Director & Professor

Education :

B.Tech. (Hons.), M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, Ph.D. from Unviersity of Roorkee.

E-mail : nj.rao[AT]iet.ac.in : jrnandagiri[AT]yahoo.co.in

Areas of Interest:

Energy and Environmental management of Process Industires particularly Paper and Pulp.

Brief Background

Prof. N. J. Rao has done B.Tech. (Hons.) and M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Roorkee. He joined Jaypee Institute of Engineering and Technology as a Director after serving over 34 year's at IIT Roorkee / University of Roorkee at Chemical Engineering Department and Department of Paper Technology. He served several years as Director of Institute of Paper Technology and as Director of Central Pulp and Paper Research Institute, a national laboratory under Ministry of Industry (GOI) for one year. His research interest includes Energy and Environmental management of Process industries, particularly Pulp and Paper Fluid - Particle Mechanics. He has published over 150 research papers and 8 Ph.D. scholars got their degrees under his guidance. He has several awards for best papers and best teacher and is associated with several National and International bodies like UNEP(NIEM), CPCB, NPC, MOEF, DST, CSE, HNL, Shreyans Industries Ltd., WBCSD and has visited many countries like China, France, UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Canada, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia. He has been a visiting professor at NTH Trondheim. He served as Editor / Editorial Advisor / National Editor for IPPTA Journal; CSIR Journal, In Paper International, Pulp and Paper International, Urja.

Publication

(i) "Action of Xylenase Prebleaching on Wheat Straw and Oxygen Delignified Wheat Straw Soda Pulps - Probable Mechanisms". Proceedings of the 59th APPITA Conferences, 16th-19th May, 2005, Auckland, New Zealand. (Co-authors Shobhit Mathur, Satishkumar).
(ii) "Energy Conservation System in Digester House. Proceedings of the annual Seminar of IPPTA on "Developments in Pulping and Chemical Recovery", 4th-5th March, New Delhi 2005. (Co-auhors S. Suresh Khanna, Ram Kumar & A. Kannababul).
(iii) "Xylanase Prebleaching Of Chemical Pulps, IPPTA Journal, Vol 17, No. 4, pp 35 - 47, October 2005 (Part of the PhD work of the Student) (Co-authors Shobhit Mathur and Satish Kumar).
(iv) "A Systematic Approach Of Controlling Water Soluble Scales In Modern Evaporator Plant", IPPTA Journal, Vol 17, No. 4, pp 57 - 62, October 2005 (Part of the M.Tech. work of the student.) (Co-authors S. Suresh Khanna, Ram Kumar and Kanna Babu).

Interaction with Other Institutions

(i) Final report of the project entitled "Review Of Environment Statistics Submitted by Pulp and Paper Industries" has been submitted to Central Pollution Control Board in Sep. 2005. Prof. N.J.Rao is the Principal Investigator in the project.
(ii) "Green Rating of Cements Industry in India" - Project of Center of Science and Environment, Prof. N.J.Rao, Member of the Technical Advisory Panel. Ratings to be released in December 2005. (period 2003-2005).
(iii) "Green Rating of Pulp and Paper Industry in India" - Project of Center of Science and Environment, Prof N.J. Rao, Chairman of the Technical Advisory Panel. Ratings released in October 2004. (Period 2002-2004) (iv) "Director in the Board of M/s Shreyans Industries Ltd., Ludhiana.
(v) "Member Governing Body of Thapar Centre for Industrial Research And Development, Patiala.