K. Kesava Rao

Year: (1983 - 2022)

Phone: 080-2293 2341
Email: kesava at iisc.ac.in

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Education

B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras (1977)

M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Houston (1979)

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Houston (1982)

Courses

CH 205 Chemical Reaction Engineering

CH 244 Treatment of Drinking Water

CH 207 Applied Statistics and Design of Experiments

Research Interest:

  • Granular Flows
  • Water Purification

Publications

  • Samrat, M.V.V.N., Gandhi, K.S. and Rao, K.K Modelling the adsorption of fluoride onto activated alumina in the presence of other ions. J. Environmental Chemical Engg. 8 (2020) 103934
  • Prairie, M. W., Frisbie, S. H., Rao, K. K., Saksri, A. H., Parbat, S., and Mitchell, E. J. An accurate, precise, and affordable light emitting diode spectrophotometer for drinking water and other testing with limited resources. PLoS ONE 15, e0226761 (2020).
  • Samrat, M.V.V.N., Rao, K.K., SenGupta, A.K., Riotte, J., and Mudakavi, J.R. Defluoridation of reject water from a reverse osmosis unit and synthetic water using adsorption, J. Water Process Engineering 23 (2018) 227 - 237.
  • Samrat, M.V.V.N., Rao, K.K., Ruggeri, B., and Tommasi, T. Denitrification of water in a microbial fuel cell (MFC) using seawater bacteria, J. Cleaner Production 178 (2018) 449 - 456.
  • Debnath, B., Rao, K.K., and Nott, P.R. The lift on a disc immersed in a rotating granular bed, AIChE J 63, 5482-5489 (2017)