Dr. Rajnish Kumar
Associate Professor
NAC 449
rajnish[AT]iitm.ac.in
91-44-22574180
Research Areas
Gas Hydrates (Formation, Inhibition & Recovery) Carbon Dioxide Capture, Storage & Utilization Methane & Hydrogen Storage Hydrothermal Liquefaction at sub-critical and supercritical conditions
PRO Attainments
2004-2009 – Doctor of Philosophy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2001-2003 – Master of Science
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
1997-2001-Bachelor of Engineering
Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University
Career History
2016 –Current
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
2010 – 2016
Sr. Scientist
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
2009 – 2010
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
National Research Council Canada
2003 – 2004
Research Engineer
Hindustan Zinc Ltd, Udaipur (Sterlite Industries (I) Ltd)
Recent Publications
2019
Molecular level investigations and stability analysis of mixed methane-tetrahydrofuran hydrates: Implications to energy storage Kumar, A., Veluswamy, H.P., Linga, P., Kumar, R. 2019 Fuel 236, pp. 1505-1511
2019
A comparison of different water models for melting point calculation of methane hydrate using molecular dynamics simulations Choudhary, N., Chakrabarty, S., Roy, S., Kumar, R. 2019 Chemical Physics
516, pp. 6-14
2018
Energy recovery from simulated clayey gas hydrate reservoir using depressurization by constant rate gas release, thermal stimulation and their combinations Nair, V.C., Prasad, S.K., Kumar, R., Sangwai, J.S. 2018 Applied Energy 225, pp. 755-768
2018
Effect of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Surfactant on Methane Hydrate Formation: A Molecular Dynamics Study Choudhary, N., Hande, V.R., Roy, S., Chakrabarty, S., Kumar, R. 2018 Journal of Physical Chemistry B
122(25), pp. 6536-6542
2018
Molecular View of CO2 Capture by Polyethylenimine: Role of Structural and Dynamical Heterogeneity Sharma, P., Chakrabarty, S., Roy, S., Kumar, R. 2018 Langmuir 34(17), pp. 5138-5148
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