Teaching

PG courses

Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CC50633)

Introduction to carbon capture, post-combustion capture, pre-combustion capture, CO2 emission sources, point sources like coal, cement and petrochemicals, direct air capture, BECCS, current technologies for carbon capture, advanced techniques for carbon capture: adsorption-based carbon capture, membrane-based carbon capture; storage options including EOR, ECBMR, saline aquifers, basaltic formations; Utilization pathways including but not limited to green urea, building materials, food and beverages, chemicals and polymers. Laboratory sessions on surface area measurement, adsorption and membrane based separation.

Nanoporous materials (MS5493)

Introduction to porous materials, nomenclature, classification of porous materials, structure property relationships, important classes of porous materials, carbon based porous materials, metal-organic frameworks, zeolites, other nanoporous materials, common synthesis techniques for MOFs, zeolits and carbon nanomaterials, common characterization techniques including adsorption isotherms and its classifications, BET technique, brief overview of diffraction and microscopy applied to porous materials, overview of selected applications like gas separation, adsorption etc.

UG courses

X-ray Diffraction (MS2213)

Diffraction: Fundamentals of Diffraction, X-rays - production - white and monochromatic X-rays, Laue diffraction - Reciprocal lattice - Ewald sphere construction - Bragg’s law - Structure Factor - Various Geometries in X-ray diffraction -indexing diffraction pattern, calculation of lattice parameters - Determination of strain - particle size - Introduction to planar diffraction - Reciprocal space mapping - Diffraction from thin films and low dimensional structures. Lab component: Introduction to structural refinement using powder diffraction patterns- strain- particle size calculation.

Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing (MS2280)

Generalized conservation principles for momentum, heat, and mass transfer - coupling between conservation and constitutive relations; Mathematical basis of transport phenomena: basics of vector and tensor calculus; Control volume method and concepts of shell balance. Dimensional analysis in transport processes - introducing key dimensionless parameters in momentum, heat, and mass transfer. Fluid Mechanics: Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids; Navier Stokes equations for fluid flow -simplifications for one-dimensional flow; Exact solutions in simple geometries; Boundary layer description of flow near surfaces; laminar flow and turbulence. Heat and Mass Transfer: basics of heat transfer - conduction, convection and radiation; basics of mass transfer - diffusion in fluids and solids; control volume methods for transport of heat and species - steady and transient states; Heat and mass transfer problems for simple geometries. Coupling between momentum, heat and mass transfer - empirical correlations, dimensional analysis. Applications of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer in materials processing - crystal growth, fiber drawing, casting, film growth during chemical vapor deposition, doping in semiconductors, bulk and surface heat treatment.