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Dr. Jay Pandey

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Department of Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Research Interests

 

Research Area(s):

  • Electro-chemical Engineering
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Fuel Cells, Batteries & Water Electrolyzers
  • Green hydrogen for EVs
  • Membrane & Electro-catalysts
  • Artificial Intelligence in Electrochemical Engineering
  • Predictive Modeling & Simulations
  • Electro-chemical Kinetics & Transport


Computational Expertise:

  • ASPEN Hysys for Process modeling & simulations
  • COMSOL Multiphyics for multiscale modeling
  • Mattlab
  • Python
  • R-programming for AI/ML modeling

 

Experimental Expertise:

 

Membrane & electro-catalyst synthesis techniques:

  • Hydrothermal synthesis, Wet-impregnation (WI)/Co-precipitation, sol-gel technique for electro-catalysts
  • Hydrothermal and Solvothermal synthesis for proton conducting Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)
  • Solution casting, Pore-filling method/Impregnation and Electro-spinning method

Characterization techniques:

  • Structural characterization: X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), 1H-NMR (Nuclear magnetic resonance), Raman spectroscopy
  • Physical characterization: Pore size distribution (BET-BJH isotherms, Temperature programmed reduction (TPR), Capillary flow poremetry, Contact angle measurement (Goniometry), Atomic force microscopy (AFM), Particle size analyser (PSA)
  • Chemical characterization: Gas chromatography (GC), UV-VIS Spectrophotometer, Atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS)
  • Morphological characterization: Scanning electron microscopy- energy dispersive X-ray (SEM-EDX), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Optical microscope
  • Stability Test: Thermal gravimetric analysis/differential scanning calorimetery (TGA/DSC), Mechanical stability test (Instron tensile testor), Oxidative stability test
  • Electrochemical characterization: Cyclic voltametry (CV), Linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), Chronopotentiometery-chronoamperiometery, Scanning electrochemical spectroscopy (SECS), Surface charge measurement using zeta potential (ZetaCAD)