Postgraduate Research Projects: Professor A.S.
Mujumdar, NUS
The following research areas are
currently under way at NUS and at collaborating institutions internationally.
For details the interested reader may e-mail Prof. Mujumdar directly.
Industrial participation from all parts
of the world is especially welcome.
- Heat
transfer and flow under impinging jets – single phase, non-Newtonian
fluids, different fluids, gas-particles, mist, three dimensional,
unsteady, etc. (experimental and numerical)
- Sono-chemical
degradation of pollutants in wastewaters
- Atomization
of non-Newtonian fluids
- Discrete
element modelling of flash drying
- Microwave-assisted
fluid bed drying – continuous and intermittent
- Multi-mode
heat pump drying with continuous and intermittent heat input
- Modeling
of drying thin heat-sensitive products
- Risk
assessment and management in dryers
- Spouted
beds of non-spoutable particles for drying
- High
temperature impinging jet heat transfer
- Drying
with ultraviolet exposure of shiitake mushrooms
- Explosive
boiling heat transfer for MEMS applications
- FCC
Circulating fluid bed riser simulation
- Low
pressure superheated steam drying, pulsed pressure drying, vacuum MW
drying
- Mixing
in opposing jet flows – chemical/biomedical engineering applications
- Vortex
shedding phenomena in laminar flows – modelling
- Pulse
combustion drying/modelling
- Spray
dryer modelling; exploratory studies of novel spray dryer designs
- Novel
PCM heat exchangers for heat storage
- Chemical
heat pumps – potential in drying
- Mist
cooling of electronic components