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Faculty details Manish M Pande

Associate Professor

Manish M Pande

Email: manish[dot]pande[at]iitb[dot]ac[dot]in

Phone: (+91) (022) 2576 7609

Education: 

  • PhD ­ Met. Engg. ­ KU Leuven, Belgium 
  • M Tech ­ Met. Engg. & Matls. Sci. ­ IIT Bombay 
  • BE ­ Met. Engg. ­ VRCE (now VNIT) Nagpur
Research areas

Process Metallurgy & Steel

Teaching

Prof. Pande has been teaching following undergraduate and post­ graduate courses/labs. 

Courses: Iron and steel making, Advanced concepts in steel making 

Labs: Joining and casting lab, Processing and characterization of steel

Research profile

Prof. Manish M Pande's research interests include secondary steelmaking, clean steel production (steels containing low non­metallic inclusions), thermodynamics of steel refining reactions and simulating high temperature equilibrium experiments at a laboratory scale. He has set­up a clean steel laboratory, at Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science department (MEMS), IIT Bombay. Before joining MEMS, IIT Bombay, Prof. Pande has worked full­time in research and development departments of steel industries in India (Essar Steel Ltd.) and (Tata steel Europe/MPI) UK. His total industrial experience is nearly 7 years. During his doctoral (KU Leuven, Belgium) and post­ doctoral (MU Leoben, Austria) studies, he worked in collaboration with ArcelorMittal Gent and voestalpine, Linz respectively, on the steelmaking projects. At present, his research group has been working on the experimental and thermodynamic analysis of high alloy steels. Prof. Pande is also interested in developing new alloy steels and new materials such as metallic foams.

Research interest
  • Thermodynamics of steel refining reactions 
  • Clean steel production 
  • Process metallurgy 
  • Metallic foams

Si­O equilibria (experimental and calculated) in liquid iron/steel at 1873 K

Compositional evolution of complex (Si­Al­Ti­O) inclusions with ferrosilicon addition

Vertical tube furnace for equilibrium experiments (Schematic)

References
  • Sanjay Pindar and Manish M Pande: Assessment of Si­O equilibria and non­metallic inclusion characteristics in high silicon steels, Steel Research International, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.202300115 
  • Mir Ishfaq and Manish M Pande: Development of Higher Order Interaction Parameter Formalisms for a Ternary Solution in a Thermodynamically Consistent Manner, Steel Research International, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.202200913 
  • Mir Ishfaq and Manish M Pande: Application and assessment of aluminium deoxidation equilibria in liquid steel using various formalisms based on some statistical thermodynamic models, Ironmaking and Steelmaking, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/03019233.2022.2082829