May 4, 2020
Dr. R. Parthiban – Professor
chemical
Dr. R. Parthiban, Professor in the Chemical Engineering department has 27 years of teaching experience and 2 ½ years of industrial experience.
He received his B.Tech Chemical Engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore during 1990 and M.Tech Chemical Engineering Plant Design from National Institute of Technology (Regional Engineering College), Tiruchirappalli, Bharathidasan University during 1994.
He received his Ph D in Studies on “Tapered Fluidized Anaerobic Bio Reactor for the treatment of wastewater’ from Central Leather Research Institute, Anna University Chennai in the year 2008.
He has an industrial experience of 2 years in SIV Industries Ltd and around one year in Neycer (I) Ltd. He worked for a year in SASTRA, Thanjavur, (Shanmugha College of Engineering).
Before joining SSNCE, he worked in Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, (SVCE) Pennalur, Sriperumbudur Tk., during 1996 – 2015. He has worked in various capacities as Lecturer, Head of the Department, Vice Principal and Principal. During his tenure at SVCE, he was instrumental in setting up of all the laboratories in Chemical Engineering department. Under his guidance the department has received “IIChE Best Student Chapter Award” for seven times consecutively from 2006 to 2013.
He has received CTS – SVCE Best Faculty Award – 2014 for the outstanding performance for the academic year 2013- 14. He has completed the AICTE – RPS project for an amount of Rs. 4,77,700/- for the project “Dynamic modeling and control of direct alcohol-based PEM fuel cell” during February 2013 – October 2015.
He has also received a grant of Rs. 14,39,150/-from AICTE under Modernization and Removal of Obsolescence Scheme (MODROBS) for the project “Modernization of Heat Transfer Operations Laboratory during March 2012.
He was the Head of Chemical Engineering Dept, SSNCE for 6 years during Oct 2015 – Dec 2021. Under his guidance the department has received “IIChE Best Student Chapter Award” during 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
He is also the Chairman of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers – Chennai Regional Centre for the period 2021-23 and also Executive Committee member in Indian Institute of Plant Engineers during the period 2020-2022.
He has also received the following two grants from AICTE under Seminar grant for conducting:
- FDP on “Contemporary Research and Practices in Pollutant Elimination Systems towards Cleaner Environment”– organized during 20th– 26th May 2013. (Rs. 1,75,000)
- National Level Conference on “Advances in Computational Methods for the simulation of Transport Processes in Engineering”– organized during 24th – 26th June 2015. (Rs.1,80,000)
He is a Chartered Engineer (India) and Life Member of various professional bodies viz., The Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, The Indian Society for Technical Education, The Institution of Public Health Engineers, International Association of Engineers, Indian Water Works Association, Indian Institution of Plant Engineers, Energy & Fuel Users Association of India.
He has published over 58 research publications in refereed international and national journals and 10 papers in indexed conferences. He has also presented over 20 papers in national and international conferences.
He has authored 7 books and 2 book chapters.
He has guided 4 Ph.D. scholar and presently guiding one Ph.D. scholar. He is currently working in Convective Heat Transfer, Wastewater treatment and Fuel Cells.
He teaches Process Plant Utilities, Process Industries etc.
Publications
Some of the publications are.
- Sudha and R.Parthiban, (2020) “Synthesis and characterization of hybrid graphene nanocoolant for heat transfer dissipation in microchannel heat sinks” Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, ISSN:1004-9541, Vol.28, pp. 913-922. (SCI)
- Sivakumar, R. Parthiban, P.Senthil Kumar, A.Saravanan (2020), “Synthesis and characterization of ultrasonic assisted delonix regia seeds: modelling and application in dye adsorption” “Desalination and Water Treatment”, ISSN Print 1944-3994, ISSN Online 1944-3986 Vol. 173, pp. 427-441 (SCI)
- Eswary Devi and Parthiban Rangasamy, (2020) “Hydrothermal liquefaction of Nostoc ellipsosporum biomass grown in municipal wastewater under optimized conditions for bio-oil production” Bioresource Technology, ISSN: 0960-8524, Vol. 316, Article No. 123943 (IF 7.54) (SCI)
- Abhinaya, R. Parthiban, P. Senthil Kumar and Dai-Viet N. Vo, (2021) “A review on cleaner strategies for extraction of chitosan and its application in toxic pollutant removal” Environmental Research, Vol. 196, Article No. 110996, doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.110996, ISSN: 0013-9351(IF 5.71) (SCI)
- Govindarasu R, Sudha G and Parthiban R, (2021), “Study of Bridge Rectangular Fin Heat Sink and the Effect of Angle Change on CPU Cooling”, Tehnički vjesnik/Technical Gazette, 28 (5), pp. 1634-1639, https://doi.org/10.17559/TV-20200321065149, (Print: ISSN 1330-3651, Online: ISSN 1848-6339) (IF 0.78) (SCI)
- Senthil Rathi, P. Senthil Kumar, R. Parthiban, (2022), “A review on recent advances in electrodeionization for various environmental applications”, Chemosphere, Vol. 289, Article No. 133223, ISSN 0045-6535, doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.133223.
- Parkavi, R. Parthiban, P. Senthil Kumar, A. Chandramohan, K. Dinakaran, (2022), “Synthesis and characterization of 4-Halobenzylidene malanonitriles for optical detection of Nickel (II) ions in aqueous solution”, Chemosphere, Article No. 133248, ISSN 0045-6535, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.133248. (SCI)
- Parthiban R., Iyer P.V.R., and Sekaran G. (2007), ‘Anaerobic tapered fluidized bed reactor for starch wastewater treatment and modeling using multilayer perceptron neural network’, J. Environ. Sci. Vol.19, No.12, pp. 1416-1423, ISSN:1001-0742,
- Zsolt Csaba Johanyák, Parthiban R. and Sekaran G. (2007), ‘Fuzzy Modeling for an Anaerobic Tapered Fluidized Bed Reactor’, Transactions on Automatic Control and Computer Science, Scientific Bulletin of Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, Vol. 52 (66), No.2, pp. 67-72. ISSN 1224 – 600 X
- Parthiban R., (2011), ‘Biodegradation kinetics during different start up of the anaerobic tapered fluidized bed reactor’ Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 33, No.5, pp 539-544. ISSN: 01253395
- Parthiban R, LathaParthiban, Porselvam S and Ravindranath E (2012), ‘Multilayer perceptron modeling for UASB reactor treating tannery effluent’ International Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 2, No.3, pp. 1504 – 1511. ISSN 0976 – 4402
- Prabhu D and Parthiban R, (2012), ‘Fabrication of super paramagnetic Fe3O4 particles-polypyrrole-(PPY) for biomedical applications’, International Journal of Current Science., Vol 2, pp. 140 – 143. ISSN 2250 – 1770
- Govindarasu, R.,Parthiban R.,, Bhaba P.K., (2012), ‘Investigation of Flow Mal-distribution in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Stack’, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research, Vol.2, No.4, pp. 652 – 656. ISSN: 1309-0127
- Senthilkumar Ramalingam, Latha Parthiban, Parthiban Rangasamy, (2014) ‘Biosorption Modeling with Multilayer Perceptron for Removal of Lead and Zinc Ions Using Crab Shell Particles’, Arab J Sci Eng (2014) Vol.39. No.12, pp. 8465–8475, DOI 10.1007/s13369-014-1412-0, ISSN 1319-8025
- Thangamani Arumugam, Latha Parthiban and Parthiban Rangasamy, (2015) ‘Two-Phase Anaerobic Digestion Model of a Tannery Solid Waste: Experimental investigation and Modeling with ANFIS’, Arab J SciEng (2015) Vol. 40, No.2, pp. 279-288, DOI 10.1007/s13369-014-1408-9, ISSN 1319-8025
- Parthiban R., Iyer P.V.R. and Sekaran G., (2008) ‘Anaerobic Tapered Fluidized bed reactor for the treatment of Sago Industry Effluent’, Indian Chemical Engineer. Vol. 50, No.4, pp.323 – 333. ISSN–0019 –4506