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Computational Study of Stokesian Suspensions using Particle Mesh Ewald Summation
(2018-07-18)We consider fast computation methods for simulation of dynamics of a collection of particles dispersed in an unbounded Stokesian suspension. Stokesian suspensions are of great practical interest in the manufacturing and ... -
Concentration Gradient Driven Natural Convection in Soluble Lead Redox Flow Batteries
Low cost and long cycle-life energy storage systems are needed to harness renewable sources of energy at large scale. Among the options available, redox ow batteries (RFB) offer the maximum potential. The vanadium based ... -
Confinement, Coarsening And Nonequilibrium Fluctuations In Glassy And Yielding Systems
(2016-02-17)One of the most important and interesting unsolved problems of science is the nature of glassy dynamics and the glass transition. It is quite an old problem, and starting from the early20th century there have been many ... -
Crystal Nucleation in Binary Hard Sphere Mixtures
(2018-03-06)Homogeneous crystal nucleation in binary hard sphere mixtures is an active area of research for last two decades. Although Classical nucleation theory (CNT) gives a qualitative picture, it fails at high super saturations ... -
Defluoridation Of Drinking Water Using A Combined Alum-Activated Alumina Process And Nanoscale Adsorbents
(2010-10-08)Excess Fluoride in drinking water is a cause for concern in several countries in the world. Various techniques have been developed to mitigate the harmful effects of fluoride. In the present work, a combined alum and ... -
Defluoridation Of Drinking Water Using Activated Alumina
(2013-05-20)Excess fluoride (F-) in drinking water poses a health threat to millions of people around the world. In the present work, activated alumina (AA) has been used as an adsorbent. Data obtained from batch experiments were ... -
Dehydration of alcohols
Catalytic vapor phase dehydration of i-propanol, n-butanol, i-butanol, s-butanol and t-butanol is studied in a fixed bed flow reactor under isothermal conditions over various catalysts to understand the influence of catalyst ... -
Dehydrogenation of cyclohenxanol to cyclohexanone
The dehydrogenation of cyclohexanol to cyclohexanone has been studied in detail. The thermodynamic equilibrium constants at various temperatures have been collected from literature and the equilibrium conversions have been ... -
Development Of Ionic Catalysts For The Water-gas Shift Reaction And Exhaust Gas Purification
(2013-04-04)Treatment of fuel cell feed H2 for the removal of CO is important owing to the poisoning of the catalysts, thereby affecting the performance of the fuel cell. Strong and preferential adsorption of CO over the catalyst takes ... -
Development of noble metal catalysts and detailed kinetic models for CO oxidation and water gas shift reactions
Noble metal (Pt, Pd, Rh) based catalysts have been highly effective for CO abatement applications such as CO oxidation and the water gas shift reaction (WGS). In the venture for development of novel catalysts, noble metal ... -
A Device For The Estimation Of Fluoride In Drinking Water
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Direct Numerical Simulations and Fluctuating Force Simulations of Turbulent Particle-gas Suspensions
(2018-05-18)Turbulent gas-particle suspensions are of great practical importance in many naturally phenomena, such as dust storms and snow avalanches, as well as in industrial applications such as fluidised, circulating bed reactors ... -
DNA-based fluorescent reporters for biosensing and lipid dynamics
With the growth of DNA nanotechnology, significant efforts have been made to expand the chemical functionality of DNA beyond the genetic code carrier. By leveraging the specificity of the interactions and modularity afforded, ... -
Droplet Isothermal Amplification For Nucleic Acid Quantification
Nucleic acid quantification (NAQ) is extensively employed for gene expression analysis, monitoring viral loads, detecting rare or dysfunctional cells, and assessing treatment regimes. The gold standard, quantitative ... -
Droplet Microfluidics for Nucleic Acid Quantification and Single Cell Analysis
Droplet microfluidics provides controlled generation of monodispersed droplets of the order of a few picoliters in multiphase microfluidic systems. These droplets are employed as micro-reactors to conduct chemical/biochemical ... -
Dynamics and Rheology of Non-colloidal Suspensions: Active and Soft Deformable Particles
Classical works on the suspensions of rigid spherical and ellipsoidal particles have been carried out by Einstein and Jeffery. However, in nature and industry, we come across materials that are either deformable or active. ... -
Dynamics of gas bubbles in liquids
The study of bubble formation in liquids is of great importance because of its application in the design of many industrial bubble contactors like distillation columns, bubble cap columns, absorption towers, reactors, extraction ... -
Electrochemical - Morphological Evolution of the Positive Electrode in Autonomous Soluble Lead Redox Flow Batteries
The world is witnessing a transition where reliance on renewable energy is increasing. As of 2025, the renewable electricity capacity has risen to roughly 5000 GW (from 2000 GW in 2010). This progressive growth is to be ... -
Engineering Analysis Of Pichia Pastoris Fermentation
(2010-07-14)In recent years, several industrial yeasts, owing to their robust growth and certain other characteristics, have been developed as recombinant host systems for commercial production of heterologous proteins. One such ... -
Engineering the N-Glycosylation Pathway in Pichia Pastoris for the Expression of Glycoprotein Hormones
(2018-01-15)Proteins, participating in a myriad of biological function, are at the core of all cellular activities occurring within living organisms. Therapeutic proteins, hence constitute a major part of the pharmaceutical industry. ...