Categoria Profissional (Professional Category):Researcher

Habilitações Académicas (Academic Qualifications):

• B.Tech (Chemical Engg.), Calicut University, Kerala
• M.Tech (Chemical Engg.), Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
• Ph.D. (Chemical Engg.), Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India

Actividades (Activities)

Áreas de I, D e T em que se insere: (Areas do INETI) (Areas of INETI):

• Modeling Research activities in hydrogen generation and storage for fuel cell applications, fuel cell modeling and carbon dioxide capture from power plant flue gas.
• Collaborative research work on energy related issues, including industrial and bench-scale process design and integration studies in order to promote energy economy and rationalization.

Áreas de Interesse (Areas of Interest)

Domínio de especialização (Area of Expertise):

• Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Chemical Processes
• Adsorption Technology (Pressure Swing Adsorption)
• Kinetic Modeling of Automotive Exhaust Gas Catalysis
• Hydrogen Technology

Actuais interesses de investigação (Current Research Interests):

• Hydrogen generation and storage for fuel cell applications
• Fuel Cell Modelling Hybrid Separation Processes (Pressure Swing Adsorption and Membrane Separation)
• Reactive Separation Processes (Reaction Adsorption, Reaction Distillation)
• Carbon Dioxide Capture from Power Plant Flue Gas
• Hybrid hydrogen-carbon Dioxide Separation Systems

Projectos do DMS em que participa (Project Participating in the DMS):

• Development of optimization and simulation models of fuel cells and Hydrogen production reactors with aim to integrate computational techniques and tools with experimental results, in order to improve cells/reactors’ design and operation
• Study the release mechanism of Hydrogen “stored” in adequate compounds with and without the presence of catalysts
• Flow-Field Network Design of Bipolar Plates and Optimum Catalyst Layer Design for cost reduction and performance enhancement of PEM fuel cells.

Elementos Adicionais: (opcional) (Additional Elements :Optional)

• Project Manager, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.
• Research Professor, Deapartment of Chemical Engineering, Hankyong National University, Anseong, South Korea.
• Senior Research Associate, Chemical Engineering Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.
• Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• Senior Project Engineer, Computer Aided Design Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.
• Asst. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Tecgnology and Science (B.I.T.S), Pilani, Rajasthan, India.

Publicações recentes (Recent Publications):

Capítulos de livros (Book Chapter)

• Sharma, S.K; Retnamma, R ; (2000) “Wastewater treatment for heavy metal pollution abatement”, Goel, P.K., (ed.), Advancement in Wastewater Treatment, India, ABD Publisher, Chapter 8.

Artigos em revistas internacionais com arbitragem científica (International Journals)

• Retnamma, Rajasree; Kumar, V, Ravi and Kulkarni, D, Bhaskar; (2006) “Performance enhancement of steam methane reforming using tubular packed-bed microreactors and dilution by adsorbent”, Energy & Fuels, 20(2), 2006, 463-472.
• Retnamma, Rajasree; Hoebink, J.H.B., Jozef, Schouten, C, Jaap; (2004) “Transient kinetics of carbon monoxide oxidation by oxygen over supported palladium/ceria/zirconia three-way catalyst in the absence and presence of water and carbon dioxide” Journal of Catalysis, 223, 36-43.
• Retnamma, Rajasree; Moharir, S, Arun; (2000) “ Simulation based synthesis, design and optimization of pressure swing adsorption processes”, Comput. Chem. Engg., 24 (11) 2493-2505.

Publicações em actas de encontros científicos

• Retnamma, Rajasree; Lim, Youngil; Kim, Seong-Joon; Yoo, Kyung-Seun; (2007) ‘Kinetic Modeling of Decomposition of Urea Solution Used in Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (SNCR) of Nitrogen Oxides’, North American Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (NASCRE-2)’, 4 Feb -8 Feb, Houston, Texas, USA.
• Retnamma, Rajasree; Lim, Youngil; Park, Ho-Jae; Kim, Seong-Joon Kim; Yoo Kyung-Seun; (2007) ‘Kinetic Modeling of Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (SNCR) of Nitric Oxide Using Urea-Water Solution’, AIChE National Spring, 22 April - 27 April, Houston, Texas, USA.
• Retnamma, Rajasree; Lim, Youngil; Park, Ho-Jae; Kim, Seong-Joon Kim; Yoo Kyung-Seun; (2007), CFD Modeling of Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (SNCR) by Urea Solution in a Flow Reactor’, European Congress of Chemical Engineering – 6 (ECCE-6), 16 -20 Sep, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Lim, Youngil; Byeong-Tae, Ahn; Retnamma Rajasree, Hei-jung, Son, Jung-Hyun, Jin; Lee, Yeong-Hwan; (2006) ‘A Chromatographic Separation Simulation: FAST-Chrom/SMB, KIChE Fall meeting, Oct 27-28, Korea Uty, Seoul.
• Retnamma, Rajasree; Kumar, V, Ravi; Kulkarni, D, Bhaskar; 2005, “Performance enhancement of steam methane reforming in tubular packed-bed microreactors”, AIChE annual meeting, 30 Oct - 4 Nov., Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
•  Retnamma, Rajasree; Moharir, S, Arun; (1994) “Computer aided synthesis, design and optimization of pressure swing adsorption processes’, paper presented in the conference, ADVANCES IN Chemical Engineering, organized by Department of Atomic Energy, 8 June -11 June, Bombay, India.