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Prof.MAHENDRA NAKTUJI NANDANWAR

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

Email: nandanwar[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

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Office Number: +91-326-223-5216

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Research Interest: Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems (Batteries and Supercapacitors), Water, And Solar Thermal Energy

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

  • Heat Transfer
  • Mass Transfer
  • Mechanical Operations
  • Advanced separation methods
  • Numerical Methods
  • Transforms and Partial Differential Equations
  • Engineering Drawing
  • Chemical Process Technology
  • Energy Technology
  • Electrochemical Energy Science and Technology
  • Thermodynamics

Academics

  1. B. E. in Chemical Engineering (2003), Amravati University 
  2. M.E. in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  3. PhD in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Position

  1. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, March 2022 onwards
  2. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, June 2016 – Feb 2022
  3. Senior Simulation Engineer, Andritz, Bangalore, September 2015 –June 2016
  4. Process Engineer, JFWTC (General Electrics (GE)), Bangalore, August 2007 – June 2010
  5. Scientist ‘B’, DRDO (HEMRL), Pune, April 2004 – July 2005

Awards and Honors

  1. GATE 2004 All India Rank: 04 (99.94 percentile)
  2. Research Excellence Award, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, January, 2018
  3. Amrita Innovation and Research Awards, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 2021

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  1. Mahendra N. Nandanwar (single author), Effect of Porous Nature of Anode on the Performance of the Soluble Lead Redox Flow Battery: A Modelling and Simulation Study, Journal of Power Sources, 571, 233029, 2023, IF: 9.7
  2. Prakhar Verma, Sreeraj Puravankara, Mahendra N. Nandanwar, and Jayanta Chakraborty, Insights into the Morphological Evolution of Mossy Dendrites in Lithium Metal Symmetric and Full Cell: A modelling study, Journal of Electrochemical Society, 170, 030529, 2023, IF: 4.39
  3. KG Baiju, Mahendra N. Nandanwar (corresponding author), K Jayanarayanan, D Kumaresan, Numerical modelling and simultion of heat sink assisted thermal sintering of titania film on polymer substrate for fabrication of high performance flexible dye sensitized solar cell, Chemical Engineering Research and Desing, 181, 209-219, 2022, IF: 4.1
  4. Mahendra N. Nandanwar (first and corresponding author), Kottu Santosh Kumar, S.S. Srinivas, D.M. Dinesh, Pump-less, free-convection-driven redox flow batteries: Modelling, simulation, and experimental demonstration for the soluble lead redox flow battery, Journal of Power Sources, Volume 454, 2020, 227918, IF: 9.7
  5. Mahendra Nandanwar (first and corresponding author), Sanjeev Kumar, A modelling and simulation study of soluble lead redox flow battery: Effect of presence of free convection on the battery characteristics, Journal of Power Sources, Volume 412, 2019, Pages 536-544, IF: 9.7
  6. Mahendra Nandanwar (first author), Sanjeev Kumar, Charge coup de fouet phenomenon in soluble lead redox flow battery, Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 154, 2016, Pages 61-71, IF: 4.31
  7. Nandanwar, Mahendra (first author), Kumar Sanjeev, Modelling of Effect of Non Uniform Current Density on the Performance of Soluble Lead Redox Flow Batteries, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 2014, A1602-A1610, 10, 161, IF: 4.39
  8. Mahendra N. Nandanwar (first author), Sanjeev Kumar, A new discretization of space for the solution of multi-dimensional population balance equations: Simultaneous breakup and aggregation of particles, Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 63, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 3988-3997. IF: 4.311
  9. Mahendra N. Nandanwar (first author), Sanjeev Kumar, A new discretization of space for the solution of multi-dimensional population balance equations, Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 63, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2198-2210. IF: 4.311

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

  1. SERB (Core research grant) Development of scaled-up, pump-less, free-convection driven, soluble lead redox flow battery. Rs.  34,48,764/- Dr. Mahendra Nandanwar (PI), Dr. Sudip Batabyal, 2021-2024
  2. SERB (Early Career Research award), Natural Convection Driven Flow- Through Soluble Lead Redox Flow Battery With Inbuilt Sonication mechanism for Achieving Longer Cycle Life, Rs. 14,34,100/- Dr. Mahendra Nandanwar (PI), 2017-2020
  3. DSIR, International conference on ‘Net-zero Emission Technologies for Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities (N0ET-2022)’ 5,50,000/- Dr. Mahendra Nandanwar (Convener), Dec 2022

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

Boys Hostel Warden (2024 onwards) 

Guidance

Current PhD Students:

  1. Ashish Chandra (2022)
  2. Piyush Kumar (2023)

 

Post Doc Fellow:

  1. Akanksha Pathak (PhD, IIT Patna), 2024
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