Achievements

Dr. Roy's Work from IISc Affiliation 

• Mavinkurve, Milana M., and Yagnaseni Roy. "Analytical framework for nanofiltration processes with imperfect rejection and its application to curcumin concentration." Separation and Purification Technology 359 (2025): 130426. (IF: 8.1)  (Link)

• Anilkumar, Aparna, and Yagnaseni Roy. "Improved solution thermodynamics modeling in pervaporation." Chemical Engineering Science 299 (2024): 120497.(IF: 4.1) (Link)

• Mahsa Gholami, Boelo Schuur, and Yagnaseni Roy (guiding author), "Ultrafiltration-based diafiltration for post-delignification fractionation of lignin from a deep eutectic solvent comprised of lactic acid and choline chloride," Separation and purification technology 302 (2022): 122097. (Link)

• Preprint of "Pervaporation System Level Modeling and Thermodynamic Analysis: Isopropanol Dehydration" authored by Aparna Anilkumar (Link)

Dr. Roy's Doctoral and Post-doctoral Work

• Gholami, Mahsa, Yagnaseni Roy (co-supervisory role), de Vos, W. M., & Schuur, B. (2024). "Flux decline in crossflow ultrafiltration-based diafiltration process for lignin recovery from a deep eutectic solvent comprised of lactic acid and choline chloride." Chemical Engineering Research and Design 202 (2024): 468-479. (Link)

• Pérez, Alan D., Yagnaseni Roy, Constantijn Rip, Sascha RA Kersten, and Boelo Schuur. "Influence of pulping conditions on the pulp yield and fiber properties for pulping of spruce chips by deep eutectic solvent." Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (2023): 1-15. (Link)

• Yagnaseni Roy, Remco W. Top, Wiebe M. de Vos, and Boelo Schuur, "Organic solvent reverse osmosis (OSRO) for the recovery of hemicellulosic derivatives after wood-pulping with a deep eutectic solvent," Chemical Engineering Science 267 (2023): 118367. (Link)

• Yagnaseni Roy and John H. Lienhard V, “On the presence of solute-solvent transport coupling in reverse osmosis,” Journal of Membrane Science 611 (2020): 118272. (Link)

• Yagnaseni Roy and John H. Lienhard V, "Factors contributing to the change in permeate quality upon temperature variation in nanofiltration," Desalination 455 (2019): 58-70. (Link)

• Yagnaseni Roy and John H. Lienhard V, “A framework to analyze sulfate versus chloride selectivity in nanofiltration,” Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology 5, no. 3 (2019): 585-598. (Link)

• Yagnaseni Roy. "The influence of temperature on ion transport in nanofiltration membranes." PhD diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (2018). (Link)

• Yagnaseni Roy, and David M. Warsinger. "Effect of temperature on ion transport in nanofiltration membranes: Diffusion, convection and electromigration." Desalination 420 (2017): 241-257. (Link)

• Yagnaseni Roy, Gregory P. Thiel, Mohamed A. Antar, and John H. Lienhard V, "The effect of increased top brine temperature on the performance and design of OT-MSF using a case study," Desalination 412 (2017): 32-38. (Link)

• Yagnaseni Roy, Mostafa H. Sharqawy, and John H. Lienhard V, "Modeling of flat-sheet and spiral-wound nanofiltration configurations and its application in seawater nanofiltration," Journal of Membrane Science 493 (2015): 360-372. (Top download from DSPACE MIT in August 2017). (Link)

• Swaminathan, Jaichander, Emily W. Tow, Yagnaseni Roy, and John H. Lienhard. "Nanofiltration for high permeability textile effluent desalination." (2016). (Link)

• Yagnaseni Roy. "Modeling nanofiltration for large scale desalination applications." PhD diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (2015). (Link)

• Yagnaseni Roy, Vivek Sivathanu, and Sarit K. Das, "Effect of bunching of cilia and their interplay on muco-ciliary transport," Computers in biology and medicine 43, no. 11 (2013): 1758-1772. (Link)

Students Presentations

• Aparna Anilkumar and Rasmi Mohan T presented their work at the International Conference on Water: From Pollution to Purification (ICW2024) held at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India, from December 12-15, 2024.

• Milana M. Mavinkurve and Subhash Kumar presented their work at the 7th International Symposium on Physics of Membrane Processes (PMP2024) & The International Symposium on Separation Technologies Applied Research and Translation (IS-START2024) held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from December 2-6, 2024.

• Rasmi Mohan T and Subhash Kumar presented their work at the 9th International Congress & Exhibition on Arsenic in the Environment: Arsenic and other Pollutants, Water Security and One Health under Global Climate Change Scenario (As2024) organized by KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar in September 2024.

• Milana M. Mavinkurve and Aparna Anilkumar presented their work at the Research and Industrial Conclave Integration’24 organized by IIT Guwahati in August 2024.

• Milana M. Mavinkurve secured first place in Scientifique: 3-minute thesis presentation titled ‘Unlocking Curcumin from turmeric: Nanofiltration for Optimal Extraction and Concentration’ under the Research and Industrial Conclave Integration’24 organized by IIT Guwahati in August 2024.

• Milana M. Mavinkurve, Aparna Anilkumar, Rasmi Mohan T, Subhash Kumar, and Dr. Manamohan Tripathy presented their work at the National Environmental Conference (NEC-2024) held at IIT Bombay, Maharashtra, India during 15th -17th February  2024.

• Rasmi Mohan T and Subhash Kumar presented their work at the 1st Indian International Conference on Water Quality Management - IICWQM 2023 and secured second position for oral presentation on the topic ‘Zero waste approach for arsenic remediation from groundwater’ in December 2023.

• Milana M. Mavinkurve presented 'Nanofiltration-based energy-efficient scheme for concentrating plant extracts by replacing conventional evaporation' at the Third International Scientific Conference on Environmental Research: Issues, Challenges and Strategies for Sustainable Development’ to be held at Karwar, Karnataka, India during 1-2 December 2023.

• Aparna Anilkumar presented 'Hybrid pervaporation-distillation: a sustainable technology to break azeotropes for efficient, high-purity solvent recovery' in  the Distillation Experts Conclave in Mumbai, India, October 2023.

• Invited speaker at King’s College in London for the ‘Workshop on solar water technologies for sustainability and resilience’ (December 2024)

• Invited talk at Net-zero Emission Technologies for Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities (N0ET-2024) held at ISM Dhanbad, on solvent recovery using membranes. (December 2024)

• Invited talk at JP Morgan Chase Tech Meetup 2024 on the role of academia on sustainability  (September 2024)

• Guest keynote speaker at IISc Chemical Engineering Symposium (ICS'23) on for the session ‘Advances in Energy Technologies and Materials’ (December 2023)

• Keynote speaker at NIT Meghalaya on ‘Membranes for solvent recovery in the pharmaceutical industry’ (December 2023)

• Invited talk at the Indian Membrane Society (IMS) Conference held in Vadodara, Gujarat (October 2023)

• Invited talk at the ‘Sadhana Symposium on “Advances in Engineering Sciences” at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Surathkal’ (September 2023)