Kamlesh Patel (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow) Email: kamlesh.pateleng.monash.edu.au Room 223, Building 36 Department of Chemical Engineering Monash University, Clayton Campus Victoria 3800, Australia. Phone: +61 3 9905 3147 Fax:   +61 3 9905 5686

Educational Record

PhD (Degree to be confirmed yet) from Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, 2009

ME (First Class Honours) from University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 2004
BE (First Class Distinction) from Gujarat University, Gujarat, India, 2001

Awards

1. 2007, The Best Paper Award, The 5^th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference, 13-15 August 2007, Hong Kong, China

2. 2007, Young Food Researchers Award, By Australian Food Engineering Association (Victoria Branch), 22^nd May 2007, Melbourne, Australia.

3. 2006, The 2006 Graeme Jameson Award (Highly Commended), By Australasian Particle Technology Society, at Chemeca 2006 Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

Published Book Chapters

1. Chen, X.D. and Patel, K.C. (2008). Biological changes during food drying processes. In X.D. Chen and A.S. Mujumdar (Eds.), Dehydration Technologies in Food Processing, pp. 90-112, Blackwell Publishing, UK.

2. Bhandari, B.; Patel, K.C. and Chen, X.D. (2008). Spray drying of food materials- process and product characteristics. In X.D. Chen and A.S. Mujumdar (Eds.), Dehydration Technologies in Food Processing, pp. 113-159, Blackwell Publishing, UK.

Referred Journal Papers

1. Patel, K.C. and Chen, X.D. (2009). Surface-centre temperature differences within milk droplets during convective drying and drying-based Biot number analysis, AIChE Journal, accepted.

2. Patel, K.C., Chen, X.D., Lin, S.X.Q and Adhikari, B. (2009). A composite reaction engineering approach to drying of aqueous sucrose, maltodextrin (DE6) and their mixtures, AIChE Journal, submitted.

3. Patel, K.C. and Chen, X.D. (2008). Sensitivity analysis of the reaction engineering approach to modeling spray drying of whey proteins concentrate, Drying Technology, 26(11), 1334-1343.

4. Chen, X.D. and Patel, K.C. (2008). Manufacturing better quality food powders from spray drying and subsequent treatments, Drying Technology, 26(11), 1313-1318.

5. Patel, K.C. and Chen, X.D. (2008). Drying of Aqueous Lactose Solutions in a Single Stream Dryer, Trans. IChemE, Part C: Food and Bioproducts Processing, 86(3), 185-197.

6. Wu, W.D.;Patel, K.C.; Rogers, S. and Chen, X.D. (2007). Monodisperse Droplet Generators as Potential Atomizers for Spray Drying Technology, Drying Technology, 25(12), 1907-1916.

7. Patel, K.C. and Chen, X.D. (2007). Production of spherical and uniform-sized particles using a laboratory ink-jet spray dryer, Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2(5), 415-430.

8. Chen, X.D. and Patel, K.C. (2007). Micro-organism inactivation during drying of small droplets or thin-layer slabs – A critical review of existing kinetics models and an appraisal of the drying rate dependent model, Journal of Food Engineering, 82(1), 1-10.

9. Patel, K.C. and Chen, X.D. (2005). Prediction of spray-dried product quality using two simple drying kinetics models, Journal of Food Process Engineering, 28(6), 567-594.

10. Patel, K.C.; Chen, X.D. and Kar, S. (2005). The temperature uniformity during drying of a colloidal liquid droplet, Drying Technology, 23(12), 2337-2367.

Referred Conference Papers and Abstracts