Leadership

Dr Anand Gupta Chakinala 

Associate Professor & Head, Department of Chemical Engineering

Ph.D, M. Phil, B. Tech 

about dr anand

Dr. Anand Gupta Chakinala is an Associate Professor, Dept of Chemical Engineering, School of Civil and Chemical Engineering (SCCE). He has a rich and versatile, research, industrial and teaching experience of several years in Europe. He has done his bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Karnataka University, Dharwad and then did his Masters in Advanced Process Engineering from Loughborough University, England.

He started his career as a Research Assistant at the University of Abertay Dundee on an EPSRC funded project on Industrial Wastewater treatment using Advanced Fenton Process which led to several publications for which he was also awarded M Phil by the University. He then jointly worked as a Research Engineer at Brownell Ltd., London, and University of Reading on the development of novel continuous moisture removal technologies from large shipping containers. Post PhD at the University of Twente on Supercritical Water Gasification of Biomass, he worked as a Process Engineer at Veolia Water Solutions – Oil & Gas Division at Ede, The Netherlands where he worked on several international projects particularly related to produced water treatment. He later worked as an Oxo Process Development Engineer at ExxonMobil Chemical Europe Inc., at Brussels, Belgium.

His areas of interest in teaching and research include Catalysis, reaction engineering, process plant design, industrial/produced water treatment and biofuels.

Dr Anand Gupta Chakinala can be contacted at: anandgupta.chakinala@jaipur.manipal.edu