National Center for Combustion Research and Development

Indian Institute Of Technology Madras & Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Faculty
Dr. Preeti Aghalayam
DESIGNATION

Associate Professor Dept of Chemical Engg., IITM



CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST

Coal gasification, Reactor Modeling.

CONTACT
OFFICE

Room 209, Chemical E

PERSONAL HOME PAGE
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Sateesh Daggupati, S.M.M., Aghalayam, P. , "Compartment Modeling and Flow Characterization in Nonisothermal Underground Coal Gasification Cavities",Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 50, issue 12: ACS , pp. 4493–4508, 2012

2. Daggupati, S., Mandapati, R.N., Mahajani, S.M., Ganesh, A., Pal, A.K., Sharma, R.K., Aghalayam, P. , "Compartment modeling for flow characterization of underground coal gasification cavity", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 50, issue 1, pp. 277 - 290, 2011

3. Daggupati, S., Mandapati, R.N., Mahajani, S.M., Ganesh, A., Sapru, R.K.,Sharma, R.K., Aghalayam, P. , "Laboratory studies on cavity growth and product gas composition in the context of underground coal gasification", Energy, vol. 36, issue 3, pp. 1776 - 1784, 2011

4. Ravat, V., Aghalayam, P. , "Palldium supported MCM-41 mesoporous molecular sieves: Synthesis, characterization and catalytic test for the reduction of no by co",International Journal of Nanoscience, vol. 10, issue 4-5, pp. 1051 - 1056, 2011

5. Prabhudharwadkar, D.M., Aghalayam, P.A., Iyer, K.N. , "Simulation of hydrogen mitigation in catalytic recombiner: Part-I: Surface chemistry modelling", Nuclear Engineering and Design, vol. 241, issue 5, pp. 1746 - 1757, 2011

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

  • Associate Professor, Chemical Engg, IITM, 2010 - Present
  • Associate Professor, Chemical Engg, IITB, 2009 - 2010
  • Assistant Professor, Chemical Engg, IITB,2002 - 2009
  • Post Doctoral Researcher, Chemical Engg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA. 2001- 2002
  • Teaching Assistant, Chemical Engg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.1996 - 2000

AWARDS

  1. C.A. Sastry Medal IIT Madras, 1995
  2. S.D. Sharma Silver Medal IIT Madras, 1995
  3. Travel Grant The Combustion Institute, 1998
  4. Bernard Lewis Fellowship The Combustion Institute, 2000
  5. INAE Young Engineer Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2007 
  6. IIChE Young Achiever Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2007
  7. Amar Dye Chem Award Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2008
  8. Frontiers of Engineering Award National Academy of Engineering, 2008
  9. Member of National Academy of Sciences, 2011

AFFILIATIONS

  • IIT Madras,
  • National Centre for Combustion Research And Development.

List of Students

PhD Students

  1. Satyam Naidu Vasireddy