Hari Desai

About

Pursuing PhD at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras.

Working on providing sustainable solutions to modern-day problems using naturally occurring materials as follows:
1. Formation of green pellets from powdered activated carbon.
2. Synthesis of a range of pillared clays with tunable physical and chemical properties
3. Wastewater treatment through adsorption using pillared clays, for single and multicomponent systems
4. Catalytic pyrolysis of plastic waste for circular economy
5. Studying mechanistic insights of various processes using Density Functional Theory

I am interested in applying the chemical engineering concepts of design and the innovative concepts that I learned during my research to solve modern-day problems faced in chemical and allied industries.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras DST INSPIRE Fellow
  2018 - Present

Education

• National Institute of Technology Durgapur Master of Technology
  2016 - 2018
• Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering Bachelor of Engineering
  2012 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (8)

• Sustainable and Circular Adsorption of Anionic Dye from Textile Wastewater Using Economical Adsorbent
  Separation Science and Technology 2024 DOI: 10.1080/01496395.2024.2319147
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• Sustainable synthesis of green adsorbent pellets with optimal attributes of capacity, strength, and cost from powdered activated carbon
  Powder Technology 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2023.118763
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• DFT studies on exposure of sulfur impregnated and sulfur functionalized activated carbon to Hg0 vapors
  Journal of Sulfur Chemistry 2023 DOI: 10.1080/17415993.2023.2236264
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• Sustainable and rapid pillared clay synthesis with applications in removal of anionic and cationic dyes
  Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2023.112488
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• Adsorption Of Organic Dye On Pillared Clays
  Internatioanl Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remidiation 2023 2023
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• Adsorption Of Organic Dye On Pillared Clays
  Proceedings of the World Congress on New Technologies 2023 DOI: 10.11159/icepr23.138
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• A DFT study on Ca-Alginate interactions with divalent transition metals
  Materials Today: Proceedings 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.matpr.2022.02.418
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• Synthesis of Pillared Clay Adsorbents and Their Applications in Treatment of Dye Containing Wastewater
  Polymer Technology in Dye-containing Wastewater 2022 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-1516-1_6
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