Soumen Dasgupta
Scientist
Separation Processes
Indian Institute of Petroleum
India
Biography
Dr. Soumen Dasgupta is a Scientist in Adsorption and Membranes Area in CSIR - Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun. His acheivement are • Developed a highly regenerable sulphur adsorbent for gasoline and diesel desulphurization • Developed a vapor phase adsorption process for production of BS-IV grade gasoline and diesel • Developed a VSA process for CO2 recovery from power plant flue gas • Developed a VSA process which can produce pipeline grade methane from biogas • CSIR Quick Hire Fellow 2004-2006 • Recipient of CSIR Junior and Senior Research Fellowship 1998-2002 (through Jt. UGC-CSIR NET) • GATE 1996 (AIR 46 in Chemistry), GATE 1997
Research Interest
His research interests are • Adsorptive Desulfurization: Adsorbent and process development for producing Euro IV grade Gasoline and Diesel. • Adsorptive desulphurization process to produce <1 ppm Sulphur diesel for on-board reforming application • Development of CO2 capture adsorbents and process for flue gas • Biogas up-gradation by adsorption • Development of high temperature chemi-sorbents relevant to clean coal technology
Publications
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• Process Studies for Development of Adsorption Technology for Furfural Recovery from Waste Water; A. Nanoti, P. Gupta, S. Dasgupta, M.O. Garg, and A.N. Goswami; Environmental Progress; Vol 27, Year 2008, pp 308-312
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• Simulation of a fixed bed adsorber for thiophene removal; Soumen Dasgupta, Vasudha Agnihotri, Pushpa Gupta, Anshu Nanoti, Madhukar O. Garg and Amar N. Goswami; Catalysis Today; Vol 141 Year 2009, pp 84-88
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• Mesoporous Silica as Selective Sorbents for Removal of Sulfones from Oxidized Diesel Fuel; A. Nanoti, S. Dasgupta, A.N. Goswami, B.R. Nautiyal, T.V. Rao, B. Sain, Y.K. Sharma, S.M. Nanoti, M.O. Garg, and P. Gupta; Microporous and Mesoporous Materials; Vol 124, Year 2009, pp 94-99
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• Carbon Dioxide Removal with Mesoporous Adsorbents in a Single Column Pressure Swing Adsorber; Soumen Dasgupta, Anshu Nanoti, Pushpa Gupta, Dilip Jena, Amar N. Goswami and Madhukar O. Garg; Separation Science and Technology; Vol 44, Year 2009, pp 3973-3983
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• A zeolite based vapor phase adsorptive desulfurization process for naphtha; Anshu Nanoti, Soumen Dasgupta, Vasudha Agnihotri, Pushpa Gupta, Amar N. Goswami, Madhukar O. Garg, Elisabeth Tangstad, Michael Stöcker, Arne Karlsson, and Ørnulov B. Vistad; Microporous and Mesoporous Materials; Vol 146 Year 2011, pp 158-165
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• Removal of CO2 from Biogas by Vacuum Swing Adsorption (VSA) Technology; Ranjeet Singh, Penny Xiao, Gongkui Xiao, Monash University (Australia), Anshu Nanoti, A. N. Goswami, Soumen Dasgupta, M. O. Garg, Indian Institute of Petroleum (India); 6th Pacific Basin Conference on Adsorption Science and Technology, 20-23 May, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan
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• CO2 Recovery from Mixtures with Nitrogen in a Vacuum Swing Adsorber Using Metal Organic Framework Adsorbent: A Comparative Study; Soumen Dasgupta, Nabanita Biswas, Aarti, Nilesh G. Gode, Swapnil Divekar, Anshu Nanoti and Amar N. Goswami; International Journal of Green House Gas Control; Vol 7 Year 2012, pp 225–229
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• On the development of Vacuum Swing adsorption (VSA) technology for post-combustion CO2 capture; Anne Andersen, Swapnil Divekar, Soumen Dasgupta, Jasmina Hafizovic Cavka, Aarti, Anshu Nanoti, Aud Spjelkavik, Amar N. Goswami, M.O.Gargand Richard Blom ; International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technology; 18-22 Nov. 2012, Kyoto, Japan
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• Single Column VSA Studies for CO2 Recovery using Metal Organic Framework Adsorbent: Comparison with Commercial Zeolite"; Aarti Arya, Nabnita Biswas, Soumen Dasgupta, Swapnil Divekar, Anshu Nanoti, Amar N. Goswami, Madhukar O. Garg, Anne Andersen, Jasmina Hafizovic Cavka, Richard Blom; 12 AIChE Annual Meeting, 28th Oct.- 2nd Nov., 2012, Pittsburgh, USA
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• A Re-appraisal of the Skarstrom Cycle for CO2 Recovery from Flue Gas Streams: New Results with Potassium-Exchanged Zeolite Adsorbent; Anshu Nanoti, Soumen Dasgupta, Aarti Arya, Nabanita Biswas, Amar Nath Goswami, Madhukar O. Garg, Swapnil Divekar and Chandrasekhar Pendem; Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1021/ie300982d Web Publication Date: October 2, 2012
