DESCRIPTION :

Dr. Eswaraiah has obtained his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from S.V. University, Andhra Pradesh in the year 1996. He has completed his Master of Technology in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in the year 1999. After his Master degree joined in the Department of Chemical Engineering under the guidance of Late Prof. S.S. Narayanan and Prof. Sreenivas Jayanti at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India) for his doctoral thesis work. Prior to joining to the CSIR-IMMT as a Scientist, he worked as a Project Officer at IIT Madras in a BHEL sponsored project. He also worked as CSIR-Quick Hire Fellow during the year 2006-2007 at CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar. Dr. Eswaraiah is a Senior Scientist in Mineral Processing Department at CSIR-IMMT Bhubaneswar, India having more than 12 years of R&D and teaching experience in the area of minerals research. During his R&D tenure, he has involved as project leader/team member in several grant-in-aid and sponsored/consultancy projects. His area of specialization is Comminution and Classification, Modelling and Simulation in the area of Mineral Processing. He is a member in several professional societies. Presently, he is working on process development for the beneficiation of low-grade ores during mining/mineral processing activities. These studies are oriented towards the ultrafine comminution followed by HPGR, Stirred Mills. Subsequent separation process using advanced gravity separators, magnetic separators, and flotation techniques. He is also involved in teaching of unit operations to M.Tech and Post-Graduation Diploma in Mineral Engineering (PGDME) students of AcSIR and supervising their project works. Currently, he is involved in several R&D projects of the institution and is also involved in several sponsored and Consultancy projects. He has published more than 25 peer-reviewed articles in National and International journals and about 15 National and International conferences to his credit.

• Sr. Researcher at The University of Lorraine, Nancy, France 2015- 2016.
• Sr. Scientist, CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar, India 2010-till date.
• Visiting Scientist at CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia 2013- 2014.
• Scientist, CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar, India 2007- 2010.
• Scientist Fellow, CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar, India 2006- 2007.
• Project Officer, IIT Madras, Chennai, India 2005- 2006.
• Project Officer, IIT Madras, Chennai, India 2002- 2005.

• Discrete Element Modelling (DEM).
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
• Electronic Waste Recycling.
• Dry Beneficiation.
• Fine and ultrafine Comminution.
• Mineral Processing: Comminution, Classification, Advanced Gravity, Magnetic Separation and Flotation.

• Quick Hire Fellow (QHF), CSIR, India, 2006-2007.
• Fast Track Young Scientist DST Research Award, DST, New Delhi, 2010.
• Best paper award by The Institution of Engineers (India), Bhubaneswar, India, 2013.
• Indo-Australia Early Career S&T Fellowship by Indian National Science Academy, India, 2013-2014.
• Gouri Sankar Sahu Memorial Award by The Institution of Engineers (India), India, 2015.
• Best paper award by The Institution of Engineers (India), Bhubaneswar, India, 2016.
• Selected as Early Faculty Induction Programme by Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, EFIP-2004.

• C.Eswaraiah, S.K.Biswal, B.K.Mishra. Experimental and simulation studies on settling characteristics of ultra-fine iron ore slimes. International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy & Metals 19 (2012) 95-99.
• C.Eswaraiah, R.K.Soni. Milling and classification of printed circuit boards for material recycling. Particulate Science & Technology 33 (2015) 659-665.
• C.Eswaraiah, Optimization of process parameters for the enrichment of rice bran oil using Box-Behnken experimental design. Separation Science & Technology 50 (2015) 2147-2154.
• R.K.Soni, C.Eswaraiah, B.K.Mishra. A novel and direct approach for modeling and simulation of impact grinding. Advanced Powder Technology 26 (2015) 1031-1039.
• C.Eswaraiah, Grinding characteristics of coal and petroleum coke/coal blends on Utilization for Combustion. Particulate Science & Technology 34(2) (2016) 223-228.
• C.Eswaraiah, N.Venkat, B.K.Mishra, Ralph Holmes. A comparative study on a vertical stirred mill agitator design for fine grinding. Separation Science & Technology 50 (2015) 2639-2648.
• S.I.Angadi, C.Eswaraiah, H.S.Jeon, B.K.Mishra and J.D.Miller, Selection of gravity separators for the beneficiation of the Uljin tin ore, Mineral Processing & Extractive Metallurgy Review 38(1) (2017) 54-61.
• R.Sakthivel, D.Bhattacharyya, C.Eswaraiah, B.K.Mishra. Effect of milling on reduction behavior of blue dust. Journal of Alloys & Compounds 587 (2014) 677-680.
• Pranita Dash, C.Eswaraiah, R.B.Rao. Studies on pre -concentration of strategic minerals containing traces of Niobium and Tantalum from gravel and soil of Samchampi, Meghalaya, India. Institution of Engineers (India) 54 (2013) 302-306.
• V.Ravichandran, C.Eswaraiah, S.K.Biswal, P.Manisankar. Processing of low-grade graphite ore deposits of Sivaganaga: a review. Indian Mining & Engineering Journal (2013) 17-22.
• V.Ravichandran, C.Eswaraiah, S.K.Biswal, P.Manisankar. Gas hold-up studies of graphite flotation reagents. Powder Technology 235 (2013) 329-335.
• C.Eswaraiah, Experimental and simulation studies milling of rice husk. Particulate Science & Technology 31 (2013) 443-448.
• C.Eswaraiah, S.I.Angadi, B.K.Mishra. Mechanism of particle separation and analysis of fish-hook phenomenon in a circulating air classifier. Powder Technology 218 (2012) 57-63.