Dr. Udaya Bhaskar Reddy Ragula
Asso. Professor
Chemical Department
Amrita University - Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
India
Biography
Dr. Udaya joined as a faculty at Amrita in 2011. He finished his Ph. D. from Florida USA in 2010. Prior to obtaining his doctoral degree, Dr. Udaya worked as a Research Specialist at AKZO NOBEL Coatings, Bangalore, India. He worked on projects funded by Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DoE) USA. During his doctoral studies, he also worked as a consultant for RENTECH Clean Energy Solutions, Colorado, USA for separating sub-micron catalyst particles from wax-catalyst slurry. Dr. Udaya has expertise in Reaction Engineering (Especially microreactor design and fabrication), Solid-Fluid Separations, Process Modeling, Simulation and Control. He has two Patents on Microchannel Reactors. He also Designed, Modeled and Simulated a DYNAMIC Settler for RENTECH.
Research Interest
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering,Process Modeling and Simulation,Flow Dynamics and Control
Publications
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Dr. Udaya Bhaskar Reddy Ragula, Shrinidhi, S. R., and Dr. Murali Rangarajan, “Mixed-Paraffin Dehydrogenation in Fixed-bed Reactors: Modeling and Simulation,â€, in Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, , Atlanta, 2014.
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N. Rasana, Rangarajan, M., and Dr. Udaya Bhaskar Reddy Ragula, “Design and Implementation of Model Predictive Control in a Three Tank Interacting Systemâ€, in International Conference on Recent Advances in Chemical, Environmental and Energy Engineering (RACEEE2014), S.S.N College of Engineering, Chennai, 2014.
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Dr. Udaya Bhaskar Reddy Ragula, Dr. Sriram Devanathan, and Mohan, R., “Solar based lemon grass essential oil distillation for sustainability and livelihood in tribal communityâ€, in GHTC 2016 - IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference: Technology for the Benefit of Humanity, Conference Proceedings, 2016, pp. 738-744
