Job Title

Employer

From

To

Professor

NIT Tiruchirappalli

2018

Till Date

Associate Professor

NIT Tiruchirappalli

2010

2018

Assistant Professor

NIT Tiruchirappalli

2009

2010

Senior Lecturer

NIT Tiruchirappalli

2004

2009

Lecturer

NIT Tiruchirappalli

1999

2004

Lecturer

VIT, Vellore

1997

1999

Examination

Board / University

Year

Division/ Grade

Subjects

Ph.D.

NIT, Tiruchirappalli (Bharathidasan University)

2008

First Class

Chemical Engineering

M.Tech.

Anna University, Chennai.

1997

First Class

Chemical Engineering

B.E

Annamalai University

1995

First Class

Chemical Engineering

Position

Faculty/Department/Centre/Institution

From

To

Head of Department

Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy

2022

     Till date

Registrar (i/c)

NIT Trichy

2021

2022

Convener of Hostels

NIT, Trichy

2016

2019

Associate Dean Faculty Welfare

NIT, Trichy

2012

2015

Hospital Committee member

NIT, Trichy

2010

2012

Warden

G-Mess, NIT, Trichy

2007

2009

NSS Program Officer

NIT, Trichy

2003

2005

Warden

Ruby Hostel, NIT Trichy

2003

2008

Warden

Sapphire Hostel

2002

2003

Position

Institution

From

To

UG Board of Studies Member

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur

2016

2018

Expert committee member for evaluation of Project Proposals

AICTE

2013

2013

Expert committee member for evaluation of Project Proposals

AICTE

2012

2012

Year of Award

Name of the Award

Awarding Organization

2018

Best Performer Award (Sponsor Research Projects)

NIT, Tiruchirapppalli

1998

Best Teacher Award (Chemical)

VIT, Vellore

1997

Best Teacher Award (Chemical)

VIT, Vellore

Year of Award

Name of the Fellowship

Awarding Organization

From (Month/Year)

To (Month/Year)

2004

Young Scientist Fellowship

TNSCST

May 2005

June 2005

Title of Project

Funding Agency

From

To

Ongoing/ Completed

Analysis of the ground water quality and the effect of conventional disinfection in water supply

DBT

 2018

2019

Completed

Name of the PhD Scholar

Title of PhD Thesis

Role(Supervisor/ Co-Supervisor)

Year of Award

Perarasu, V. T.

Heat transfer characteristics of Nanofluids in a Coiled agitated vessel

Supervisor

2013

Charles David, A. R.

Studies on Distillery Effluent Treatment Processes

Supervisor

2016

Date (s)

Title of Activity

Level of Event

(International/ National/ Local)

Role (Participant/ Speaker/ Chairperson, Paper presenter, Any other)

Event Organized by

Venue

22-23^rd February, 2019

International Conference on Water and Wastewater Management Systems (WATMAN 2019)

International

Participant

For Water Today Pvt. Ltd.,

Chennai

11-12 February, 2019

International conference on Advances in Power Generation from Renewable Energy Sources APGRES - 2019

International

Guest of Honor

Government Engineering College Banswara 

Rajasthan

11-12 February, 2019

International conference on Advances in Power Generation from Renewable Energy Sources APGRES – 2019

International

Session Chair

Government Engineering College Banswara 

Rajasthan

19 March, 2016

All India Technical meet on Advances in Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering

National

Chairperson

Pondicherry Engineering College

Puducherry

9-14 February, 2016

International Winter School and Hands on Training on Nano-Biotechniques

International

Participant

IIT Roorkee

Roorkee

21-25 July, 2015

Summer Course on Water And Wastewater Treatment: Recent advances

National

Participant

IIT Roorkee

Roorkee

3-7, January, 2012

SERC school & Sixth National Symposium on Rheology of Complex Fluids

National

Participant

IIT Guwahati

Guwahati

29 November - 10 December, 2011

ISTE Workshop on Heat Transfer

National

Participant

IIT Bombay

Tiruchirappalli

26-28 October, 2011

Conference on Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering

International

Paper presenter

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Indonesia

16-19 March, 2011

Workshop on Refining & Petrochemicals

National

Participant

Petroleum Federation of India, Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust & Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL)

Chennai

7-8 March, 2009

National Seminar on Climate Change and Environmental Challenges

National

Paper presenter

Annamalai University

Annamalainagar

28 January, 2008

Workshop on Simulating Complex Predictive System and Bayesian Modelling in Image Processing - Applications

National

Participant

Dept. of Mathematics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli

Tiruchirappalli

12-14 December, 2007

National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Engineering

National

Paper presenter

IIT Guwahati

Guwahati

18-20 November, 2007

Third Conference of the International congress of Chemistry and Environment

International

Paper presenter

Kuwait University - Kuwait Society of Engineers, International Congress of Chemistry and Environment (ICCE)

Kuwait

17-18 September, 2007

Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics

National

Participant

Dept. of Mathematics, NIT, Tiruchirappalli

Tiruchirappalli

27-29 August, 2007

Conference on Modeling and Simulation

International

Paper presenter

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Coimbatore

4-13 July, 2007

Faculty Development Training Programme on ANSYS

National

Participant

ACTIVE

Tiruchirappalli

25-27 April, 2007 

DST-SERC School on Advanced Measurement Techniques in Multiphase Systems

National

Participant

University Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai

Mumbai

30-31 March, 2007

National Conference on Simulation, Modeling & Optimization AECOSIM'07

National

Paper Presenter

Arunai Engineering College, Tiruvannaamalai

Tiruvannaamalai

10 February, 2007

Conference on Recent trends in Mechanical Engineering 

National

Paper presenter

Saranathan College of Engineering, Tiruchirappalli

Tiruchirappalli

5-9 February, 2007

QIP Short Term Training Programme on Recent Advances in Environment, Safety and Energy Management

National

Participant

Dept. of Chemical Engg., NIT Tiruchirappalli

Tiruchirappalli

4 January, 2007

Pre-Conference Tutorial on Nano-, Neuro-, Bio- & Info-Technologies, MEMS, NEMS and Neurosurgery

National

Participant

NIT, Tiruchirappalli

Tiruchirappalli

25 November, 2006

Training programme on Instrumental Methods of Thermal Analysis and Data Interpretation

National

Participant

CEESAT, NIT Tiruchirappalli

Tiruchirappalli

30 September,  2005

Workshop on Building life skills

National

Participant

RGNIYD

Sriperumbudur

22 November - 3 December, 2004

STTP on Emerging Trends in Energy Management and Non-convetional Energy

National

Participant

Dept. of Chemical Engg., NIT Tiruchirappalli

Tiruchirappalli

16-20 August, 2004

SERC school on Process Optimization, Data Driven Modeling and Advanced Process Control

National

Participant

IIT Bombay

Mumbai

9-20 June, 2003

STTP on Safety and Environment Management emerging trends

National

Participant

Dept. of Chemical Engg., REC, Tiruchirappalli

Tiruchirappalli

13-17 May, 2003

SERC school on Recent Advances in Design and Analysis of Biotechnological Processes

National

Participant

IIT Bombay

Mumbai

11-12 January, 2003

All India Seminar on Challenges in Environmental Protection and Possible Solutions

National

Paper presenter

The Institution of Engineers (I), Amravati

Amravati

11-22 November, 2002

AICTE-ISTE-STTP on Biotechnology - Emerging Trends & Challenges ahead

National

Participant

Annamalai University

Annamalainagar

21-22 December, 2001

Training Programme on Environmental Management Systems: ISO 14000

National

Participant

TREC-STEP, Tiruchirappalli

Tiruchirappalli

23-25 February, 2001

Conference on Recent Advances in Waste Management

National

Paper Presenter

BHU Varanasi & Indian Association of Environmental Management

Varanasi

28 December, 1999 - 8 January, 2000

AICTE-ISTE Winter school on Recent Advances in Process Plant Operation

National

Participant

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Regional Engineering College, Jalandhar

Jalandhar

15-27 November, 1999

AICTE-ISTE-STTP on Novel Separation Techniques

National

Participant

Dept. of Chemical Engg., NIT Tiruchirappalli

Tiruchirappalli

16-19 December, 1998

Chemcon-98

National

Paper Presenter

Andhra University

Visakhapatnam

Title of Activity 

Level of Event

(International/ National/ Local)

Date (s)

Role

Venue

Workshop on Nanomaterials for Energy & Environment

National

13-18 June, 2016

Co-Ordinator

NIT, Trichy

Workshop on Hybrid Wastewater Treatment Technologies

National

12 April, 2014

Co-Ordinator

NIT, Trichy

Workshop on Energy & Environment

National

27-28 July, 2013

Co-Ordinator

NIT, Trichy

Workshop on Outbound Experiential Learning Camp for Team Building & Effective Group Dynamics

National

11-12 February, 2013

Co-Ordinator

NIT, Trichy

Short Term Course on Research avenues in multi-interdisciplinary area of Chemical engineering

National

24-26 September, 2012

Co-Ordinator

NIT, Trichy

Workshop on Recent Trends in Wastewater Treatments

National

27 February, 2008

Co-Ordinator

NIT, Trichy

Workshop on Multiphase Flow and Process Industries

National

24 March, 2007

Co-Ordinator

NIT, Trichy

Workshop on Recent Advances & Challenges of Biotechnology Process

National

15-16 December, 2006

Co-Ordinator

NIT, Trichy

Topic

Date

Inviting Organization

Food waste as Feedstock for Biorefinery (Keynote Speaker)

20 February, 2021

Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode

Biological Control of Nitrogen on Wastewater Treatment.

12 October, 2020

Department of Petrochemical Technology, Bharathidasan Institute of Technology, Anna University, Trichy

Hybrid Membrane Bioreactor

17 November, 2017

Kongu Engineering College, Erode

The role of Nano-coagulation in water and wastewater treatment

28 September, 2016

VIT, Vellore

Chemical and Biological treatment of wastewater

25 August, 2016

NIT, Tiruchirappalli

Application of Adsorption/Coagulation for water/wastewater treatment

2 July, 2016

NIT, Calicut

Coagulation – Nanomaterial applications

14 June, 2016

NIT, Tiruchirappalli

Adsorption with Electro Coagulation

12 April, 2014

NIT, Tiruchirappalli

Topic

Organization/place

Duration

From

To

Training Programme on “E-content Development “

National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research

11^th May, 2020

15^th May, 2020

Faculty Training Program on “New Teaching – Learning Aid and Course Module Development using Aspen plus”

NIT Tiruchirappalli

3^rd October, 2019

5^th October, 2019

Type of Membership (Ordinary Member/ Honorary Member / Life Member)

Organization

Membership No. with date

Life member

The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)

LM 37098 

2003

Member

International Water Association (IWA)

162388 

04.03.2022

Member

The Institution of Engineers (India)

M-139320-5 

16 May 2009

Country

Duration of Visit

Programme

From

To

United Arab Emirates

4^th December, 2017

6^th  December, 2017

Nanotech Middle East 2017 Conference and Exhibition

Republic of Indonesia

26^th October 2011

28^th October 2011

ICCECE 2011: "International Conference on Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering" World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Taiwan

1^st December 2007 

1^st January 2008

Research training in the area of bibliometric study and adsorption in I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

State of Kuwait

18^th November 2007

20^th November 2007

Third Conference for the international congress of Chemistry and Environment, Kuwait University - Kuwait Society of Engineers, International Congress of Chemistry and Environment (ICCE)

Author(s)

Title of Paper

Journal

Volume (No.)

Page numbers

Year

Impact Factor of the Journal (Optional)

Durgadevi S, M. Arivazhagan, D. Navamani Kartic

An insight on pollutant removal mechanisms in phycoremediation of textile wastewater

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

1-21

2022

5.19

Charles David, M. Arivazhagan, Anushka Mishrra

Treatment of spent wash effluent using Kaolin immobilized nano ZnO photocatalyst and material characterization

Indian Chemical Engineer

62 (2)

138-149

2020

0.283

D. Navamani Kartic, B. CH. Aditya Narayana, M. Arivazhagan

Removal of high concentration of sulfate from pigment industry effluent by chemical precipitation using barium chloride: RSM and ANN modeling approach

Journal of Environmental Management

206

69-76

2018

4.005

Charles David, M. Arivazhagan

Adsorption of melanoidin using microporous ZnO nano particle: Experimental and ANN approach

Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences

8 (3S)

213-223

2017

Charles David, M. Arivazhagan, J. Hariram, P. Sruthi

Spent wash Decolorization using Granular and Powdered Activated Carbon: Taguchi's Orthogonal Array design and ANN approach

Journal of Applied Science and Engineering Methodologies

2

224-229

2016

Charles David, Ramachandra Narlawar & M. Arivazhagan

Performance Evaluation of Moringa oleifera Seed Extract (MOSE) in Conjunction with Chemical Coagulants for Treating Distillery  Spent Wash

Indian Chemical Engineer

58 (3)

189-200

2016

Charles David, M. Arivazhagan, M.N. Balamurali, and Dhivya Shanmugarajan

Decolorization of Distillery Spent Wash Using Biopolymer Synthesized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from Tannery Effluent

BioMed Research International

Article ID 195879

2015

1.579

Charles David, M. Arivazhagan, Mohamed Ibrahim

Spent wash decolorization using nano-Al₂O₃/kaolin photocatalyst: Taguchi and ANN approach

Journal of Saudi Chemical Society

19

537–548

2015

2.523

Charles David, M. Arivazhagan, Fazaludeen Tuvakara

Decolorization of distillery spent wash effluent by electro oxidation (EC and EF) and Fenton processes: A comparative study

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

121

142–148

2015

2.878

Perarasu V.T., M. Arivazhagan and P. Sivashanmugam

CFD Modeling Study of Heat Transfer in a Coiled Agitated Vessel

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics

14(3)

2014

0.688

Perarasu V.T., M. Arivazhagan and P. Sivashanmugam

Experimental and CFD Heat Transfer Studies of Al2O3-Water Nanofluid in a Coiled Agitated Vessel Equipped with Propeller

Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering

21(11)

1232-1243

2013

1.342

Perarasu V.T., M. Arivazhagan and P. Sivashanmugam

Heat Transfer Characteristics of TiO2/Water Nanofluid in a Coiled Agitated Vessel Provided with Disk Turbine Agitator

Chemical Engineering Communications

200(6)

783-797

2013

1.104

Perarasu V.T., M. Arivazhagan and P. Sivashanmugam

Heat Transfer Characteristics of TiO₂/water Nanofluid in a Coiled Agitated Vessel fitted with Propeller

Journal of Hydrodynamics

24(6)

942-950

2012

0.749

Perarasu V.T., M. Arivazhagan and P. Sivashanmugam

Heat transfer studies in coiled agitated vessel with varying heat input

International Journal of Food Engineering

7(4)

Article 3

2011

0.511

M. Arivazhagan, S. Lokeswaran, and V. T. Perarasu

Heat Transfer Studies and Cost Analysis  of a Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger using Aluminum Chips as  Porous Medium

Heat Transfer Research

42(7)

2011

0.206

M. Arivazhagan, S. Lokeswaran

Entropy Generation Minimization of Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger  With Porous Medium

Experimental Techniques

2011

0.545

M. Arivazhagan, Y. Vijayageetha and V.T.Perarasu

Removal of Rhodamine B from synthetic waste water by electro-coagulation with and without adsorbent

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

58

1084-1091

2011

Arivazhagan M., Krishna Karthik K., Sundaram S

The Effect on Pressure Drop across Control Valve for Two Phase Flow (Air-Water)

Sensors and Transducers Journal

102(3)

105-114

2009

Arivazhagan M., Pugalenthi, Krishna Karthik K., Rani Hemamalini, Sundaram S

Experimental and Computational Study of Two-phase (Air–Palm Oil) Flow through Pipe and Control Valve in Series

Sensors and Transducers Journal

102(3)

94-104

2009

Sivashanmugam. P and Arivazhagan. M

Experimental Studies on Parboiling of Paddy by Ohmic-Heating

International Journal of Food Engineering

4(1)

Article 6

2008

0.511

Y. Amaresh Reddy, M. Arivazhagan, P. Sivashanmugam

Decolorization of Crystal Violet Dye and Congo Red Dye using Electrocoagulation

Indian Journal of Environmental Protection

27

516-526

2007

G. Mahesh, N. Vivek Narayan, M. Arivazhagan and P. Sivashanmugam

Removal of  Chromium (VI) from Industrial waste water by Electrocoagulation

Indian Journal of Environmental Protection

27

303-312

2007

Author(s)

Title of Abstract/ Paper

Title of the Proceedings

Page numbers

Conference Theme

Venue

Year

M. Arivazhagan, Anupama Krishnan,
D. Navamani Kartic

Modeling and Experimental Study of Carbon dioxide capture in an Absorption column using Nanofluid

Nanotech ME 2017

Dubai

2017

Charles David, M. Arivazhagan, Anuskha Mishra

Facile Synthesis, Characterization and Performance Evaluation of ZnO/Kaolin Nano-Composite Photocatalyst for Distillery Spent Wash Decolourization

International Conference on Separation Technologies TECHNOSCAPE'16

3

Separation technologies in chemical, biochemical, petroleum and environmental engineering

VIT University, Vellore

2016

Charles David, M. Arivazhagan

Microbial Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) for Distillery Spent Wash Decolourization

International Conference on Recent Advances in Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology

25

Amity University, Gwalior

2016

Charles David, M. Arivazhagan

Degradation of color and organic pollutants from distillery effluent using Electro Fenton and Fenton processes

International conference on Green Technology for Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control

NIT, Tiruchirappalli

2014

M. Arivazhagan, Vijayageetha, V.T.Perarasu

Removal of Rhodamine B from synthetic wastewater by electrocoagulation with and without adsorbent

International conference on Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering

Indonesia

2011

M. Arivazhagan, Ashutosh Kumar

Review of Novel methods for the capture carbon dioxide from power plant flue gas

National Seminar on Climate Change and Environmental Challenges

152

Annamalai University

2009

M. Arivazhagan, H. Subrahmaniam Bharadwaj, A. Arunagiri, Suguna,    Subashini, B.R. Venkatraman

Adsorption of chromium (VI) using Artocarpus heterophyllus peel

Third Conference for the international congress of Chemistry and Environment

322-327

Kuwait

2007

Abhay Singh Gour, M. Arivazhagan

The use of ANN for decolorization of violet dye using Electrocoagulation

International Conference on Modeling and Simulation

Coimbatore

2007

M. Arivazhagan, N. Pugalenthi, Y. Amreesh Reddy

CFD Simulation of Two phase water-air frictional pressure drop in a typical heat exchanger coil

International Conference on Modeling and Simulation

74-79

Emerging Methods towards Frontier Technologies in Chemical and Physical Sciences

Coimbatore

2007

M. Arivazhagan, Vivek Narayanan. N, G. Mahesh

The use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for modeling of removal of Chromium (VI) from synthetic wastewater by Electrocoagulation process

International Conference on Modeling and Simulation

225-229

Emerging Methods towards Frontier Technologies in Chemical and Physical Sciences

Coimbatore

2007

M. Arivazhagan, N. Pugalenthi, A. Sundhar, Suresh Tavva

Studies on Experimental and Simulation of the Two phase (Gas-Liquid) pressure drop in Serpentine coil

National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Engineering

Guwahati

2007

M. Arivazhagan, N. Pugalenthi

Experimental and Computational (CFD) study of Two-phase (Air-Water) flow through pipe

National Conference on Recent trends in Mechanical Engineering (RTME 2007)

5-10

Tiruchirappalli

2007

M. Arivazhagan, N. Pugalenthi

Experimental and Simulatino (CFD) studies on the effect of pressure drop across horizontal pipe for air/diesel two-phase flow

National Conference on Simulation Modeling & Optimization AECOSIM'07

19

Tiruvannamalai

2007

M. Arivazhagan, P. Sivashanmugam

Energy Audit and Strategies for the Design of Incinerator for Solid Waste Disposal

National Conference on Recent Advances in Waste Management (RAWM-2001)

23-27

Varanasi

2001

R. Baskar, M. Arivazhagan

Secondary Baggase Pith (SBP) as Adsorbents for Color Removal from Textile wastewater

National Conference on Recent Advances in Waste Management (RAWM-2001)

267-269

Varanasi

2001