Research Areas of IIT Roorkee

• Architecture And Planning


• Alternate Hydro Energy Centre


• Biotechnology


• Chemical Engineering


• Chemistry

Architecture And Planning

Architecture

Architectural Design, Computer Aided Design, Building Construction & Materials, Building Science, LandscapeDesign, Hill Architecture, Visual & Graphic Art, UrbanDesign, Architectural Conservation, History ofArchitecture, Interior Design, ArchitecturalEducation, Highrise Buildings, Energy Conservation &Passive Design, Historical Conservation.

Planning (Urban & Rural)

Urban Planning, Hill Area Planning, Ecology, Management Information System, SustainableDevelopment Planning, Hill Planning, Integrated RuralDevelopment, Energy Planning, Regional Planning, Housing Urban Development of Management, Environmental Planning.

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Alternate Hydro Energy Centre

Small Hydropower Planning, investigations, designs, development, optimization of generation, developmentof softwares for shp planning and designs, life assessment and life extension of existing shpequipment, planning of natural resources, Biomassgasification, Biogas generation from agricultural wastes, Biomass Energy System Development, EnvironmentImpact Assessment, Environment & Energy Auditing, Power System Planning & Operation, Control SystemDevelopment, Solar & Wind Energy SystemDevelopment, Solar Air heaters development, IntegratedRenewable Energy System Development, HumanResource Development.

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Biotechnology

Biomolecular structure- conformation, drug DNA andprotein- DNA interactions, Microbial Bioconversions, Microbial Processes, Animal physiology- ReproductiveEndocrinology, Microbial Production of Organic acidsand Enzymes, Molecular Biology, Molecular Geneticsof Nitrogen fixation, Plant Biochemistry-EnzymologyMolecular Pathogenesis, Environmental Biotechnology, Molecular Modelling, Molecular Biophysics, MicrobiolTransformations and Fermentation Processes, FertilityControl Mechanisms in male system, Sperm-egginteractions.

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Chemical Engineering

Advanced Transfer Processes (ATP), Computer AidedProcess Plant Design, Environmental PollutionAbatement Engineering, Industrial Safety and HazardsManagement, Process Integration, Applied NumericalMethods, Biochemical Engineering, Two Phase HeatTransfer, Process Intensification, Chemical kinetics, Catalysis and Reactor Design, Computer Aided Design, Energy Engineering and Management, Fire Engineering, Industrial Pollution Abatement, Modelling and Simulation, Process Engineering, Process Control, SeparationProcess, Transport Phenomena, HydrocarbonEngineering.

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Chemistry

Analytical, Inorganic, Organic, Physical, Chemicalkinetics, Liquid Chromatography, Computer simulationand molecular orbital calculations, Coordinationrchemistry, Bioinorganic chemistry, Electrochemistry, Organic electrochemistry, Electroanalytical chemistry, Electrochemical sensors and chemical sensors, Enantioselective catalysis, Heterogeneous catalysis, Enantiomeric resolution of pharmaceutically importantcompounds, Epoxidation of olefinic compounds, Evolution of origin of life, Synthesis of heterocycliccompounds , Heme proteins, Macrocycles, Mouessbauer spectroscopy, Metal speciation inenvironment, Organic reaction mechanism, Organometallics (Ru, Si and Sn), Kinetics and, Nanomaterials, Photochemistry, Protein sequencing, Neutron activation analysis, Radiochemical methodsand tracer applications, Radiation chemistry, Solventextraction, Extraction Chromatography, Syntheticpolymers/ membranes/ membrane electrodes, Development of low cost carbon alternatives forwastewater management.