Sustainable Energy Generation and Storage

Development of a Novel Drag-Based Vertical-Axis Wind Rotor Inspired from Orange Sea-Pen.- Study Of Gas-Liquid Flow In A Curved Microchannel For Sustainable Energy Application.-Design Of A Microreactor For Biodiesel Synthesis.-  Development Of Reforming Catalyst For Hydrogen Production And Its Suitability For Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell.- Mechanistic Aspects Of Enhanced Kinetics In Sonoenzymatic Processes Using Three Simultaneous Approaches.

Dr. Vijayanand Suryakant Moholkar (b. 1972) is a Professor (HAG) of Chemical Engineering and Adjunct Faculty at School of Energy Science and Engineering (erstwhile Centre for Energy) at Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Guwahati. He received B. Chem. Engg. (1993) and M. Chem. Engg. (1996) degrees in chemical engineering from Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly University Department of Chemical Technology, UDCT) Mumbai, followed by Ph.D. from University of Twente (Netherlands) in 2002. He has been Head of the Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Guwahati between 2012-2015, and Head of Centre for Energy, IIT Guwahati between 2017-2020. His main research interests are sonochemistry, cavitation assisted physical, chemical and biological processing, and thermo- and biochemical routes to biofuels. As of January 2023, he has published more than 195 papers in renowned international journals that have received more than 10500 citations (with h-index of 60 and i-10 index of 170). Heis co-inventor of 3 US patents (issued to CTI Nanotech, CA, USA) on application of hydrodynamic cavitation reactors for biomass pretreatment and bioalcohol synthesis. As of January 2023, he has graduated 26 Ph.D. and 34 M.Tech. students. He has been elected as Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in July 2016. He has also been elected as Fellow of Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) registered with Engineering Council of UK. He was admitted as Senior Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (MAIChE (Sr.)) in August 2016. His name has consistently featured in the list of world's top 2% scientists published  by Stanford University, USA for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022.


Dr. Kaustabha Mohanty is currently working as Professor and Head in the Department of Chemical Engineering and School of Energy Science and Engineering at IIT Guwahati. He completed his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur and worked as Post-Doctoral researcher in