DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING


Dr. Raghuram Chetty

Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering Department
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai 600036. India

+91 44 22574178 Phone
+91 44 22574152 FAX



Research Interests

  • Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, Carbon nanotubes for electrocatalytic application
  • Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage (Fuel Cells and Batteries)
  • Electrochemical systems and engineering, Wastewater treatment

Academic Profile

  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (2004)
          Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
  • M.Sc. Chemistry (1998)
         PSG College of Arts and Science, (Bharathiar University) Coimbatore, India.
  • B.Sc. Chemistry (1996)
         Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, (Bharathiar University) Coimbatore, India

Previous Positions

  • Post Doctoral Research Associate (2007-2008)
          Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate (2005-2007)
         Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
  • Senior Research Scientist (2004 – 2005)
         NewChem Technologies Limited (Newcastle University Spin-Off Company) Durham, United Kingdom

Awards and Honors

  • Received Rudolph Messel travel bursary from Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), United Kingdom, October 2008.
  • Received Best Poster Award for the Poster Presented at the “Fuel Cells Science & Technology” Conference, Italy, September 2006.
  • Finalist in the Helena Biosciences Postgraduate Research Prize Competition, Newcastle University, UK (2002).
  • Received Swami Vivekananda Scholarship from Sri Ramakrishna Mission, Calcutta, India, 1996.

Postgraduate Supervision

   PhD/MS Students

  •  Mr. M. Kranthi Kumar
  •  Mr. Abhijnan Sarkar

   M.Tech Students

  •  Bhagath Kiran Chikkala
  •  Lakshman Naik
  •  Israel Yandava

Teaching

  • CH315 - Renewable Energy Sources

Selected Publications

R. Chetty, W. Xia, S. Kundu, M. Bron, T. Reinecke, W. Schuhmann, M. Muhler , Effect of reduction temperature on the preparation and characterisation of Pt-Ru nanoparticles on multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Langmuir, 25, 3853-3860, 2009

R. Chetty, S. Kundu, W. Xia, M. Bron, W. Schuhmann, V. Chirila, W. Brandl, T. Reinecke, M. Muhler, PtRu nanoparticles supported on nitrogen-doped multiwalled carbon nanotubes as catalyst for methanol electrooxidation, Electrochim. Acta, 54 (2009) 4208–4215.

R. Chetty, K. Scott, S. Kundu, M. Muhler, Optimisation of mesh based anodes for direct methanol fuel cells, J. Fuel Cell Sci. Technol., in-press, 2009

R. Chetty, K. Scott, Characterisation of thermally deposited platinum and palladium catalysts for direct formic acid fuel cells, J. New Mat. Electrochem. Sys., 10, 135-142, 2007

R. Chetty, K. Scott, Direct ethanol fuel cells with catalysed metal mesh anodes, Electrochim. Acta, 52, 4073-4081, 2007

R. Chetty, K. Scott, Catalysed titanium mesh electrodes for ethylene glycol fuel cells, J. Applied Electrochem, 37, 1077-1084, 2007

R. Chetty, K. Scott, Dimethoxymethane and trimethoxymethane as alternative fuels for fuel cells, J. Power Sources, 173, 166-171, 2007

R. Chetty, P.A. Christensen, B. T. Golding, K. Scott, Fundamental and Applied Studies on the Electrochemical Hydrodehalogenation of Halogenated Phenols in Aqueous Solutions at a Palladised Titanium Electrode, Appl. Catal A: General,(Special Issue on Dehalogenation), 27, 185-194, 2004

R. Chetty, P.A. Christensen, B.T. Golding, In Situ FTIR Studies on the Electrochemical Reduction of Halogenated Phenols, Chem Commun., (Featured as ‘Hot Paper’ in Chemical Communications), 984-986, 2003.

Recent Projects

Development of non-platinum cathode catalyst for direct methanol fuel cells sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) 2009-2010

Memberships

  • International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)
  • Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)
  • Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)