The faculty of the department of chemical engineering are actively involved in research. The research work is at both a fundamental level as well as at the applied level. In the former we seek answers to questions to generate information that enables us to understand fundamentally various aspects of a problem. In the latter we try to solve problems of immediate and social relevance.
Financial support for the research programmes of a fundamental nature is obtained from sponsoring agencies like Department of Science and Technology, Department of Atomic Energy, Ministry of Human Resources and Development. Projects of an applied nature are funded by industries in India. Here we work on problems of interest and importance to the sponsoring industry. These projects are carried out either in a purely industrial consultancy mode when the work involves routine application or development . It is carried out in a research based industrial consultancy mode when there is a component of the project where some fundamental research is involved where new information has to be generated which is not available in the literature. International collaborations with institutes like the Max Planck Institute and other Universities has also resulted in financial support for projects involving fundamental research.
Investigation Of Flow Of Polymers Through A Bed Of Fibers
Collaboration with Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras
Exploration Of The Usage Of Bamboo As A Reinforcement For Natural Composites
Collaboration with Department of Applied Mechanics and Composites Technology Center,IIT Madras
Funded by Department of Science and Technology
Rheological Behaviour Of Asphalt And Polymer Modified Asphalt
Collaboration with Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering, IIT Madras
Simulation of non linear behavior of coupled reactor separator networks.
Sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover Germany.
Neural Network Model Based Control
Developed in coordination with Envision Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd, Madras, India
Batch Process Scheduling
Developed in coordination with Engineers India Ltd., R&D Centre, Haryana, India.
Universal Viscometric Functions for a Dilute Solution of Polymers in a Good Solvent
Funded by Department of Science and Technology
Influence of Sea Waves Induced Oscillations on the Forced Convective Heat Transfer in a Barge Mounted Heat Exchanger
Sponsored by Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
Boiling and Two-Phase Flow Studies of Cryogenic Fluids.
Sponsored by Government of India, Department of Space through Indian Space Research Organisation
Bioprocess Development for Production of Recombinant Strptokinase from E.coli
Sponsored by MHRD,India
Molecular Dynamics of Lipases in Aqueous and Non-Aqueous Solvents to Understand Stereo-selectivity,
In collaboration with Centre for Biotechnology, Anna university
Sponsored by Dept. of Science and Technology.
Strengthening of Infrastructural Facilities for Downstream Processing of Fermentation Products
In collaboration with Centre for Biotechnology, Anna university
Sponsored by AICTE under the MODROBS programme.
Development of Aqueous Two-Phase Affinity Extraction Processes for Purification Recombinant Proteins,
In collaboration with Centre for Biotechnology, Anna university
Sponsored by University Grants Commission.
Process Development for Large-Scale Production and Purification of Human Streptokinase from Recombinant E.Coli
Sponsored by Shantha Biotechnics Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad
Fine particles monitoring and control of VOC's in Chennai city
Sponsored by Swedish International Development Agency.
Object Oriented Design of Multicomponent Distillation Processes
Funded by AICTE India
Development of Design Methodology for Reactive Distillation Processes
Funded by MHRD India
Verification of Multiple Steady states in Azeotropic Distillation Processes
Funded by MHRD India