RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Process Intensification

• Separation processes

• Multiphase Reactor

• Heat & mass transfer

• Solar energy

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Rao, D.P., Sivakumar, S.V., Mandal, S., Kota, S. and Ramaprasad, B.S.G., “Novel simulated moving-bed adsorber for the fractionation of gas mixtures”, J. Chromatography, in press. http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0021967304014293 

•  Rao D. P., A. Bhowal, and P. S. Goswami, “Process Intensification in Rotating Packed Beds (HIGEE): An Appraisal, I&EC Research, 43, 1150-1162 (2004)

• Sivalingam G., M. Radhika, D. P. Rao, and M. S. Rao, Process intensification in a model trickle-bed reactor, I&EC Research, 41, 3139-3144 (2002)

• Rao D.P., C. V. Goutami and S. Jain, “A direct method for incorporation of tray-efficiency matrix in simulation of multicomponent separation processes,” Computers and Chem. Engg, 25, 1141-1152 (2001)

• Sandilya P., G. Biswas D.P. Rao, and A. Sharma, “Numerical simulation of the gas flow    and mass transfer between two coaxially rotating disks”, Numerical Heat Transfer (Part-A), 39, 285-305 (2001)

• Sandilya P., D.P. Rao, A Sharma and G. Biswas, “Gas-phase mass transfer in a centrifugal contactor”, I&EC Research, 40, 384-392, 2001

• Rao D. P., “The futility of raffinate reflux revisited,” Can. J. Chem. Eng., 77, 74, (1999)

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