Damaraju Phaneswararao

B.Tech (Hons), IIT, Bombay 1966 M.Tech(Hons), IIT, Kanpur, 1968 Ph.D, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA, 1971 Post doc at U.I(Moscow, USA),IISc(Bangalore) 1972-74 Asst .Prof , chem.eng.dept, IIT,Delhi (75-82) Assoc. Prof. chem.engg. dept. IIT, Delhi(83-88) Prof. chem. engg.IIT,Delhi (89-2011) Senior consultant, IIT,Delhi (2011-12) Free lancer, hyderabad(2013-present) fields of research: Mixing with chemical reaction, gas-liquid reactor engineering, hydrodynamics and mass transfer in gas liquid reactors, process control, batch reactor runaway, steady state multiplicity and limit cycles in a CSTR, control of runaway batch reactor, carbon capture by chemical absorption, energy conservation by mechanical vapor recompression