Department of Chemical Engineering

About us

Looking into the rapid change in the global industry environment, Department of Chemical Engineering at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus is determined to nurture new talents and create leaders and entrepreneurs who can bring high-level value addition to the Chemical and Allied industries. Our mission is to drive excellence in Chemical Engineering education and training thereby lead to the creation of a common platform for connecting academia and industry in the exchange of knowledge.

Chemical Engineering department comprises of highly experienced and qualified faculty who have received PhDs/Postdocs from IIT’s or universities abroad. The Department offers robust programs in three tiers of Chemical Engineering i.e Bachelors (B.E Honors), Masters (M.E) and Ph.D. We also train our students in doing research in thrust areas as part of the curriculum. We have well-equipped state of the art laboratories for students to gain extensive practical knowledge. Our B.E students have been placed in reputed companies such as Shell, Honeywell, etc. Our department has received funding different projects from DST, BIRAC (DBT), CSIR, ABSTC Mumbai, DRDO and BITS Pilani. Because of our close association with Industry, we invite experts to deliver talks to our students. We organize industrial trips every semester apart from 7.5 months of practice school training. Our faculty are also involved in teaching courses for Industry Professionals under the Work Integrated Learning Program (WILP).

Research

The Department of Chemical Engineering is working on diverse research areas such as:

Process Development, Reaction Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Electrochemical Engineering, Polymers and Composites, Catalysis, Mathematical Modelling and Simulation, Biomaterials, Pulp and Paper Technology, Fuel Cells, Environmental Pollution Control, Material Science and Nanotechnology.

The research outcomes are regularly published in high impact journals and conferences. Please visit individual faculty profiles for more details or Click here

Programs Offered

B.E. (Hons.) Chemical Engineering
Ph.D.
M.E. Chemical Engineering

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Faculty

Our faculty have extensive experience in industry, research as well as teaching. Our strength is a reflection of their skills, innovation and drive. Click here for faculty profiles.

Workshop

Process Simulation using Aspen HYSYS on June 2-3, 2023

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DST FIST- GRANT

The Department of Chemical Engineering has been sanctioned an amount of Rs. 135 lacs from DST under the Fund for Improvement of Science & Technology (FIST-Level-1).

NOTICE

Ph.D. Admissions

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Current JRF/SRF & Other Openings

Brochure

Chemical Engineering Dept. Brochure

M.E in Chemical Engg. Brochure 2019-2021

Minor in Materials Science and Engineering

Brochure for Ph.D Admissions

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Research Grants

* Prof. Vikranth Kumar Surasani: DST-CRG, 26 lakhs [2022-2025]

* Prof. D. Purnima (PI), Dr. Satyapaul A. Singh (Co-PI) & Dr. Chanchal Chakraborty (Co-PI): ASL-DRDO, 15 lakhs [2022-2024]

* Dr. Arnab Dutta: DST, 15.05 lakhs [2022-2024]

* Dr. Afkham Mir: HBL Power Systems Ltd, 15.56 lakhs [2022-2024]

* Dr. Pankaj Kumar (PI) & Prof. Srikanta Dinda (Co-PI): DBT, 29.9 lakhs [2022-2025]

* Dr. Ramendra Kishor Pal: BITS-Pilani, 10 lakhs [2022-2024]

* Prof. Srikanta Dinda: DRDL-DRDO, 40.4 lakhs [2022-2024]

* Prof. Ramesh Adusumalli (Co-PI) & Dr. Pavan Kumar Penumakala (PI): ASL-DRDO, 45.78 lakhs [2022-2025]

* Dr. Nandini Bhandaru: DST, 56.68 lakhs [2021-2024]

* Dr. Satyapaul A. Singh (PI) & Prof. I. Sreedhar (Co-PI): DST, 32.04 lakhs [2021-2024]

* Prof. Balaji Krishnamurthy: DST, 35 [2021-2024]

* Prof. Balaji Krishnamurthy (PI) & Prof. Vikranth K. Surasani (Co-PI): DBT, 28.73 lakhs [2021-2024]

* Prof. Karthik Chetan V: ASL-DRDO, 15.5 lakhs [2021-2023]

* Dr. Iyman Abrar: BITS-Pilani, 10 lakhs [2021-2023]

* Dr. Debirupa Mitra: BITS-Pilani, 8 lakhs [2021-2023]

* Dr. Ramesh Adusumalli (PI) & Dr. Kurra Suresh (Co-PI): ASL-DRDO, 16.24 lakhs [2021-2023]

* Prof. Srikanta Dinda: DST, 42.26 lakhs [2020-2023]

* Dr. Ramesh Adusumalli: DRDO, 24.9 lakhs [2020-2021]

* Prof. Balaji Krishnamurthy (PI) & Prof. Vikranth K. Surasani (Co-PI): CSIR, 23.4 lakhs [2019-2022]

* Prof. I. Sreedhar: CSIR, 19 lakhs [2019-2022]

* Dr. Ramesh Adusumalli (PI) & Dr. Mithun Mondal (Co-PI): ASL-DRDO, 24.9 lakhs [2019-2021]

* Dr. Satyapaul A. Singh: BITS-Pilani, 10 lakhs [2019-2021]

* Dr. Nandini Bhandaru: BITS-Pilani, 9.5 lakhs [2019-2021]

* Prof. I. Sreedhar: HBL Power Systems Ltd, 5.04 lakhs [2019-2020]

* Prof. Srikanta Dinda: DRDO, 40.6 lakhs [2018-2021]

* Prof. Vikranth K. Surasani (PI) & Prof. Balaji Krishnamurthy (Co-PI): DST, 21.7 lakhs [2018-2021]

* Prof. Karthik Chethan V. (PI) & Prof. Ramesh B. Adusumalli (Co-PI): ASL-DRDO, 9.8 lakhs [2018-2019]

* Dr. Nandini Bhandaru: DST-INSPIRE, 28 lakhs [2017-2022, Total 35 lakhs & first year was spent at IIT Kanpur]

* Prof. Srikanta Dinda (PI) & Prof. Sounak Ray (Co-PI): CSIR, 22.8 lakhs [2015-2018]

* Prof. Ramesh Adusumalli (PI), Prof. Karthik Chethan V. (CO-PI) & Prof. Jalaiah N. (Co-PI): ASL-DRDO, 10 lakhs [2015-2016]

* Prof. Ramesh Adusumalli: DST, 29.89 lakhs [2014-2017]

* Dr. Asma Ahmed: DST, 27.2 lakhs [2014-2018]

* Dr. Asma Ahmed: BITS-Pilani, 45 alkhs [2014-2017]

* Prof. Karthik Chethan V.: BIRAC, 34 lakhs [2014-2016]

* Prof. Srikanta Dinda: DST, 22 lakhs [2013-2016]

* Dr. Asma Ahmed: Aryogen Biopharm, Iran, 4.05 lakhs [2013-2014]

Faculty Achievements

* The Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus congratulates the following faculty for their achievements:

* Prof. I. Sreedhar: Elected as Fellow Telangana Academy of Sciences (FTAS), 2023.

* Dr. Iyman Abrar: Shah-Schulman Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis (Colloid and Interface Sciences) by IIChE for the year 2021.

* Prof. I. Sreedhar: Featured in 2% of the World's Top Scientists list in the field of Energy (for the year 2021) as per the data curated by the Stanford University

* Prof. I. Sreedhar: Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2022.

* Dr. Arnab Dutta: Invited to be on the National Organizing Committee member for “10th Asian Symposium on Process Systems Engineering: Systems Engineering for the Digitalization Era”, IIT Madras, 2022.

* Prof. Jaideep Chatterjee: Invited talk at the DAE-BRNS Tenth Biennial Symposium on “Emerging Trends in Separation Science and Technology (SESTEC-2022)”, ICT Mumbai, 2022.

* Prof. I. Sreedhar: Invited talk at the “International Chemical Engineering Conference”, IIT Patna, 2022.

* Prof. Jaideep Chatterjee: Invited plenary talk at the 15th General Body meeting of the Water Quality India Association (WQIA), Bangalore, 2022.

* Dr. Iyman Abrar: Invited for chairing technical sessions at SCHEMCOM 2022, NIT Warangal, 2022.

* Dr. Debirupa Mitra: Invited as external reviewer to evaluate curriculum and research program at School of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, 2022.

* Dr. Arnab Dutta: Invited to conduct a workshop on “Process simulation and optimization using Aspen HYSYS” at PSE Asia-10, IIT Madras, 2022.

* Dr. Iyman Abrar: Invited talk on, “Writing and publishing an academic research article”, National webinar on writing research article for publication in an academic journal. SVS University Meerut, 2021.

* Prof. I Sreedhar: Keynote Lecture for Faculty Development Programme (FDP), College of Engineering, JNTU Anantapuram, 2021.

* Dr. Arnab Dutta: Editorial Board Member of “Process and Energy Systems Engineering” (Section of Frontiers in Energy Research) as Review Editor, 2021.

* Prof. Jaideep Chatterjee: Invited Speaker at the SESTEC 2020, BARC, 2021.

* Dr. Pankaj Kumar: Expert Lecture for Faculty Development Programme (FDP), Harcourt Butler Technical University (formally HBTI) Kanpur, 2021.

* Dr. Arnab Dutta: Invited as external reviewer to evaluate curriculum and research program at School of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, 2021 & 2022.

* Prof. I. Sreedhar: Editorial Board Member of “Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing” journal, 2020.

* Prof. Vikranth K Surasani: Academic Editor in “International Journal of Chemical Engineering”, 2020.

* Prof. I Sreedhar: Keynote Lecture, Faculty Development Programme (FDP), VIT Vellore, 2020.

* Dr. Nandini Bhandaru: Invited talk at 4th Indo-German Workshop in Materials, Reaction, and Separation Processes, Berlin, Germany, 2020.

* Dr. Arnab Dutta: Young Researcher Award by institute of Scholars, 2020.

* Prof. Vikranth K Surasani: Invited Speaker, Gobal Meet on "Computational Modeling and Simulation”, BITS-Pilani, 2020.

* Prof. I. Sreedhar: Keynote Speaker, 9th International Conference on Nanomaterials, Bangkok, Thailand, 2019.

* Dr. Satyapaul A. Singh: Young Scientist Award from the Telangana Academy of Sciences in the field of “Engineering Sciences”, 2019.

* Dr. Nandini Bhandaru: OPERA (Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics) Award - BITS Pilani, 2018.

* Prof. I. Sreedhar: Keynote Speaker and Session Chair, ACBES, (International Conference), Dubai, 2017.

* Prof. I. Sreedhar: Member of Academic Council, Osmania University and MVGR College of Engineering, Vizianagaram.

* Prof. I Sreedhar: Board of Studies Member, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTU-H), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada (JNTU-K), and CVSR College of Engineering, Hyderabad.

* Prof. Srikanta Dinda: Board of Studies Member, BVRIT Hyderabad.

* Dr. Nandini Bhandaru: Board of Studies member, Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering, Vizag.

Research Recognitions

Dr. Iyman Abrar was awarded the best presentation at the 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environment Engineering (REEE 2022), Brest, France, 2022.

Mr. Baru C. Kiran (mentored by Dr. Arnab Dutta) received the Young Author Support Award by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Foundation to present his paper at the 13th IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS), Busan, Republic of Korea, 2022.

Mr. S. Danush (mentored by Dr. Arnab Dutta) won the Best Oral Presentation Award at the International Conference on Novel Materials and Technologies for Energy and Environment Applications (NMTEEA), BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, 2022.

Mr. Anant G. Kedia (mentored by Dr. Pankaj Kumar and Dr. Arnab Dutta) won the Best Oral Presentation Award at the International Conference on Novel Materials and Technologies for Energy and Environment Applications (NMTEEA), BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, 2022.

Prof. I. Sreedhar’s review paper on "Recent advances in heavy metal removal by chitosan based adsorbents" published in the Carbohydrate Polymers (Elsevier) journal in 2021 has received nearly 150 citations so far, thus becoming one of the most cited articles in the journal.

Mr. Utkarsh Upadhyay (mentored by Prof. I. Sreedhar) received the Best Oral Presentation Award during the 2nd International Conference on Chemical Sciences and Sustainable Technology and Development (ICCSSTD 2021), NIT Surat and Chung Yang University, South Korea, 2021.

Dr. Appala Naidu (mentored by Prof. Srikanta Dinda) received the IIChE Awards for the Year 2021.

Mr. Sarthak Gupta, Ms. S. Sireesha, Mr. U. Upadhyay, Ms. K.L. Anitha (mentored by Prof. I. Sreedhar) received the Best Paper Award at the International Chemical Engineering Conference, NIT, Jalandhar, 2021.

Mr. Aayush Belwal (mentored by Dr. Satyapaul Singh) received the Best Oral Presentation Award during the 27th International Conference of International Academy of Physical sciences (CONIAPS XXVII) on Recent Advances in Catalysis Science & Engineering (RACSE), NIT Jamshedpur, 2021.

Ms. Mayuri Dhole (mentored by Dr. Nandini Bhandaru) received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the International Conference on Complex Fluids and Soft Matter (COMPFLU 2021), IIT Gandhinagar & the Indian Society of Rheology, 2021.

Prof. I. Sreedhar has been recognized by RSC as the "Highly cited author-2020" for the review article titled, "Developmental trends in CO2 methanation using various catalysts" published in the Catalysis Science & Technology journal (RSC).

Dr. Nandini Bhandaru’s article on "Durability of submerged hydrophobic surfaces" published in the Soft Matter Journal (RSC) has been featured in the series of "Most popular articles 2020."

Dr. Appala Naidu (mentored by Prof. Srikanta Dinda) received the IIChE NRC Award 3rd Best Paper in “Indian Chemical Engineer” 2020.

Placements

* Congratulations to Mayuri Dhole & Aayush Belawal for getting an offer from Biocon with an annual package of 7 lacs.

* Congratulations to Avinash K, Sujay D, Prateek Saini & Kaviya for getting an offer from Pokarna with an annual package of 6.5 lacs.

* Congratulations to Sarthak Gupta, Gurban Singh Sabarwal, Deeptank Jha, & Nitin P.V. & for getting an offer from RIL with an annual package of 7.5 lacs.

* Congratulations to Ankit Asawa & Divyansh Pandey for getting an offer from Pokarna with an annual package of 6 lacs.

* Congratulations to Gouri Karthik Gembali for getting an offer from L&T Infotech with an annual package of 9 lacs.

* Congratulations to Naman Bung for getting an offer from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) with an annual package of 10 lacs.

* Congratulations to Shivang Yadav for getting an offer from Landmark Group with an annual package of 12 lacs.

* Congratulations to Divya Hemalbhai Vora and Rishit Agarwal for getting offers from ZS with an annual package of 12.8 lacs.

* Congratulations to Laharee Ghosh for getting an offer from Meesho Analytics with an annual package of 11 lacs.

* Congratulations to Devanshi Singh for getting an offer from Searce with an annual package of 12 lacs.

* Congratulations to Utkarsh Upadhyay and Shagun Mishra for getting offers from Exxon Mobil with an annual package of 11.4 lacs.

* Congratulations to Aditya Ravi Swami for getting an offer from Fisher Jordan with an annual package of 13 lacs.

* Congratulations to Aditya Tyagi for getting an offer from Epsilon with an annual package of 10 lacs.

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