Research Interests
Heterogeneous Catalysis; CO2 Methanation; Reforming; CO Abatement; Photocatalysis; Reaction Kinetics; Network Modeling; Adsorption ; CO2 hydrogenation to value added products
Research Group
PhD
On-going
1. Mr. Suresh Kanuri (Since August, 2019) - Supervisor: Prof. Srikanta Dinda
2. Ms. Aathira B (Since August, 2020) - Supervisor: Prof. Sounak Roy
3. Ms. Chitturi Huldah Suharika - JRF SERB (Since March 2022), Co-supervisor: Prof. I. Sreedhar
4. Ms. Sri Himaja Pamu - JRF DST PURSE (Since July, 2022), Co-supervisor: Prof. P. Sankar Ganesh
5. Ms. Y. Lavanya (Since January 2023) - Affiliated to Chemical Engineering and MCSEE departments
Completed
1. Mr. Varun Yaddanapudi (January, 2018 - December 2022) - Co-supervisor: Prof. I. Sreedhar
Research Staff
1. Ms. K. Padmasri - JRF DRDO (Since January 2023), Supervisor: Prof. D. Purnima, Co-Supervisor: Dr. Chanchal Chakraborty
2. Mr. Arpan Ghosh - JRF SERB CRG (Since February 2023), Supervisor: Prof. Sounak Roy, Co-Supervisors: Prof. B.M. Reddy
3. Ms. Atmaja Tukaram Shinde - JRF CSIR (Since October 2023), Co-supervisor: Prof. I. Sreedhar
M.Tech (Higher Degree)
On-going
Past Group Members
Mr. Jagadeesh P (August, 2022 - December, 2022) - Supervisor: Dr. D. Purnima - with KMK Consulting Inc.
Mr. Aayush Belwal (August, 2021 - December 2021) - with Biocon
Mr. Prateek Saini (August, 2021 - December 2021), Supervisor: Dr. D. Purnima - with Pokarna LtdMs. Nilanjana Panda (August 2019 - May 2020) - with Shree Sulphurics Pvt Ltd.
Mr. Hithessh Augustus (August 2018 - May 2019) - with Dr. Reddy's R&D.
Project Interns (First Degree)
Mr. Dasu Vijaya Kumar Bhagavan from Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur - Summer, 2022Mr. R. Anurag from BITS-Pilani Hyderabad - Summer, 2022
UG (First Degree)
On-going
Mr. Ramanarayanan K T (August, 2022 - ) - Modeling and simulation of water splitting (DOP* & SOP*)
Mr. R Sri Vaishnav (January, 2023 - ) - Techno-economics of Biogas upgradation using ASPEN PLUS (DOP & FD Thesis)
Mr. KBS Vashist (January, 2023 - ) - Perovskites synthesis for CO2 utilization (LOP*)
Past Group Members
Mr. G V Hemanth Kumar (January, 2023 - May, 2023) - Analysis on Pyrolysis oil purification using ASPEN PLUS (DOP)
Mr. R. Anurag (Since January, 2022 - May, 2023) - First principle insights on catalytic reactions (DOP)
Mr. Subham Mishra (January, 2023 - May, 2023) - Core-shell materials synthesis for CO2 utilization (LOP)
Mr. Krishna Shankar (January, 2023 - May, 2023) - Core-shell materials synthesis for CO2 utilization (LOP)Ms. Hima Gunturu (August, 2022 - December, 2022) - Modeling and simulation of water splitting (On-campus FD thesis)
Mr. Nikhil Kharbanda (January, 2022 - May, 2022) - Modeling and simulation of water splitting (On-campus FD thesis)
Mr. Tanay Nagar (January, 2022 - April, 2022) - Modeling and simulation of water splitting (DOP)
Mr. Aditya Viswanathan (January, 2022 - April, 2022) - Modeling and simulation of water splitting (DOP)
Mr. Aditya Vardhan (January, 2022 - April, 2022) - Modeling and simulation of water splitting (DOP)
Mr. Koppisetti Sai Gowtham (January, 2022 - April, 2022) - Catalysts development for CO2 hydrogenation (LOP)
Ms. Shagun Mishra (January, 2021 - December, 2021) - Mechanistic Aspects of Thermo-catalytic Reactions using kMC (DOP)Mr. Ankit Asawa (August, 2021 - December, 2021) - Catalysts for CO2 methanation (LOP)
Mr. Jha Deeptank Vinodkumar (January, 2021- December, 2021) - Process Flowsheet Optimization (DOP)
Mr. Gurbaan Singh Sabarwal (January, 2021 - December, 2021) - Process Flowsheet Optimization for Heavy Metal Removal (LOP)
Mr. Aniruddha Dutta (January 2021 - May 2021) - Process Flowsheet Optimization (Off-Campus thesis at IITB)
Mr. Omeet Patel (January 2021 - May 2021) - Mechanistic Aspects of Thermo-catalytic Reactions using kMC (SOP)
Mr. Dharesh Vatsa (January 2021 - May 2021) - Mechanistic Aspects of Thermo-catalytic Reactions using kMC (DOP)
Ms. Laharee Ghosh (January 2021 - May 2021) - Mechanistic Aspects of Thermo-catalytic Reactions using kMC (DOP)Mr. Harishankar R. Vaikkat (January 2021 - May 2021) - Core-shell Nanoparticles Applications in Reactor Design (DOP)
Mr.
Ashiwn Bale (August 2020 - December 2020) - Predicting phase behavior of polymer
using molecular simulation and machine learning (Off-Campus Thesis at
IITM)
Ms. Vedika Y Kulkarni (July 2019 - December 2020) - Core-shell nanoparticles synthesis and its applications (LOP)
Ms. Ishita Kurketi (August 2020- December 2020) - Process Flowsheet Optimization (DOP)
Ms. Divya Sukumar (August 2020 - December 2020) - Process Flowsheet Optimization (DOP)
Mr. Aniruddha Dutta (January 2020 - December 2020) - Process Flowsheet Optimization (DOP)
Ms. Shreya Agarwal (August 2020 - December 2020) - Process Flowsheet Optimization (DOP)
Mr. Kshitiz Jain (August 2020 - December 2020) - Mechanistic aspects of thermo-catalytic reactions (SOP)
Ms. Dantuluri Sri Sai Sruthi (August 2020 - December 2020) - Mechanistic aspects of thermo-catalytic reactions (SOP)
Mr. Anirudh Pareskh (August 2020 - December 2020) - Development of mechanistic pathways of heterogeneous
catalytic reactions using Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations (DOP)
Ms. Laharee Ghosh (August 2020 - December 2020) - Development of solar concentrators (SOP)
Ms. Shreya Singh (January 2020 - May 2020) - MOFs for drug delivery applications (Off-Campus Thesis at JNCASR Bengaluru) Mr. Manan Raval (January 2020 - May 2020) - DOP
Mr. Vinayak Sharma (January 2020 - May 2020) - SOP
Mr. Cheemalamarry Sai Karthik (January 2020 - May 2020) - SOP
Mr. P. Aryan (January 2020 - May 2020) - DOP
Mr. Saiprasad Gochhayat (January 2020 - May 2020) - LOP
Mr. Prasanth Syamala (July 2019 - May 2020) - SOP & DOPMr. Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya (July 2019 - December 2019) - SOP
Mr. Shivansh (January 2019 - May 2019) - Off-Campus Thesis, Currently with Pokarna LTD
Mr. Deepak Anjna (UG, June 2018 - December 2018) - On-Campus Thesis
*(L/D/S)OP - (Lab/Design/Study) Oriented Projects