IITKGP

Jayanta Chakraborty

Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering

+91-3222-283950

jayanta@che.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Vice-Chairman, Technology Aquatic Society

Research Areas

  • Scalable synthesis of nanomaterials
  • Modeling of colloidal systems
  • Nanomaterials for solar energy
  • DEM Simulations

The broad area of research for JCLABS is particle technology. The size range of interest is from nano to micro and a variety of application areas including nanofluid, solid lubricant, polymer additives and viral growth are addressed. We understand how particles behave and believe that similar principles can be applied to solve a range of problems. Our application areas spans from large scale industrial operations such as cleaning of spent sulfuric acids to making branched zinc oxide nanostructures for solar cells. A few prominant areas on which we are currently working are:

  1. Synthesis of copper nanostructures:Synthesis and stabilization of very small (sub 10 nm) oxidation resistant copper nanopowder. Colloidal superlattices. Large scale and continuous synthesis.

    Copper Nanofluids: Synthesis and modeling.

    Oxide nanomaterials. Copper oxide and silicon dioxide nanoparticles are being produced in large scale using conventional chemical engineering processes.

    Modeling and simulation of particulate systems: Population Balance Modeling, Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation and Discrete Element Method. 
  • Gram-scale green synthesis of copper nanowire powder for nanofluid applications Maji N. C., Chakraborty J. By ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 7 12376-12388 (2019)
  • Role of dye-induced corrosion in determining the efficiency of ZnO-based DSSC: the case of ZnO nanoforest in N719 Ghosh S., Sartape R. , Chakraborty J. By Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 31 1-19 (2020)
  • A structured review of baculovirus infection process: integration of mathematical models and biomolecular information on cell virus interaction Saxena A., Byram P. K., Singh S. K., Chakraborty J. , Murhammer D. , Giri L. By Journal of General Virology 99 1151-1171 (2018)
  • Engineering of Submicron Particles: Fundamental Concepts and Models Chakraborty J. By 0-204 (2019)
  • Inverse Problem in Population Balances: Determination of Aggregation Kernel by Weighted Residuals Chakraborty J., Kumar J. , Singh M. , Mahoney A. , Ramkrishna D. By Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 54 10530-10538 (2015)

Principal Investigator

  • Coarsegrained CFD-DEM-PBM simulations of industrial granulating beds
  • Process Design for Production of di-isobutylene
  • Zonal Refinement Strategy to Expedite DEM Simulation of Fine Powder Flow
  • Zonal Refinement Strategy to Expedite DEM Simulation of Fine Powder Flow

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Assessment of the Spirit Accounting Systems at various FL Manufactories and CS Bottling plants of West Bengal The Excise Commissioner, West Bengal
  • Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA), Emergency Plan and Disaster Management Plan for Dhenkanal Steel Plant RUNGTA MINES LIMITED

Ph. D. Students

Akanksha Rajput

Area of Research: Modeling of particulate systems

Anant Paswan

Area of Research: Computational catalysis

Ankita Sharma

Area of Research: Particulate system modeling

Archita Karar

Area of Research: Mathematical Modelling and Simulations

Arghya Singha Mahapatra

Area of Research: Discrete Element Method Simulation

Mahto Lokeshwar Raghu

Area of Research: DEM Simulation

Milan Kumar Mandal

Area of Research: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Niharika Mehra

Area of Research: Mathematical Modelling and Simulations

Prakhar Verma

Area of Research: Computational and experimental study on energy materials

Shekhar Kumar

Area of Research: Nanomaterial production and application

Shreyasi Mallick

Area of Research: Population Balance Modeling