Faculty Members


Dr. N. Anantharaman

     

Academic Profile
  • Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 1985, Madras University
  • M.E. in Chemical Engineering, 1979, IISc Bangalore
  • B.Tech in Chemical Engineering, 1977, Madras University
Professional Interests
  • Three Phase Fluidization.
  • Treatment of Industrial effluents.
  • Fluidized bed drying with internals.
Courses Taught
  • Process Calculations
  • Mass Transfer II
  • Process Engineering Economics
  • Fluidization Engg, Unit Processes and Operations-UG and PG
  • Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engg.
  • Energy Engg, Environmental Engg.
  • Air Quality Management
Awards
  • Best Paper award : Awarded the M.H. SHUKLA II Prize, 2004 for the best Technical paper presented in the 56th Annual session (CHEMCON 2003) – for the paper entitled “Removal of Cr(VI) Ions from Aqueous solutions by emulsion liquid membrane”
  • Best teacher Award : Awarded the Best Teacher in Chemical Engg for the year 2007-2008
  • Best department award : During my tenure as Head of Chemical Engg Dept., the Department was awarded the Best Department for the year 2007-2008.
Publications
For a list of journals/publications: Sponsored Projects

Sl.No

Title of project

Funding agency
Grant-in-aid/consulting
Status

Financial outlay
1.
Modernization of Unit operations Laboratories
MHRD
Grant in aid
Completed in 2000
Rs. 6 Lakhs
2.
Studies on Emulsion Liquid Membrane Extraction
MHRD
Grant in aid (31.03.2003)
Completed
in 2006
Rs. 10 Lakhs
3.
Modernisation of Separations Laboratory
MHRD
Grant in aid (31.03.2005)
Completed
in 2008
Rs. 10 Lakhs
4.
Removal of Phenol/Phenolic compounds from Aqueous media and Industrial Effluents using RTIL encapsulated Microspheres
DST
Grant in aid (May 2010)
Completed
in 2011
Rs. 5 Lakhs
5.
A novel study on Biofuel from Non-edible oils using Heterogeneous catalysts in a continuous process
CSIR
Grant in aid
In progress
2010-2013
Rs. 11.478 Lakhs

Countries Visited
  • Dubai
  • Malaysia
  • Singapore

Membership
  • Life member - Institution of Engineers (I)
  • Life member - Indian society for Technical Education
  • Life member - Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • Life member - National Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power
Ph.D. Guided:
Sl.No

Name of Scholar

Area of Research
Date of award / Awarding university
1.

S.K. Masud Hossain

Physico-Chemical Studies on Lignin Bio-degradation of Ligno-cellulosic Agro-residues for Paper industries.
Awarded/Anna University, Chennai, 2006
2.

Mr. Arul Gnana Raj

Heat and Mass transfer studies in Solid waste
Submitted 2007. Awarded. Bharathidasan univ. Trichy, 2008
3.

S. Nithya

Intelligent control in Process plants
Submitted 2008. Awarded. Bharathidasan univ. Trichy, 2009
4.

N.S. Badrinarayana

Studies on electrochemical Methods of treatment of Industrial effluents
Awarded NIT- Tiruchirappalli, 2009
5.

S.M. Girirajkumar

Controller tuning for various process systems using Non-traditional optimization techniques
Awarded, SASTRA University, Tanjore. 2010
6.

T.Raja (Co-guide)

Experimental and Simulation studies on Jet Mixers
Awarded, NIT- Tiruchirappalli, 2009
7.

M. Arul Mozhi(Co-guide)

Removal of Metal ions from Aqueous solutions and Industrial effluents by Foam separation
Awarded, NIT- Tiruchirappalli, 2009
8.

S. ShanumugaPriya(Co-guide)

Studies on Photolysis of Phenol
Awarded,NIT- Tiruchirappalli, 2010
9.

Harsha Srivatsava (Co-guide)

Study of preparation and characterization of modified PVDF membrane by dips process for the treatment of industrial effluents
Awarded,NIT- Tiruchirappalli, 2011
M.Tech Guided:
  • Plant design/Chemical Engineering:
    • Studies on Fluidised bed drying – N. Balasubramanian (1990)
    • Studies on Fluidised bed drying with Internals – L. Gurunathan (1993)
    • Studies on RTD in semi fluidized beds – K. Karthik narayanan (1994)
    • Studies on Three phase phase fluidization –– S. Prasad kadiyam (1995)
    • Studies on Hydrodynamics of Three phase phase fluidization S. Vaidyanathan (1999)
    • Treatment of Dairy wastes using three phase fluidization - Mohan Rao (2000)
    • Studies on Three phase fluidization and treatment of Distillery effluents – Saravana Kumar(2004)
    • Studies on Semi- fluidization and treatment of Distillery effluents – Umashangari (2004)
    • Effluent treatment by three phase fluidized bed bio-reactor – T. Siva Kiran (2005)
    • Effluent treatment by Semifluidised bed bioreactor – A. Muthulakshmi (2005)
    • Residence time distribution for corn and paddy in Rotary dryer – S. Mangaleswari (2005)
    • Studies on Electro-coagulation technique for the treatment of Tannery effluents _ Ramesh Babu (2006)
    • Studies on Magnetically assisted fluidized beds – Karunagaran (2006)
    • Studies on Three phase fluidization for the treatment of Dairy effluents – K.Sivaguru (2006)
    • Heavy Metal-ions Removal using Foam fractionation (2007) – Jaleel Rahman
    • Three phase fluidisation for the treatment of Dairy effluents (2007) – Jagannathan
    • Experimental studies and Simulation of three phase fluidized bed reactor Using CFD(2008) - SathyaPriya.
    • Fluidized bed dryer with internals (2009)–Narasimha Reddy Chereddy
    • tudies on Photo degradation of Phenol by using UV and visible light & Energy auditing in iol fired boiler in M/s TDCL, trichy (2009) – Vamsi Krishna
    • Simulation of absorption column for capture of CO2 from flue gas (2009)–Vamsi Krishna
    • Air and water interaction (2009)– Ch. Ravichandra
    • An experimental Investigation on Drying of raagi in Fluidized bed dryer with internals (2010) – D.Pavan Kumar
    • Hydrodynamic studies in Fluidised beds with Disc promoters(2011)- Emin Mathew
    • Carbondioxide sequestration with Hydrotalcite compounds (2011)–SumaiyaThassen
    • Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Using Adsorbents (2012) Meram Nagaraja
    • Hydrodynamic Studies of Fluidised Bed With Internals (2012) Deepa Aravind
    • Phenol Degradation Using Electrocoagulation and removal by adsorption (2013) - Sreeja Sabarinath
    • Hydrodynamic Studies of Fluidized Bed With Internals(2013) - Remya
    • Use of Internals in the enhancement of heat transfer coefficient in double pipe heat exchanger (2013) S. Sitaraman

  • Energy Engineering:
    • Waste heat recovery by L.P. economizer in Thermal power plants –B.K. Manmath (1994)
    • Energy savings in heat transfer furnace – Easwarakrishnan (1995)
    • Waste heat recovery in copper extraction plants – K. Senthilkumar (1996)
    • Energy audit in walking beam furnace at SSTP BHEL, Trichy-A. Md. Ibrahim(2001)
    • Energy audit in Rotary hearth furnace at SSTP BHEL, Trichy-M. RAvikumar(2001)
    • Co-firing Petroleum coke in pulverized coal fired boilers – A study – K. Boopathi raja (2000)
    • Energy Audit in Chemical Engineering Department and analysis of Three phase inverters using switching flow-graph modeling Technique (2010) -B. Kailash Krishna Prasad.
    • Bio oil from Agro-residues by Pyrolysis (2011)– Tulasi
    • Bio oil from Agro-residues and Biosorption Of Methylene Blue From Aqueous Solution Using Activated rice straw and rice straw char(2012) - R. Aupama

  • Process Control and Instrumentation:
    • Micro-processor based Energy Measurement systems – P.B. Shreedhar
    • Control of Heat exchanger – Pooja (2011)

    Contact Address
    Dr. N. Anantharaman,
    Professor (HAG),
    Department of Chemical Engineering,
    NIT Trichy -620015.
    Tel. :- +91 - 431 - 2503103
    E-mail : naraman@nitt.edu