IITKGP

Gour Gopal Roy

Professor

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

+91-3222-283276

ggroy@metal.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

Research on iron & Steel Processing: Alternative routes of iron making using RHF: One of the major research interests of the author is towards selecting operating parameters based on rigorous experiments in laboratory scale RHF and process models and subsequently scale it up to pilot scale. The author has demonstrated the significant effect of the shapes of pre-fabricated iron ore coal composite pellet on the iron nugget formation at RHF. Attempts is being made to enhance the heat and mass conductance of the thicker bed by tailoring size, shape distribution of pellets, additives etc.  A MoS sponsored SDF project of worth 54 lakhks has been completed and recently and MHRD-MoS-ASP sponsored UAY project (worth 741 lakhs) is ongoing on the pilot scale RHF setup at ASP, Durgapur, SAIL for processing Iron ore and coal fines of Indian origin.   
Another prime area of research of the author is on reduction and control of NMI in steel.  Rigorous characterization of NMI in steel, and its control by controling operating parameters in upstream processing of steel are aimed in this project, which has been formulated in collaboration between IIT Kgp-HEC-DHI as a part of CoE on advanced manufacturing at IIT Kharagpur.  The author has also collaboration with Vizag steel, and WMG, UK towards inclusion control in steel.  
The author is also involved seriously in Welding Research.  The author has been instrumental as one of the PIs in developing an indigenous Electron Beam Welding (EBW) setup at IIT Kharagpur in collaboration with BARC & BRNS. The author has worked intensely with the research group at Pennsylvania State University, to develop an indigenous CFD code for fusion welding for steels.  The author is also working with WMG, UK towards understanding evolution of welding defects during EBW. 
  • Three-dimensional Heat and Material Flow during Friction Stir Welding of Mild Steel Nandan R., Linert T. J., Roy G. G., Debroy T. By Acta. Materialia 55 883-895 (2007)
  • Influence of burner nozzle configuration, and inlet gas composition on combustion, gas dynamics, temperature and concentration profile in a rotary hearth furnace Saleem S., Roy G. G. By Ironmaking & Steelmaking 1-13 (2020)
  • Effect of beam oscillation on electron beam welding of copper with AISI-304 stainless steel Kar J., Roy S. K., Roy G. G. By Journal of Materials Processing Technology 233 174-185 (2016)
  • Mathematical modeling of heat transfer, fluid flow and solidification during linear welding with a pulsed laser beam Roy G. G., Elmer J. W., Debroy T. By Journal of Applied Physics 100 1-7 (2006)
  • 3D imaging and quantification of porosity in electron beam welded dissimilar steel to Fe-Al alloy joints by X-ray tomography Dinda S. K., Warnett J. M., Williams M. A., Roy G. G., Srirangam P. By Materials & Design 96 224-231 (2016)
  • An Improved Model of Cored Wire Injection in Steel Melts Sanyal S., Chandra S. , Kumar S. , Roy G. G. By ISIJ International 44 1157-1166 (2004)
  • Efficacy and recovery of calcium during CaSi cored wire injection in steel melts Basak S., Dhal R. K., Roy G. G. By Ironmaking & Steelmaking 37 161-168 (2010)
  • Effect of Amount of Carbon on the Reduction Efficiency of Iron Ore-Coal Composite Pellets in Multi-layer Bed Rotary Hearth Furnace (RHF) Mishra S., Roy G. G. By Metallurgical & Materials Transaction B 47B 2347-2356 (2016)
  • Application of genetic Algorithm (GA) to estimate the rate parameters for solid state reduction of iron ore in presence of graphite Chowdhary G. M., Roy G. G. By Computational Materials Science 45 176-180 (2009)
  • In situ Observation of Calcium Oxide Treatment of Inclusions in Molten Steel by Confocal Microscopy Khurana B., Spooner S. , Rao M. , Roy G. G. By Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B 48 1409-1415 (2017)

Principal Investigator

  • Charge for XRD and FESEM at DHI CoE AMT
  • Development of Rotary Hearth Furnace Technology for Treating Off Grade Iron Ore Fines of Indian Origin Including Magnetite Ore (UAY_I_IITKGP_018)
  • Exploring the potential of rare earth elements (REE) as inclusion modifier towards the production of inclusion-critical special-grade low carbon micro-alloyed steel
  • Laser-Assisted Additive Manufacturing of Steel (LAMS)

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Exploring Solutions for Various Technological Challenges in Metal Additive Manufacturing Technology and Sharing the Relevant Know-how with Indian Heavy Engineering Industries Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
  • Exploring Solutions for Various Technological Challenges in Metal Additive Manufacturing Technology and Sharing the Relevant Know-how with Indian Heavy Engineering Industries Department of Heavy Industries (DHI)
  • Selection of Raw Materials for Additive Manufacturing Applications in Relation to the Design Requirements; and Life Cycle Analysis of Additive Manufacturing Process for Different Materials Department of Heavy Industries (DHI)
  • Selection of Raw Materials for Additive Manufacturing Applications in Relation to the Design Requirements; and Life Cycle Analysis of Additive Manufacturing Process for Different Materials TATA SONS PRIVATE LIMITED

Ph. D. Students

Aakash Rathore

Area of Research: Advanced Joining of Materials

Aryan

Area of Research: Exergy analysis of steelmaking processes

Ashish Agrawal

Area of Research: Alternative Routes of Ironmaking

Banty Kumar

Area of Research: Alternative Routes of Ironmaking

Deepak Kumar Sahu

Area of Research: Waste utilization of steel plant

Jeetendra Kumar Singh

Area of Research: Advanced Joining of Materials

Lin Prakash P. S.

Area of Research: deformation of electron beam welded titanium sheets

Nachiketa Yadav

Area of Research: Inclusion evolution and control during forging in Steel

Parth Khandelwal

Area of Research: Structure-Property Correlation of Metallic Solids Developed by Laser Additive Manufacturing

Pradeepchandkopila

Area of Research: Estimation and prediction of Residual stress in electron beam welded steel samples

Raj Kumar Yadav

Area of Research: steelmaking

Shaik Saida

Area of Research: Extractive Metallurgy

Shaik Salam Basha

Area of Research: lase & electron beam welding of dissimilar materials

Shailesh Priyadarshi

Area of Research: Reduction kinetics of iron ore coal composite pellets in Rotary hearth Furnace

Vasundhara Singh

Area of Research: Physical Metallurgy