- Faculty of Engineering
- Department of Chemical and Process Engineering
- Professor
Contact information
Department of Chemical and Process Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
成人头条
Moratuwa
10400
Teaching and Administrative Activities
Industrial Training Coordinator -Connect undergraduate students with processing factories for their 6 month in-plant training period. (2018 To 2019)
Career Guidance Coordinator - Help undergraduate to develop their soft skills to be competitive in modern job market. (2018 To date)
Student-Staff Liason Officer - Mediating with student - staff issues to find common grounds to solve problems and keep harmony among student - staff community of Faculty of Engineering (2018 To date)
Research Activities
bio-refinery
renewable energy
sustainable energy
carbon nanotubes
catalysts
catalysis
heterogeneous catalysts
advanced materials
engineering education
microfluidics
micro reactors
heterogeneous catalysts
Nanotechnology
Bio-refinery
Education and Professional Affiliations
PhD, Zhejiang University ,2017
Masters, Zhejiang University ,2014
Bachelors, 成人头条 ,2008
IESL(2019 To date)
Career
Honours and Awards
Publications*
Thejanie Jayasekara, Sajani Piyatilleke, Dilantha Thushara, Shantha Egodage, Ajith Priyal de Alwis,".X-Press Pearl: The Cargo and Its Complexity in Impact.",CRC Press - Taylor & Francis,2023
Poornima Wanninayake, Mahinsasa Rathnayake, Dilantha Thushara, Sanja Gunawardena,".Optimization of Hemicellulose Recovery from Rice Straw for Biorefinery: Dilute Acid Pretreatment at Reduced Temperatures.",2021 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon),成人头条,2021,315-320
Achini Liyanage, Dilantha Thushara, Sanja Gunawardena,". Simulation of Diffusive Transport of Nanoparticles under an Externally Applied Electric Field.",2021 From Innovation To Impact (FITI),BMICH,2021,1-6
Rajika Yasawnie Elabadagama; Sanja Gunawardena; Dilantha Thushara,".Tea Waste Derived Heterogeneous Acid Catalyst for Esterification of Free Fatty Acids in Biodiesel Production.",2020 From Innovation to Impact (FITI),BMICH,2020,1-5
Chamini Lakshika Wickramarathna Dissanayake, Dilantha Thushara, Duleeka Sandamali Gunarathne,".Optimizing process parameters in water-and acid-washing pretreatment of rice straw.",Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery,,2024
Hongping Yu, Zhichao Wang, Ting Long, Yu Li, Dilantha Thushara, Bo Bao, Shuangliang Zhao,".Permeability and selectivity analysis for affinity?based nanoparticle separation through nanochannels.",AIChE Journal,68,2022
Poornima Wanninayake, Mahinsasa Rathnayake, Dilantha Thushara and Sanja Gunawardena,".Conversion of rice straw into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural: review and comparative process evaluation.",Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery ,12,2021
Ting Long, Hongguan Wu, Hongping Yu, Dilantha Thushara, Bo Bao, Shuangliang Zhao, Honglai Liu,".Thermodynamic Barrier for Nanoparticle Penetration into Nanotubes.",Langmuir,36,2020
Zuojun Wei*, Dilantha Thushara, Xinghua Li, Zuyi Zhang, Yingxin Liu and Xiuyang Lu ,".Ligand-controlled fabrication of core-shell PdNi bimetallic nanoparticles as a highly efficient hydrogenation catalyst.",Catalysis Communications,98,2017