Professor of Chemical Engineering

Subjects Taught
Postgraduate Level: Mass Transfer
Undergraduate Level: Chemical Project Economics, Process Engg and Economics, Project Engineering, Applied Catalysis, Plant Utilities, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Heat Transfer, Separation Processes, Environmental Engineering

Research Interests
Environmental Engineering (Advanced Oxidation Processes), Multiphase Reactions, Applied Catalysis (homogeneous and heterogeneous), Organic Process Development, Gas Sweetening Processes, Process Intensification, Advanced Extraction Processes. Bio fuels, Gas to liquid and Solid to liquid fuels, Carbon Credit. Energy Conservation.

• Process Equipment Design, M.V. Joshi and V.V. MAHAJANI, Macmillan India Ltd.
  
• Chemical Project Economics, V.V. MAHAJANI and S.M. Mokashi, Macmillan India Ltd.

• For ICC( formerly ICMA): Heat Transfer, Process Intensification, Waste Management, Water for recycle, Plant Utilities. Bio Fuels, etc.
  
• For I I Ch E. Mumbai Chapter Chemical engineering for plant personnel.
  

• Post doctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, England (1979- 1981)
  
• Faculty member, UICT, Mumbai, India (Since 1988)
   
  

• Gharda Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., (1971- 1973)
        Dyes & Intermediates Pesticides etc. (Commisioned and operated Two plants)
• Herdillia Chemicals Ltd., (1982-1983 )
        Petrochemicals (Research and Developement)
• Davy Powergas India Pvt. Ltd., (1983-1987)
        Technology development, Project engineering

• Successfully completed sponsored projects from Industries- to name a few EIL, IPCL, GSFC, Godrej, NOCIL, HPCL, L&T, DAE, BRNS etc.
  
• Also successfully completed project on catalysis sponsored by Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research.
  
• Process Consultant to leading Indian Companies
  

• Sir Gangaram Memorial Award
  The Institution of Engineers, (India).       Year : 1991
  This prestigious award was given for the best paper "Planning and Design of Co-generation Units in Chemical Plants" appeared in Institution Journal 71 (1), 1990.
  
  
• WEC - IIEF - IAEWP - Award
  6th World Environment Congress, 1997, New Delhi (INDIA)
  The award was jointly sponsored by the World Environment Congress Committee, Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment and International Association of Education for World Peace Hunstsville, Alabama, USA (NGO affiliate of United Nations etc.).
  
  
• Professor R. A. Rajadhyaksha Best Teacher Award (1998-1999 and 2002- 2003)
  For the faculty of Chemical Engineering, UICT.
  
  
• Shrimati Saroma Sanyal Memorial Medal
  The Institution of Engineers (India) for the year 2001.
  This prestigious award was given for the best paper in environmental engineering "Environment Management by Wet Oxidation: A Catalytic Wet Oxidation of Distillery Waste after Bio-gas Generation", A. D. Dhale, and V. V. MAHAJANI, The Institution of Engineers (India) Journal - Environmental, 81(2), 52 (2001).
  
  
• Best Paper Presentation Award
  IEA Conference ENVIRO VISION 2000, Mumbai, May 2000.
  
  
• Chemical Weekly Award (2001), Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers
  For the best paper published in Indian Chemical Engineer, in its issues of 2000.
  
  

• Best Doctoral Thesis Award to Dr. S. D. Daptardar who was supervised by Professor V. V. Mahajani.
  
  
• Artemis Biotech Best Master's Thesis Award in Chemical Engineering for the year 2002 given by IIChE to Mr. P. D. Vaidya who was supervised by Professor V. V. Mahajani

• Organic Process Development
  Hydrogenation, Carboxylation, Esterification and Trans-Esterification
  
  
• Environmental Engineering
  Advanced Oxidation Processes such as Wet Air Oxidation and Fenton's Chemistry
  
  
• Multiphase Reactions
  Advanced Extraction Processes, Liquid Emulsion Membrane, Hollow Fibre Membrane
  
  
• Gas Sweetening
  Reactions of CO2 and H2S with alkanolamines, Alkanolamine Degradation etc.
  
  
• Bio-technology (Downstream Processing)
  

• Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  
  
• Member of The Institution of Engineers (India)
  
  
• Life Member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers
  
  
• Life member of Indian Environmental Association
  
  
• Member of Catalysis Society of India