Abhijeet Thaker


Contact Details

Postdoctoral Researcher
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Biography

Abhijeet is a Postdoctoral Researcher in multiphase Reactor and Intensification Group (mRING). Prior joining the UL, Abhijeet has completed his Ph.D. program at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi), India. He has completed his Diploma in Chemical Engineering in 2007 from N. G. Patel Polytechnic, Bardoli, India, and Bachelors of Chemical Engineering in 2011 from L.D. College of Engineering, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India. Abhijeet has completed his Master of Technology in Chemical Engineering in 2013 from SVNIT, Surat, India. In 2014, Abhijeet joined Professor Vivek Buwa’s research group at IIT Delhi for doctoral research on ‘Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Gravity Settlers: Measurements, Population Balance Modelling and CFD Simulations’. Apart from that Abhijeet has contributed to the measurements of particle-resolved flow and concentration distributions in packed-beds and characterisation of Gas-Liquid flows in shallow vessels using time-resolved stereo Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Laser-induced Fluorescence (LIF). His current research focuses on development of multi-scale models of hydrodynamic cavitation devices to predict the cavity inception, dynamics and collapse mechanisms. This work involves CFD simulations and measurements of hydrodynamic cavitation devices with advanced flow characterization techniques such as PIV. 

Research Interests

-Dispersed liquid-liquid flow and separation
-Hydrodynamic cavitation
-Gas-liquid flow and mixing in industrial process vessels
-Solid-Liquid flow around particles
-Advance experimental characterization of multiphase flow
-Computational fluid dynamics, numerical simulations, andpopulation balance modelling
-Zeolite synthesis and catalyst development

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
2020 'Particle-resolved simulations of catalytic fixed bed reactors: Comparison of turbulence models, LES and PIV measurements'
Karthik G.;Thaker A.;Buwa V. (2020) 'Particle-resolved simulations of catalytic fixed bed reactors: Comparison of turbulence models, LES and PIV measurements'. Powder Technology, 361 :474-489 [DOI] [Details]
2019 'Effects of sloshing gas¿liquid interface on dynamics of meandering bubble plumes and mixing in a shallow vessel: PIV and PLIF measurements'
Thaker A.;Bhujbal S.;Buwa V. (2019) 'Effects of sloshing gas¿liquid interface on dynamics of meandering bubble plumes and mixing in a shallow vessel: PIV and PLIF measurements'. Chemical Engineering Journal, [DOI] [Details]
2019 'PIV measurements and CFD simulations of the particle-scale flow distribution in a packed bed'
Thaker A.;Karthik G.;Buwa V. (2019) 'PIV measurements and CFD simulations of the particle-scale flow distribution in a packed bed'. Chemical Engineering Journal, 374 :189-200 [DOI] [Details]
2019 'Experimental Investigations of Interfacial and Binary Coalescence of Multilayered Drops'
Thaker A.;Buwa V. (2019) 'Experimental Investigations of Interfacial and Binary Coalescence of Multilayered Drops'. Industrial &Amp; Engineering Chemistry Research, 58 (18):7620-7632 [DOI] [Details]
2018 'Experimental investigations of liquid¿liquid disengagement in a continuous gravity settler'
Thaker A.;Darekar M.;Singh K.;Buwa V. (2018) 'Experimental investigations of liquid¿liquid disengagement in a continuous gravity settler'. Chemical Engineering Research & Design, 139 :174-187 [DOI] [Details]
2016 'Hydroisomerization of Biomass Derived n-Hexadecane Towards Diesel Pool: Effect of Selective Removal External Surface Sites from Pt/ZSM-22'
Thaker A.;John M.;Kumar K.;Kasture M.;Parmar S.;Newalkar B.;Parikh P. (2016) 'Hydroisomerization of Biomass Derived n-Hexadecane Towards Diesel Pool: Effect of Selective Removal External Surface Sites from Pt/ZSM-22'. International Journal Of Chemical Reactor Engineering, 14 (1):155-165 [DOI] [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2014 Research Fellowship From Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Government of India. Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Government of India
2017 Research Fellowship From Industrial Research, and Development Unit (IRD) IIT Delhi, India Industrial Research and Development Unit (IRD) IIT Delhi
2018 Research Fellowship From Ministry of Human Resource Development, Goverment of India. Ministry of Human Resource Development, India.
2017 International Travel Grant From Industrial Research and Development Unit (IRD) IIT Delhi to attend an International Conference in Busan, South Korea. IRD, IIT Delhi, India
2019 International Travel Grant From Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, to attend an International Conference in Guilin, China. DST, India