- Design, Modeling, Simulation and Control

- Control of Reactive Distillation Systems

- Process Heat Integration

- Non-linear Dynamics and Bifurcation analysis of  Chemical Processes

- Adsorption (Reactive & Non-Reactive)

Life Member (LM-43788), Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers

Department Level

-Class committe chairperson, Semester V, B.Tech (Chemical Engineering), Monsson Semester 2012-2013

-Department Time table incharge  - April 2012 onwards

- A faculty advisor to students of the B. Tech program

- Committe member, recuitment of staff and faculty on ad-hoc basis, July 2011

- Final year project review committe member, B. Tech (Chemical Engineering), 2010-2011

- Prepared syllabi and curriculum for 2 courses (CH4052 Computers Applications in Chemical Engineering & CH4039 catalysis) in the revision of syllabi and curriculum of B. Tech (Chemical Engineering), 2010

Institute Level

- Member, Anti-ragging squad 

- Member, stock verification team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Calicut, 2011.

-  Warden, Hostel E, NIT Calicut, July 2012 onwards

(Winter semester 2011)

CHU 395 Mini Project

1. Regulatory Control of Fuel Cells, Students : S. Sai Murali (B080783CH), T.M.A.Vinay Deep (B080679CH), S. Nishant (B080727CH), A. Rajkumar (B080727CH).

2.  Modeling of Liquid-Liquid Extraction, Students: Dandu S. Raju (B080584CH), K.P.Naidu(B080742CH), P. Vishwanath (B080623 CH), D. Dasarathi (B080734CH).

3. Simulation of Distillation Columns, Students: N. Kumar (B080418 CH), A.K. Shastri (B080777CH), Manohar Prasad ( B080745CH), Kuldeep Singh ( B080781CH).

B.Tech Project

1. Control studies of Ideal Reactive Distillation Designs of Different Equilibrium Constants , Sudhir Kumar and Raja Rajeswaran, B. Tech (chemical engineering) students of St. Peters Engineering College, Avadi, Chennai, Tamil nadu.

-"Reactive Distillation: Design and Control", College of Technology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 23 July 2015. 

- "Control of Solar Thermal Power Plants", Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Calicut, 10-May-2015, FDP on  Solar Energy Utilization, 05-16 May 2015. 

-"Biodiesel from Waste Cooking Oil", Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Calicut, 02-July-2013, in FDP program on Biofuels: Prospects and Challenges. 

- "Challenges in the modeling and simulation of membrane adsorbers in downstream processing", Department of Biotechnology, PSG College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, 23-April 2014. 

-"Reactive Distillation: Design and Control", two hour invited talk at Department of Chemical Engineering, GEC Kozhikode, Kerala, India, 12-14 March 2013 

-"Steady State Simulation of Chemical Engineering Processes using Chemsep LITE v 6.90 and COCO ", two hour training session in " Modeling and Simulation in Chemical and Environmental Engineering", a Faculty Development Program Organised by Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Calicut, 28 May - 1 June 2012.

-"Steady State Modeling and Simulation of a Two Feed Two Product Ideal Reactive Distillation Column ", a one hour lecture in " Modeling and Simulation in Chemical and Environmental Engineering", a Faculty Development Program Organised by Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Calicut, 28 May - 1 June 2012.

- "Introduction to Plantwide Process Control and Simulation", a one hour lecture in " Modeling and Simulation in Chemical and Environmental Engineering", a Faculty Development Program Organised by Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Calicut, 28 May - 1 June 2012.

- Attended "Industry-Academia Workshop Technology Imperatives for Exploration and Production of Oil & Gas" organized by Oil and Natural gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited at Rajahmundry, 26-29 March 2012, Organized by ONGC Academy, Dehradun and PETROFED.

- Attended  "Two Week ISTE Workshop on Heat Transfer" under The National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Government of India), 29 Nov - 10 Dec, 2011, Remote Center: Depratment of Mechanical Engineering, National Indtitute of Technology Calicut

- Event Judge, Research Paper Presentation Competition in Chemical Engineering Division, Thathva 2010;2011, Technical festival, National Institute of Technology Calicut

- External Examiner, M. Tech thesis viva-voce examination in the Departmnt of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Suratkal, 15-16 July 2011. 

- " Steady state simulation of Reactive Distillation using Napthali-Sandholm Method", a one and half hour lecture in " Computers applications in Chemical and Biological Engineering", a Faculty Development Program Organised by Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Calicut, 13-18 June 2011.

- "Computers in Chemical Engineering Eductaion", a one and half hour lecture in " Computers applications in Chemical and Biological Engineering", a Faculty Development Program Organised by Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Calicut, 13-18 June 2011.

- Editorial Assistant, "Chemical Engineering Science", September 2009 - August 2010

- Attended Indo-German Workshop -Advances in Reaction-Separation Processes, Feb 2008, Chennai, India

- Participating faculty, Intensive short course on “Practical Chemical Process Control”, May 2007, IIT Kanpur

- Maintenance secretary, Hall 5, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 2002 

- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India

- ThaparUniversity, Patiala, India

Sep 2008  - Aug 2010

Post-doc Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany

 Jan 2008 - Aug 2008

Project Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

Apr 2007 - Dec 2007

Student Project Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

Book Chapters

1.  V Pavan Kumar Malladi, Nitin Kaistha, "Reactive Distillation: Control system and process design for robustness" in Ed: Andrzej Bartoszewicz, Robust Control/Book3, ISBN 978-953-307-338-5, InTech-Open Access Publisher.  http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/reactive-distillation-control-structure-and-process-design-for-robustness

Review Articles

1. Sony George, Anish Thomas, Malladi V Pavan Kumar, Abdul Samad Kamdod, Akanksha Rajput, Jayasree Joshi T, S Abdullah, Impact of processing parameters on the quality attributes of spray-dried powders: a review, European Food Research and Technology, 2022 Accepted. 

Peer Reviewed Research Publication in International Journals

36. Abdul Samad Kamdod, Ektha V , S Shika, Malladi V Pavan Kumar (2022), Biosorption of Crystal violet, Congo red and Methyl orange on Nephelium Lappaceum stem-derived activated carbon and its composite with chitosan, Research Journal in Chemistry and Environment, Accepted. 

35. Anish Thomas, Malladi V Pavan Kumar (2022), Multi-objective optimization of a Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit using Response Surface Methodology, Chemical Product and Process Modelling, Accepted 

34. Abdul Samad Kamdod, Malladi V Pavan Kumar (2002), Adsorption of Methylene Blue, Methyl Orange, and Crystal Violet on Microporous Coconut Shell Activated Carbon and Its Composite with Chitosan: Isotherms and Kinetics, Journal of Polymers and Environment, Accepted

33. Sony George, Anish Thomas, Praveen Kumar G, M V Pavan Kumar (2022), Optimization of spray drying for coconut milk powder using response surface methodology and investigation of the powder properties, Carpathian Journal of Food Science and Technology, Accepted

32. Abdul Samad Kamdod, Mallad V Pavan Kumar (2022), Adsorption of Methylene blue and Methyl orange on tamarind seed activated carbon and its composite with chitosan: equilibrium and kinetic studies, Dealination and Water Treatment, 252, 408-419

31. M. Ananda Rao, M.V. Pavan Kumar and Lenka Srinu (2021), A comparative study on the rheological properties of coal water slurries using sodium tripoly-phosphate and carboxy-methyl-cellulose as dispersants, Journal of Mines, Metals & Fuels, Accepted. 

30. M. T. Aswani, M. V. Pavan Kumar (2021), Acid-thermal modified Merremia vitifolia for the removal of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Accepted 

29. M T Aswani, M Yadav, A V Kumar, S Tiwari, T Kumar & M V Pavan Kumar (2020), Ultrasound-acid modified Merremia Vitifolia biomass for the biosorption of herbicide 2,4-D from aqueous solution, Water Science and Technology, 82(3), 468-480 

28. Aswani MT, M V Pavan Kumar (2019), A Novel water hyacinth based biosorbent for 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) removal from aqueous solution, Desalination and Water Treatment, Accepted (on 16 June 2019).  

27. M A Rao, V. Yerriswamy, M V Pavan Kumar, N Narasaiah (2019), A comparative study on the rheological properties of two coal water slurries with sodium tripolyphosphate as dispersant, International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization, Accepted

26. Anish Thomas, M V Pavan Kumar (2019), Comparison of the Steady State Performances of 2×2 Regulatory Control Structures for Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit, Arabian  Journal for Science and Engineering, 44(6), 5475-5487

25. Rohinikumar B, Muraleedharan C, M V Pavan Kumar (2019), Modeling and dynamic simulation of solar-thermal energy conversion in an unconventional solar thermal water pump, Renewable Energy, 134, 292-305

24. M.A. Rao, M V Pavan Kumar, SS Rao, N Narasiah (2018), Rheological behaviour of coal-water slurries of Indian coals using carboxymethyl cellulose as dispersant - a comaparative study, International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization, DOI: 10.1080/19392699.2018.1518901

23. M A Rao, M V Pavan Kumar, S S Rao, N Narasaiah (2018), Rheological Behavior of Coal Water Slurry using Sodium Tripolyphopshate as dispersant, International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization, DOI: 10.1080/19392699.2018.1485664

22. Anish K Mathew, M V Pavan Kumar (2018), Estimator Based Inferential Control of an Ideal Quaternary Endothermic Reactive Distillation with Feed-Forward and Recurrent Neural Networks, Chemical product and Process Modeling, Chemical Product and Process Modeling, 13(2),  https://doi.org/10.1515/cppm-2017-0015

21. M A Rao, R S Babu, M V Pavan Kumar (2018), Stress corrosion cracking failure of a SS 316L high pressure heater tube, Engineering Failure Analysis, 90, 14-22

20. M A Rao, R Sekhar Babu, M V Pavan Kumar (2017) , Failure investigation of a cooling coil tube in zinc roaster furnace, Engineering Failure Analysis, 77, 118-125

19. M V Pavan Kumar, Anish K Mathew (2017), Reaction-separation interaction on the control of ideal two feed two product exothermic reactive distillation column, The Candian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 95(2), 331-342

18. Anish K Mathew, N Kaistha, M V Pavan Kumar (2016), Control of Quaternary Ideal Endothermic Reactive Distillation with and without Internal Heat Integration, Chemical Engineering and Technology, 39(4),775-785. 

17. MA Rao, MVP Kumar, TSNS Narayanan, SS Rao, N Narasiah (2015), Failure Analysis of a Low Pressure Turbine Blade in a Coal Based Thermal Power Plant,   Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, 15(7), 750-757 

16. MA Rao, MV Pavan Kumar (2015), An Investigation of a Dryer Can Failure in a Paper Mill, Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, 15(2), 251-257

15. NN Babu, S Jayaraj, MV Pavan Kumar, HS Kamath (2014), Thermochemical cycles for hydrogen production, Applied Mechanics and Materials 592-594, 1820-1824

14. M A Rao, K Rajesh, M V Pavan Kumar (2013), Evolution of corrosion damage to cold rolled grain oriented steel sheets under rainwater followed by ambient atmosphere exposure, Engineering Failure Analysis 30, 10-16

13. K S Babu, M V Pavan Kumar &N Kaistha (2009),Controllable optimized designs of an ideal reactive distillation system using genetic algorithm, Chemical Engineering Science 64, 4929-4942.

12. M Rahul, M V Pavan  Kumar, D Dwivedi & N Kaistha (2009), An efficient algorithm for rigorous dynamics simulation of reactive distillation columns, Computers and Chemical Engineering 33, 1336-1347.

Monsoon Semester (Jul 2015-Dec 2015)

CH6002 Advanced Transport Phenomena (M.Tech.)

ME6202 Advanced Chemical Thermodynamics (On sharing with Prof S. Jayaraj, Mechanical Engineering)

CH4002 Computer Aided Design

CH4091 Process Dynamics and Control Lab

Winter Semester (Jan 2015-May 2015)

CH1001 Introduction to Chemical Engineering

CH4031 Process Automation

CH3093 Chemical Reaction Engineering Lab

Monsoon Semester (Jul 2014-Dec 2014)

CH3001 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II

CH1001 Introduction to Chemical Engineering

CH4091 Process Dynamics and Control Lab

ME6202 Advanced Chemical Thermodynamics  (On sharing with Prof S. Jayaraj, Mechanical Engineering)

Winter Semester (Jan 2014-May 2014)

CH4023 Corrosion Engineeringe

CH2004 Material Science

CH3093 Chemical Reaction Engineering Lab

Monsoon Semester (Jul 2013-Dec 2013)

CH3007 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II

CH4001 Transport Phenomena

ME6202 Advanced Chemical Thermodynamics  (On sharing with Prof S. Jayaraj, Mechanical Engineering)

CH4091 Process Dynamics and Control Lab

Winter Semester (Jan 2013-May 2013)

CH1001 Introduction to Chemical Engineering

CH3007 Process Dynamics & Control 

CH3093 Chemical Reaction Engineering Lab

Monsoon Semester (Jul 2012-Dec 2012)

CH3001 Mass Transfer - 1

CH1001 Introduction to Chemical Engineering

ME6202 Advanced Chemical Thermodynamics (On sharing with Prof S. Jayaraj, Mechanical Engineering)

CH2091 Chemical Technology Laboratory

CHP703-A Advanced Separation Processes (PG Course)

Winter Semester (Dec 2011-May 2012)

CHU315 Chemical Process Equipment Design and Drawing

CHU 492 Process Automation

CH 2093 Mechanical Operations Laboratory

CHU493 Seminar

Monsoon Semester (July 2011 - Dec 2011 )

ME 6202 Advanced Chemical Thermodynamics (On sharing with Prof S. Jayaraj, Mechanical Engineering)

CH2001 Chemical Technology

CH2091 Chemical Technology Laboratory

ZZ1094 OT (Value Education)

Winter Semester (Dec 2010-May 2011)

CHU315 Chemical Process Equipment Design and Drawing

CHU395 Mini Project (Co-ordinator)

CHU 492 Process Automation

CHU 393 Mass Transfer laboratory

Monsoon Semester (Sep 2010 - Dec 2010 )

ME 6202 Advanced Chemical Thermodynamics (On sharing with Prof S. Jayaraj, Mechanical Engineering)

Married.