The separation processes research in the Department covers fundamentals, design, modeling, and simulation in operations such as drying, batch distillation and adsorption. Specific research activities include but are not limited to coir pith drying, ceramic drying, CFD analysis of rotary dryer, and fractionation of essential oil.
Team:
- Prof. (Mrs) Padma Amarasinghe
- Prof. Shantha Amarasinghe
- Prof. Mahinsasa Narayana
- Dr. Dilhara Sethunga
Our Research Cases:
Abesekara, M.S., Kosvinna, K.N. and Amarasinghe, B.M. (2020) ‘Adsorption and desorption studies of ni2+ ions on to Coconut Shell Char’, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 427(1), p. 012005. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/427/1/012005.
Amarasinghe, P. and Amarasinghe, K. (2020) ‘Determination of mass transfer coefficients for adsorption of PB and CD onto Coir Pith and statistical analysis’, Journal of Analytical Techniques and Research, 02(03). doi:10.26502/jatri.017.
Ranasinghe, E.N. and Amarasinghe, B.M. (2019) ‘Single and binary adsorption of heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions using Coirpith as the adsorbent’, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, pp. 75–90. doi:10.1007/978-981-13-9749-3_7.
Kumarage, N.D.I., Amarasinghe, A.D.U.S. and Narayana, M. (2022) ‘Path to predict the vapor pressure and enthalpy of vaporization of the components in essential oils’, 2022 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon). doi:10.1109/mercon55799.2022.9906187.
Aadhil, M.F.H.M., Amarasinghe, A.D.U.S. and Narayana, M. (2021) ‘Characterising the drying behaviour of microwave assisted drying of coconut chips’, 2021 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) doi:10.1109/mercon52712.2021.9525801.