Latest News
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IIPE OUTREACH PROGRAM:
Certification Course for Machine Learning: Fundamentals & Applications is being offered by Chemical Engineering Department. Registration For The Course Starts Today. - recovery facilities towards circular economy and sustainability" .
- Congratulations to Prof. Seshagiri Rao (PI) and Prof. Venkat Reddy (co-PI) for the award of a project (Rs 54.4 Lakhs) from DST under India-Canada joint call.The project is titled as"Machine Learning methods for water quality estimation and control in water resource recovery facilities towards circular economy and sustainability" .
- Training Programme On "Wastewater Characterization, Treatment, & Reuse (WCTR)” (10 to 11 April 2023).
- Congratulations Dr. Raka Mondal for being selected as the been selected for the Young Academic Award, by the European Membrane Society (EMS), to be given in the upcoming conference, Euromembrane, 2022.
- Prof. Seshagiri Rao Ambati, Congratulations on Nomination as Member of the Appraisal Committee (Industry -2) Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, GoI
- Dr. Raka Mondal is awarded the SERB International Research Experiance, for Collabration with Oxford University (UK) on electro chemical transport in fuel cells.
- Dr. Dipankar Pal, Congratulations on being selected as an Outstanding Researcher in Chemical Engineering Discipline in the 8th Venus International Science and Technology Awards - Vista 2022
About ChE IIPE
Offering both undergraduate (B.Tech) and postgraduate (PhD) programs, the Department of Chemical Engineering aims to provide students with the extensive knowledge they need to be a part of the Energy Sector in the Indian Industrial space. The courses provided are a balanced mix of traditional areas—reaction engineering, thermodynamics, process control, etc.—and emerging areas—waste management, renewable energy, machine learning, nanoscience, etc.—of chemical engineering. Students are given hands-on experience with various simulation software (MATLAB, Aspen, Fluent), along with access to laboratories which have the latest equipment and machinery

- The department faculty are involved in industrial consultancy and various sponsored involved in various research projects, particularly interdisciplinary ones, in collaboration with industry. The focus areas of this research in the department include distribution networks, energy storage, surface and plasma engineering, water treatment, machine learning, and pollution abatement, to name a few. .
- With support from Indian PSUs in the oil and natural gas sectors (Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL), etc.), the Department of Chemical Engineering continually strives to create an environment wherein students can not only learn, but also experience and implement; to become highly motivated individuals with the skill and knowledge required to make a difference in the Chemical Industry.
From the Head of the Department
The Department of Chemical Engineering was established in 2016 to achieve the objectives of IIPE, i.e., providing skilled personnel for the Oil and Natural Gas industry.
- The department started its operation with a B.Tech. Chemical Engineering Program and an intake of 50 students. Subsequently, Ph.D. and Masters's degree programs are incorporated in the years 2020 and 2022 respectively.
- Process Modeling and Simulation, Energy Management, Transport Modeling, Pollution Abatement, Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, Multiphase modeling and molecular simulations, Adsorption Separation, and Polymers are the focus areas of research in the department, especially from the perspective of the oil and gas sector.
- The faculty in the department are involved in industrial consultancy and sponsored research projects. The department is steadily building up the laboratory infrastructure necessary for UG, PG, and research activities. With the steady increase in faculty research consultancies and sponsored projects, the department is progressing in the right direction of success.
- The department has an active IIChE student chapter. The department organizes webinars and tech talks to improve both the technical and behavioral skills of students.

Academics
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Programs Offered
The Department of Chemical Engineering, IIPE Visakhapatnam offers the following programs.
B.Tech.
B.Tech.Chemical Engineering is the first program that has been offered from the inception of the department. Admission into this program is based on JEE advanced rank secured by the candidates. Click on the explore button for more details about the JEE advanced examination.
Ph.D.
Click on the explore button for more information on different categories of admission into Ph.D. programs and their eligibility criteria.
Faculty
Dr. Dipankar Pal
Assistant Professor Email: dipankar.che@iipe.ac.in
Dr. Hemanth Kumar Tanneru
Assistant Professor Email: hemanth.che@iipe.ac.in
Dr. Mounika Balla
Assistant Professor Email : mounika.che@iipe.ac.in
Dr. Raka Mondal
Assistant Professor Email: rakam.che@iipe.ac.in
Dr. Ravi Kumar Sonwani
Assistant Professor Email: ravikumar.che@iipe.ac.in
Dr. Ravi Kiran Mandapaka
Assistant Professor Email: ravikiran.che@iipe.ac.in
Dr. Seshagiri Rao Ambati
Professor Email: seshagiri.che@iipe.ac.in
Dr. Sridhar Palla
Assistant Professor Email: sridharpalla.che@iipe.ac.in
Dr. P. Venkata Reddy
Assistant Professor Email : venkat_palleti.che@iipe.ac.in
Dr. Venkata Krishnasri Kurada
Assistant Professor Email: krishnasri.che@iipe.ac.in
PhD Scholars

L Karunakar Reddy
Email: karunakar.lomanda@iipe.ac.inResearch Area:Thermal Energy Storage

Diwakar Patel
Research Area: Waste Water Treatment
Himanshu Asati
Email: himanshuasati@iipe.ac.inResearch Area:Advanced Materials for Energy and Waste Water Treatment

Mr. Pedapati R Krishna,
Email: pedapatikrishna.che@iipe.ac.inResearch Area: Data Science and /Machine learning, Chemical Process Systems

Mr. Ankit Rawal,
Email: ankitrawal.che@iipe.ac.inResearch Area:Chemical Engineering

Mr. DHARMANA CHANIKYA,
Email: dharmanachanikya@iipe.ac.inResearch Area:Chemical Engineering

Mr. CHAITANYA BABU BODDU,
Research Area:Chemical Engineering
Staff

Satyaprasad Yerra
Email: lab.che@iipe.ac.inLab Assistant
Research
The department currently has the following broad research themes. Research areas of faculty members can be obtained by clicking on the individual faculty names. List of faculty working on a particular research theme can be obtained by hovering over those research theme images. Click on the links in the individual research themes to know more about them.
- All Faculty
- Dr. Venkata Reddy
- Dr. Dipankar Pal
- Dr. Raka Mondal
- Dr. Tanneru Hemanth Kumar
- Dr. Balla Mounika
- Dr. Kurada Venkata Krishnasri
- Dr. Ravi Kumar Sonwani
- Dr. Sridhar Palla
- Dr. Mandapaka Ravi Kiran
- Dr. Seshagiri Rao Ambati
Campus Placements
Recruiters from both public and private sectors related to the downstream processing of the oil and gas industry are visiting the department for campus placements. Apart from the traditional refining jobs, organizations working on the allied areas of construction, analytics, marketing and edutech companies having the oil and gas energy vertices also visited the department for placements for the passed out batches. Some of our previous recruiters are
Contact Us
Our Address
Indian Institute of Petroleum & Energy Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh , 530003
Email Us
hod.che@iipe.ac.in
Call Us
+91 (0891-285)6045