Process Design for Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Ashok Kumar Verma retired in 2019 as a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. He held the post of Head of the Department and Chairman of the Design and Innovation Hub at IIT (BHU).He holds a B.Sc. degree from Allahabad University, a B.E. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee), a M.E. degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He carried out postdoctoral research at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago. His research experience includes modeling liquid fluidized beds and heat transfer in slurry bubble columns. He has taught courses in process design, process engineering, mass and heat transfer, and a number of other core and elective courses. His research areas include heat and mass transfer in bubble columns, fluidized beds, and development of acoustic and image processing techniques for the measurement of bubble properties in bubble columns.

• Introduction to Process Design.- Process Design Fundamentals.- Design of Heat Exchangers.- Mass Transfer Equipment.- Solid-Liquid and Liquid-Liquid Extraction.- Humidification, Dehumidification and Drying.- Reactor Design.