PROJECTS/ GRANT-IN AID
Scheme: DST-SERB ECR (2019-2022)
Title: Process Intensification of Post Combustion CO2 capture using Rotating Packed bed Reactor concept
Role: PI
Sponsor: DST-SERB, India.
Scheme: Faculty Research Grant ( 2019-2021)
Title: Development of continuous flow reactor for hydrothermal liquefaction of microalgae
Role: PI
Sponsor: NIT Calicut, India.
Scheme: DST-INSPIRE Faculty (2015-2020)
Title: Development of hydrothermal liquefaction of microalgae for production of bio-oil
Role: PI
Sponsor: Department of Science and Technology, India.
CONSULTANCY PROJECTS
Topic : CFD Model development of commercial scale circulating fluidised bed combustor for understanding hydrodynamic behaviors
Sponsor: M/s ISGES Heavy Engineering Ltd, Noida.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Panneerselvam, R., Savithri, S., Surender, G.D., 2007. CFD based investigations of hydrodynamics and energy dissipation due to solid motion in liquid fluidised bed. Chemical Engineering Journal 132, 159-171.
Panneerselvam, R., Savithri, S., Surender, G.D., 2008. CFD modeling of gas-liquid-solid mechanically agitated contactor. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 86 1331-1334.
Panneerselvam, R., Savithri, S., Surender, G.D., 2009. CFD simulation of hydrodynamics gas-liquid-solid fluidised bed reactor. Chemical Engineering Science 64, 1119-1135.
Panneerselvam, R., Savithri, S., Surender, G.D., 2009. CFD simulation of solid suspension in gas-liquid-solid mechanically agitated contactor. Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research 48, 1608-1620.
Syed Ubaid Ahmed, Panneerselvam, R., Ashok Pandey, Savithri, S., 2010. Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of gas dispersion in Multi impeller Bioreactor, Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, 109(6), 588-97.
Panneerselvam, R., Savithri, S., 2011. Investigations on hydrodynamics and mass Transfer in gas–liquid stirred tank reactor using computational fluid dynamics, Chemical Engineering science, 66, 3108-3124.
P.Ranganathan, P.van Hemert, S.Rudolph, P. Z.J. Zitha, 2011. Numerical Modeling of CO2 Mineralisation during Storage in Deep Saline Aquifers, Energy Procedia 4, 4538–4545.
R.Farajzadeh, P. Ranganathan, P.L.J. Zitha, H.Bruining, 2011.The Effect of Heterogeneity on the Character of Density-Driven Natural Convection of CO2 Overlying a Brine Layer, Advances in Water Resources, 34,327–339.
P.Ranganathan, R.Farajzadeh, P.L.J. Zitha, H. Bruining, 2012. Numerical Simulation of Natural Convection in Heterogeneous Porous media for CO2 Geological Storage, Transport in Porous Media, 95,25–54.
D.Sebastia-Saez S.Gu, P. Ranganathan, K. Papadikis, 2013. 3D modeling of hydrodynamics and physical mass transfer characteristics of liquid film flows in structured packing elements, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 19, 492–502.
D.Sebastia-Saez S.Gu, P. Ranganathan, K. Papadikis, 2014. Micro-scale CFD study of the influence of operative parameters on physical mass transfer within structured packing elements, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 28, 180–188.
D.Sebastia-Saez, P. Ranganathan, S.Gu, K. 2014. Volume of fluid CFD modelling of the reactive mass transfer of CO2 into aqueous amine solutions in structured packed elements at micro-scale Energy Procedia 63, 1229-1242.
M. B. Shemfe, S.Gu, P. Ranganathan, 2015.Techno-economic performance analysis of biofuel production and miniature electric power generation from biomass fast pyrolysis and bio-oil upgrading process, Fuel 143, 361-372.
D.Sebastia-Saez, P. Ranganathan, S.Gu, K. Papadikis, 2015, Micro-scale CFD modeling of reactive mass transfer in falling liquid films within structured packing materials, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 33, 40-50.
D.Sebastia-Saez, S.Gu, P. Ranganathan, K. Papadikis, 2015, Meso-scale CFD study of the pressure drop, liquid hold-up, interfacial area and mass transfer in structured packing materials, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 42 388-399.
P.Ranganathan, S.Gu, 2016. Computational fluid dynamics modelling of biomass fast pyrolysis in fluidised bed reactors, focusing different kinetic schemes, Bioresource Technology, 213, 333-341.
Y. Sarbassov, A. Zayoud, P. Mahanta, S.Gu, P.Ranganathan, U.K. Saha, 2016. Hydrodynamic experiments on a small-scale circulating fluidised bed reactor at elevated operating pressure, and under an O2/CO2 environment, Thermal Science, 1, 68-68.
M.Bello, P.Ranganathan, F.Brennan 2017. Dynamic Modelling of Microalgae Cultivation Process in High Rate Algal Wastewater Pond, Algal Research, 24, 457-466.
Q.Eri, X. Zhao, P.Ranganathan, S. Gu, 2017.Numerical simulations on the effect of potassium on the biomass fast pyrolysis in fluidizedbed reactor, Fuel, 197, 290-297.
P.Ranganathan, J.C.Amal, S.Savithri, Ajith Haridas, 2017.Experimental and Modelling of Arthrospira platensis Cultivation in Open Raceway Ponds, Bioresource Technology, 242,197-205.
M.Bello, P.Ranganathan, F.Brennan, 2017. Life Cycle Optimization for Sustainable Algal Biofuel Production Using Integrated Nutrient Recycling Technology, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 5,9869-9880.
P.Ranganathan, S.Gu, 2018. Numerical simulation of catalytic upgrading of biomass pyrolysis vapours in a FCC riser, Fuel Processing Technology, 171, 162-172.
P.Ranganathan, S.Savithri, 2018. Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation of hydrothermal liquefaction of microalgae in a continuous plug-flow reactor, Bioresource Technology, 258, 151-157.
P.Ranganathan, S.Savithri, 2019, Techno-economic analysis of microalgae-based liquid fuels production from wastewater via hydrothermal liquefaction and hydroprocessing Bioresource Technology 284, 256-265.
MA Hossain, SA Nabavi, P.Ranganathan, L Könözsy, 2020, 3D CFD modelling of liquid dispersion in structured packed bed column for CO2 capture Chemcial Engineering Science 225, 115800, (Cover Page in Journal).
P.Ranganathan, Preliminary techno-economic evaluation of 2G ethanol production with co-products from rice straw, Biomass conversion and Biorefinery, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-020-01144-8.
BS Lekshmi, AS Yadav, P.Ranganathan, SN Varanakkottu, Simple and continuous fabrication of Janus liquid marbles with tunable particle coverage based on controlled droplet impact, Langmuir 2020, 36, 50, 15396–15402.
P.Ranganathan, Pore-scale modelling of immiscible displacement of ScCO2-brine in a homogeneous porous network using direct numerical method, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2021, Accepted.
Janakan S. Saral and Panneerselvam Ranganathan Catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction of Spirulina platensis for biocrude production using Red mud, Biomass conversion and Biorefinery, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-021-01447-4
Janakan S. Saral, R.S.Ajmal, Panneerselvam Ranganathan, Economic and environmental analysis of algal biorefinery for the production of renewable fuels and co-product, Energy Conversion and Management: X 14 (2022) 100189
Ranjna Sirohi, Ashutosh Kumar Pandey, Panneerselvam Ranganathan, et al.Design and applications of photobioreactors- a review, Bioresource Technology 349 (2022) 126858
Panneerselvam Ranganathan, Ashutosh Kumar Pandey, Ranjna Sirohi, Anh Tuan Hoang, Sang-Hyoun Kim Recent advances in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of photobioreactors: Design and applications , Bioresource Technology 350 (2022) 126920
Panneerselvam Ranganathan, Numerical simulation of gas-liquid oscillatory baffled column focusing on hydrodynamics and mass transfer. Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research 61 (2022), 9443-9455
K.P.Dhaneesh, Panneerselvam Ranganathan, A comprehensive review on the hydrodynamics, mass transfer and chemical absorption of CO2 and modelling aspects of rotating packed bed. Separation and Purification Technology 2022, 121248. (IF: 7.312; Nos. of citations: - ).
Janakan S. Saral, Dekketi G. C. Vikram Reddy and Panneerselvam Ranganathan A general kinetic modelling for the hydrothermal liquefaction of Spirulina platensis, Biomass conversion and Biorefinery, 2022
Janakan S. Saral, Dekketi and Panneerselvam Ranganathan, A hydrothermal co-liquefaction of Spirulina platensis with rice husk, coconut shell and HDPE for biocrude production, Bioresource Technologyy, 2022, in press.
Sreemusali Venkata Anjani Kiran, Panneerselvam Ranganathan, Computational fluid dynamics simulation of reactive absorption of CO2 in a structured packed column, Canadian Journal Chemical Engineering, 2022;1–13.
Panneerselvam Ranganathan, Techno-economic analysis of renewable fuels production from sewage sludge through hydrothermal liquefaction, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 57 (2023) 103164.
Recent International Conference Proceedings
1. P.Ranganathan, S.Savithri, CFD Modelling of hydrothermal liquefaction of microalgae in a continuous plug-flow reactor, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology for Waste Conversion (ICETBWC – 2017), CSIR-NEERI, October 8-10, 2017.
2. P.Ranganathan, Techno-economic analysis of microalgae-based transportation fuel production from wastewater via hydrothermal liquefaction and hydroprocesssing, International Conference on Biotechnological Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development (BioSD 2018), Hyderabad.
3. C.H. Sreeram, P. Ranganathan Life cycle analysis of 2-g bioethanol from rice straw in indian scenario, 4th International Conference On Recent Advancements in Chemical, Environmental and Energy Engineering (RACEEE 2019), Chennai, 2019.
4. D. V. vardhan; B. Srinu; A. Deepak ; B. Bharathkumar; P. Ranganthan Techno-economic evaluation of 2g ethanol production from rice straw, 4th International Conference On Recent Advancements in Chemical, Environmental and Energy Engineering (RACEEE 2019), Chennai, 2019.
5. Janakan S. Saral, P.Ranganathan, Catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction of Spirulina platensis for biocrude production using Red mud, New Horizons in Biotetechnolgy (NHBT 2019), CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum, 2019.
6. Dekketi G C Vikram Reddy, P.Ranganathan, Design of an intensified reactor for fast pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass, 1st International Symposium on Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis in Asian Region (PYROASIA 2019), IIT Madras, 2019.
7. P.Ranganathan, CFD Modelling of Biomass fast pyrolysis in a Circulating Fluidised bed reactor, 1st International Symposium on Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis in Asian Region (PYROASIA 2019), IIT Madras, 2019.
8. Dekketi G C Vikram Reddy, P.Ranganathan, Fast pyrolysis of rice straw for bio-oil production, International Conference on Green Energy and Environmental Sustainability (ICGEES 2020), NIT Calicut.
9. Dekketi G C Vikram Reddy, P.Ranganathan, Modelling of biomass fast pyrolysis using the single particle scale, PYROASIA 2020, E-Symposium), December 2020.
10. Juturu Radheshyam, P.Ranganathan, Numerical modelling of the intensified post combustion CO2 capture using rotating packed bed reactor (RPB), International Conference on Reaction Engineering (ICRE 2021), NIT Raipur, 2021.
11. Juturu Radheshyam, P.Ranganathan, Numerical modelling of the intensified post combustion CO2 capture using rotating packed bed reactor (RPB), International Conference on Reaction Engineering (ICRE 2021), 7-8, May 2021, NIT Raipur.
12. K.P.Dhaneesh, P.Ranganathan, Experimental investigations on the hydrodynamic characteristics of a rotating packed bed for CO2 absorption, International conference on Environmental benign process, products and materials for sustainable Ecosystems (EBPPM 2021)- 19-20 November 2021, NIT Trichy.
13. Janakan S. Saral, P.Ranganathan, Kinetic modelling of hydrothermal liquefaction of spirulina platensis, International Conference on Biotechnology for Resource Efficiency, Energy, Environment, Chemicals and Health (BREEECH 2021), CSIR-IIP Dehradun, 1-4 December 2021.
14. P.Ranganathan, Techno-Economic analysis of transportation fuels production from wastewater via hydrothermal liquefaction, International Conference on Biotechnology for Resource Efficiency, Energy, Environment, Chemicals and Health (BREEECH 2021), CSIR-IIP Dehradun, 1-4 December 2021.
15. Vikram Reddy, P.Ranganathan, Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamic modelling of continuous hydrothermal liquefaction of microalgae in a tubular reactor faction of spirulina platensis, International Conference on Biotechnology for Resource Efficiency, Energy, Environment, Chemicals and Health (BREEECH 2021), CSIR-IIP Dehradun, 1-4 December 2021.
16. Sreeram C.H., Sivaprasad P. Nambiar, Aarshad Ramesh, R. Ananthakrishnan, P.Ranganathan, Experimental and CFD Simulation of Hydrodynamics of Gas-Liquid Baffled Bubble Column, 26th International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE26) and 9th Asia-Pacific Chemical Reaction Engineering Symposium (APCRE9), 5-8 December 2021, IIT Delhi, India.
17. P.Ranganathan CFD Modelling of Gas-Liquid Oscillatory Baffled Column Focusing on Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer 26th International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE26) and 9th Asia-Pacific Chemical Reaction Engineering Symposium (APCRE9), 5-8 December 2021, IIT Delhi, India.
18. P.Ranganathan, CFD Simulation of In-situ Gasification of Chemical Looping Fuel Reactor, 26th International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE26) and 9th Asia-Pacific Chemical Reaction Engineering Symposium (APCRE9), 5-8 December 2021, IIT Delhi, India.
19. Dekketi G C Vikram Reddy, Sri Pratibha Reddy V , Kiran Malieakkal Eyyanan, P.Ranganathan, Experimental and numerical investigation on hydrodynamics of swirling fluidised bed reactor, First International Conference in Fluid, Thermal and Energy Systems, 9-11 June 2022, NIT Calicut.
Book Chapter
1. Panneerselvam Ranganathan and Sivaraman Savithri (2010). Computational Flow Modeling of Multiphase Mechanically Agitated Reactors, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Hyoung Woo Oh (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-7619-59-6, INTECH.
2. Janakan S Saral, R.S.Ajmal, P.Ranganathan (2021) Bioeconomy of hydrocarbon biorefinery process, Hydrocarbon biorefinery, Edited by Sunit Maity, Elsevier Publications.
3. Sriramani Mangipudi, Dekketi G C Vikram Reddy, P. Ranganathan (2021) Computational tools in Bioprocessing: Towards Design and Scale-up, Advances in Bioprocess Engineering', Edited by Pandey A, Sirohi R, Larroche C, Taherzadeh M., Elsevier Publications.
4. P.Ranganathan (2022), Techno-Economic Evaluation of 2G Ethanol Production with Co-Products from Rice straw, Biofuels and Bioenergy, Edited by Baskar, Elsevier Publications.