Ironmaking and Steelmaking

The instructor is presently professor in the Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering at IIT Kharagpur and also joint faculty member of Steel Technology Center and Center of Excellence on Advanced Manufacturing Technology, IIT Kharagpur. Since the inception of his professional career at IIT Kharagpur in 1997, he is teaching the course Ironmaking and Steelmaking either as separate subject courses or in combined form. His research career since inception from post graduate days has been towards the application of the fundamentals of transport phenomena in materials processing like extractive metallurgy, primarily ferrous extractive metallurgy, as well as welding. During the last 10 years his research activities has been specifically focussed to Rotary Hearth Furnace (RHF) based sponge iron technology, inclusion control in steel by upstream processing and dissimilar welding using electron beam welding. He has developed several research facilities such as electrically heated Rotary hearth Furnace, Electron beam welding set up, SEM with automated inclusion study in steel. He has two significant international collaborations:1) With Prof. T. DebRoy at Penn state university, USA and made several visit to develop an indigenous CFD code for fusion welding. 2) With Dr. Prakash Srirangam, associate Professor, WMG, UK on advanced characterization of steel inclusions, and Gleeble based simulation. He is the recipient of the Metallurgist of the Year award instituted by Ministry of Steel, GOI, in 2015 during ATM of IIM at Coimbatore. He is an editorial board member of Int. Journal STWJ. He is currently executing two large value projects 1) UAY project (MHRD-MoS-ASP,SAIL) on pilot scale RHF for sponge iron production, 7.5 cr. II) DHI satellite projects (for CoE, AMT, IIT Kharagpur_ on inclusion control in steel by upstream processing, 5.25 Cr. He is also serving as Associate Dean, Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), IIT Kharagpur.