Former Faculty

Prof. Anil Kumar

Professor (1972-2012)

Areas of Interest: Room Temperature Polymer Catalyst For Esterification Of Primary Alcohols, Polymeric Surfactants, Membrane Separation

Email: anilk@iitk.ac.in

Late. Prof. Arvind P. Kudchadker

Professor (1968-1978)

Areas of Interest: Thermodynamics

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Prof. Ashok Khanna

Professor (1982-2013)

Areas of Interest: Process control, Polymer processing

Email: akhanna@iitk.ac.in

Prof. Avadh B. Agarwal

Professor (1964-2000)

Areas of Interest: Air Pollution and environmental engineering, Catalysis

Email: abla@iitk.ac.in

Prof. Davuluri P. Rao

Professor (1976-2005)

Areas of Interest: Process intensification, Separation processes, Multiphase reactors, Heat & Mass Transfer, Solar energy

Email: dprao@iitk.ac.in

Prof. Deepak Kunzru

Professor (1975-2016)

Areas of Interest: Microstructured reactors, Catalytic & chemical reaction engineering, Pyrolysis of hydrocarbons, Petroleum processing

Email: dkunzru@iitk.ac.in

Prof. Deoki N. Saraf

Professor (1967-2003)

Areas of Interest: Process modelling & control, Online optimization, Petroleum engineering

Email: dnsaraf@iitk.ac.in

Prof. Jagdish K. Gehlawat

Professor (1975-1997)

Areas of Interest: Process development for agro-based materials like sugar, starch, maize etc. Reaction kinetics and design.

Email: gehlawat@hotmail.com

Prof. Jai P. Gupta

Professor (1972-2010)

Areas of Interest: Process intensification, Petroleum Engineering, Environment & safety in chemical process industry, Hazardous substance management, Water conservation & recycling, Inherently safer design

Email: jpg@iitk.ac.in

Late Prof. Musti S. Rao

Professor (1971-2003)

Areas of Interest: Kinetics & Catalysis, Chemical reaction engineering with a special interest in statistical modelling, Zeolite catalysis, Process engineering

Email: musit@iitk.ac.in

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Prof. P. K. Bhattacharya

Professor (1977-2016)

Areas of Interest: Membrane separation, Environmental pollution, Process modelling

Email: pkbhatta@iitk.ac.in

Prof. R. P. Chhabra

Professor (1984-2018)

Areas of Interest: Non-newtonian fluid particle systems, Transport properties of liquid metals and molten salts.

Email: chhabra@iitk.ac.in

Prof. Rakesh P. Singh

Professor (1966-2004)

Areas of Interest: Process modelling & control, Online optimization, Petroleum engineering

Email: rps@iitk.ac.in

Prof. Santosh K. Gupta

Professor (1973-2012)

Areas of Interest: Bio-mimetic approaches in genetic algorithm & simulated annealing, Multi-objective optimization of industrial processes, On-line optimizing control of polymerization reactors, Modeling of Complex Polymerization Systems

Email: skgupta@iitk.ac.in

Late. Prof. Y.V.C. Rao

Professor (1964- 2004)

Areas of Interest: Estimation of thermodynamic properties, Prediction of vapour liquid equilibria data for multi-component systems, Estimation of vibration to vibration & vibration to translation energy transfer rates in polyatomic molecules

Prof. K. S. GANDHI

Professor (1971- 1986)

Areas of Interest: Modelling of electrochemical power sources, specially lead-acid batteries, lithium ion batteries and fuel cells