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Prof. P Venkata Suresh

PhD (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)

Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

Room No: 010   +91-870-2462628
pvsuresh@nitw.ac.in
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Research Areas

 Chemical Looping Combustion - CO2 capture technology 

 Computational Fluid Dynamics 

 Flow Batteries 

 Fuel cells  

 Hydrogen Generation Technologies 

 Sustainable Energy Technologies  

  • Courses Handled
  • Research IDs
  • Selected Publications
  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Elements of Transport Phenomena(CH302)
  • Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering Lab(CH306)
  • Flow Modelling and Simulation Laboratory(CH16008)
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics(CH16002)
  • Seminar-1(CH5341)
  • Control System Design(CH5278)
  • Control Engineering(CH5277)
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics(CH5153)
  • Flow Modelling and Simulation Laboratory(CH5155)
  • Applied Time Series Analysis(CH5276)
  • Membrane Technology(CH373)
  • Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery(CH371)
  • Chemical Process Utilities(CH372)
  • Dissertation Work Part - B(CH6199)
  • Dissertation Work Part - B(CH6299)
  • ORC ID: 0000-0003-0153-2036
  • SCOPUS ID: 57194024244
  • Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pdQ2o8MAAAAJ&hl=en


  • Three-dimensional thermal-electrochemical-hydrodynamic numerical study of vanadium redox flow battery with different flow fields and non-homogeneously compressed electrode, By Snigdha Saha, Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni, Kranthi Kumar Maniam, Shiladitya Paul , Elsevier, Journal of Energy Storage, vol.100, pp.113507, 2024
  • 3-Dimensional numerical study on carbon based electrodes for vanadium redox flow battery, By Snigdha Saha, Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni, Elsevier, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, vol.968, pp.118477, 2024
  • Performance assessment of novel nanofibrous Fe2O3/Al2O3 oxygen carriers for chemical looping combustion of gaseous fuel, By Shailesh Singh Sikarwar, Kiran Donthula, Ramsagar Vooradi, Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni, Manohar Kakunuri, Springer, Chemical Papers, vol.78, pp.1709-1717, 2023
  • Hydrodynamic and Electrochemical Analysis of Compression and Flow Field Designs in Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries, By Snigdha Saha, Kranthi Kumar Maniam, Shiladitya Paul, Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni, MDPI, Energies, vol.16, pp.6311, 2023
  • Binder-free Ruthenium Oxide/MXene/Carbon Nanofiber Ternary Composite Electrode for Supercapacitors, By Kiran Donthula, Ramsagar Vooradi, Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni, Manohar Kakunuri, IOP Science, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, vol.170, pp.030508, 2023
  • Hot spot Identification in PEM Fuel cell and its Purging Strategies, By Ramakant Gadhewal, Sunil Kumar Thamida, Venu Vinod Ananthula, Venkata Suresh Patnaikun, Springer, Chemical Papers, vol.76, pp.1199-1211, 2022
  • CO2 capture and utilization from Supercritical Coal Direct Chemical Looping Combustion Power Plant - Comprehensive analysis of different case studies, By Surywanshi Gajanan Dattarao, Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni, Ramsagar Vooradi, Manohar Kakunuri, Elsevier, Applied Energy, vol.304, pp.117915, 2021
  • scheduling model framework for crane-assisted pipeless process plants, By Aravind S, Ulaganathan Nallasivam, Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni, Gautham Madenoor Ramapriya, ACS, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol.60, pp.16345-16362, 2021
  • Enhanced Cross-Flow Split Serpentine Flow Field design for square cross-sectional Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel cell, By Sheikh Abdulla, Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni, Elsevier, Electrochimica Acta, vol.391, pp.138884, 2021
  • 4-E and life cycle Analyses of a Supercritical Coal Direct Chemical Looping Combustion Power Plant with Hydrogen and Power Co-generation, By Surywanshi Gajanan Dattarao, Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni, Ramsagar Vooradi, Sarath Babu Anne, Elsevier, Energy, vol.217, pp.119418, 2021

Design and development of ethanol based chemical looping water splitting configuration for green hydrogen production

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor SERB-CRG
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 3085764
  • Status Ongoing

Design and Development of exfoliated carbon cathode based 100 AH prismatic Al-ion cells

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor HBL Power Systems Ltd., Hyderabad
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 6979000
  • Status Ongoing

Design and operation of chemical looping combustion of coal and biomass for clean energy production with CO2 capture

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor SERB under CRG
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 2952400
  • Status Ongoing

Development of low-cost indigenous oxygen carriers with high redox cyclic stability for Chemical Looping Combustion of high ash Indian coals

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor SPARC
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 4043920
  • Status Ongoing

Design and Development of indigenous membrane-less water electrolysis system

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Kellton Tech Solutions Ltd.
  • Duration 11 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1188000
  • Status Ongoing

Development of 10 kW/50 kWh Redox Flow Battery System for Solar PV Applications

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor DST under IMPRINT
  • Duration 37 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 19800000
  • Status Completed

Design and Development of Passive Direct Methanol Fuel Cell integrated with Liquid Electrolyte for Portable Power Applications

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor SERB under EMR
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1946000
  • Status Completed

Theoretical and Experimental studies on Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) of Indian coal

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor SERB, GoI
  • Duration 41 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 2807000
  • Status Completed

Theoretical and Experimental Studies on flow field designs for PEM Fuel cells

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor NITW Research Seed Money
  • Duration 12 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 500000
  • Status Completed

Development of a Practitioners information package on "Developments in Chemical Looping Technology worldwide"

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor TREC-STEP, TIruchhirappalli
  • Duration 12 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 168000
  • Status Completed


Snigdha Saha

  • Area of Research: Vanadium redox flow batteries - CFD modeling
  • Associate Editor
  • Best paper award
  • GE Ecomagination Excellence Award
  • IIChE Ambuja's Young Researcher's Award
  • Managing Guest Editor
  • Head, Department of Chemical Engineering (November, 2022 - June, 2024)
  • NBA Coordinator, UG program (September, 2021 - July, 2023)
  • Associate Dean (Academic-PG&R) (July, 2021 - January, 2022)
  • Coordinator, Curriculum Revision of M.Tech Chemical Engineering (June, 2021 - May, 2022)
  • Associate Dean (Academic-PG) (June, 2020 - July, 2021)
  • Coordinator, Department Colloguium (July, 2019 - August, 2020)
  • PhD Coordinator (July, 2019 - August, 2020)
  • Member, NIRF Core Team (November, 2018 - December, 2022)
  • Member, Library Advisory Committee (June, 2018 - July, 2019)
  • Faculty-In-Charge, Fluid and Particle Mechanics Laboratory (May, 2014 - September, 2021)
  • Treasurer, Chemical Engineering Association (October, 2013 - June, 2019)