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2. Department Summary
Name of the
Programmes Offered
UG & PhD
No of Faculty Members 09
Areas of specialization Fluidization Engineering, Hydrodynamics, Mass
Transfer, Biochemical Engineering,
Environmental Engineering, Polymer technology,
Energy Engineering, Design,
Modeling, Simulation and Control, Heat Transfer
and Microwave heating, Bio-fuels,
Bio-separation Technology and Modeling on air
quality control

3. Department Summary
Ongoing PhD (as on winter sem 2011-12) 11
Number of ongoing sponsored research 1
Value of the ongoing projects 17 lakhs
Number of ongoing FRG project 5
Number of conference/Workshops conducted 3
Number of FDP program conducted 2

4.  Vapor Liquid Equilibrium
 Wetted Wall Column
 Tray drier
 Rotary drier
 Cooling tower
 Steam distillation
 Simple distillation
 Bubble cap distillation column
 Sieve type distillation column
 Vapor diffusion
 Packed bed column
 York Scheibe’s Extractor
VLE apparatus
Vapor Diffusivity

5.  Roll crusher
 Plate and frame filter press
 Pulverizer
 Ball mill
 Jaw crusher
 Air elutriator
 Hammer mill
 Leaf filter
 Rotary vacuum filter
 Ribbon mixer
 Rotary drum drier
 Cyclone separator
Pulverizer

6.  Heat pipe
 Composite wall apparatus
 Agitated vessel
 Pin-fin apparatus
 Double pipe heat exchanger
 Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger
 Natural convection apparatus
 Forced Convection Apparatus
 Open Pan Evaporator
 Thermal Conductivity
Measurement
 Plate heat exchanger
 Stefan Boltzmann apparatus
 Fluidized bed heat transfer unit
Thermal Conductivity Measurement
Agitated Vessel

7.  Centrifugal Pump
 Bernoulli’s Apparatus
 Reynolds Apparatus
 Pitot Tube
 Loss due to Pipe Fittings
 Friction loss in 3’ and 4.5’ pipe
 Orifice and Venturi-meter
 Packed Bed apparatus
 Fluidized Bed apparatus
 Drag Coefficient
 Flow through Orifice &
Mouthpiece
 Flow through Notches & Weirs
Fluidized Bed Reactor

8.  Laminar Fume hood
 Low Temperature Cabinet
 BOD Incubator
 Rotary Shaker
 Centrifuge
 Autoclave
 Hot Air Oven
 Muffle Furnace
 UV Spectrophotometer
 Freezer
 Water Bath
UV-VIS spectrophotometer
Autoclave

9.  Isothermal batch reactor
 Isothermal semi batch reactor
 Pressure control trainer
 U-tube manometer
 RTD of packed bed reactor
 Plug flow reactor
 Continuous stirred tank reactor
 Interacting & non-interacting tank
 Temperature control trainer
 Flow control trainer
 Calibration of thermocouple and
thermometer
Plug Flow Reactor

10.  Orbital shaker cum Incubator
 Laminar flow chamber
 Autoclave
 Atomic Absorption spectroscopy
 Fluidized bed reactor
AAS Fermentor

11.  Muffle furnace
 Hot oven
 Electronic balance
 Saybolt apparatus
 Redwood viscometer
 Distillation apparatus
 Smoke point apparatus
Muffle Furnace

12. Faculty
Shiny Joseph, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, India
Research Areas: Energy and separation processes
V.Sivasubramanian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, Anna University, Madras, India
Research Areas: Fluidization Engineering, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering
Lity Alen Varghese, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi, India
Research Areas: Polymer Technology
K Aparna, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, India
Research Areas: Heat Transfer and Microwave heating

13. N Selvaraju, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, India
Research Areas: Microfluidics and Micro Reactors & Computational Fluid Flow and Heat transfer
Malladi Pavan Kumar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
Research Areas: Design, Modeling, Simulation and Control & Adsorption (Reactive and Non-reactive)
Smt S Bhuvaneshwari, M.Tech.
Assistant Professor
M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy
Research Areas: Bioseparation Technology
Mr Vineeshravi, M.Tech.
Assistant Professor
M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy
Research Areas: Fuel cell Technology
Mr K Haribabu, M.Tech.
Assistant Professor
M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, Annamalai University, Tamilnadu
Research Areas: Fluidization Engineering

14. Year Journals Conferences
International National International National
2011 - 12 4 1 7 3
2010 - 11 2 1 6 3
2009 - 10 1 - - 5
2008 - 09 1 - 3 -
2007 - 08 - - 3 1