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Publications

List of journal publications

  1. Gautam Sudha*, Sanjay Pindar*, Mir Ishfaq, Manish M. Pande, Dandapani Vijayshankar, Revealing the unique role of Al2O3 and SiO2 inclusions on hydrogen diffusion and trapping behaviour in steel, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2026, 246,155581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2026.155581 (*equal contribution)

  2. Sanjay Pindar and Manish M. Pande, 'Assessment and Investigation of Fe–Cr–O–Cr2O3–Al2O3 System and the Inclusion Characteristics with Varying Initial Oxygen Content', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-026-04073-5

  3. Sanjay Pindar and Manish M. Pande, 'A Thermodynamic and Kinetic Study of Inclusion Evolution in High Silicon Steel Under High Vacuum', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-026-04066-4

  4. Mir Ishfaq and Manish M Pande, 'Inclusions and Exclusions in High Aluminium Steels', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-026-04004-4

  5. Raja A. Anand, Manish M. Pande, Nurni N. Viswanathan, 'Investigation of phase evolution during induration of hematite pellets with varying coke content', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-026-03992-7

  6. Vimal Singh V., Manish M. Pande, K. Bhanumurthy, Vikram Chavan, Indradev Samajdar, Resistance Spot Welding (RSW) of Dual-Phase (DP590) Steel, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-025-12284-1

  7. Raja A. Anand, Nurni N. Viswanathan, Manish M. Pande, 'Effect of coke addition on sintering kinetics during induration of a single hematite pellet, ISIJ International, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2355/isijinternational.ISIJINT-2024-397

  8. Mir Ishfaq and Manish M Pande, 'Thermodynamic analysis of Fe-Al-O system using Redlich-Kister (R-K) Polynomial and Wagner’s Taylor series expansion' Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jct.2024.107415

  9. Sanjay Pindar and Manish M Pande, 'Formation of interfacial voids around silica inclusions in Si-deoxidized steels during cooling', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-024-03355-0

  10. Raja A. Anand, Manish M Pande, Deepoo Kumar, and Nurni N. Viswanathan,'Thermal decomposition of hematite ore fines in air', Steel Research International, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.202400200

  11. Sanjay Pindar and Manish M Pande, 'Investigation of Inclusion characteristics in ferrosilicon killed high silicon steels', Steel Research International, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.202400331

  12. Saijal Rekhani and Manish M Pande, 'Improving induction furnace steelmaking in India', ASM India Materials & Processing, 2024, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Pages 68-74

  13. Sanjay Pindar and Manish M Pande, 'Influence of ferrosilicon addition on silicon-oxygen equilibria in high-silicon steels', ISIJ International, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2355/isijinternational.ISIJINT-2024-018

  14. Albin R Samiraj, Sk Wasim Haidar, Manish M. Pande, Sujoy S. Hazra, 'Optimizing ferrotitanium wire injection parameters for improving titanium recovery in ladle furnace steelmaking', Steel Research International, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.202300680

  15. Mir Ishfaq and Manish M Pande, 'Establishing aluminium oxygen (Al-O) equilibria in liquid iron at 1873 K: An experimental study and thermodynamic analysis', Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-024-03054-w

  16. Sanjay Pindar and Manish M Pande, 'Formation mechanism, evolution and modification of non-metallic inclusions in Al-killed, Ti-alloyed steel melt: A Review',  Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals (TIIM), 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12666-023-02947-9 

  17. Sanjay Pindar and Manish M Pande: 'Assessment of Si-O equilibria and non-metallic inclusion characteristics in high silicon steels', Steel Research International, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.202300115

  18. 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

  19. 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

List of Conference contributions/publications

  1. Arunkumar Bheemanalli, Stuart D.C. Walsh, Manish M Pande, Vishwanathan N Nurni, Comparative Assessment of renewable potential in India and Australia for manufacturing hydrogen-based green iron and steel, Australian Hydrogen Research Conference, 16-19 February 2026, Melbourne, Australia. (Poster presentation)

  2. Arunkumar Bheemanalli, Stuart D.C. Walsh, Manish M Pande, Vishwanathan N Nurni, Evaluating the Economic Fairways for Green Iron and Steel Production in India, 7th Annual Australia & New Zealand Steel Symposium, 10-12 February 2026, CSIRO, Clayton, Australia (Oral presentation)

  3. Arunkumar Bheemanalli, Manish M Pande, Vishwanathan N Nurni, Stuart D.C. Walsh, A New Model to Map the Economic Potential of Indian Green Steel Production from Renewable Resources, Fifth International Conference on the Science and Technology of Ironmaking and Steelmaking (STIS-V), 9–12 December, 2025, IISc Bangalore. (Oral presentation)

  4. Sanjay Pindar and Manish M Pande, Investigation of inclusion characteristics in Si-Mn killed stainless steel melt at 1873 K, STIS V, 9-12 December, 2025, IISc Bengaluru. (Oral presentation)

  5. Anand R. A., Pande M. M., Viswanathan N. N., Effect of Coke on Induration of Hematite Pellet. 5th International Conference Science and Technology of Ironmaking and Steelmaking STIS-2025, 9-12 December 2025, IISc Bangaluru, India. (Oral presentation)

  6. Sanjay Pindar and Manish M Pande, Interaction between silicon-rich steel melt and crucible (refractory) at 1873 K and its influence on the steel cleanness, Asia steel, 4-7 September, 2024, Changsha, China. (Oral presentation)

  7. Mir Ishfaq#, Sanjay Pindar#, and Manish M Pande*, Deoxidizer-oxygen equilibria in steel in the high concentration range, Asia Steel, 4-7 September, 2024, Changsha, China (*Invited keynote talk) (#joint first authors)

  8. Mir Ishfaq and Manish M Pande, Solubility of nitrogen and inclusion characteristics in high aluminium steels, Molten 2024, 17-19 June 2024, Brisbane, Australia. https://doi.org/10.62053/JQUI5091 (Oral presentation)

  9. Anand R. A., Viswanathan N. N., Pande M. M., Effect of carbon on the sintering kinetics of a single hematite pellet. 12th International Conference on Molten Slags, Fluxes and Salts MOLTEN-2024, 17-19 June 2024, Brisbane, Australia. https://doi.org/10.62053/JQUI5091 (Poster presentation)

  10. Sanjay Pindar and Manish M Pande: Influence of silicon source on the steel cleanness. International Conference on Metallurgical Engineering and Centenary Celebration (METCENT 2023), IIT (BHU), Varanasi, 26-28 Oct 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6863-3_4 (Poster presentation)

  11. Anand R. A., Ramavatar, Viswanathan N. N., Pande M. M. Kumar D., High Temperature Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope for in-situ Phase Transformation of Hematite Pellet. International Conference on Metallurgical Engineering and Centenary Celebration METCENT-2023, 26-28 October 2023, IIT(BHU) Varanasi, India. (Poster presentation)

  12. Anand R. A., Viswanathan N. N., Pande M. M., Estimation of Sintering Kinetics of a Single Hematite Ore Pellet Using Optical Dilatometer. International Conference on Sintering Sintering 2023, 26-31 August 2023, Gifu, Japan. (Oral presentation)

  13. Mir Ishfaq and Manish M Pande: Determination of insoluble oxygen in high aluminium steels using various techniques, METEC & 6TH ESTAD 2023, 12-16 June 2023, Dusseldorf, Germany. (Oral presentation)

  14. Sanjay Pindar and Manish M Pande: Si-O deoxidation equilibria in liquid steel; STIS-IV, 13-16 December 2022, IIT Bombay, Mumbai. (Oral presentation)

  15. Anand R. A., Viswanathan N. N., Pande M. M., Hematite Ore decomposition at particle scale. 4th International Conference Science and Technology of Ironmaking and Steelmaking STIS-2022, 13-16 December 2022, IIT Bombay, India. (Oral presentation)

  16. Mir Ishfaq and Manish M Pande: Development of quartic formalism for a ternary system, 8th International Congress on the Science and Technology of Steelmaking, 2-4 August 2022, Montreal, Canada. https://doi.org/10.33313/531/026 (Oral presentation/online talk)

  17. Mir Ishfaq and Manish M Pande: Assessment of Al-O equilibria in liquid steel using unified interaction parameter formalism, NMD ATM 2020, 23-26 Feb 2021, IIT Bombay, Mumbai. (Oral presentation/online talk)

  18. Mir Ishfaq and Manish M Pande: Critical evaluation of some thermodynamic models for aluminium deoxidation equilibria in liquid steel, Advanced Process Metallurgy, 4-5 July 2019, IISc Bengaluru. (Oral presentation)

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