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
1998 – 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
2003 – 2004
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
National Research Council Canada
1998
Research Engineer
Hindustan Zinc Ltd, Udaipur (Sterlite Industries (I) Ltd)
Recent Publications
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
2018
Hydrate phase equilibrium data of mixed methane-tetrahydrofuran hydrates in saline water Kumar, A., Vedula, S.S., Kumar, R., Linga, P. 2018 Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 117, pp. 2-8
2018
Kinetic promotion of methane hydrate formation by combining anionic and silicone surfactants: Scalability promise of methane storage due to prevention of foam formation Bhattacharjee, G., Barmecha, V., Kushwaha, O.S., Kumar, R. 2018 Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 117, pp. 248-255
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