Sunil Kumar
Scientist
Separation Processes
Indian Institute of Petroleum
India
Biography
Mr. Sunil Kumar is a Scientist in Modeling and Simulation Area Separation Processes Division in CSIR - Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun. His acheivement are • Team member of FGH production technology using NMP as extraction solvent (for change over of solvent from sulfolane to NMP in FGH unit) at CPCL, Chennai • IIT Kanpur awarded the Certficate of Merit for Academic Excellence in the Master of Technology Programme in Chemical Engineering • Honoured with AMBUJA’S YOUNG RESEARCHERS AWARDS for M.Tech Thesis- Catalytic CO2 hydrogenation reaction over nickel on different supports (SiO2, Al2O3 & SiO2-Al2O3 • Honoured with M H Shukla second prize for the best technical paper presented at the annual session Indian Chemical Engineering Congress 2008 • Departmental Rank 1st in M. Tech. batch 2007-08. • Secured All India Rank 38th in GATE examination-2007 . • Ranked 1st in Diploma batch 1998-2001 .
Research Interest
His research interests are • Design, simulation, optimization and heat integration of processes for Petroleum refining and petrochemical industries. • Solvent extraction processes . • Development of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) models for Biofuels.
Publications
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Refinery configurations: Design for heavy oil- Conceptualization and economic evaluations considered all possible scenarios to produce clean gasoline and diesel from domestic feedstock; Sunil Kumar, S M Nanoti, Y K Sharma, and M O Garg,, HP, October 2011, 90, 71-75
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A comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment(LCA) of Jatropha biodiesel production in India, Sunil Kumar, Jasvinder Singh, S M Nanoti, M O Garg, Bioresource Technology, 2012, 110, 23-729.
