Particulate Drying
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Mukund Haribhau Bade holds a PhD in energy modeling and process integration from Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. He has over 24 years of teaching and research experience in various technical institutes. He is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, SV National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India. His main research interests are energy management, energy analysis and modeling, pinch analysis, drying technology including superheated steam drying, and pump as turbine for micro-hydro applications, etc. He has published more than 50 articles in reputed international journals and conferences. He works as a reviewer for many reputed journals, like Energy Conversion and Management, Drying Technology, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, etc. In addition, he is also working on funded projects related to energy analysis and modeling for performance enhancements including textile dryers. He has mentored over four PhD students and guided projects of many master and undergraduate students.
Sachin Vinayak Jangam is a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. He has worked on mathematical modeling and experimental analysis of industrial drying of various products as a major part of his PhD thesis. He then worked as a research fellow at the Minerals, Metals and Materials Technology Center at NUS, developing cost-effective drying techniques for minerals. He has published several research articles, review papers, book chapters on drying and related fields. He is a coauthor of a book on foundational concepts of chemical engineering and edited several free e-books on drying. His current work focuses on drying, energy minimization, and pedagogy in chemical engineering education. He has been part of the editorial team of the archival journal Drying Technology (Taylor & Francis) since 2015.
Arun Sadashiv Mujumdar holds a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University, Canada, and Doctor Honoris Causa from Lodz Technical University, Poland, University of Lyon, France, and Western University, Canada. He was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS), following a long tenure as Professor of Chemical Engineering at McGill University, Canada. He has mentored over 100 PhD students at several universities and published over 600 peer reviewed papers which have attracted over 55,000 citations. He is author of three books and 70 edited books on heat and mass transfer, drying and mathematical modeling in transport processes. He holds honorary professorships in several universities. His research areas are transport phenomena, thermal management of fuel cells and battery stacks, energy systems, dewatering and drying and innovative drying processes in diverse industries, including foods, paper, products of biological origin, minerals, pharmaceuticals, sludge, etc.