Energy and Power

Energy & Power is a journal publishing research and reviewing articles in all important aspects of energy and power engineering. Both experimental and theoretical papers are acceptable provided they report important findings, novel insights, or useful techniques.

Pydi Setty Yelamarthi

Editorial Board Member of Energy and Power

Head of Academic Department/Faculty, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, India

Research Areas

Fluidization, Environmental Engineering, Biological Waste Water Treatment, Drying, Chemical Process Modeling & Simulation, Fermentation Engineering. Multicomponent Distillation, Membrane Separation Processes, Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals, Circulati

Education

Ph.DIndian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
M.TechIndian Institute of Technology
B.TechAndhra University

Experience

Working as Professor in Dept. of Chemical Engineering and presently heading the department at National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India
Reviewed articles for publication in several national and international journals
Reviewed Ph. D Theses of several students of other Institutes
Working as Associate editor for Bioinfo publications
Working as member of Editorial board for ICFAI Journal of Chemical Engineering
Guiding several students for Ph. D Program
Other details can be seen from the Website

Academic Achievement

Sir Ganga Ram Memorial Award, January 2000 for the paper entitled "Study on heat transfer using limpet coil jacket" published in the year 1998 by IEI (India) Chem. Engg. Division
Certificate of Merit, Paper entitled Total Liquid Holdup in a Liquid-Liquid-Solid Fluidized Bed" was given Certificate of Merit by IEI (India), Chemical Engg. Division
Paper entitled "Heat Transfer Studies using a Limpet Coil Jacket" was selected as the Best paper in the Technical Session of IEI (India) Annual Conference held at Visakhapatnem

Publications: Journals

[1]  "Residence time distribution of solids in Multistage Fluidization", Chemical Engg. Science, vol. 37, No. 6, 1371-1377 (1982).
[2]  "Axial dispersion of solids in Spiral Fluidized Beds", Powder Technology, 59, 1-9 (1989)
[3]  "Residence Time Distribution of Solids in a Fluidized Bed", Canadian J. Of Chemical Engineering, vol. 81, 118-123, February 2003.
[4]  "Modeling of a Continuous Fluidized Bed Dryer using Artificial Neural Networks", International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, vol.32 (2005) 539-547.
[5]  "Liquid-Solid Mass Transfer in a Fluidized Bed Bioreactor", Chemical engineering Journal (Elsevier Publication) 135 (2008) 137-140
[6]  "A study on Denitrification in a Fluidized Bed Bioreactor", Fluidization XIII: New Paradigm in Fluidization Engineering (Editors: S. D. Kim, Yong Kong, J. K. Lee and Y. C. Seo), Publications of Engineering Conferences International, 257-264 (2010)
[7]  "The flow of solids through screens", Indian Chemical Engineer, vol. 32, No.1, 69-72(1990)
[8]  "Liquid mixing in a spiral tube coil", J. of Institution of Engineers (India), Chemical Engineering Division, vol.73, CH-3, 77-80 (1993)
[9]  "Cooling of a viscous liquid using a half-coil jacket", Indian J. of Chemical Technology, vol. 1, September, 305-307 (1994)
[10]  "Heat transfer studies using a limpet coil jacket", Proceedings of Annual Paper Meeting of Institution of Engineers(India), Chemical engineering Division and International Symposium held at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, June (1993)
[11]  "Study on Heat transfer using a limpet coil jacket", J. of Institution of Engineers (India), Chemical Engineering Division, vol. 79, CH-1, September, 34-40 (1998) (Received Sir Ganga Ram Memorial Award)
[12]  "Heat transfer studies using half-coil jacket", Indian Chemical Engineer, vol.41, April-June, 105-111, (1999)
[13]  "Residence time distribution of solids in a fluidized bed", Indian Journal of Chemical Technology, vol.6, March, 100-106, (1999)
[14]  "Total liquid holdup in a liquid-liquid-solid fluidized bed", J. of Institution of Engineers (India), Chemical Engineering Division, vol. 81, October, 18-20, (2000)
[15]  "Drying of solids in a continuous fluidized bed", J. of Energy, Heat and Mass transfer, 23 (2), 135-151(2001)
[16]  "A model for residence time distribution of solids in a fluidized bed", Indian Chemical Engineer, vol.44, No. 4, 246-251, Oct-Dec 2002
[17]  "Development of a model for drying of solids in a continuous fluidized bed dryer", Indian J. of Chemical Technology, vol.10, 477-482, September 2003
[18]  "Optimization of Distillation Sequences", J. of Institution of Engineers (India), Chemical Engg. Division, vol. 85 March 2005, pp 69-75
[19]  "Modeling of Heat Transfer in a fluidized Bed", Proceedings of the Annual Conference of ISTAM, Kharagpur, December, 2005.
[20]  "Prediction of Axial Voidage in a circulating fluidized bed", Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), Chemical Engineering Division, Vol.87, March 2007, pp 34-37

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]  "Flow solids through screens", Presented in the Annual conference of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers held at M.S. University, Baroda, December (1988)
[2]  "Liquid mixing in a spiral tube coil", Presented at the Annual paper meeting of Institution of Engineers(India), Chemical Engineering Division held at Bangalore (1991)
[3]  "RTD studies in a fluidized bed with and without internals", presented in the Annual conference of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers held at Visakhapatnam, December (1998)
[4]  "Liquid holdup in a Three Phase fluidized bed", Presented in the Annual paper meeting of Institution of Engineers (India), Chemical Engineering Division held at Bhilai, February (2000)
[5]  "Development of Algorithms and Simulation of a Multi-Component Distillation Column using Short-cut Methods", Presented at the Annual Conference of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (CHEMCON-2001) held at CLRI, Chennai during 19-22, December, 2001.
[6]  "Transshipment Model Approach to a Multi-Period Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis", Presented at the Annual Conference of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (CHEMCON-2002), held at Hyderabad during 19-22, December, 2002.
[7]  "Mass Transfer Studies on Biological Denitrification in a Fluidized Bed Bioreactor", Proc. of International Conference on "Process Intensification andInnovation Process" organized by Engineering Conferences International during September 24-29, 2006 at Christchurch, New Zealand (ECI/PI2/008)
[8]  Optimization of substrate feed rate in a fed batch fermentor using genetic algorithms, CHEMCON-2006, Ankleshwar
[9]  "Biological Denitrification of Waste Water", presented at InDACON-2008 held at Visakhapatnam during February 28-29, 2008.
[10]  "Studies on Denitrification of Waste Water using Fluidized Bed Bioreactor at high Concentrations", The 17th Regional Symposium on Chemical Engineering, RSCE-2010, Nov 22-23, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand.
[11]  "Denitrification of Waste Water using Fluidized Bed Bioreactor, International Conference on Sustainable Water Resource Management and Treatment Technologies (Water-2011) held at National environmental Engineering Research Institute, Jan 19-21, 2011, Nagpur, India