INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

Projects

Awards, Honours and Patents

(a) 'National Best Metallurgist Award' by Ministry of Steel and Mines, 1995
(b) 'Distinguished Alumnus Award', Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
(c) Delivered the presitgious N.P.Gandhi Memorial Lecture 2010 of the Indian Institute of Metals at Bangalore
(d) Developed "Beta Supersonic Control", now widely used in steel plants for on-line dynamic process control of BOF process, in India and abroad
(e) Developed the famous "Multi-component mixed transport control theory", co-author: Prof. D.G.C. Robertson, Imperial college, London, which is
used all over the world for developing on-line dynamic process control models in various unit processes in steel industry.

Awards given to my students on their Thesis work

(a) Cadence Gold Medal: Divyesh Dixit, 1996
(b) INAE Best M.Tech Project Award: Ashish Bajpai, 1998
(c) Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal: Arghya Dey, 2005
(d) Best B.Tech project Award: Srathak Havelia, 2006

Patents

Patent application (No. 949/CHE/2015 dated 27.02.2015) on
"Control Signal Processing Device For Raising and Lowering of Lance and Process ThereOf"
for Online Dynamic Controfl of SteelMaking in BOF, jointly with Vishakapatnam Steel Plant.