Sustainable Reaction Engineering Lab
Dr Panneerselvam Ranganathan
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut.
Kozhikode, Kerala-673601
Welcome to SREL
Latest News
A paper on Techno-economic analysis of renewable fuels production from sewage sludge through hydrothermal liquefaction has published in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2023.103164).
Mr. Janakan S. Saral has defened his final PhD Vivavoce Examination. Congrats Dr.Janakan S.Saral!
Research and Development focus on Sustainable Reaction Engineering Lab ( SREL)
Computational flow modelling of reactors/contactors for understanding hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer and chemical reaction;
Process Intensification to Chemical Reactors: (Rotating Packed bed, Oscillatory Baffled Column, Swirling Fluidised Bed, Spinning Disc Reactor )
CO2 capture, storage and conversion to methanol through CO2 hydrogenation (CCSU)
Development for advanced biofuels production from lignocellulosic biomass, microalgae, organic wastes by hydrothermal liquefaction for transportation fuel production.
Development of integrated biorefinery concept for biofuels (bioethanol, bioLPG, biogasoline) from biomass through process design, techno-economic evaluation and life cycle assessment;
Research opportunities
I am interested to collaborate for pursuing above research activities or students who are interested to pursue the PhD or dissertation in these areas, I am happy to invite you.
The following topics/projects are available for thesis /dissertation
1. Design a biorefinery for production of 2G ethanol with chemicals from Rice straw
2. Design and modelling of a continuous plug-flow reactor for hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of organic wastes ( sewage sludge, food waste) for bio-oil production
3. Process Intensification of Post-combustion CO2 capture via Rotating Packed bed reactor
4. Design of swirling fluidised bed reactor for catalytic fast pyrolysis of rice straw using red mud
5. Design of multiphase reactor for CO2 conversion to light alkenes using metal supported red mud catalyst
6. Multi-scale modelling of chemical looping combustion of solid fuels using ilmenite as oxygen carrier
7. Process development of production of green hydrogen, green ammonia and green methanol processes