Sustainability
People
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Ranjeet Utikar
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Research Projects
Circular economy testbed and anaerobic digestion modelling
Scoping an anaerobic digestion testbed for organic waste at Curtin, supported by a MATLAB model that fits batch methane data and simulates batch and continuous digesters.
Techno-economics of liquid organic hydrogen carriers
A process and cost assessment of dibenzyltoluene as a hydrogen carrier, showing how the choice of hydrogenation catalyst changes system-level cost.
Phase-field modelling of dendrites in lithium-metal batteries
Open-source finite element phase-field models of lithium electrodeposition, from planar interfaces to three-dimensional dendrites at experimental scale.
Intensifying multiphase reactions and reactors
Strategies and worked examples for making gas-liquid and gas-solid reactors smaller, safer and more productive, from 3D-printed distributors to retrofit reactor inserts.
Kafirin from sorghum: continuous purification and biomaterials
Purifying kafirin, the main sorghum seed protein, in a continuous fluidized-bed ion-exchange system, and characterising kafirin from grain and from distillers grain for food-grade biomaterials.
Publications
- Colliss M , Myers M , Shareef Z , Utikar R P , Arami-Niya AInternational Journal of Hydrogen Energy , 247 : 155689 , 2026