CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Recent submissions

  • CONVERSION OF BIOMASS TO HYDROGEN USING PYROLYSIS 
    Pedapati, R. Krishna (2006)
    Energy demand and consumption has increased tremendously with the increase in the population and industrialization. Even the developed countries are unable to cope up with the energy demands. Most of the energy required ...
  • MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF A SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR (SMBR) SYSTEM FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT 
    Jana, Nityananda (2006)
    This work provides wastewater treatment in a submerged membrane bioreactor (SMBR) process, it is essential to comprehend the behavior of microorganism in such wastewater treatment processes. In their natural environment ...
  • DESIGN OF BATCH PROCESSES. USING PINCH TECHNOLOGY 
    Behera, Jhunarani (2006)
    Both the academic and industrial communities are urged to deliver cleaner, more energy efficient solutions which are ecologically and economically sound and therefore, have the potential to contribute to sustainability of ...
  • SIMULATION OF SYSTEMS MODELLED BY CONVECTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS 
    Rao, J. Shashidhar (2006)
    In the present scenario, it has become a characteristic feature to use fast and reliable computations in almost all branches of science and engineering by the evolution of modeling and simulation techniques. Various systems, ...
  • STUDY OF DIABATIC DISTILLATION COLUMN 
    Dunna, Giri Prasad (2006)
    The main aim of this study to present a model equation of the diabatic distillation column and Compare the rate of entropy production, efficiency between Adiabatic and Diabatic distillation columns by using the results of ...
  • BIOCATALYTIC CONVERSION OF BIOMASS TO BIOFUELS 
    Raju, Doddi Appala (2006)
    Biological conversion of biomass to biofuels has been extensively reviewed. In this experimental work sugarcane bagasse was used as biomass and ethanol was the biofuel. The biological process of ethanol production using ...
  • SIMULATION OF VACUUM CRYSTALLIZER 
    Bansal, Ajay (2006)
    The present investigation pertains to a theoretical study on the simulation of vacuum crystallizer of sugar industry. It basically deals with the development of a mathematical model for crystallizer. It also includes the ...
  • EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON FLASH CRYSTALLIZATION 
    G, Santhosh Reddy (2005)
    Crystallization is an important process for the manufacture of many products. The main aim of crystallization process is to produce crystals with well defined chemical and physical properties, as well as a certain mean ...
  • MODEL REDUCTION OF PROCESS SYSTEMS USING ORTHOGONAL POLYNOMIALS 
    Raman Lal, Kapadia Punitkumar (2004)
    Usually tray-by-tray rigorous models of separation columns are complex and of a high order. Their application in the field of simulation and optimization is very costly. It is practically impossible to apply modern methods ...
  • MODELING OF CONDENSATION PROCESS INSIDE SMOOTH HORIZONTAL TUBES 
    Verma, Anil Kumar (2005)
    The present dissertation work consists of the development of a mathematical model for the condensation of pure saturated vapours, inside a smooth horizontal tube. The condensation heat transfer coefficient based on the ...
  • LIQUID PHASE CATALYTIC HYDROGENATION OF PHENOL 
    Kiran, Ambati Suneethi (2005)
    Liquid phase hydrogenation of phenol to cyclohexanone was investigated over commercial carbon supported palladium catalyst. Study was to find the effect of temperature, catalyst load and metal content on the selectivity ...
  • TREATMENT OF DISTILLERY EFFLUENT USING ELECTROCOAGULATION 
    Thakur, Chandrakant (2008)
    Most of the distilleries in India and the world over employ bio-methanation of molasses spent wash in a bio-digester plant followed by two-stage aerobic treatment as a treatment strategy. The bio-digester effluent (BDE) ...
  • REMOVAL OF 2-4 DICHLOROPHENOL USING VARIOUS ADSORBENTS 
    N. J., Ravi Kumar (2008)
    2,4 dichlorophenol as one type of the most hazardous materials they are, mutagenic and resistant to biodegradation, and thus have to be decomposed before discharging into receiving waters, in order to avoid the biomagnified ...
  • A STUDY ON VAPOUR CLOUD EXPLOSION MODELLING TO PREDICT VARIOUS CAUSATIVE FACTORS 
    Unknown author (2008)
    The vapour cloud explosion can generate after a incidental release of a flammable gas or volatile liquid which upon ignition will explode if surrounding will favour an explosion. In recent years the vapor cloud explosions ...
  • ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF AN EXISTING MEE SYSTEM WITH REHEATERS 
    Koduru, Ashok Kumar (2008)
    The present investigation deals with modelling, analysis and simulation of multiple effect evaporator (MEE) system used to concentrate weak Kraft black liquor in the pulp and paper mills for the recovery of cooking chemicals. ...
  • SORPTIVE REMOVAL OF ARSENIC FROM DRINKING WATER 
    Vissa, Ravi Kiran (2008)
    Consumption of arsenic and its compounds present in the drinking water causes many health problems. High arsenic concentrations have been reported in USA, China, Chile, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Mexico, Argentina, Poland, Canada, ...
  • STUDIES ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FILM COOLING FOR ROCKET THRUST CHAMBER SAFETY 
    Sumesh, V. (2008)
    An experimental investigation was carried out to determine the extent of reduction in wall temperature in a model thrust chamber of liquid rocket engines for various configurations of film cooling. The experimental test ...
  • PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF COMMON EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANTS OF DELHI 
    Singh, Kamlesh (2008)
    The concept of effluent treatment, by means, of a collective effort, has assumed reasonable gravity by being especially purposeful for cluster of small scale industrial units. Common effluent treatment plant (CETP) not ...
  • MODELLING OF CYCLONE SEPARATORS USING CFD 
    Abraham, Y. Allwyn (2008)
    Cyclones are devices that employ the resulting force between the drag, gravitational, inertial and centrifugal force to separate particles from the carrier gas. Due to these they follow a high turbulence. The CFD (Computational ...
  • MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS ON CATALYTIC DEHYDROGENATION OF CYCLOHEXANE USING MICROPOROUS MEMBRANE 
    Gaba, Tanvi (2008)
    A steady state, isothermal one dimensional mathematical model has been developed for dehydrogenation of cyclohexane carried out in a microporous membrane reactor. The performance of three reactor configurations viz. ...