Principal Investigator

Niket S. Kaisare

Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras

Current Members

Ms. Preetika Rastogi (PhD Student)

Co-Guide: Prof. Basavaraj M.G.
Water-in-diesel emulsions: Micro-structure, stability and combustion behavior

Mr. B. Venugopal (PhD Student)

Co-Guide: Prof. P. Selvam (CY)
Aqueous phase oxidation of methanol with MFI catalysts under mild conditions

Ms. Rimita Bose (PhD Student)

Co-Guide: Prof. P. Selvam (CY)
Metal-Organic Frameworks for CO2 capture and adsorptive H2 storage

Mr. Shivaraj K. (PhD Student)

Primary Guides: Prof. Preeti Aghalayam (CH) and Prof. P. Selvam (CY)
Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx

Mr. Ashwajeet Gajbhiye (Candidate)

Co-Guide: Prof. Jithin Varghese
Oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of ethane using CO2 as a mild oxidant

Ms. Nitharshni R.G. (MS Student)

Co-Guide: Prof. Aravind Kumar Chandiran
Metal-Organic Framework for CO2 capture

Mr. Chaitanya Kavale (MS Student)

Co-Guide: Prof. Himanshu Goyal
Computationally efficient modeling of catalytic reactors using homogenization

Mr. Rahul Kr. Chowdhary

Co-Guides: Prof. Srikrishna Sahu (ME) and Prof. Basavraja M.G. *(CH)
Combustion of emulsified diesel blends

Ms. Gouri Nayanar (Project Associate)

Co-Guide: Prof. Jithin Varghese
Ethane ODH using CO2 as a mild oxidant on reducible oxide catalysts

Alumni

Past PhD Students

  • Dr. Venkat Reddy Regatte (Jan 2008 – July 2011)
    Thesis Title: Thermal Management in Microreactors for Energy Generation and Fuel Processing
  • Dr. M. Sudhakar (August 2008 – June 2013)
    Co-advised by: Dr. Sridharkumar Narasimhan, Chemical Engineering, IIT-Madras
    Thesis Title: Model order reduction and model-based control of first order hyperbolic distributed parameter systems
  • Dr. Sridhar P. (August 2015 – June 2020)
    Thesis Title: Multi-scale modeling of adsorptive hydrogen storage in metal-organic frameworks
  • Dr. R. Arvind (January 2015 – August 2020)
    Thesis Title: Distributed and hierarchical control of multi-unit systems
  • Dr. R. Aswathy (January 2015 – Sept. 2020)
    Thesis Title: Sabatier Reaction – Concepts for Microreactor Design utilizing reaction exothermicity and multiscale kinetic modeling
  • Dr. Y. Neha (August 2015 – Feb. 2021)
    Thesis Title: Heat Recirculating Microreactors for enhanced combustion and their integration with thermoelectrics for power generation

Past MS Students

  • Mr. Vikram Seshadri (August 2007 – 2009)
    Thesis Title: Transient Behavior of Catalytic Micro-Reactors for Light-Off of Gaseous Fuels
  • Mr. M. Anandhan (Jan 2009 – March 2012)
    Co-Guide: Dr. Krishna Kannan, Mechanical Engineering, IIT-Madras
    Thesis Title: Modeling of Rubber Vulcanization
  • Mr. K. Moulish (January 2015 – July 2017)
    Thesis Title: Simulation of catalytic microreactors for energy applications
  • Ms. Devayani S. (August 2015 – 2017)
    Co-Guide: Prof. Karsten Reuter, TU Munich (under DAAD sandwich program)
    Thesis Title: Reaction pathways for the Sabatier reaction on stepped metal (211) surface
  • Mr. Nishithan B. (August 2015 – May 2018)
    Co-Guide: Dr. Preeti Aghalayam
    Thesis Title: Modeling and analysis of vehicular after-treatment systems: LNT and DOC
  • Ms. Devi Raghavee (August 2016 – Sept. 2018)
    Thesis Title: Reduction of microkinetic mechanism using on-simulation error-based algorithm
  • Mr. P.J. Jayanthan (August 2018 – Dec. 2020)
    Co-Guide: Dr. Aravind Kumar Chandiran
    Thesis Title: Photo-electro-catalytic water splitting
  • Mr. Kushal Voona (August 2016 – July 2021)
    Co-Guide: Dr. R.I. Sujith (Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras)
    Thesis Title: Control of thermoacoustic instabilities
  • Ms. Divya Gootham (Aug. 2018 – Feb. 2022)
    Co-Guide: Dr. Rajnish Kumar
    Thesis Title: Modeling of initiation and growth kinetics for gas hydrates