Dr. Ajay Kumar Shukla Associate Professor Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Madras Chennai 600036, INDIA Phone: +91 44 2257 4762 (O), +91 44 2257 6762 (R), +91 9445949765 (cell) Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://mme.iitm.ac.in/shukla/ National Expert id: https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/69241 EDUCATION . Ph.D. Materials and Metallurgical Engineering 2011 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India B.Tech Materials and Metallurgical Engineering 1995 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India (IIT JEE All India Rank : 872) EMPLOYMENT HISTORY . Associate Professor Oct. 2019 – continuing Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering IIT Madras, Chennai, India Assistant Professor August 2012 – Oct.2019 Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering IIT Madras, Chennai, India Scientist Fellow January 2012 – July 2012 National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, India Project Associate October 2011-December 2011 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur Deputy Manager July 2002–December 2003 Steel Authority of India Limited, Durgapur Steel Plant, India Assistant Manager July 1999–July 2002 Steel Authority of India Limited, Durgapur Steel Plant, India Junior Manager July 1996–July 1999 Steel Authority of India Limited, Durgapur Steel Plant, India Management Trainee July 1995–July 1996 Steel Authority of India Limited, Durgapur Steel Plant, India RESEARCH INTERESTS . 1. Process modeling, control and optimization of iron and steelmaking. 2. Computational thermodynamics and its application to high temperature metallurgical processes. 3. Application of Artificial Intelligence (ANN, GA) to metallurgical processes. 4. Heat and mass transfer 1 5. Microwave assisted metal extraction. 6. Extractive Metallurgy 7. Waste recycling and utilization PARTICIPATION IN INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS . Participated in projects involving development of Level-II Automation comprising of Static and Dynamic Control Models of BOF Steelmaking Process for Visakhapatnam and Rourkela Steel Plant. Also worked on projects like ferro-alloy production, magnesium and iron in low shaft furnace at NML Jamshedpur. At present working on sponsored/consultancy projects in the area of iron-making, steelmaking, waste recycling and management, development of level-2 process control models with industries like JSW Steel Plant, NMDC Ltd. India. AWARDS . 1. Awarded first in ferrous category during Poster Presentation at National Metallurgist Day seminar held at Baroda in 2002. 2. GATE scholarship during Masters study (percentile 93.62 in 2004). 3. Selected for prestigious National Doctoral Fellowship by AICTE (All India Institute for Technical Education) in 2008. 4. MHRD scholarship during PhD studies. 5. Selected for DST-DAAD-PPP (German Academic Exchange Service) 2009 to work on joint project with Institute of Iron and Steel Technology, Technical University Bergakademie, Freiberg, Germany. 6. Visiting Researcher on DAAD Fellowship to Ferrous Metallurgy Division, RWTH Aachen University, Germany during Feb' 2014. 7. Visiting Faculty on DAAD Bilateral Exchange Fellowship to Ferrous Metallurgy Division, RWTH Aachen University, Germany during July' 2015. 8. Keynote speaker at high temperature processing symposium, 2016, Swinburne University, Australia. 9. Visiting Faculty at Iron and Steel Institute, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany during 5-15 January, 2017 to deliver lectures in "Modeling of Steelmaking Processes". PUBLICATIONS . I. Peer Reviewed journals: 1. Oleksandr Kovtun,Meirzhan Karbayev,Iurii Korobeinikov,C Srishilan, Ajay Kumar Shukla and Olena Volkova, "Phosphorus Partition Between Liquid Crude Steel and High?Basicity Basic Oxygen Furnace Slags", Steel Research International, 2021. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/srin.202000607 ) 2. Oleksandr Kovtun,Iurii Korobeinikov,Srishilan C Ajay Kumar Shukla and Olena Volkova, "Viscosity of BOF Slag", Metals, 2020, vol. 10(7),p. 982. (https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/10/7/982/htm ) 2 3. C Srishilan, Anand Vivek, Ajay Kumar Shukla, "Operating Line Prediction of COREX Iron-making Process Using RIST Diagram", ISIJ International, 2020, vol. 60(4),p. 656-661.(https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/isijinternational/60/4/60_ISIJINT- 2019-429/_html/-char/en) 4. Ajay Kumar Shukla,, B. Deo and D.G.C. Robertson, “Modeling of scrap dissolution in molten iron for the case of heat transfer controlled process by different approaches and comparision of their accuracies”, Journal of Heat Transfer (ASME), 2020, vol. 142(10), p. 012101-1-12 (https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4045100 ). 5. Ajay Kumar Shukla, “Thermodynamics-based modeling of iron- and steelmaking processes using flow sheet-based approach employing METSIM”, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 2019, vol. 73(3), p. 767-775. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12666-018-1529-z) 6. C. Srishilan, Ajay Kumar Shukla, “Thermodynamic model of COREX melter gasifier using FactSage™ and macro facility” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2019, vol. 50(1), p. 312-323. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11663-018-1476-4) 7. Kali Prasad, C. Srishilan, Ajay Kumar Shukla, and Marutiram Kaza, " Thermodynamic assessment and experimental validation of clinker formation from blast furnace slag through lime addition", Ceramic International, 2018, vol.44(16), p. 19434- 19441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2018.07.180 8. C. Srishilan, Ajay Kumar Shukla, "Static thermochemical model of COREX melter gasifier", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2018, vol. 49(1), p. 388-398. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11663-017-1147-x ) 9. Yuvaraj Patil, Ajay Kumar Shukla, "Numerical simulation of effect of process parameters on cooling rate and secondary dendrite arm spacing (SDAS) in high speed twin roll strip casting of Al-15wt%Cu alloy", Journal of Heat Transfer (ASME), 2019, vol. 141(10), p. 102101-1 (https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4044108 ). 10. Deepjyoti Mukherjee, Ajay K. Shukla, Dieter G. Senk, "Prediction of decarburization process along with hydrogen and nitrogen removal by mathematical modeling of RH degassing process", Ironmaking and Steelmaking: Processes, Products and Applications, 2018, vol. 45(5), p. 412-419. ( http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03019233.2016.1274847 ) 11. Deepjyoti Mukherjee, Ajay K. Shukla, Dieter G. Senk, "Cold Model based investigations to study the effects of operational and non-operational parameters on RH degassing process", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2017, vol. 48(2), p. 763-771. ( https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11663-016-0877-5/fulltext.html) 3 12. Ravindra Dhirhi, Kali Prasad, Ajay Kumar Shukla, Sabita Sarkar, T Renganathan, S. Pushpavanam, Marutiram Kaza, "Experimental Study of Rotating Dry Slag Granulation Unit: Operating Regimes,Particle Size Analysis and Scale Up", Applied Thermal Engineering, 2016, 2016, vol. 107, p. 898-906. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359431116311784) 13. A. K. Shukla, B. Deo and D.G.C. Robertson, "Scrap dissolution in molten iron containing carbon for the case of coupled heat and mass transfer control", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2013, vol. 44(6), p. 1407-1427. (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11663-013-9905-x) 14. A. K. Shukla, B. Deo and D.G.C. Robertson, "Role of air gap in scrap dissolution process", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2013, vol. 44(6), p. 1398- 1406. (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11663-013-9906-9) 15. A. K. Shukla, Dmitry Reybov, Olena Volkova, P.R.Scheller and Brahma Deo, “Cold model investigations of melting of ice in a gas stirred ladle”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2011, vol. 42(1), p. 224-235. (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11663-010-9442-9) 16. A. K. Shukla, B. Deo, S. Millman, B. Snoeijer, A. Overbosch and A. Kapilashrami, “An insight into the mechanism and kinetics of reactions in BOF Steelmaking process: Theory vs. practice”, Steel Research International, 2010, vol. 81(11), p. 940-948. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/srin.201000123/abstract) 17. A.Mondal, A.K.Shukla, A. Upadhyaya and D.Agrawal, “Effect of porosity and particle size on microwave heating of copper”, Science of Sintering, 2010, vol. 42(2), p. 169-182. (http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-820X/2010/0350-820X1002169M.pdf ) 18. A .K. Shukla, A.Mondal,A. Upadhyaya, “Numerical modeling of microwave heating”, Science of Sintering, 2010, vol. 42(1), p. 99-124. (http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-820X/2010/0350-820X1001099S.pdf) 19. A. K. Shukla, B. Deo and K. Deb, “Steel production at optimal cost”, Directions (the Magazine of IIT Kanpur), 2006, vol. 7(2), p. 27-34. (http://www.iitk.ac.in/directions/may2006/PRINT~DEO.pdf) II. Contributions to symposia and compiled volumes : 1. “Static and Dynamic Control Model of BOF Steelmaking Process and Its Validation With Steel Plant Data”, presented in AISTech (American Iron and Steel Technology) 2019 conference at Pittsuburgh, USA during 6-9 May 2019. (https://mme.iitm.ac.in/shukla/AIST%20paper%202019%20Ajay%20Shukla.pdf) 4 2. “Use of biomass as a partial replacement of fossil fuel in ironmaking process with reduction in CO2 emissions” presented in DST-Sensitization workshop at VNIT Nagpur during 11-12 March 2019. 3. “Modified Rist Operating Diagram of COREX Melter Gasifier”, presented in ASIC (Asia Steel International Conference) 2018 conference at Bhubaneswar during 6-9 February 2018.