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Prof. Ramya Araga

PhD (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)

Assistant Professor Gr-I

Department of Chemical Engineering

Room No: 303   +91-870-2462620
ramyaaraga@nitw.ac.in
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Research Areas

 Carbon & Polymer based Nanomaterials 

 Energy Storage Devices 

 Photocatalysis 

 Wastewater Treatment 

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  • Current PhD Students
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  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Pollution Control in Process Industries(CH304)
  • Design Thinking(CH1101)
  • Summer/Research Internship/EPICS Project(CH449)
  • Project Work(CH499)
  • Process Instrumentation(CH255)
  • Project(CHH01)
  • Nanotechnology(CH316)
  • Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory(CH259)
  • Minor Research Project(CH355)
  • Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics-I(CH204)
  • Industrial Safety and Hazard Mitigation(CH257)
  • Chemical Reaction Engineering-II(CH254)
  • ORC ID: 0000-0002-2970-8323
  • Google Scholar ID: jEBgO-YAAAAJ&hl


  • Synthesis and preliminary evaluation of Ag-TiO2/CNT hybrid nanocomposite for the degradation of polystyrene microplastics under solar irradiation, By Bhagya Lakshmi Chinnam, Chandra Shekhar Dasagiri, Ramya Araga, Springer, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, vol., pp., 2024
  • Hierarchically structured carbon nanofibers with embedded MXene and coated with cobalt oxide as a high-performance electrode for supercapacitors, By Kiran Dontula, Ramya Araga, Naresh Thota, Ramakrishna Seeram, Sundararajan Subramanian, Manohar Kakunuri, Elsevier, Journal of Energy Storage, vol.83, pp.110686, 2024
  • Flexible polyaniline/MXene/CNF composite nanofibrous mats as high-performance supercapacitor electrodes, By Kiran Donthula, Usha Rani Malothu, Ramya Araga, Ramsagar Vooradi, Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni, MV Reddy, Manohar Kakunuri, WILEY, Polymer Composites, vol.44 (11), pp.7571-7584, 2023
  • Amine functionalized electrospun cellulose nanofibers for fluoride adsorption from drinking water, By Ramya Araga, Chandra S. Sharma, Springer, Journal of Polymers and the Environment, vol.27 (4), pp.816-826, 2019
  • Coconut-shell derived carbon/carbon nanotube composite for fluoride adsorption from aqueous solution, By Ramya Araga, Suresh Kali, Chandra S. Sharma, WILEY, CLEAN-Soil, Air, Water, vol.47 (5), pp.1800286, 2019
  • Fluoride adsorption from aqueous solution using activated carbon obtained from KOH-treated jamun (Syzygium cumini) seed, By Ramya Araga, Shantanu Soni, Chandra S. Sharma, Elsevier, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, vol.5 (6), pp.5608-5616, 2017
  • Low temperature catalyst assisted pyrolysis of polymer precursors to carbon, By Ramya Araga, Suresh Kali, Chandra S. Sharma, Springer, Bulletin of Materials Science, vol.40 (7), pp.1519-1527, 2017
  • One step direct synthesis of multiwalled carbon nanotubes from coconut shell derived charcoal, By Ramya Araga, Chandra S. Sharma, Elsevier, Materials Letters, vol.188, pp.205-207, 2017

Stearic acid blended polystyrene electrospun nanofibrous membrane embedded with exfoliated graphite for the separation of oil-water emulsions from produced water

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor NTTM, Ministry of Textiles
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 3906016
  • Status Ongoing

Fabrication of cellulose acetate-metal doped TiO2 nanoparticles based reusable hybrid membrane for photocatalytic degradation of organic dye

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Research Seed Grant, MHRD
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 480000
  • Status Completed


Bhagya Lakshmi Chinnam

  • Area of Research: Photocatalytic degradation of aqueous phase pollutants
  • PIC-Student (Female) Grievances (Continuing from July, 2023)
  • Ladies Hostel Warden (April, 2022 - March, 2024)
  • Faculty Advisor (Continuing from March, 2022)
  • PIC-Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRE) Laboratory (September, 2021 - March, 2024)
  • PIC-Industrial Training/Internship Coordinator (September, 2020 - September, 2021)