Vivek Ranade

Vivek Vinayak Ranade (born 1963) is an Indian chemical engineer, entrepreneur, professor of chemical engineering at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the

Ranade is married to Nanda (née Nanda Vijayanand Kher), an academic,[12] and the couple has one child, Vishakha.^[13] The family lives in Belfast.^[4]

Legacy

Ranade has worked on various aspects of fluid dynamics such as multiphase flows and Reactors, computational flow modelling and process intensification and has developed Computational fluid dynamics models with regard to various types of reactors like bubble column, stirred and trickle bed varieties.^[3] His models are known to be capable of predicting unsteady and time-averaged flow characteristics of reactors and has assisted in enhancing performance of the industrial reactors. He and his colleagues developed many software / simulators such as ReST, MoBB, TRPro, PoRE, RoCKS, AnTS, BOaST and contributed to the development of products like MiST and CFD.^[14] His contributions are also reported in the development of water treatment devices utilizing diodes, conductivity probes and micro-reactors. He has documented his researches by way of several articles;^{[15][note 2]} Google Scholar and ResearchGate, online article repositories of scientific articles, have listed many of them.^[16][17] Besides, he has authored four books viz. Computational Flow Modeling for Chemical Reactor Engineering,^[18] Trickle Bed Reactors: Reactor Engineering and Applications,^[19] Industrial Wastewater Treatment, Recycling and Reuse^[20] and Computational Modeling of Pulverized Coal Fired Boilers.^[21]

Ranade heads a team of scientists who have launched MAGIC (modular, agile, intensified and continuous) processes and plants, A

Awards and honors

Ranade, whose doctoral thesis won the Best Thesis Award of ICT Mumbai in 1988, received the Young Scientist Award of the

Ranade was selected for the Young Associate-ship of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1994 and he received research support from the Department of Science and Technology by way of Swarnajayanti Fellowship in 1999.^[44] The Maharashtra Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow in 2001^[45] and the Indian National Academy of Engineering followed suit in 2005.^[46] Two major Indian science academies viz Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy elected him as their fellow in 2011^[47] and 2016 respectively.^[48]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Vivek V. Ranade (2002). Computational Flow Modeling for Chemical Reactor Engineering. Academic Press.
  ISBN 978-0-12-576960-0
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• Vivek V. Ranade; Raghunath Chaudhari; Prashant R. Gunjal (18 March 2011). Trickle Bed Reactors: Reactor Engineering and Applications. Elsevier.
  ISBN 978-0-08-093144-9
  .
• Vivek V. Ranade; Vinay M Bhandari (21 July 2014). Industrial Wastewater Treatment, Recycling and Reuse. Elsevier Science.
  ISBN 978-0-444-63403-0
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• Vivek V. Ranade; Devkumar F. Gupta (2 December 2014). Computational Modeling of Pulverized Coal Fired Boilers. CRC Press.
  ISBN 978-1-4822-1535-9
  .

• Kulkarni, A. A.; Gorasia, A. K.; Ranade, V. V. (2007). "Hydrodynamics and liquid phase residence time distribution in mesh microreactor". Chemical Engineering Science. 62 (24): 7484–7493.
  doi:10.1016/j.ces.2007.08.063
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• Kasat, G. R.; Khopkar, A. R.; Ranade, V. V.; Pandit, A. B. (2008). "CFD simulation of liquid-phase mixing in solid-liquid stirred reactor". Chemical Engineering Science. 63 (15): 3877–3885.
  doi:10.1016/j.ces.2008.04.018
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• Kulkarni, Amol A.; Ranade, Vivek V.; Rajeev, R.; Koganti, S. B. (2009). "Pressure drop across vortex diodes: experiments and design guidelines". Chemical Engineering Science. 64 (6): 1285–1292.
  doi:10.1016/j.ces.2008.10.060
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• Sardeshpande, Madhavi V.; Juvekar, Vinay A.; Ranade, Vivek V. (2010). "Hysteresis in cloud heights during solid suspension in stirred tank reactor: experiments and CFD simulations". AIChE Journal. 56 (11): 2795–2804.
  doi:10.1002/aic.12191
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• Sardeshpande, Madhavi V.; Juvekar, V. A.; Ranade, Vivek V. (2011). "Solid suspension in stirred tanks: UVP measurements and CFD simulations". Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 89 (5): 1112–1121.
  doi:10.1002/cjce.20548
  .

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