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Prof. Iyman Abrar

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

Alternative fuels for transportation, Sustainable fuel, Waste to energy
Room No. 322, Block D
Department of Chemical Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Ph.D. Scholars

  • Mr. Arshad Ali (BITS-RMIT Scholar)
  • Ms. Punitha Balarengadurai (part-time)

FD Thesis

Ongoing:

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Completed: 

  • Harsh Jain (Dec 2024) Design and development of skin conformable bioadhesive patches for biosensing applications (with Dr. Biswarup Mukherjee, IIT Delhi)
  • Nirmalya Ghosh (June 2024) Biodiesel synthesis from waste cooking oil using heterogeneous catalysts
  • Udesh Salver and Arshid Omesh (May 2024) Thermal pyrolysis of waste plastics (with Dr. M.Mukunda Vani, CBIT Hyderabad)
  • Krishna Shankar (Dec 2023) Interfacial Engineering in Carbon Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Composites (with Prof. Suryasarathi Bose, IISc Bangalore)
  • Bhanu Pranav Challa (May 2023) Renormalisation of interacting scalar field theories (with Prof. Prasant Samantray)
  • Sufiyan Siddiqui (Dec 2022) Bioderived, self-healing vitrimers (with Prof. Suryasarathi Bose, IISc Bangalore)

Project Students

Current Students

  • Riddi Garg, Aditi and Krutika Agarwal (May 2025) Biomass briquettes (LOP)
  • Prachi Rajput and Pramesh MJ (Dec 2024) Biodiesel production (LOP)
  • Shreya Singh (May 2025) Catalysts for hydrogen generation (LOP with Prof. Afkham)
  • Karnatakam Paavani and Raj Mohapatra (May 2025) Ethanol microemulsions (LOP)
  • Ishika Ratnawat, Ritika Kanwal and Shlok Sahu (May 2025) Hydrogen fuel cells (SOP with Prof. Afkham)

Past Students

  • Anwesha Mishra (Dec 2024) Copyrolysis of biomass and plastic waste to fuel (LOP)
  • Anvita Ajay Dave (Dec 2024) Biodiesel production (LOP)
  • Riddi Garg (Dec 2024) Role of AI in energy sector (SOP)
  • Ayush Nautiyal and Shramana Ghosh (Dec 2024) Role of blockchain in energy sector (SOP)
  • Aarnav Hetan Sanghvi, Amarjith Manjoo and Prachi Rajput (May 2024) Emerging technologies in biohydrogen production (SOP)
  • Jhilmil Modi, Sai Riddi and Vaibhav Khandelwal (May 2024) Plastic waste to fuel (LOP)
  • Krish Jain (May 2024), Raghvendra Kumar Gupta and Hari Govind U (May 2022) Chemical looping combustion for fuel conversion (SOP)
  • Tanay Reddy Gangavaram (May 2024) Bioethanol for SI engine (SOP)
  • Ankit Pareek and Pramesh MJ (May 2024) Nanomaterials for biodiesel production (SOP)
  • Karnatakam Paavani and Krutika Agarwal (May 2024) Pyrolysis of plastic waste to fuel (SOP)
  • Dhanush Majji (Dec 2022) Multi-criteria decision making framework (DOP with Dr. Arnab)
  • Jhilmil Modi  and Vaibhav Khandelwal (Dec 2022) Plastic waste to fuel (LOP)
  • Deeksha Arora and Koppisetti Sai Gowtham (May 2023) Nanomaterials for biodiesel production (LOP) 
  • Devansh Pandey (May 2023) Plastic waste to fuel (LOP)
  • Shreyanshu  Kumar (May 2023) Emerging technologies in biohydrogen production (LOP)
  • Subham Mishra (Dec 2022) Nanomaterials for biofuel applications (LOP)
  • Ipsika Behera (Dec 2022) Alternative fuel for SI engines (LOP)
  • Challa Bhanu Pranav (Dec 2022) Plastic waste to biofuel (DOP)
  • Pawar Akhilesh Sunil (Dec 2022) Emerging technologies in biohydrogen production (SOP)
  • Dhanush Majji (Dec 2022) Multi-criteria decision making framework (DOP with Dr. Arnab)
  • Dusi Syama Kirti and Prakshi Gada (May 2022) Nanomaterials for biodiesel production (LOP) 
  • Niranjana D and Rithwik Gilla (May 2022) Nanomaterials for improving biodiesel performance (LOP)
  • Gourav Ranjan Boxi and Akshara Gade (May 2022) AI in the energy industry (SOP) 
  • Saransh Mishra and Vikram Aditya Kota (Dec 2021) Performance evaluation of microemulsion fuels using hybrid MCDM techniques (DOP)
  • Hema Chandra and Aditya Viswanathan (Dec 2021) Nanomaterials in biodiesel production (SOP)
  • Tavishi Arora (Dec 2021) and Rakshit Khandelwal (May 2021) Bioalcohols as an alternative fuel for internal combustion engines (SOP)
  • Naman Bung (Dec 2021) Different methods of biodiesel production (SOP)
  • Rishit Agarwal (Dec 2021) Nanoparticles for biofuel production (SOP)
  • Aditya Ravi Swami (Dec 2021) Models for prediction of fuel properties (DOP with Dr. Arnab)
  • Shashank Sistla (May 2021) Models for prediction of fuel properties (DOP with Dr. Arnab)