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Ph.D. Students
Rahul R. Bhosale
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Dr. Shende’s Research Group |
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Rahul R. Bhosale is currently pursuing Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T), Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. He received his M.Chem. Engg. degree from the Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly known as UDCT), Mumbai in 2008. He is currently working on the synthesis and characterization of redox nanomaterials and development of high temperature thermochemical cycling process for H2 generation from water-splitting reaction. Previously, he worked in the area of gas-sweetening process focusing on CO2 absorption in alkanolamines. Furthermore, he has expertise in catalysis, kinetics, mass transfer studies, wet-oxidation, transport modeling and etc. |
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Mr. Bhosale is the lead author of four peer-reviewed journal articles, five conference proceedings and has given eight oral and nine poster presentations. Recently, he is awarded with the ‘Mines Medal Graduate Fellowship’ by South Dakota School of Mines & Technology for the excellent and outstanding research work performed during the doctoral education. He also received runner-up award for outstanding student paper and presentation from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) – Nuclear Engineering Division and a third prize for his poster at the AIChE – Fuels, Petrochemicals and Energy poster session. He is a member of the AIChE, American Chemical Society (ACS), Materials Research Society (MRS) and South Dakota Academy of Science. |
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Richa Tungal |
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Richa Tungal received her M.Sc. Chemistry degree from the Punjab University, Chandigarh, India in 2006. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T), Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. Her research work focused towards catalytic subcritical aqueous phase liquefaction of biomass for the production of hydrogen and hydrocarbons. Previously, she worked in the area of synthesis and characterization of chalcogenides.
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Menan Hussein |
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Menan Hussein's research interests are in the areas of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) and direct solar water splitting to hydrogen (H2) for future strategic energy storage. With the semiconductor materials, he is engineering novel, ordered, hexagonal mesoporous structures using a sol-gel method that involves coupled ZnO/TiO2 composite matrix for higher dye loading and larger surface area, which can be used in both DSSCs and photocatalysis applications. |
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MS Students |
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Xavier Mary J Pasala |
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Xavier Mary J Pasala got her B.Tech from R.V.R&J.C College of Engineering, Guntur, India in 2009. She is pursuing M.S in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA (SDSM&T). She is currently working on the Thermochemical Water Splitting process for H2 generation using sol-gel derived redox materials. |
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Venu Buddineni |
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Venu Buddineni completed his M.tech in Computer Aided Process and Equipment design at National institute of technology (2008-2010). He currently pursuing M.S in chemical engineering at SDSM&T and his research interest is in the area of production of hydrogen from water splitting and aqueous phase biomass reforming. |
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Kirk Ohlsen |
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Kirk Ohlsen received his B.S. in Biology from South Dakota State University (SDSU), Brookings, South Dakota, in 2008. He is currently pursuing M.S. in Chemical & Biological Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T), Rapid City, South Dakota. He is currently working on catalytic thermochemical biomass processing for the production of alternative fuels. |
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Undergraduate Students |
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Amanda Finley |
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Amanda Finley graduated from Northwestern High School of Mellette, South Dakota. A freshman as the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, she is pursuing a Chemical and Biological engineering degree. She is currently working towards catalytic subcritical aqueous phase liquefaction of biomass for the production of hydrogen and hydrocarbons. |
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Evan Sellers |
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Evan Sellers graduated from Sioux Valley High School in Volga, South Dakota in 2010. He is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in chemical and biological engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T). He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), ChemE Car, and Phi Eta Sigma (National Honor Society) chapters at SDSM&T. He is currently conducting research towards the fabrication and characterization of biosensors used to detect different types of biomasses. |
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Sowmya Yelakanti |
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Sowmya Yelakanti is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T). She is a member of AICHE and the Phi-Theta-Kappa International Honor Society. She is currently working on high temperature thermochemical H2 generation from water-splitting reaction. Previous research includes Biomimetic Engineering which was used to characterize the polymers using NMR technology at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT). |
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Aaron Baker |
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Aaron P. Baker is a junior currently working towards his Bachelor’s Degree as a Chemical Engineer at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T), Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. He is a South Dakota native and a US Navy Veteran who has a family of two boys with his wife. He is currently researching the development of silicon wafer chips that may be used as a real-time sensor for chemical/biological warfare agents as well as cancer cell detection. He is also pursuing use of these chips in solar panel application to reduce costs of solar systems. Mr. Baker is a member of the AIChE and the Veteran’s Club on campus. His plans are to stay at SDSM&T to finish his PhD program. |
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#Room 215, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, 501 East St Joseph Street, Rapid City, SD 57701 (605) 394-1231 (O), (605) 545-2861 (C), Rajesh.Shende@sdsmt.edu |
