Sruthi Tadakamalla

**** ***** **, *** ****, Houston, TX - 77065

E-mail: acgizu@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: 408-***-****

SUMMARY:

. Working experience of 3 years in Process Engineering and 4 years in

Research and Development.

. Engineering Tools-Aspen, Aspen Plus, Control Station, PRO/II, HYSYS,

MATLAB, Numerical Methods

. Knowledge of developing, reviewing and updating PFD's and PID's.

. Worked on mechanical operations associated with pneumatic conveyors,

dryers, pumps, reciprocating compressors and size reduction equipment.

. Fair experience in Evaluation of bid/offer and prepared technical

questionnaire and comparative statement.

. Conduct process screening/optimization studies and produce reports,

generate heat and material balances.

. Handled Pre-Commissioning and commissioning activities and

construction bids.

. Knowledge in OSHA PSM regulations and PHA studies such as HAZOP/LOPA.

. Familiar with Engineering Drawings, 2D (AutoCAD) & 3D Modeling.

. Recognize and trouble shoot the failure caused in the process and

equipment.

. Skilled in design of experiments and in using equipment such as

Rheometer, XRD, TGA, FT-IR, DSC, GC, GPC, SEM, TEM, MCC.

. Accomplished to contribute to overall departmental goals and to

provide assistance to operations as needed.

. Experience in working individually and in cross functional teams with

excellent communication skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Research Assistant, Integrated Composites Laboratory, Lamar University

July 2010- Aug 2014

. Simulated ethanol manufacturing plant using ASPEN Plus by

optimizing various unit operations such as Distillation columns, Flash

columns, Heat exchangers, and Compressors thereby increasing the

purity of the desired product.

. Recycled data and calculation sequence and breaking the thermal

cycle.

. Controlling the reactor recycle, adding controller and analyzing

results.

. Conducted four theses in association with NSF for which the work is

recognized and published in various journals.

. Developed a new and cost-effective strategy to produce ?exible

magnetic polymer nanocomposite components for industrial applications.

Process Engineer, Aurobindo Private Limited, India.

Jan 2009- April 2010

. Provided engineering support to manufacture and process

improvement.

. Developed heat and material balance data for various equipment

using ASPEN.

. Involved in Evaluation of bid/offer and prepared technical

questionnaire and comparative statement.

. Maintained the operating procedures in different units which

includes reactors, filtration, lyophilisation process, blending,

canister filling and final sampling analysis.

. Prepared MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) and equipment lists.

. Performed material balance at various stages of the process.

. Actively contributed in the trouble shooting of process operating

issues.

Process Engineer Trainee, Saraca Laboratories, India.

Aug 2007-Dec 2008

. Provided supporting experimental data for process modification.

. Active team member and provided assistance to the senior personnel

in modifying Piping and Instrument Diagrams (P&ID's), Process Flow

Diagrams (PFD's).

. Completed field safety training.

. Handled Pre-Commissioning and commissioning activities and

construction bids.

. Assisted in analyzing heat and mass transfer coefficients for

various process equipment.

PUBLICATIONS:

. "Polyaniline Stabilized Magnetite Nanoparticles Reinforced Epoxy

Nanocomposites" H. Gu, S. Tadakamalla, Y. Huang, H. A. Colorado, Z.

Luo, N. Haldolaarachchige, D. P. Young, S. Wei, Z. Guo. ACS Applied

Materials & Interfaces, in press (2012).

. "Epoxy Resin Nanosuspensions and Reinforced Nanocomposites with

Polyaniline Stabilized Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" H. Gu, S.

Tadakamalla, X. Zhang, Y. Huang, Y. Jiang, H. A. Colorado, Z. Luo, S.

Wei and Z. Guo. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, in press (2013)

. "Flame Retardant Epoxy Resin Nanocomposites Reinforced with

Polyaniline Stabilized Silica Nanoparticles" H. Gu, J.Guo, Q. He, S.

Tadakamalla, X. Zhang, X. Yan, Y. Huang, H. A. Colorado, S. Wei and Z.

Guo. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, in press (2013)

. Theses on "Multifunctional Thermosetting Polypyrrole/Epoxy

Nanocomposites" has been published by Lamar University.

EDUCATION:

Doctorate in Chemical Engineering, Lamar University, TX, USA

Aug 2011-Aug 2014

Masters in Chemical Engineering, Lamar University, TX, USA

May2010-Aug 2011

Bachelors in Chemical Engineering, BRECW, JNT University, India

May 2005-May 2009

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

. My paper "Epoxy resin nanosuspensions and reinforced nanocomposites

from polyaniline stabilized multi-walled carbon nanotubes" is selected

for one of the 30 papers of the themed collection "2013 Most Accessed

Manuscripts for Journal of Materials Chemistry"

. Awarded a Recipients of Dean's Academic graduate Scholarship every

semester by Lamar University during my Doctoral Degree

. Awarded a Recipients of Dean's Academic graduate Scholarship every

semester by Lamar University during my Master's Degree

. Won First prize for the presentation named 'Plasma Polymerization' at

the Technical Festival of BITS-PILANI in March 2008

SELECTED ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

. Modeling and optimization of Ethanol Production Plant using Aspen

Plus.

. Feed Forward Control of the Jacketed Reactor.

. Worked on HYSYS, Pro/II and Control Station involved term projects.

PRESENTATIONS:

. Presented a paper named 'Plasma Polymerization' at the Technical

Festival of BITS-PILANI in March 2008.

. Presented a paper named 'Green Plastics' at Technical Festival of BITS-

PILANI in March 2008.

. Presented a paper named 'Energy Engineering' at JNTU College Of

Engineering, Anantapur.

. Presented a paper named "Membrane Separation Bio-Reactors For Sea

Water" at 'BECTAGON 07' - Technical Festival of Bapatla Engineering

College, Bapatla.

. Presented a paper named "Separation Techniques" at 'BIOPHARMACON 2K7'

- Technical Festival of Al-Ameer College of Engineering,

Visakhapatnam.

SIMULATION SOFTWARES:

Aspen Plus, Hysys, Unisim and Pro-II.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

MS Office Suite, Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/9x, Linux, C, AutoCAD, Polymath,

LabVIEW and Matlab.

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