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Arvind RAJENDRAN
Assistant Professor

School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


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Recent publications
  • Three dimensional digital holographic profiling of micro-fibers, Opt. Express (2009) [Paper]
  • Simulated moving bed  chromatography for the separation of enantiomers, J. Chromatogr. A. (2009) [Abstract]
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Profile

Arvind Rajendran is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He obtained his Doctor of Technical Sciences (PhD) from the group of Prof. Marco Mazzotti at the Institute of Process Engineering, ETH Zurich. Prior to his PhD studies, he obtained a Master's degree from the National University of Singapore, where he worked on gas separations. During his Master's studies he spent 6 months as a short term scholar at the University of Maine, USA. He found his interest in chemical engineering during his undergraduate studies at Annamalai University, India. Arvind's research interests are in adsorption and chromatography. His focus is on using supercritical fluids as eluents for  large scale chromatographic separations, such as the simulated moving bed (SMB) and preparative chromatography, applied to the separation of pharmaceutically active enantiomers. His interests and specializations include  adsorption of supercritical fluids, swelling of polymers in supercritical media and gas separation using rapid pressure swing adsorption (PSA) processes. He is hooked on music, movies and travel.

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Education

2000 - 2004
 ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Doctor of Technical Sciences (PhD) in Process Engineering
Diss. Topic: “Adsorption and chromatography at supercritical conditions”
Advisors: Prof. Marco Mazzotti, Prof. Massimo Morbidelli
1998 - 2000
 National University of Singapore, Singapore
Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering
Diss. Topic: “Analysis of a piston driven pressure swing adsorption process for air separation”
Advisor: Prof. Shamsuzzaman Farooq, Prof. Douglas. M. Ruthven
1993 - 1997
 Annamalai University, India
Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering

Professional Experience

2005 -
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Assistant Professor
1997 - 1998
 SPIC Fertilizer Complex, India
Engineering Management Trainee

Publications

Selected Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals (complete list)

  1. A.Rajendran, G. Paredes, M. Mazzotti, Simulated moving bed chromatography for the separation of enantiomers, J. Chromatogr. A., 1216:709-738,2008. (Review article)
  2. A. Rajendran. Equilibirum theory based design of simulated moving bed processes for reduced purity requirements: Linear isotherms. J. Chromatogr. A, 1185:216-222, 2008.
  3. A. Rajendran, O. Krauchi, M. Mazzotti, and M. Morbidelli. Effect of pressure drop on solute retention and column efficiency in supercritical fluid chromatography. J. Chromatogr. A, 1092:149-160, 2005.
  4. A. Rajendran, S. Peper, M. Johannsen, M. Mazzotti, M. Morbidelli, and G. Brunner. Enantioseparation of 1-phenyl-1-propanol by Supercritical Fluid - Simulated Moving Bed (SF-SMB) Chromatography. J. Chromatogr. A, 1092:55-64, 2005.
  5. A. Rajendran, B. Bonavoglia, N. Forrer, G. Storti, M. Mazzotti, and M. Morbidelli. Simultaneous measurement of swelling and sorption in supercritical CO2 - Poly(methylmethacrylate) system. Ind. Engg. Chem. Res., 44:2549-2560, 2005. 
  6. T. Hocker, A. Rajendran, and M. Mazzotti. Measuring and modeling supercritical adsorption in porous solids. Carbon dioxide on 13X zeolite and on silica gel. Langmuir, 19(4):1254–1267, 2003.
  7. R. Arvind, S. Farooq, and D. M. Ruthven. Analysis of a piston PSA process for air separation. Chem. Eng. Sci., 57(3):419–433, 2002.

Publications in Conference Proceedings

  1. A. Rajendran, M. Mazzotti, and M. Morbidelli. Analysis of supercritical fluid chromatography. In C-H. Lee, editor, The 3rd Pacific Basin Conference on Adsorption Science and Technology, Kyongju, Korea, 2003.
  2. T. Hocker, A. Rajendran, M. Mazzotti, and M. Morbidelli. Experimental and theoretical investigation of adsorption at high pressures. In A. Bertucco, editor, 4th International Symposium on High Pressure Technology and Chemical Engineering, Venice, Italy, 2002. AIDIC.
  3. O. Di Giovanni, T. Hocker, A. Rajendran,W. Doerfler, M.Mazzotti, andM.Morbidelli. Measuring and describing adsorption at supercritical conditions. In K. Kaneko, H. Kanoh, and Y. Hanazawa, editors, 7th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption, Chiba, Japan, 2001. IK International.

Selected Presentations in Conferences (complete list)

  1. A. Rajendran, S. Peper, M. Mazzotti, M. Johannsen, M. Morbidelli. Supercritical Fluid Simulated Moving Bed (SF-SMB) enantioseparation of 1-phenyl-1-propanol, International Symposium on Preparative and Industrial Chromatography and Allied techniques (SPICA), Aachen Germany, Oct. 2004.
  2.  A. Rajendran,M. Mazzotti, M. Morbidelli. Design of supercritical fluid chromatographic processes. 8th International Conference on Fundamentals Of Adsorption, Sedona USA, May 2004.
  3.  A. Rajendran, B. Bonavoglia, N. Forrer, G. Storti, M. Mazzotti. Simultaneous measurement of swelling and sorption of supercritical-CO2 poly(methylmethacrylate). American Inst. of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, San Francisco USA, Nov. 2003.
  4. T. Hocker, A. Rajendran, M. Mazzotti, M. Morbidelli. Experimental and theoretical investigation of adsorption at high pressures, 4th International Symposium on High Pressure Technology and Chemical Engineering, Venice Italy, Sept. 2002.
  5.  R. Arvind, S. Farooq, and D. M. Ruthven. Analysis of a piston driven PSA process. American Inst. of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, Los Angeles USA, Nov. 2000.

Research Group

PhD student - Chen Wenda
PhD student - Taslima Khanam
PhD student - Reza Hagpannah
PhD student - Mohammad Nurur Rahman#


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Academic Family Tree

Arvind Rajendran<Marco Mazzotti< Massimo Morbidelli< Arvind Varma< Neal Amundson< Hugh Turrittin< Rudolph Langer< George Birkhoff< Eliakim Moore< Hubert Newton< Micheal Chasles< Simeon Poisson< Joseph Lagrange< Lenorad Euler< Johann Bernoulli< Jacob Bernoulli< Gottfried Leibniz< Erhard Weigel

Contact

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N1.2-B1-09
Nanyang Technological University
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
62 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637459
 Tel: +65 - 6316 8813
Fax: +65 - 6794 7553
Email : arvind@ntu.edu.sg

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Last Update : 16 Jan 2009