Prof. Ramagopal V. S. Uppaluri
Professor
Key Research Areas :Process Engineering – Solar pumps; Process-product engineering – Rural concrete applications of agricultural waste; Value-added and Low-cost food and functional food products; Product Design – Ayurvedic and Horticultural products; Waste to value products; Computational – AI & ML based studies of green house gas emissions and food science and technology data systems; Indian knowledge systems – Internal Security studies; Spirituality & Digital Media; Environmental Ethics; Vedanta and Science, Consciousness studies
- Phone No: + 91 361 258 2260
- Email: ramgopalu@iitg.ac.in
- Room No: 106
Dr. Ramagopal V. S. Uppaluri
Professor (Equivalent to Higher Academic Grade)
Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati
Guwahati, Assam, India – 781039
Ph: +913612582260
Fax: +91361258 2291
Mobile: +919957561840
Email: ramgopalu@iitg.ac.in
| Affiliation at IITG |
1. Department of Chemical Engineering
2. School of Agro and Rural Technology
3. Center for the Environment
4. Center for Indian Knowledge Systems
5. Center for Sustainable Water Research
Research
Ongoing Research
Experimental
- Process Engineering - Solar pumps
- Process-Product Engineering – Rice husk based nano/micro silica and carbon for rural concrete applications
- Product Design – Turmeric milk-extract formulations; Dry Ayurvedic Milk & Kwath extract formulations; Potassium carbonate impregnated zeolites for CO2 seperation; Functional tea product development; Bio-char for pesticide mitigation in north-east India
Computational Research
AI & ML Applications: Prediction and forecasting of greenhouse gas and particular matters emissions; Applications of AI & ML in Food Science and Technology
Indian Knowledge Systems
IKS based Internal Security studies; Spirituality & Digital Media studies; IKS and Environmental Ethics; Yoga and Theism; Consciousness Studies; Vedanta and Science; Value-education
Past Research
- Process Engineering – Bio-mass Pyrolysis
- Process-product Engineering – Elephant grass-based bio-ethanol, cellulose, and lignin based value-added product development; Multi-heavy removal from waste streams using chitosan-based derivatives; Jeevamrutha bio-fertilizer; Refractance Window Drying based turmeric powder products; Ultrasound-assisted extraction based horticultural extracts; Ceramic membrane-based vegetable processing applications; Chitosan derivative and activated charcoal-based Pd adsorption from synthetic electroless plating solutions; Microfiltration of oil-water emulsions and fruit juices using low-cost ceramic membranes; Mass transfer enhanced electroless plating processes; Surfactant Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Product Design – Ready to Cook Mixed vegetable Soup formulations; Ready to eat Papaya based Cookies; Catechins based functional tea product; Ready to eat Squash, Pumpkin and Papaya based Chips; Pt-V and Ru-V catalysis for green production of bio-energy products; Low cost ceramic and polymer-ceramic membranes; PVA-Starch based wound dressing films; Electroless plating based silver composite membranes; Electroless plating based Pd composite membranes; Polymer-natural fiber composites
- Computational - Machine learning applications for large scale municipal solid waste management, Modeling, and Optimization of hole cleaning process in oil/gas drilling operations; Differential evolution based optimization of MSF, RO and hybrid MSF-RO processes; Inverse analysis of transient conduction-radiation phenomena; Virtual Labs
