Vivek Vinayak Ranade was born on 1963 and is an Indian chemical engineer, entrepreneur, professor of chemical engineering at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the Queen's University, Belfast and chair professor of process engineering at the Bernal Institute of the University of Limerick.
17 Facts About Vivek Ranade
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Vivek Ranade is a former chair professor and deputy director of the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.
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Vivek Ranade is known for his work on bubble column, stirred and trickle-bed reactors and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy.
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Vivek Ranade served NCL for over 26 years holding various grades from Grade C to H, till he became the deputy director of the institution in 2010, a position he held till July 2016.
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Vivek Ranade serves as an adjunct professor Institute of Chemical Technology and as an outstanding professor at Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research.
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Vivek Ranade is married to Nanda, an academic, and the couple has one child, Vishakha.
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Vivek Ranade has worked on various aspects of fluid dynamics such as multiphase flows and Reactors, computational flow modelling and process intensification and has developed Computational fluid dynamics models with regard to various types of reactors like bubble column, stirred and trickle bed varieties.
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Vivek Ranade's models are known to be capable of predicting unsteady and time-averaged flow characteristics of reactors and has assisted in enhancing performance of the industrial reactors.
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Vivek Ranade's contributions are reported in the development of water treatment devices utilizing diodes, conductivity probes and micro-reactors.
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Vivek Ranade has documented his researches by way of several articles; Google Scholar and ResearchGate, online article repositories of scientific articles, have listed many of them.
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Vivek Ranade holds several patents for products and processes he has developed, under the aegis of NCL and others.
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Vivek Ranade was instrumental in the establishment of the first start-up at NCL Venture Center in 2006 under the name, Tridiagonal Solutions Pvt.
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Vivek Ranade was a member of the group who founded Vivira Process Technologies Pvt.
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Vivek Ranade is a member of the Senate of the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research.
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Vivek Ranade received one more honor in 2004 in the form of Herdillia Award for Excellence in Basic Research in Chemical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers followed by the CHEMTECH Outstanding Contribution Award in Chemical Engineering of the Chemtech Foundation in 2005.
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Vivek Ranade received another award from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research selected him as the Outstanding Scientist of the Year in 2010.
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Vivek Ranade was selected for the Young Associate-ship of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1994 and he received research support from the Department of Science and Technology by way of Swarnajayanti Fellowship in 1999.