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Welcome to the WaCT Group Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342030 India
Reserach Area: Clean Coal Technology, Advancement of Thermal Processes (Pyrolysis, Gasification and Combustion), Transforming Biosolids/Waste/Biomass into Valuable Products and Energy (Biofuels & Bioenergy), Smart Carbon Materials Synthesis and Characterization, Destruction/capture of emissions and contaminants such as CH4, Tar (VOC), SOx, NOx, Hg, and PFAS and Kinetics of Solid-Gas Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions.
i.) Conventional and advanced low-emission thermochemical conversion of biomass, organic/inorganic resources, and waste materials (e.g., combustion, pyrolysis, gasification, reforming, hydrothermal)
ii.) Resource recovery from biomass and waste
iii.) Enhancing energy efficiency in process industries (e.g., energy optimization and integration)
iv.) Synthesis and characterization of advanced carbon nanomaterials
v.) Waste-to-energy conversion and development of value-added products
vi.) Renewable energy systems, including biofuels, biochemicals, biochar, and hydrogen production
vii.) CO₂ capture and utilization through process intensification
Principal Investigator (PI): Dr Manoj Kumar Jena
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Email: manojkumarjena@iitj.ac.in
Phone: 0291 280 1713 ,
Dr. Manoj Kumar Jena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, since February 2025. Prior to this, he served as a postdoctoral research fellow at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan (November 2024 – January 2025), and at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (October 2022 – September 2024), where he was also affiliated with the ARC-funded Training and Research Centre for the Transformation of Australia’s Biosolids Resources. He obtained his Ph.D. from Curtin University, Australia, in association with the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad (September 2022), focusing on kinetic compensation effects and parameters during gasification of low-rank coal char. He completed his B.Tech from Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang, Odisha, and M.Tech from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. He received the IIChE Ambuja Young Researcher’s Award in 2017 and has four years of industrial experience at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India. Dr. Jena has published extensively as first, corresponding, and co-author, presented at national and international forums, and authored the book Gasification Technology: Transforming Waste into Clean Energy (Springer Nature, 2024).
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