Dr. Nagabhatla Viswanadham
Principal Scientist & Head
Conversions & Catalysis
Indian Institute of Petroleum
India
Biography
Dr. Nagabhatla Viswanadham is a Principal Scientist & Head of Area Light stock Processing & Catalytic Reforming in CSIR - Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun. His acheivements are • Awarded Professor Shanti Ranjan Palit Award for the best oral paper presentation-1994. • Awarded Hindustan Platinum award for best oral paper presentation-1997 • Awarded BOYSCAST Fellowship-1999 • Awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship 2000 • Awarded visiting professorship under Indo-Japan co-operative science programme (IJCSP)-2003 • Best oral paper presentation award at International Seminar on Fuels and Lubricants (ISFL-05)-2005 • Editorial member of Asian journal of Spectroscopy, Spectral-Force Publishers, Since 2006 • International Journal of Oil, Coal and Gas Technologies, Inderscience Publishers, Since 2007 • Asian Material Sciences Letters (AMSL), Spectral-Force Publishers, since 2011
Research Interest
His research interests are • Synthesis of nano materials • Synthesis of magnetically recoverable catalyst materials • Synthesis of bi- and tri-modal porous composite materials • Functionalized mesoporous silica and carbon materials • Catalyst development for fossil and bio-mass conversions
Publications
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Catalytic properties of Nano-sized ZSM-5 Aggregates N.Viswanadham, Raviraj K, Madhulika, Manoj Kumar, G.Murali Dhar Catal. Today 141 (2009), pp. 182-186
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Pore size analysis of ZSM-5 zeolites used in n- heptane aromatization reaction: An evidence for molecular traffic control (MTC) N. Viswanadham, G. Murali Dhar, and T.S.R. Prasada Rao, J. Mol. Catal., A: 125 (1997) L87-L90
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Studies on acidity, activity and coke deactivation of ZSM-5 during n-heptane aromatizationS.K.Sahoo, N.Viswandham, N.Ray and I.D.Singh Applied Catalysis: A, General 205(1-2) (2001) 1-11
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Performances of rhenium oxide-encapsulated ZSM-5 catalysts in propene selectiveoxidation/ammoxidation N. Viswanadham, T. Shido and Y. Iwasawa Applied Catalysis: A, General 219 (2001) 223-233
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Reaction pathways for the aromatization of paraffins in presence of H-ZSM-5 and Zn-ZSM-5. N. Viswanadham, A.R. Pradhan, N. Ray, S.C. Vishnoi, Uma Shanker and T.S.R. Prasada Rao, Appl. Catal.,: A, 137 (1996) 225
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Studies on octane boosting of industrial feedstocks over Pt/H-BEA zeolite N.Viswanadham, Ravi Kamble, Sandeep Saxena, M.O.Garg Fuel 87 (2008) 2394.
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Reformulation of FCC gasoline through selective HDS and isomerization N. Viswanadham, Sairam, Meenakshi Sundaram, B.S.Negi, M.O.Garg Fuel 86(9) (2007) 1290-1297
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Catalytic performance of nano crystalline H-ZSM-5 in ethanol to gasoline (ETG) reaction Nagabhatla Viswanadham, Sandeep K. Saxena, Jitendra Kumar, Peta Srinivasulu, Devaki Nandan Fuel (2012), pp. 298-304
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Ammonia-Promoted Rhenium-Cluster Formation in CH3ReO3-Encapsulated H-ZSM-5 Relevant to the Performance of the Catalytically Selective Oxidation/Ammoxidation of Propene N. Viswanadham, Takafumi Shido, Takehiko Sasaki, Y. Iwasawa J.Phy.Chem. B, 106 (2002) 10955-10963
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Facile synthesis of a sulfonated carbon-silica-meso composite and mesoporous silica Devaki Nandan, Peta Sreenivasulu, Sandeep K. Saxena and Nagbhatla Viswanadham, Chemical communication (2011), Vol 47, pp11537–11539
