Dr. Ashish N. Sawarkar
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: ansawarkar[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: 0532-2271587(O) +91 8795291646(M)
Thesis Supervised
| S.No | Research Topic | Name of Student | Completion/Registration Year | Ph.D. Completed: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CFD study of fluidized bed reactor and kinetic analysis of pyrolysis of biomass (co-supervised by Dr. Shabih-Ul Hasan as second supervisor) | Pratap Singh | 2020 |
| 2 | Kinetics of pyrolysis of agricultural crop residue and co-pyrolysis of agricultural crop residue and plastic waste via thermogravimetric analysis | Sanjay Singh | 2021 |
| 3 | Kinetics of pyrolysis of biomass via thermoanalytical methods | Rajnish Kumar Singh | 2022 |
| 4 | Multi-objective optimization of economic, environmental, and safety criteria for ultrasound assisted and ionic liquid catalyzed in situ algal biodiesel process (co-supervised by Dr. Dipesh S. Patle as second supervisor) | Gunavant Deshpande | 2023 |
| 5 | Pyrolysis of various millet agro-residues: A comparative assessment of physico-chemical characterization, kinetics, thermodynamic analysis, and prediction by artificial neural network modelling | Ankita Tagade | 2024 | M.Tech Students |
| 1 | Studies on production of biofuels and glycerine from dairy waste | Pravin S. Kasture | 2012 |
| 2 | Studies on removal of chromium from aqueous solution by using different adsorbents | Jagannath M. Kayande | 2012 |
| 3 | Pyrolysis of rice husk | Shivesh Sabbarwal | 2016 |
| 4 | Studies on pyrolysis of biomass via TGA | P.V. Gokul | 2017 |
| 5 | Modelling and simulation of fast pyrolysis of biomass in a fluidized bed reactor: A hydrodynamic study (Main Supervisor: Dr. Shabih-Ul Hasan) | Aditya Agrawal | 2017 |
| 6 | Kinetics of pyrolysis of agricultural crop residue (co-supervised by Dr. Harinder Singh) | Ashish Verma | 2018 |
| 7 | Novel adsorbents for wastewater treatment (Main Supervisor: Dr. Harinder Singh) | Manoj Kumar | 2018 |
| 8 | Thermochemical conversion of petcoke | Deeksha Pandey | 2019 |
| 9 | Kinetics of gasification of petcoke | Komal Verma | 2020 |
| 10 | Studies on co-gasification of petcoke and biomass | Zavin R.Gajera | 2020 |
| 11 | Kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of pyrolysis of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) stalk | Nikhil Kirti | 2021 |
| 12 | Pyrolysis of flaxseed de-oiled cake: Physico-chemical characterization, kinetics, and thermodynamic analysis (co-supervised by Dr. Dipesh S. Patle) | Lakshmi Rajpoot | 2022 |
| 13 | Plantwide control of ethylbenzene production (Main Supervisor: Dr. Dipesh S. Patle) | Jagmohan Dixit | 2022 |
| 14 | Biochar yield prediction from biomass pyrolysis through machine learning (ongoing) | Saurav Kandpal | 2024 |