Dr. Prabu Vairakannu
Professor
Key Research Areas :Clean energy production, Pyrolysis, Combustion, Gasification and Liquefaction technologies, Energy and Exergy analysis, Carbon Sequestration
- Phone No: + 91 361 258 2279
- Email: v.prabu@iitg.ac.in
- Room No: 0004
Phone: +91 361 258 2279
Mail ID: v.prabu@iitg.ac.in
Room No. 210, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Chemical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 2012
Research Interest
- Critical minerals and Rare earth elements extraction
- Pyrometallurgy
- Hydrometallurgy
- Electrometallurgy
- Metal recovery from wastes (electronics and medical wastes)
- Thermal plasma based clean metal recovery
- Green solvent leaching for mineral recovery
- Chemical looping combustion
- Underground coal gasification and coalbed methane
- Co-gasification and co-pyrolysis of coal, biomass and municipal solid wastes (MSW)
- Carbon sequestration in coal beds
- Coal dissolution and liquefaction
- Energy and Exergy analyses on fuel based power generating system
- Food Processing Technologies - Microwave drying
Experience
- Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, August 2023 onwards
- Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, November 2018 - August 2023
- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, March 2013 - October 2018
- Senior Project Officer, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, May 2012 - March 2013
- Lecturer, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA University, June 2004 - November 2007
Courses Taught
- Chemical Reaction Engineering I
- Advanced Reaction Engineering
- Mass Transfer II
- Advanced Clean Fuel Technologies
- Chemical Technology
- Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory
- Mechanical Operation Laboratory
- Petroleum Laboratory
- Engineering Drawing Tutorials
