Dr. Ashish Nivrittinath Sawarkar



Dr. Ashish Nivrittinath 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:
1CFD study of fluidized bed reactor and kinetic analysis of pyrolysis of biomass (co-supervised by Dr. Shabih-Ul Hasan as second supervisor)Pratap Singh2020
2Kinetics of pyrolysis of agricultural crop residue and co-pyrolysis of agricultural crop residue and plastic waste via thermogravimetric analysisSanjay Singh2021
3Kinetics of pyrolysis of biomass via thermoanalytical methodsRajnish Kumar Singh2022
4Multi-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
5Pyrolysis of various millet agro-residues: A comparative assessment of physico-chemical characterization, kinetics, thermodynamic analysis, and prediction by artificial neural network modellingAnkita Tagade 2024
Ph.D. Ongoing
1Research Area: Machine learning techniques in thermochemical conversion processesSaurav Kandpal2024
M.Tech Students
1Studies on production of biofuels and glycerine from dairy waste Pravin S. Kasture 2012
2Studies on removal of chromium from aqueous solution by using different adsorbents Jagannath M. Kayande2012
3Pyrolysis of rice husk Shivesh Sabbarwal 2016
4Studies on pyrolysis of biomass via TGA P.V. Gokul 2017
5Modelling and simulation of fast pyrolysis of biomass in a fluidized bed reactor: A hydrodynamic study (Main Supervisor: Dr. Shabih-Ul Hasan) Aditya Agrawal 2017
6Kinetics of pyrolysis of agricultural crop residue (co-supervised by Dr. Harinder Singh) Ashish Verma 2018
7Novel adsorbents for wastewater treatment (Main Supervisor: Dr. Harinder Singh) Manoj Kumar 2018
8Thermochemical conversion of petcoke Deeksha Pandey 2019
9Kinetics of gasification of petcoke Komal Verma 2020
10Studies on co-gasification of petcoke and biomass Zavin R.Gajera 2020
11Kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of pyrolysis of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) stalk Nikhil Kirti 2021
12Pyrolysis of flaxseed de-oiled cake: Physico-chemical characterization, kinetics, and thermodynamic analysis (co-supervised by Dr. Dipesh S. Patle) Lakshmi Rajpoot 2022
13Plantwide control of ethylbenzene production (Main Supervisor: Dr. Dipesh S. Patle) Jagmohan Dixit 2022
14Prediction of biochar yield and higher heating value from biomass pyrolysis through machine learning Saurav Kandpal2024