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Siddharth Chatterjee

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Tufts University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Koch Engineering Company

ORCID iD 0000-0002-6908-2214
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Dr. Siddharth G. Chatterjee received his Bachelor's Degree in Technology (Honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and MS and PhD degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA, all in Chemical Engineering. He has taught courses on air pollution engineering, water pollution engineering, engineering economics, engineering design, mathematical methods in chemical engineering, numerical methods, ordinary and partial differential equations for engineers and scientists, mass and energy balances, unit process operations, air quality, thermodynamics and heat transfer, bioprocess engineering design, introduction to process engineering, introduction to industrial bioprocessing, and chemical engineering thermodynamics. He has worked in the areas of hydraulic design of tray and packed towers, hydraulic design of mist eliminators and liquid distributor, process and fluid-flow simulation, air and water pollution control, gas absorption, membrane filtration, adsorption, distillation, renewable energy (production of biodiesel and biogas), moisture transport in paper, evaporative cooling, and autohydrolysis of wood. His research interests are in the areas of philosophy of science, air and water pollution control, alternative energy, heat and mass transfer, separation processes, reaction engineering, mathematical modeling, and simulation. He is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, USA. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), Member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, and served as Adjunct Professor and Visiting Faculty in the School of International Education at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China. He is co-holder of the US patent: Process for Making Biodiesel from Crude Tall Oil, has served as reviewer for and has numerous publications in international journals in diverse areas of chemical engineering, and is the author/coauthor of the following books:

• Applications of the Surface Renewal Model of Mass Transfer, H. Huang and S. G. Chatterjee, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, ISBN: 978-1-394-31282-5, December 2025. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/shop/general-introductory-chemical-engineering/applications-of-the-surface-renewal-model-of-mass-transfer-p-9781394312825

• Journey of a Chemical Engineer – A Collection of Scientific Abstracts, S. G. Chatterjee, Best Books, Kolkata, India, ISBN: 978-81-7926-185-9, January 2015.

• When Worlds Unite – East meets West, S. Chatterjee and M. Wyles, SONTA, Kolkata, India, 2012.

Employment

  • SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Associate Professor Emeritus
    2001 - 2023
  • SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Assistant Professor
    1994 - 2001
  • Tufts University Adjunct Professor
    1993 - 1994
  • Koch Engineering Company Senior Project Engineer
    1989 - 1993
  • Syracuse University Research Associate
    1987 - 1989

Education

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute PhD
    1985 - 1987
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute MS
    1982 - 1985
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur B.Tech. (Hons.)
    1977 - 1982

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Publications (48)