Applications of Nanofluids in Chemical and Bio-medical Process Industry

Dr. Shriram S Sonawane is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology [VNIT], Nagpur. Dr. Sonawane's research area includes a) Polymer Nano-composites b) Nanofluids c) Nano-Separation Technology d) Process Modelling and Simulation. He has 6 patents to his credit. Dr Sonawane recognized amongst 2% scientist declared by AD scientific rankings. He has published more than 150 research papers in various Nationals and Internationals Journals of repute. He also Nominated for the prestigious “Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award”. He has edited many books and published more than 50 book chapters in various reputed publisher's books. He also served as an Expert in various reputed institutions and organizations. He has received the “Fellow Award” from the Prestigious Maharashtra Academy of Science." He is a Fellow Member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE). He is an also “Fellow Member” of the Indian water works Association. He was Guest Editor for Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessment (ELSEVIER). He is the “Executive Guest Editor” of the Current Pharmaceutical Bio-Technology Journal. He is also serving in the Editorial body of “Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment." He also served in the Editorial body of “World Research Journal." He has received more than 3200 citations. He has also presented more than 150 research papers in various Nationals and Internationals conferences. He served as Ph.D. and M. Tech. Examiner to various NITs, Universities and colleges. He has been invited for an expert talk from countries like Malaysia, Thailand Singapore, and Belgium, etc. He has guided 9 Ph.D. students. Dr. Sonawane has completed various international and national projects till the date. Dr. Hussein A. Mohammed holds BSc, MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests are on a wide range of inter-disciplinary issues (numerically and experimentally) in aerodynamics, Instrumentation development and testing, fundamentals and advanced heat transfer aspects, fluid flow, solar energy, nanotechnology (nanofluids), MEMS and combustion engineering and science. He has published more than 100 refereed papers in prestigious peer-reviewed international journals with high impact factor. He is an editorial board member for Helyion Journal published by Elsevier. He has also been a regular scientific reviewer for international conferences and for more than 90 international journals published by various international and renowned publishers such as Elsevier etc. Dr. Arvind Kumar Mungray is an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering Department at National Institute of Technology Surat (SV-NIT). He completed his Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering) from I.I.T. Roorkee, Masters (Chemical Engineering) from IIT BHU Varanasi, and B. Tech. from H. B. T. I. Kanpur (UP) (INDIA). His research area is Wastewater treatment (biological), up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor, Microbial fuel cell (MFC), nanotechnology, Decentralization of wastewater, hybrid system, Waste to Energy, etc. He received the ‘Young Engineer’s award’ 2011 from Institution of Engineers India. He has completed/ongoing 7 Sponsored research projects from DST, NRB-DRDO, NIT (R & D) etc. He has received more than 1 crore rupees research grant from various funding sources. He has supervised 5 Ph.D. and currently 6 research scholars are ongoing. He has published more than 60 research papers in International publications with Google scholar h index 19, and seven Book Chapters. He has filed 3 Indian patents based on his research area. He is a Life Member in professional bodies like IIChE (Indian institute of Chemical Engineers), The Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Society of Technical Education, Indian Water Resources Society, Indian Environmental Association. He is the Fellow Membership (F.I.C.C.E.) in “International Congress of Chemistry and Environment”. He is currently a guest Editor of the journal ‘Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments’ (Elsevier), Guest Editor and Editorial Board Member of Energy NEXUS Journal (Elsevier), and Guest Editor in Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR) (Springer) Journal. He has delivered many Expert lecture on ‘Integrated planning of sustainable wastewater management’ at various reputed institutions like IIT and NITs, and state Engineering Institutes. He is the Reviewer of almost 30 SCI listed journals. He is currently focused on decentralized wastewater treatment system for waste to energy generation concept by using bio-electrochemical systems. His group is currently working on the resource recovery (Electricity, fertilizer and fresh water) from neat Human Urine. His group is developed and patented Forward Osmosis membranes, novel FO-MD reactors, which are the integral part of the water recovery from waste. Currently handing a project sponsored from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for generating resources from human urine for space mission. Professor Shirish Sonawane currently workings as Professor at NIT Warangal India and head SRIC center for sponsored research and Industrial Consultancy. He has published more than 200 SCI journal and 36 book chapters and 2 books. He has filed 19 patents out of them 6 patent he been granted. Presently 2 PDF, 7 PhD and 2 M. Tech students are working and 17 Ph.Ds are awarded. Sonoprocess engineering, cavitation based Nanotechnology, Waste water treatment, process development for nanoparticle synthesis, polymer nanocomposite etc. are some of the interest fields. He received funding from MeitY, Govt. of India (2021) and DST WTI project, Govt. of India (2021), earlier he got international projects such as Indo-Tunisia Bilateral Project sponsored by DST, Govt. of India (2017), Indo-Russia DST-RFBR (2018), IMPRINT SERB project (2020), BIRAC-SRISTI- GYTI project, Govt. of India (2017), Department of Information and Technology, Government of India (2014). He is having more than 6000 citations. He is having international collaborations with Australia, Portugal, Russia, Malaysia, Tunisia etc. Dr. Sonawane had also dealt with 19 consultancy projects and 25 Research and development projects sponsored by various international and Indian government agencies and few of the projects are transferred in technology form to respective organization or industry. Dr. Shirish Sonawane has effectively combined synthesis and characterization of novel nano materials for successful application in state of the art processes such as paints, coatings, nano fluids, wastewater treatment, nanofiltration, fuel cells, and membranes. He is recipient of BOYSCAST Fellowship from DST, (2008-2009); Heritage Fellowship from Erasmus Mundus Program (European commission) in 2013; DST Young Scientists award (2007); Institution of Engineers India award (2016); Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences award (2016); (2017), BIRAC-SRISTI- GYTI award (2017), V.N.M.M award from IIT-Roorkee (2017), Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences award (2017), Institution of Engineers India (2017), Alexander Von Humboldt Connect Program Germany (2020), NASI member (2020), NAWA (2020), IIChE Award for the Year 2020: Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Award (2020). He is the editorial board member of Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Nanoscience, Advances in Nanoparticles; Journal of Foods and Raw materials; Biotechnology, Chemical & Environmental Engineering and Chief Editor of Scientific Journal of Bulletin of the SUS University Series -Food and Biotechnology. He is the reviewer of several international journals.

1. Current overview of nanofluid applications 2. Thermo-physical and optical properties of the nanofluids 3. Mathematical and numerical investigations of nanofluid applications in the Industrial Heat ex-changers 4. Experimental investigation of industrial heat exchangers 5. Numerical and experimental investigations of direct absorption solar collectors 6. Numerical and experimental investigations of car radiators 7. Mathematical, Numerical and experimental investigations of Pool Boiling process 8. Mathematical, Numerical and experimental investigation of Flow Boiling processes 9. Mathematical, Numerical investigations of CO2 absorption and desorption process 10. Experimental investigation and challenges for scale-up of CO2 absorption and desorption process 11. Mathematical, numerical and experimental investigations of metal extraction processes 12. Application of nanomaterials to enhance the performance of wastewater treatment processes 13. Nanofluid based drug delivery systems 14. Computational analysis of the nanofluid based drug delivery system