Dr. D. V R. Murthy

5.         EXPERIENCE:

  Academic

• PROJECT ASSOCIATE in a DST – sponsored project on “Hydrogen Energy Systems Technology Study for India” at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras for a period of ONE Year and SIX months.

• LECTURER in Chemical Engineering Department, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka for a period of THREE Years and THREE Months.
• Joined Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal (Presently known as National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal ) in September 1982, as a LECTURER in Chemical Engineering Department and has been working in the same Institution since then.                                                                                                                                         
• Selected and Promoted to the Post of ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in Chemical Engineering in August 1991.
• Selected and Promoted to the Post of PROFESSOR in Chemical Engineering in April 1997.

Administrative 

• Chairman, Center for Continuing Education, K R E C, Surathkal, from December 08, 1998 to July 08, 2002.
• Head of the Department, Chemical Engineering (August 2000 – August 2003)
• Chief Vigilance Officer, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal from April 21, 2006 to January 31, 2008.
• Dean (Planning & Development), N I T K, Surathkal from February 01, 2008 to January 31, 2011.
• Chairman, Library Advisory Committee, N I T K, Surathkal since February 01,2011.
• Coordinator at N I T K, Surathkal (The Mentoring Institute) for establishing the National Institute of Technology, Goa during February to November, 2011.
• Chairman, Division for Mechanical and Chemical Systems, N I T K, Surathkal since October 2011. 

Others

• Actively involved in the Development and Updating various laboratories in the department under M H R D funded schemes like I I T- R E C Network Scheme and Modernization of laboratories.
• Served as Staff Adviser to the Association of Chemical Engineering Students in  K R E C, Surathkal for three years.
• Served as Assistant Warden (Maintenance), K R E C Student Hostels for two years looking after the maintenance of all Hostel Blocks.
• Served as Honorary Regional Secretary to the Mangalore Regional Centre of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers for two years during 1994-96.
• Served as a Member as well as Chairman, Board of Examiners for B.E.(Chemical Engineering), M.Tech. (Chemical Plant Design) and M.Tech.(Industrial Pollution Control) of Mangalore University.
• Served as a Member of Board of Studies in Chemical Engineering of Mangalore University.
• Served as a Member of Board of Examiners and Board of Studies in Chemical Engineering of other Universities and Autonomous Institutes.
• Actively involved as a member of two comities for organizing the I S T E National Convention in K R E C, Surathkal during December 1991.
• Actively involved as a member of various comities for organizing the Annual Convention of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers held in Manipal during December 1992.
• Delivered several guest lectures in various institutions, short-term courses and continuing education programmes.

6.         MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

                Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education.

                Life Member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.

7.         POST GRAUDATE PROJECTS GUIDED   :    60

8.          Ph.D. SCHOLARS GUIDENCE                   :          04  (Completed)

                                                                                           02 (Under progress) 

9.      CONSULTANCY ACTIVITIES

• Involved in the collection of data and report preparation on the “Calibration of Waste Water Pumps” of various pumping stations in Mangalore City Corporation under the DANIDA-DEE EMPS Project. 
• Involved in the product analysis and testing work for various industries in the region.
• Involved in the consultancy work related to the “Simulation of Ammonia Synthesis Loop for Modifications”, at Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd., Goa.

10.       UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE COURSES OFFERED :

• Theory – Process Calculations; Momentum Transfer; Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics; Chemical Reaction Engineering; Chemical Reactor Design; Process Design of Chemical Equipments; Mechanical Design of Process vessels;  Petroleum Refinery Engineering; Fertilizer Technology; Chemical Process Industries; Fuels, Combustion and Furnaces; Process Instrumentation; Chemical Equipment Drawing; Process Control; Unit Process of Organic Synthesis.

• Laboratory – Momentum Transfer Laboratory; Mechanical Operations Laboratory; Heat Transfer Laboratory; Mass Transfer Laboratory; Chemical Reaction Engineering and Process Control Laboratory.

11.       PAPERS PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA:

1. Co-author of the following paper presented at the 3^rd World Hydrogen Energy Conference held at Tokyo, Japan during June 1980: “Hydrogen Energy Systems Technology for India – Preliminary results of a DELPHI Study”.
2. Presented a paper on “Centers for Interdisciplinary Research Activities” in the Seminar on Programme of Action of K.R.E.C., for the Next Decade in the context of New Education Policy, held in K.R.E.C., Surathkal, during April, 1987.
3. Presented the following paper at the 3^rd National Convention of Chemical Engineers, organized by the Institution of Engineers (India) at Mangalore during December, 1987; “Experimental Studies on Multiple Spouted Beds”.
4. Co-author of the following paper presented at the 41^st Annual meeting of I.I.Ch.E., held at Baroda during December 1988:  “Pressure Drop and Minimum Spouting Velocity in Multiple Spouted Beds”.
5. Co-author of the following paper presented at the 42^nd Annual Meeting of I.I.Ch.E held at Trivendrum during December 1989: “Velocity and Pressure Drop at Minimum Spouting in a Triple Spouted Bed.”
6. Presented the following paper in the Seminar on “Chemical Engineering Education in Karnataka” held at Bangalore during April, 1990: “Under graduate Curriculum in Chemical Engineering – A Model.”
7. Co-author of the following paper presented at the 43^rd Annual Session of I.I.Ch.E held at Varanasi during December, 1990 : “Hydrodynamic Studies on Two-Spout Beds.”
8. Co-author of the following paper presented at the 44^th Annual Session of I.I.Ch.E held at Madras during December, 1991 : “Maximum Pressure Drop in Multiple Spouted Beds”.
9. The following paper was accepted for presentation at the Third International Symposium on Spouted Beds, held at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada during October 1991: “Dynamics of Multiple Spouted Beds”.
10. Co-author of the following paper presented at the 45^th Annual Session of I.I.Ch.E. held at Manipal during December, 1992 : “Stability of Multiple Spouted Beds”.
11. Girish P. Nair, M.B.Saidutta and D.V.R. Murthy - ‘Solids Mixing in Multiple Spouted Beds’ - Published in Proceedings of the National Symposium on Computer Applications in Chemical Engg., C.I.T., Coimbatore,  P 49-54, 1997.
12. Shivanand Y Adaganti and D.V.R. Murthy - ‘Drying Characteristics of Granular Materials in Multiple Spouted Beds’, 51st Annual Meeting of Indian Chemical Engg. Congress, CHEMCON ‘98, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Dec. 16-19, 1998.
13. M.A. Dabhade, M.B. Saidutta and D.V.R. Murthy. “Three Phase Spouted bed Bioreactor for Phenol Degradation”- Proceedings of National Conference on Environmental Conservation (NCEC-2006), September 1-3, 2006,pp 341-348, Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani.
14. ‘Recovery of phenol compounds using spiral wound RO membrane – experimental and parameter estimation studies’, G.Srinivasan, R.Gopinathan, A.Saveetha, S.Sundaramoorthy, D.V.R.Murthy, Proceedings of the National Conference on Environmental Conservation, BITS, Pilani, India, September 1-3, 2006, pp 39-47.
15. ‘Recovery of dimethyl phenol using spiral wound RO membrane – experimental and parameter estimation studies’, G.Srinivasan, G.Janaki, D.V.R.Murthy and S.Sundaramoorthy, Proceedings of National Conference on Recent Advances in Chemical Engineering, S.V.University, Tirupathi, November 17-18, 2006, pp 67-72.
16. ‘Performance of spiral wound RO membrane for the treatment of phenolic compounds’, G.Srinivasan, G.Janaki, D.V.R.Murthy, S.Sundaramoorthy, Proceedings of the International Conference on Cleaner Technologies and Environmental  Management,  PEC,  Pondicherry,  India,   January 4-6,   2007,  pp 138-145 (ISBN: 81-8424-107-0)
17. M.A. Dabhade, S. Chand, M.B. Saidutta and D.V.R. Murthy. “Biodegradation of Phenol in wastewater using spouted bed contactor” – Proceedings of the International Conference on Cleaner production technologies and Environmental management, January 4-6, 2007, pp.68-72, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry.
18. M.A. Dabhade, R. Sujith, M.B. Saidutta and D.V.R. Murthy. “Effect of Carbon Loading on Performance of Three Phase Spouted bed Contactor” – Proceedings of the International Conference on Cleaner production technologies and Environmental management, January 4-6, 2007, pp.293-297, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry.
19. M.A. Dabhade, M.B .Saidutta and D.V.R. Murthy, “Modeling of Phenol degradation in a Spouted bed contactor using Artificial Neural Networks”,-International Conference on Modeling and Simulation”, 27-29, August 2007, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore.
20. ‘Experimental studies on the removal of phenol using spiral wound RO membrane’, G.Srinivasan, R.Kirubakaran, S.Sundaramoorthy, D.V.R. Murthy, Proceedings of the National Conference on Current Trends in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, S.V.University, Tirupathi, December 13-14, 2007, pp 39-43.
21. ‘Phenol recovery by spiral wound reverse osmosis membrane’, G.Srinivasan, R.Kirubakaran, S.Sundaramoorthy, D.V.R. Murthy, Proceedings of the National Conference on Energy Efficiency: The Environmental Solution, NIT, Tiruchirappalli, December 27-28,2007,pp 179-187
22. Dabhade M.A., Saidutta M.B, and Murthy D.V.R., Paper presented in 60^th Annual Session of Indian Chemical Engg. Congress 2007 (CHEMICON 2007), Kolkatta December 27-30, 2007.
23. Biological Phenol Removal in Spouted Bed Contactor – Comparison of Carrier Material,\Dabhade M.A., Saidutta M.B, and Murthy D.V.R.,  paper presented in National Conference on Environment and Safety, Kolhapur Institute of Technology, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, January 12-13, 2008.
24. S Rajashekhara and D V R Murthy, Grain Drying in a Multiple Draft Tube Spouted Bed- A Preliminary Study, Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 10-12 August, 2015, pp.80-84, ISBN 978-967-11279-2-6.

12. CHAPTER IN  A  BOOK

1.  D.V.R.Murthy and P.N.Singh –“ Minimum Spouting Velocity in Multiple Spouted Beds”,  Mixed-Flow Hydrodynamics,Advances in Engineering Fluid Mechanics Series   , Gulf Publishing Co.,  Houston, Texas; Chapter 32, pp.741-758(1996)

13.RESEARCH PAPERS PUBLISHED IN JOURNALS:

1. Murthy,D V R and Singh,P N, “Minimum Spouting Velocity in Multiple Spouted Beds”  Canadian Journal of Chemical Engg. Vol.72,pp.235-239(1994)
2. Saidutta M.B. and D.V.R. Murthy, - “Mixing Behavior in Multiple Spouted Beds”, Canadian Journal of Chemical        Engineering, Vol. 78(2) ,pp.382-385( 2000)
3. Modeling of Phenol Degradation in Spouted Bed Contactor using Artificial Neural Network (ANN),  Dabhade M.A, Saidutta M.B., Murthy D.V.R., Journal of Chemical Product and Process Modeling, Berkley Electronics Press, U.S.A. Vol.3,  Issue 2,  pp 1-14( 2008)
4. Continuous Phenol Removal using Nocardia hydrocarboxydans  in Spouted Bed Contactor, Dabhade M.A, Saidutta M.B., Murthy D.V.R., African Journal of Biotechnology,  Vol. 8 (4), pp. 644-649(2009)
5. Adsorption of Phenol on Granular Activated Carbon from Neutrient Medium : Equilibrium Study and Biodegradation Study using Immobilized Cells NCIM 2386 on to GAC, Dabhade M.A, Saidutta M.B., Murthy D.V.R., International Journal of Environmental Research, Vol. 3(4), 557-568( 2009)
6. Separation of dimethyl phenol using a spiral-wound RO membrane – Experimental and Parameter estimation studies’,  G.Srinivasan, S.Sundaramoorthy, D.V.R. Murthy, Desalination, 243,pp. 171-182(2009).
7. Harish Kumar S., and Murthy D.V.R.,  Minimum Superficial Fluid Velocity in Gas-Solid Swirled  Fluidized  Bed,  Chemical  Engineering  and  Processing, 49 (2010), 1095-1100.
8. Spiral Wound Reverse Osmosis Membranes for the Recovery of Phenol Compounds – Experimental and Parameter Estimation Studies’,G. Srinivasan, S. Sundaramoorthy, D.V.R. Murthy, American J. of Engineering and Applied Sciences,3(1),pp 31-36(2010)
9. M. Ramananda Bhat, D.V.R. Murthy and M.B. Saidutta, Slow Release   Studies on Commercial Urea Briquettes in loam and silty clay soils of Karnataka, India, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Vol.04,No.02,April 2011,pp.351-356.
10. M. Ramananda Bhat, D.V.R. Murthy and M.B. Saidutta, Urea hydrolysis in     saturate loam soil, APRN Journal of     Aricultural & Biological Sciences, Vol.6, No.3, pp.60 – 63, March 2011.
11. An Analytical Model for Spiral Wound Reverse Osmosis Membrane Modules: Part I – Model Development and Parameter Estimation’ S.Sundaramoorthy, G.Srinivasan,  D.V.R. Murthy, Desalination,280 (2011) 403 – 411.
12. An Analytical Model for Spiral Wound Reverse Osmosis Membrane Modules: Part II – Experimental Validation’ S.Sundaramoorthy, G.Srinivasan,  D.V.R. Murthy, Desalination, 280 (2011) 432 – 439.
13. M. Ramananda Bhat,  Murthy,D V R and  Saidutta,M B, “ Modeling of Urea Release from Briquettes using Semi infinite and Shrinking Core Models”,Chemical Product and Process Modeling, Berkeley Electronic Press,Vol.06,Issue 01,Article 17 (2011) 
14. Validation of an analytical model for spiral wound reverse osmosis membrane module using experimental data on the removal of dimethyl phenol”, G.Srinivasan, S.Sundaramoorthy and D.V.R.Murthy, Desalination, 281(2011) 199 – 208.
15. M.Ramanada Bhat, D.V.R.Murthy, M.B.Saidutta, and Sahitya Reddivari,  Rupture studies on kokum wax coated urea briquettes, World Journal of Agricultural Research , 2013, Vol.1, No.5, 82 – 84.
16. M.Ramananda Bhat, D.V.R.Murthy, M.B.Saidutta, and Sahitya Reddivari, Urea concentration profiles  from kokum wax coated briquettes, Universal Journal of Agricultural Research, 2(2): 43 – 44, 2014.

14.  VISITS ABROAD:

• Attended a Professional Development Course on “System Management and Capacity Improvement of Technical Education “, October 13 –18, 2008, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.     
• Visited Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute in University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA from 20th May to 28th June 2013 to interact with a research group working on Methanol Economy.
• Attended 8^th Asia – Pacific Drying Conference to present the research paper entitled “Grain Drying in a Multiple Draft Tube Spouted Bed”, August 10 – 12, 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

PATENT FILED

D V R Murthy and Rajashekhara S have applied for an Indian Patent having the title “MULTIPLE POROUS DRAFT TUBES SPOUTD BED CONTACTOR”. The application number is 2940/CHE/2015 and dated June 11, 2015.