▌ Dr. Kannan A
NEWS
- The Adsorption Research Team (ART) congratulates its former members * Dr. Debashish Panda and Dr. Bharathi Ganesan for joining NIT Calicut as faculty members................
- ART also congratulates * Mr. B. Hariharan for winning the Smt. DL Saraswathi Memorial Prize for the Best Project in Environmental Engineering............
- ART also congratulates Hari Desai for winning the best paper award in the International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remediation held in London, UK, during August 9-11, 2023. ................................
- ART congratulates Rajesh Choudhary for getting placement as Research Engineer in Water R&D Labs of Toray Industries India Private Limited (a Japanese multinational Company).....................

Professor
CHL205A
kannan@iitm.ac.in
+91 44 22574170
Research Areas
Mathematical modeling, simulation and optimization of chemical processes
Patent
Complete Indian patent application (No. 202341055300) titled ““PROCESS FOR PREPARING ACTIVATED CARBON FROM PROSOPIS JULIFLORA THORNBUSH PLANT AND APPLICATION OF THE ACTIVATED CARBON THEREOF” filed at the IPO on August 17, 2023. Inventors: Rajesh Chaudhary, T. Renganathan and Kannan A.
Dr. Kannan A, R. Bharathi Ganesan,(2022) “ACID MODIFIED AND MICROWAVE IRRADIATED ENHANCED ADSORBENT OPTIMIZED FOR REMOVAL OF MULTICOMPONENT ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FROM AQUEOUS STREAMS USING MIXTURE DESIGN”.(India, Patent No.:412625, patent granted)
Publication
2023 |
Adsorption of Organic Dye On Pillared Clays.. ICEPR, 138 , pp. 1-7, 2023. | :
DFT studies on exposure of sulfur impregnated and sulfur functionalized activated carbon to Hg0 vapors. Journal of Sulfur Chemistry, 2023. | :
Low-pressure adsorption of hydrogen isotopologues on LTA4A zeolites - A grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation study. Fusion Engineering and Design (2023), 2023. | :
Sustainable and rapid pillared clay synthesis with applications in removal of anionic and cationic dyes. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials Available online 9 February 2023, 112488, 2023. | :
Sustainable synthesis of green adsorbent pellets with optimal attributes of capacity, strength, and cost from powdered activated carbon. Powder Technology, 427 , 2023, ISSN: 00325910. | :
Effect of Acid Treatment and Carbonization on Adsorption of 4-Nitrophenol Using Activated Carbon Obtained From Prosopis juliflora: Optimization, Isotherm, and Thermodynamic Studies. Proceedings of ICEESEN-2022, 1-3 September 2022, Kayseri Turkiye, page no. 99-106, ISBN: 78-625-00-9020-6., 2023. | :
2022 |
From wild thornbush to high-performance activated carbon using a novel integrated furnace–microwave activation. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (2022), 2022. | :
Book chapter
- Saif, U M., and Kannan, A., Chapter 6 – Metal Organic Framework Adsorbents for the Removal of Emerging Pollutants and their Adsorption Mechanisms, Editors: Mohammad Hadi Dehghani, Rama Rao Kharri, Inderjeet Tyagi, Sustainable Remediation Technologies for Emerging Pollutants in Aqueous Environment. Elsevier 2024, Pages 111-136, Massachusetts. ISBN: 9780443186189
- Kannan Aravamudan, Chapter 8 – Soft Computing Optimization Algorithms and Their Application in Parameter Estimation of a Rigorous Adsorption Kinetics Model, Editor(s): Rama Rao Karri, Gobinath Ravindran, Mohammad Hadi Dehghani, Soft Computing Techniques in Solid Waste and Wastewater Management, Elsevier, 2021, Pages 145-169, ISBN 9780128244630, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824463-0.00003-3.
- Hari, D., Kannan, A.. Synthesis of Pillared Clay Adsorbents and Their Applications in Treatment of Dye Containing Wastewater. In: Khadir, A., Muthu, S.S. (eds) Polymer Technology in Dye-containing Wastewater. Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry. Springer 2022, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1516-1_6