SURYAVARSHINI SUNDAR

CURRENT POSITION

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada.

EMAIL

suryavarshini.sundar@mail.utoronto.ca

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2017-2019: M.A.Sc. degree, University of Toronto.

2013-2017: B.Tech. (Hons.), Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (NIT-Trichy), India (Website: https://www.nitt.edu/)

AWARDS AND HONOURS

  • MITACS Globalink Graduate Fellowship

PUBLICATIONS

  • S. Sundar, M.A.Sc. degree, University of Toronto, 2019.
  • S. Sundar, M. Nouraei, T. Latta, and E. Acosta, “Hydrophilic-Lipophilic-Difference (HLD) Guided Formulation of Oil Spill Dispersants with Biobased Surfactants”, Tenside Surfactants Deterg., vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 417–428, 2019.
  • E. Acosta, S. Sundar, Chapter 15 “How to Formulate Biobased Surfactants Through the HLD-NAC Model” In: Biobased Surfactants, 471-510, 2019.

    • RESEARCH PROJECT

    I study the mass transfer dynamics in dispersions under flow. Dispersions are an important class of complex materials that contain one or more phases of material in another medium. They find applications in various fields ranging from pulp processing in paper manufacturing, drilling fluids in the oil and gas industry, food processing, transport of sand slurries, and the manufacturing of drugs, paints, ceramics, and cosmetics. In my project, we are interested in understanding theoretically and experimentally, the properties that determine the mass transfer dynamics in two specific types of dispersions: the first project deals with the dissolution dynamics of two partially miscible emulsions under flowing conditions, and in the second project, we study the mass transfer dynamics in concentrated particle suspension flows and the nature of microstructures formed in these systems. Understanding the mass transfer dynamics involved in these processes has a direct impact on the modeling and predictive capabilities required to tailor a dispersion to have desired mass transfer properties.

    OTHER INTERESTS

    Listen to audiobooks, go on long drives and hike, paint, and watch a lot of movies, reading (fiction: crime, detective, thriller, and drama), crafts, cooking, and yoga.

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