regard to various types of reactors like bubble column, stirred and trickle bed varieties. His models are known to be capable of predicting unsteady and time-averaged flow characteristics of reactors and has assisted in enhancing performance of the industrial reactors. He and his colleagues developed many software / simulators such as ReST, MoBB, TRPro, PoRE, RoCKS, AnTS, BOaST and contributed to the development of products like MiST and CFD. His contributions are also reported in the development of water treatment devices utilizing diodes, conductivity probes and micro-reactors. He has documented his researches by way of several articles; Google Scholar and ResearchGate, online article repositories of scientific articles, have listed many of them. Besides, he has authored four books viz. Computational Flow Modeling for Chemical Reactor Engineering, Trickle Bed Reactors: Reactor Engineering and Applications, Industrial Wastewater Treatment, Recycling and Reuse and Computational Modeling of Pulverized Coal Fired Boilers. Ranade heads a team of scientists who have launched MAGIC (modular, agile, intensified and continuous) processes and plants, A CSIR-sponsored program for identifying and developing upscale processes for manufacturing specialty chemicals. He holds several patents for products and processes he has developed, under the aegis of NCL and others. He was instrumental in the establishment of the first start-up at NCL Venture Center in 2006 under the name, Tridiagonal Solutions Pvt. Ltd., where he served as the chief executive officer during 2008–10 and as its chairman thereafter. He was a member of the group who founded Vivira Process Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in 2015 for marketing vortex diodes and is involved with Wiseco Systems Pvt. Ltd., a start-up involved in the development of wireless sensing and control solutions. He is an associate editor of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research journal of Elsevier and sits in the editorial boards of Chemical Engineering Research and Design (Elsevier) and Indian Chemical Engineer (Taylor & Francis). He is also a member of the Senate of the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research. Selected Patents Apparatus and Method for Reduction in Ammoniacal Nitrogen from Waste Waters Relates to an effluent treatment methodology using an apparatus with vortex diode. The method claims to reduce ammoniacal nitrogen content of waste water. Tube in Tube Continuous Glass-lined Reactor A corrosion-resistant glass-lined metal reactor with tube in tube design claimed to have higher heat transfer efficiency. Continuous Modular Reactor Design of a continuous flow reactor reported to have enhanced processing efficiency while retaining