BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Alok Ranjan joined the Department of Chemical Engineering, at NIT Rourkela in July 2024. Prior to this, he completed his PhD from IIT Roorkee under the supervision of Dr. Prateek Kumar Jha in the field of drug delivery systems. Where he has explored the dissolution apparatus and controlled release formulation by using experiments, modeling, and multiphysics simulation. He has worked as a research associate at NIPER Guwahati, where his research area was to establishment, scale-up, and optimization of the herbal extraction process. He has also worked at IOCL, R & D, Faridabad for around one year while pursuing an M.Tech in chemical engineering with a specialization in process design engineering from UPES Dehradun, where he has explored the de-asphalting of vacuum residue with the help of pilot plant experiment setup and simulation. He invites the B.Tech, M.Tech, and PhD students on a never-ending quest of research to find something for themself and society while discussing and initiating future research ideas.
EXPERTISE INFORMATION
Research Group
- Modeling, Simulation and Control, Transport Processes
Areas of Interest
- Drug Delivery Systems
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Extraction
Alok Ranjan
आलोक रंजन
Assistant Professor Grade-II
Chemical Engineering
ranjanalok@nitrkl.ac.in
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PUBLICATIONS1
DOCTORAL STUDENTSPERSONAL INFORMATION
Alok Ranjan
Assistant Professor Grade-II
Chemical Engineering
Room Number: CH-304
Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008
2021
Ph.D.
Drug Delivery SystemsIndian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Teaching Experience
- Chemical Engineering, NIT Rourkela, 16 Jun 2025 - Till Date
Post Doctoral Research Experience
- Herbal extraction plant scale-up and optimization of the extraction process, NIPER Guwahati, 04 Jan 2022 - 13 Jul 2024
Total Publications: 7
V. Gite, A. Ranjan, and R. Katiyara,"Phosphotungstic acid supported on rice husk ash catalyzed synthesis of n-butyl acetate", Kinetics and Catalysis, Pleiades Publishing 2025, 10.1134/S0023158424602316 Article
A. Ranjan and P. K. Jha,"Experiments and modeling of controlled release behavior of commercial and model polymer-drug formulations using dialysis membrane method", Drug Delivery and Translational Research, vol.10, pp.515-528, Springer 2019, 10.1007/s13346-019-00696-1 Article
A. Ranjan and P. K. Jha,"Studying drug release through polymeric controlled release formulations in united states pharmacopoeia 2 apparatus using multiphysics simulation and experiments", Molecular Pharmaceutics, vol.18, no.7, pp.2600-2611, ACS Publishing 2021, 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00086 Article
A. Ranjan and P. K. Jha,"Recent advances in dissolution testing and their use to improve in vitro–in vivo correlations in oral drug formulations", Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation, vol.11, pp.1011-1026, Springer 2021, 10.1007/s12247-021-09565-2 Article
A. Ranjan, P. Adhikari, Raj. K. Verma, A. Parthiban, M. Singh, and A. Kumar,"Advances in pharmaceutical coatings and coating materials", Functional Coatings for Biomedical, Energy, and Environmental Applications, ch.7, pp.145-162, John Wiley & Sons 2024, 10.1002/9781394263172.ch7 Inbook
- CH1400 : Environment and Safety Engineering {Theory}
- CH4313 : Computational Fluid Dynamics {Theory}
- CH2472 : Fuels and Combustion Laboratory {Practical}
- CH4373 : Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory {Practical}
Ph.D. Students [1]
Drug Delivery and Targeted drug delivery systems
RahulEnrolled: Jul 2025ContinuingSupervisor