▌Project Positions
Title : Computer simulations of a crystallising polymer for making sustainable materials
Co-ordinator : Sumesh P Thampi (website to be hyperlinked)
Duration :1 year (renewable upto 3 years depending upon the performance)
Description of work: The project involves computer simulations of heat transfer/mass transfer in a crystallising polymer. The intended application is for making sustainable materials. The work will, primarily involve development of computer simulations to explain the experimental results.
Required qualifications: Batchelors/Masters degree in sciences or engineering with an aptitude for programming. Applicants from related backgrounds may also apply.
Application procedure: Interested applicants with the required qualifications can send an email with (i) a covering letter and (ii) a detailed resume to sumesh@iitm.ac.in
Research area: CO2 capture by amine solvents
Co-ordinators: Swapna Singha Rabha
Duration: 6 months (renewable up to 3 years depending upon the performance)
Description of work: Experimental investigations of absorption and desorption behaviour of a blended solvent for CO2 capture process.
Required qualifications: Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering or MSc in Chemistry
Application procedure: Interested applicants with the required qualifications can send an email with (i) a covering letter and (ii) a detailed resume to Dr. Swapna Singha Rabha (srabha@smail.iitm.ac.in).
Last date for applying: 15.07.2023
Title : Computer simulations of microrobots for drug delivery
Co-ordinator : Sumesh P Thampi
Duration :1 year (renewable upto 3 years depending upon the performance)
Description of work: The project involves computer simulations of drug carrying microrobots. The intended application is for cancer treatment. The work will, primarily involve using lattice Boltzmann method to perform computational fluid dynamics simulations.
Required qualifications: Batchelors/Masters degree in sciences or engineering with an aptitude for programming. Applicants from related backgrounds may also apply.
Application procedure: Interested applicants with the required qualifications can send an email with (i) a covering letter and (ii) a detailed resume to sumesh@iitm.ac.in
▌ Applications are invited for the temporary post of Project Associate, Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras.
Duration: For a period of 6 Months, later extendable on performance.
| Post | Qualification and Experience | Pay | |
| Project Associate | Minimum Qualifications: B.Tech/BE (Chemical
Engineering) or MSc (Chemistry) with an aggregate 65% marks or CGPA of 7 and above. |
31,000/-PM | |
| Desirable qualification: Prior experience in | |||
| catalyst/materials synthesis and characterization/handling of analytical/spectroscopic instruments/catalytic reactor experiments would be an added advantage. |
Project Description: The overall objective of the project is to simultaneously optimize the catalyst surface structure and the reaction conditions for optimum yield of alkenes during oxidative dehydrogenation of light alkanes using CO2 as a mild oxidant. To do this, one of the aims is developing insights on in-operando structure of metal oxide and metal carbide catalysts using a combination of operando IR spectroscopic analysis density functional theory simulations and spectroscopic analysis. This, together with a multiscale modelling approach will be used to optimize reaction conditions for optimum catalyst structure, and thereby activity.
Job Scope: The job scope for this position will include (but not restricted to) survey and summarising of the literature, timely purchase of chemicals and components for the experiments, assembling of the reactor set up and online gas sampling systems, systematic planning and execution of synthesis and detailed characterization of the cerium oxide and molybdenum carbide catalysts, fixed bed catalytic reactor experiments of the oxidative dehydrogenation under varying conditions using these catalysts, data recording, analysis and reporting, contributing to scientific communication in the form of journal articles, technical reports and so on.
Position Duration: Initially for 6 months and extendable for 6-month tenures (maximum of
2 years) upon positive review and recommendation by the review committee. Position is available from 15 July 2022.
Salary and Benefits: Consolidated salary of Rs.31000 per month and other applicable benefits as per the norms of the Centre for Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research, IIT Madras.
Interested candidates may send his/her CV to jithinjv@iitm.ac.in with a brief letter of motivation and fit for the position.
The last date for submission of online application is 15.7.2022
more details: click here online advertisement: link
Short Term Project Associate
This is a short-term project and may get extended. This project will involve experimental investigations of multiphase flows which are relevant to chemical and petrochemical industries.
Qualification: B. Tech/ MTech in Chemical, Mechanical Engineering
Duration: 1 year
Contact: srabha@iitm.ac.in
▌ Project position in an industry sponsored project on CFD Study of Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor
Details of project
Title : CFD simulation of hydrodynamics of a three phase catalytic reactor
Co-ordinators : Prof. T. Renganathan and Prof. S. Pushpavanam
Duration :18 months
Description of work
The work is purely computational. It involves 3D simulation of the hydrodynamics of a three phase catalytic reactor. The simulations are to be performed using Ansys Fluent CFD software.
Required qualifications
M.Tech. in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering
Very good proficiency in using Ansys Fluent
Experience in using Ansys Fluent for solving multiphase flows
Contact details
Interested applicants with the required qualifications can send an email to Prof. T. Renganathan (renga@iitm.ac.in) along with their resume.