Engineering Engineer

Varsha Bhat **** SW Road, # ***, Houston TX, Phone: 352-***-****

https://github.com/vnb/ Binary Distillation ******.*.****@*****.***

Objective

To obtain a position as a process engineer and to utilize my graduate level learning, analytical abilities and research

experience to make a positive contribution to the organization of science and engineering

Education

University of Florida August 2011 – May 2013

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Master of Science Chemical Engineering Gainesville, Florida

Coursework: Transport Phenomena, Thermodynamics, Chemical Reaction Kinetics, Advanced Process Engineering

Laboratory and Unit Operations Laboratory

M.S Ramaiah Institute of Technology August 2007 – June 2011

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Bachelors in Chemical Engineering Bangalore, India

Coursework: Mass & Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Process Design, Chemical Engineering Process Control and Process

Equipment Drawing

Publications

“Adsorption of fluoride from aqueous solution by Aluminum Oxide", IUP Journal of Chemical Engineering, India

Experience

Teaching Assistant, Unit Operations Laboratory, University of Florid January 2013 – May 2013 Trained

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Undergraduate chemical engineering students to operate:

Thin Film Evaporation systematically investigated effects of various parameters on the efficiency of

separation

Batch Distillation – calculated the Murphree efficiency & purity of products at different reflux rates

Liquid – Liquid Extraction studied the performance of the column using different packing materials at various

feed rates and compositions

Heat Exchanger studied heat transfer in different types of heat exchangers and calculate the LMTD

Troubleshooting pumps and heat exchangers

Research Assistant, Electronic Materials Group, University of Florida January 2012 – May 2013

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Modeled stress and strain parameters in InGaN GaN nanorods using MATLAB.

Leak detection using residual gas analyzer

Engineering Intern, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited June 2010 – July 2010

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Training on

Extruder

Alloy Fabrication

Heat & Surface Treatments of alloys

Skill set

Skills: Working knowledge of Six Sigma, statistical process control, design of experiments

Programming languages : Python, MATLAB, C

Software’s :Aspen HYSYS, LabVIEW, Latex, AutoCAD 2003 (basic)

Projects

Advanced process engineering lab January 2012 – May 2013

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NTU calculation of ammonia gas absorption system, tubular heat exchanger analysis, plotting characteristic

curves of centrifugal pumps, poster presentation on “Application of Hydrogel”

Simulation projects January 2012 – May2013

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Project on steady state simulation of acid gas sweetening with diethanolamine using Hysys. The setup consisted

of absorber scrubbing inlet gas using DEA solution and an analysis on both sweet gas and acid gas was

performed

Project on gas processing steady state simulation to remove hydrocarbons using Hysys. The model was for

natural gas processing facility that used propane refrigeration to condense liquids from feed and a distillation

tower to process the liquids

Project on simulating a binary distillation tower at different reflux rates and compositions to find the Murphree

efficiency on MATLAB.

Leak Detection, Residual Gas Analyzer. January 2012 April 2012

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Gained hands on experience with the working of vacuum pump and low pressure chambers

Deflouridation of Water, Statistica. June 2010 – May 2011

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Synthesized Aluminum Oxide Nanoparticles using gel combustion method

Quantitatively compared parameters like pH levels, surface area to volume ratio of nanoparticles, residence

time of nanoparticles in water to find out best conditions for

Deflouridation and characterized nanoparticles with SEM and XRD methods

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