Dr Aniruddha Majumder

Dr Aniruddha Majumder
Dr Aniruddha Majumder
Dr Aniruddha Majumder

PhD, AMIChemE, FHEA

Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

About
Email Address
a.majumder@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272499
Office Address

Room 283, Fraser Noble Building
School of Engineering
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
Scotland, UK

School/Department
School of Engineering

Biography

  • Lecturer, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK (Sep, 2014 - Present)
  • Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK (Feb, 2012 - Aug, 2014)
  • Visiting Scholar, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA (Nov, 2013 & Nov,2012)
  • Research Assistant/Fellow, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Mar, 2011 - Feb, 2012)

Education

  • PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Aug, 2011)
  •  BSc in Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh (Nov, 2006)

Grants

  • Royals Society International Exchanges 2022 Cost Share (NSFC) (£12,000): Nanocrystallisation of pharmaceutical compounds with preferred polymorphic forms in confined environment for improved bioavailability
  • EPSRC CMAC Feasibility Studies Grant (£59,893): A novel simulated moving plug flow crystallizer (SM-PFC) with anti-fouling control. Principal Investigator: Dr A Majumder.  Duration: 23 Feb 2021 - 22 Aug 2021.
  • The Binks Trust Fund 2018 (£2,500): For a research visit to Purdue University.

Awards

  • One of the Nominees for the Excellence in Teaching Award in the academic year 2022/23
  • One of the Nominees for the Excellence in Teaching Award in the academic year 2017/18 
  • Best Poster Award, CMAC Open day, Glasgow, Scotland September, 2012

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
  • Deputy Programme Leader for Chemical Engineering
  • Reviewer of exam papers for Chemicall Engineering
  • Coordinator for Articulation Students
  • Library Coordinator for the School of Engineering
  • Mental health first aider for the School of Engineering
  • Personal tutor
External Memberships
  • Member of the editorial board, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Research and Design Journal.
  • Guest Editor (Dr Aniruddha Majumder, Prof Zoltan Nagy, Prof Xiong-Wei Ni) for the Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Continuous Crystallization" to be published in Chemical Engineering Research and Design (ChERD) in 2021 [link]
  • Associate Member of Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
  • Member of the British Association of Crystal Growth (BACG)
  • Member of the organizing committee for the Indo-UK Joint International Webinar on Current Trends in Chemical Technology and Materials Development, 19-20 August 2020 [link]
  • Member of the scientific committee for the 6th International Conference on Population Balance Modelling (PBM2018), 6-9 May 2018, Ghent, Belgium
  • Reviewer of the following journals
    • Chemical Engineering Science
    • Crystal Growth and Design
    • Chemical Engineering Research and Design
    • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
    • Chemical Engineering & Processing: Process Intensification
    • Organic Process Research & Development
    • Crystals
    • Processes

Latest Publications

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Research

Research Overview

Dr Majumder's research falls in the broad area of process systems engineering. He is intested in applying mathematical modelling and simulation approach to understand, analyse and solve various engineering problems with perticular focus on the following areas

  • Crystallization: Crystal shape control using additives, optimal operating policies, enantiomorph separation, polymorph control, control of crystallizer fouling
  • Biodegradation: Anaerobic digestation of organic waste for the production of valuable organic compounds
  • Lattice Boltzmann method: Application of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for efficient simulation of mixing in crystallizers
  • Carbon capture: Simulation, design and optimization of adsorption and absorption processes for carbon capture

PhD opportunities

Self-funded PhD opportunities (UK/International students)

Simulation and optimization of the anaerobic digestion process for the production of renewable energy and valuable compounds from biodegradable wastes. [Link]

Scholarship information

Students interested in the above projects and requiring financial support can consider the following scholarships 

  • Elphinstone scholarship: Students from any where in the world can apply for this scholarship. This scholarship covers only the tuition fees and the living expenses have to be managed by the student. Deadline for application to this scholarship is typically end of March every year. [more details]
  • Commonwealth scholarship: Students from the commonwealth countries can apply for the commonwealth scholarship to support their expenses. 
  • 50/50 PhD scheme: If the student has links to an industry or organization which can support atleast 50% of the total cost, then the student can apply for this scheme. If successful, the remaining cost will be supported by this scheme. 
  • Carnegie-Caledonian Scholarship: Available to Scottish students only with first class honours degrees. [view details]

Research group

PhD students

  • Liam Boston [Oct 2019 -]: Finding optimum mixing condition in an anaerobic digester using computation fluid dynamics approach for sustainable production of chemicals
  • Jenifer Benavides Sánchez [Oct 2019 - ]: Mathematical simulation and optimization of anaerobic digestion processes for the production of methane, hydrogen and chemicals. (primary supervisor: Prof Davidde Dionisi)

 

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Engineering.


Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Email Me

Engineering

Accepting PhDs

Research Specialisms

  • Chemical Engineering

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Collaborations

Prof Zoltan K Nagy, Purdue University. Topic: Crystal shape control using additives, separation of enantiomers.

Dr Davide Dionisi, University of Aberdeen. Topic: Sustainable production of chemicals and fuels using renewable feedstocks and renewable energy.

Prof Jos Derksen, Univeristy of Aberdeen. Topic: Mixing studies of continuous oscillatory baffled crystallizer using lattice Boltzmann method (LBM).

 

 

Funding and Grants

  • Royals Society International Exchanges 2022 Cost Share (NSFC) (£12,000): Nanocrystallisation of pharmaceutical compounds with preferred polymorphic forms in confined environment for improved bioavailability
  • EPSRC CMAC Feasibility Studies Grant (£59,893): A novel simulated moving plug flow crystallizer (SM-PFC) with anti-fouling control. Principal Investigator: Dr A Majumder.  Duration: 23 Feb 2021 - 22 Aug 2021.
  • The Binks Trust Fund 2018 (£2,500): For a research visit to Purdue University.
Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

 Currently teaching:

  • EG2004: Fluid Mechanics & Thermodynamics (with Nina Nikora)
  • EX4530: Separation Processes 2
  • EG4014: Engineering Project (BEng)
  • EG5908/EG5911: MSc Project
  • EX501U: Air and Water Pollution Control (with Claudia Martin)
  • EG5565: MEng Group Design

Previously taught:

Publications

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  • A Novel Simulated Moving Plug Flow Crystallizer (SM-PFC) for Addressing the Encrustation Problem: Simulation-Based Studies on Cooling Crystallization

    Bjarnason, A., Majumder, A.
    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 62, no. 12, pp. 5051-5064
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Recent advances in continuous crystallization

    Majumder, A., Nagy, Z. K., Ni, X.
    Chemical Engineering Research & Design, vol. 186, pp. 610-613
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials
  • LBM for separation processes

    Majumder, A.
    ADVANCES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Lattice Boltzmann Modeling for Chemical Engineering. VAN DEN AKKER, H. E. (ed.). 1 edition. Elsevier, pp. 1-79, 79 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Fundamentals of Population Balance Based Crystallization Process Modeling

    Szilagyi, B., Majumder, A., Nagy, Z. K.
    The Handbook of Continuous Crystallization. Yazdanpanah, N., Nagy, Z. K. (eds.). The Royal Society of Chemistry
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Modeling and Simulation Studies of a Novel Coupled Plug Flow Crystallizer for the Continuous Separation of Conglomerate-Forming Enantiomers

    Majumder, A.
    Processes, vol. 6, no. 12, 247
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A Comparative Study of Coupled Preferential Crystallizers for the Efficient Resolution of Conglomerate-Forming Enantiomers

    Majumder, A., Nagy, Z. K.
    Pharmaceutics, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1-19
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A new method to calculate the periodic steady state of sequencing batch reactors for biological wastewater treatment: model development and applications

    Dionisi, D., Rasheed, A. A., Majumder, A.
    Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 3665-3680
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Parametric, Optimization-Based Study on the Feasibility of a Multisegment Antisolvent Crystallizer for in Situ Fines Removal and Matching of Target Size Distribution

    Ridder, B. J., Majumder, A., Nagy, Z. K.
    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 2371-2380
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Multi-impurity adsorption model for modeling crystal purity and shape evolution during crystallization processes in impure media

    Borsos, A., Majumder, A., Nagy, Z. K.
    Crystal Growth and Design, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 555-568
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Dynamic Modeling of Encrust Formation and Mitigation Strategy in a Continuous Plug Flow Crystallizer

    Majumder, A., Nagy, Z. K.
    Crystal Growth and Design, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1129-1140
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A new mathematical procedure to calculate the periodic steady state of sequencing batch reactors for biological wastewater treatment

    Rasheed, A. A., Dionisi, D., Majumder, A.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
  • Population balance model based multi-objective optimization and robustness analysis of a continuous plug flow antisolvent crystallizer

    Ridder, B. J., Majumder, A., Nagy, Z. K.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • Population Balance Model Based Multi-objective Optimization of a Multi-segment Multi-addition (MSMA) Continuous Plug Flow Crystallizer

    Ridder, B. J., Majumder, A., Nagy, Z. K.
    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 4387-4397
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Fines removal in a continuous plug flow crystallizer by optimal spatial temperature profiles with controlled dissolution

    Majumder, A., Nagy, Z. K.
    AIChE Journal, vol. 59, no. 12, pp. 4582-4594
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Prediction and control of crystal shape distribution in the presence of crystal growth modifiers

    Majumder, A., Nagy, Z. K.
    Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 101, pp. 593-602
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Multiobjective optimization of a four-step adsorption process for postcombustion CO2 capture via finite volume simulation

    Haghpanah, R., Majumder, A., Nilam, R., Rajendran, A., Farooq, S., Karimi, I. A., Amanullah, M.
    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 4249-4265
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Lattice Boltzmann method for multi-dimensional population balance models in crystallization

    Majumder, A., Kariwala, V., Ansumali, S., Rajendran, A.
    Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 70, pp. 121-134
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Lattice Boltzmann method for population balance equations with simultaneous growth, nucleation, aggregation and breakage

    Majumder, A., Kariwala, V., Ansumali, S., Rajendran, A.
    Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 316-328
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Entropic lattice Boltzmann method for crystallization processes

    Majumder, A., Kariwala, V., Ansumali, S., Rajendran, A.
    Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 65, no. 13, pp. 3928–3936
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Fast high-resolution method for solving multidimensional population balances in crystallization

    Majumder, A., Kariwala, V., Ansumali, S., Rajendran, A.
    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 3862-3872
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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