has presented about 40 research works at various National and International conferences delivered guest lectures, and received several professional awards. He has supervised 3 PhDs and another 3 PhDs are in progress. He has several R&D projects from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India under Mission Innovation challenges on CO2 capture. He is at present a consultant to Carbon Clean Limited, London, United Kingdom. He has several International Collaborations such as with Monash University and the University of Sheffield, IIT Bombay. Dr. Dash also worked as a process adviser consultant to Arus GasTechnologies LLP, Ahmedabad on the LNG project. Worked as a Sr. project Manager with NTPC project at IIT Bombay. He has Collaboration with Susteon Inc, North Carolina USA, Bharat Petroleum Corporation, and many other industries. He is a fellow member of professional bodies: IIChE, IE(I), ISTE, CBEES, etc. He is the Guest Editor and Reviewer of several reputed International journals. He is appointed as a sectoral Exerty committee member in Carbon Capture and Utilization/Bioenergy by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Dept. of Biotechnology. Govt of India.

Areas of Interest: CO2 separations and Utilization, Deep Eutectic Solvents, Ionic Liquids, Separation Process, Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials, Wastewater Treatments

Brief Profile: Dr. Swapnil Dharaskar is currently working as Associate Professor & Dean-Placement, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Energy Technology at Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He has around 12 years of teaching and research experience. He worked as SERB-overseas postdoctoral researcher, Department of Green Chemistry, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. He invited as "Visiting Research Scientist" at Department of Green Chemistry (LUT) Finland. He handled DST sponsored project on CO2 separation under Mission-Innovation Carbon capture scheme as PI. He has published more than 90 research papers in international repute journals. He has attended 75 International and 60 National conferences. He has guided 09 PhD (3 Awarded and 6 ongoing), 25 MTech, and more than 80 B.Tech students. He is the fellow member of various professional bodies like IIChE, AIChE, Indian Water Association, Catalysis Society of India, American Chemical Society, Indian Engineers Institution (IEI), Indian Society of Technical Educaton (ISTE), IAENG, ISRD, International Association of Nanotechnology etc. He is active reviewer of several high repute international SCI/SCIE journals. He has the recipient of several professional and research excellence awards.

Areas of Interest: Study of Foam and Emulsion Stability, Study of Inter-particle interactions, and, Colloid and interface science in general. Interested in both - Theoretical and Experimental studies.

Brief Profile: Dr. Abhishek is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering department of Pandit Deendayal Energy University. He received his PhD from IIT Bombay in 2019. He completed his Bachelor's (B.Tech) from HBTI Kanpur in 2011 and MTech from IIT Bombay in 2019.

Areas of Interest: Synthesis and characterization of flat sheet antifouling ultrafiltration polymeric membrane by phase inversion method with suitable additives and their application in waste water treatment. Waste water treatment using adsorption technology.

Brief Profile: Dr. Bharti Saini is currently working as Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering Department, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University Gujarat since June, 2013. She has done PhD in the area of "Synthesis and characterization of membranes". She has received M.Tech degree from IIT Roorkee wih specialization in Environmental Engineering and B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering with First Division Honours from IET Lucknow, UP. She has published 18 research papers in International Journals and presented 12 papers in International Conferences. She has around 10 years of academic experience. She has guided 35 B.Tech and 04 M.Tech students.

Areas of Interest: Computational and experimental fluid mechanics, Hydrodynamics of non-Newtonian fluid-particle systems, Rheology of complex fluids, Particle dynamics in multiphase flows, Biomass and Bioenergy

Brief Profile: Dr. Garima Mishra obtained a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the University Institute of Engineering and Technology, CSJM University, Kanpur in 2012. Thereafter, she was selected for the award of CSIR-Trainee Scientist position at CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum. She completed her M.Tech. in Advanced Petroleum Science and Technology from CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun in 2014. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2019. Her research interests include computational and experimental fluid mechanics, hydrodynamics of fluid-particle systems, biological fluid dynamics and efficient utilization of bioenergy.

Areas of Interest: Biofuels, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Heat Transfer & Heat Exchanger Design

Brief Profile: Life Member of ISTE, IE, IIChE, BRSI, ISHMT, RSC. Certified Chartered Engineer from IE, India. Worked as Faculty Member for two years at Reliance Industries Ltd., Jamnagar in their "Extended Learning In-House Training Program" for upliftment of employees. Industrial experience of more than 3 years in different industries like Indian Rayon, Tata Chemicals,Petrofils cooperative Ltd. Worked as "Environment Audit" team member at V.V.P. Engineering College, Rajkot. Worked as Member of BoS at Saurashtra University as well as Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University. Editorial Board Member of five reputed journals.

Areas of Interest: Geothermal Exploration and Exploitation, Renewable Energy Sector, Geochemistry and Hydrochemistry and Water quality, Artificial Intelligence

Brief Profile: Dr. Manan Shah joined Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University in June, 2015 as a Lecturer in the School of Petroleum Technology. He is currently working in Centre of Excellence for Geothermal Energy, Gandhinagar as a Reserach Scientist. He has done his Bachelor in chemical Engineering from L.D college of Engineering and did his M.tech in Petroleum Engineering from Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University.

Areas of Interest: 1. Process Intensification of energy intensive process 2. Modeling and optimization: It includes the development of mathematical model of a process and subsequently, the estimate of design parameters using optimization techniques, such as genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, etc. 3. Process Control: Development of improved control strategy of a process 4. Reaction Engineering: A development of a kinetic model for the the synthesis of chemical compound, and reactor design The abovementioned research areas is accomplished by developing a code in MATLAB environment and using ASPEN PLUS Technology. To View the Publication Details Visit the Following link: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=JEMwtsUAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Md-Aurangzeb

Brief Profile: (1). INTRODUCTION: MD Aurangzeb is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, India, since 2020. He has completed PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has completed M.Tech and B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and National Institute of Technology Srinagar, respectively. (2). RESEARCH AREAS: Process Intensification, Modeling and Optimization, Process Control, Reaction Engineering (3). TEACHING: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Plant Design and Process Economics, Computer Aided Process Design, Process Instrumentation and Control, Chemical Technology

Areas of Interest: Green Hydrogen, Solar Water Splitting, Photo-electrochemical Engineering, Solar Environmental Technologies, Nanotechnological Solutions for Solar H2 Generation, Solar Water Decontamination

Brief Profile: Ravi Tejasvi has joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in July 2020. He has a Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi based on his work on "Fabrication of TiO2 and C3N4 based Thin Film Electrodes for Solar Water Splitting". He obtained his B.Tech. Degree in Chemical Engineering (2008) from UP Technical University and M.Tech. in Environmental Engineering (2013) from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He has published original research articles in several international reputed journals. He has won the Best Paper Presentation award in the Young Scientist category in the 1st India International Science Festival (2015) organized by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is also an Erasmus+ fellowship awardee.

Areas of Interest: Rheology, Electro-rheology, Soft matter, Colloids, Liquid crystals, Lignin valorization, Biofuels and Microstructural analysis (SAXS/SANS).

Brief Profile: Dr. Saket Kumar is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU), Gandhinagar, India. Prior to joining PDEU, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark from January 2021 to September 2022. Dr. Saket completed his doctoral studies from Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar and master's in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He was a visiting scholar in Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark, and also visited National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland, USA to perform small angle neutron scattering experiments (SANS) during his PhD program on overseas exposure fellowship funded by IITGN. Dr. Saket's doctoral research work mainly focused on systematically understanding the role of particle loading, shape, surface chemistry, applied preshear, and external electric field in dictating the rheology and microstructure of particulate suspensions in isotropic silicone oil and anisotropic liquid crystal medium. He has published several papers in international peer reviewed journals and has presented his work in several prestigious international conferences such as CompFlu, Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC), Sorrento, Italy and Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on lignin, Boston, USA.

Areas of Interest: Multiscale simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Microfluidics, Electrokinetics, Biosensors and POCT devices, Micro/-nano motors.

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Areas of Interest: Wastewater treatment, Experimental and computational fluid dynamics, electrohydrodynamics, soft matter

Brief Profile: Subhankar's research interest is primarily understanding drop behaviour under electric field. More specifically he works on electrocoalescence which is the preferred method for separating water from oil (desalting) in crude industry. Investigations in droplet interactions, numerically, experimentally and analytically are carried out to explain counter-intuitive anomalous phenomena effectively improving desalting process. His doctoral work was from IIT Bombay (direct PhD) after graduating from Heritage Institute of Technology with B.Tech in Chemical Engineering.

Areas of Interest: Membrane Gas Separations, Membrane liquid separation, nano-materials, Optimization

Brief Profile: Membrane based gas separations is one of the fastest growing unit operations in industrial sectors. We focus on separation of green house gas like Carbon dioxide along with constructive modelling approaches. We have also group of eminent members focusing on production of Bio-Diesel from edible and non edible oil. We synthesize and study the Oxidizing and hydrogenation catalytic aspects with new generation nano catalysts called Metal Organic Frame Works (MOFs)