Chemical Engineering

Complete Plant Design of Acrylic Acid

Designed, simulated and optimised a complete plant design for the production of acryclic acid with raw materials on ASPEN HYSYS and MATLAB. Successfully tuned the plant for optimal performance with minimum cost and robustness to raw material stream fluctuations.

Macroscopic model for Transdermal Drug Delivery

Developed a macroscopic model of skin's upper layer (Stratum Corneum) to study transdermal drug delivery and effectiveness of electroporation on drug transfer.

Numerical Study of SiO2 Burner profiles

Performed a numerical study of SiO2 burner profiles simulating a burner flame and calculating the flame temperature profile and species distribution in the flame.

Numerical Investigation of Nanoparticle Precipitation in Y-Mixers

Performed a simulation study of nanoparticle precipitation in 2D and 3D Y-mixers solving the population balance equation. The study included fluid flow and tracer analysis using both C++ and palabos library.

PID Characteristics

Studied the control characteristics of a process with temperature scaling. Tuned the parameters using PID tuning on MATLAB.

Centrifugal Pump Characteristics

Studied the control characteristics of the centrifugal pump system. Derived the transfer function for flow rate and discharge pressure from the response of a step change in RPM and verified the same by further experimentation. Also, calculated the optimum RPM operation point for the Pump setup.