Dr Ajay K. Ray is at present Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario. He obtained his B.
Tech, M. Tech and PhD all in Chemical Engineering from University of Calcutta (India),
Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur, India) and University of Minnesota (Minneapolis,
USA) respectively. Before joining Western in July 2005, he was at the University of
Groningen (Netherlands) for three years and at the National University of Singapore for
ten years. His research interests are in engineering of chemical reactions and process,
particularly, semiconductor photocatalysis, integrated reactor-separator, oscillatory
reactors and the modeling, simulation and multi-objective optimization of industrial
chemical processes. He has co-authored a textbook titled “Mathematical methods in
chemical and environmental engineering” (Thomson, 2002), one European patents on
photocatalytic reactor design, published five book chapters and around 100 research
articles in peer reviewed international journals. In 1999, he received the CrayQuest
award for excellence in research and development using high performance computing, in
2001 received Distinguished Alumnus award from University of Calcutta (India) and in 2007
received CSMCRI Chemcon Distinguished Speakers Award from Indian Institute of Chemical
Engineers (IIChE). He is a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of
Chemical Reactor Engineering, European Journal of Scientific Research and Euro-Asian
Journal of Applied Sciences.

Photocatalysis

Performance Enhancement of Photocatalytic Reactor Utilizing Flow Instability (with Kanheya Mehrotra), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2008)

A detailed analysis has been performed for a heterogeneous photocatalytic Taylor vortex reactor that uses...

 

Modeling and Optimization

Applications of the Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA) in Chemical Reaction Engineering (with Anjana D. Nandasana and Santosh K. Gupta), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2008)

Most of the chemical reaction engineering optimization problems encounters more than one objective functions. A...

 

Optimization of Styrene Reactor Design for Two Objectives using a Genetic Algorithm (with Yue Li and Gade P. Rangaiah), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2008)

Optimization of industrial styrene reactor design for two objectives using the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm...

 

Equilibrium and Optimum: How to Kill Two Birds with One Stone? (with Gregory Yablonsky), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2008)

The concepts of equilibrium and optimum have always been placed at the heart of chemical...

 

Oscillatory Reactor

Performance Improvement and Dynamical Behaviour Analysis of a Cascade of Two CSTRs (with Harvinder S. Sidhu, Simon D. Watt, and Mark I. Nelson), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2008)

We revisit the analysis of a reactor network consisting of two coupled continuous stirred tank...

 

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Mathematical Methods in Chemical and Environmental Engineering (with Santosh K. Gupta) (2004)

This comprehensive book covers a broad selection of mathematical topics that are essential for a...