Advertisement Number: P.Rect./R&D/2024/286

Project Title: Development of a flash ironmaking reactor based on the direct reduction of iron oxide fines with H₂-CO mixtures

Essential Qualification: Ph.D/ Master’s /bachelor’s degree with significant experience and expertise in the relevant area

Desirable Qualifications: PhD in Engineering

Desirable Skills:

1. Experience with high-temperature experiments, characterisation tools such as XRD, SEM-EDX and basic understanding on rate analysis for heterogeneous reactions

2. Experience in ANSYS FLUENT, Matlab, Python and relevant programming languages.

Areas of Educational Qualification- Metallurgical/Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related fields.

Salary: INR 63000.00 per month (Consolidated)

Nature of position: Full time, Contractual

Duration of appointment: Primary duration of appointment will be for 1 year which is extendable up to 18 months upon satisfactory performance after the first year.

Nature of work:

High temperature experimentation, Characterisation work, data acquisition, thermodynamic calculations, rate analysis.

Development of computational framework, running CFD based simulations, data analysis, post-processing, report writing etc. Should undertake any task assigned by the PI.

How to apply: Interested candidates may directly email to rsarkar@iitk.ac.in with their Resume and copies of relevant certificates by December 29, 2024.

Please mention the post applied for and the advertisement number in subject line of the email.

Last date of application: December 29, 2024

Selection: The department reserves the right to fix suitable criteria for short listing of eligible candidates satisfying qualifications and experience. The selection will be based on online interview. Short listed candidates will be informed via email about the date of interview.

Dr. Rahul Sarkar
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
IIT Kanpur