| Dr ANIRBID SIRCAR Professor & Director M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D, P.G. Diploma Email : Anirbid.Sircar@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Earth Science, Petroleum Exploration, Reservoir Engg., City Gas Distribution, Well Logging, Geothermal Energy, Shale Gas, Bio-Fuel Brief Profile: Prof Anirbid Sircar is the Director-School of Energy Technology, PDEU. He has completed guiding 11 PhD students and 3 more are doing PhD under him. Dr Sircar has 20 patents, has authored 150 + papers and has written seven technical books. Dr Sircar received several accolades and is listed in top 2 % researchers list published by Elsevier (2023). Dr Sircar has assumed several portfolios such as Director General of GERMI, Director-SPT and Dean R&D.
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| Dr Bhawanisingh Desai Associate Professor & Dean B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D Email : Bhawanisingh.Desai@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Earth Science, Ichnology, Mesozoic Cephalopods, Sequence stratigraphy, reservoir Characterization Brief Profile:
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| Dr Uttam Kumar Bhui Associate Professor & HoD Ph.D, M.Sc., B.Sc. Email : Uttam.Bhui@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Clay mineralogy and geochemistry, Characterization of crude oil for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), Reservoir characterization, Crude rheology,
Shale gas/oil exploration and exploitation Brief Profile: Professional Appointments:
Associate Professor, PDPU: 2008 - Present
Lecturer (Sr. scale), Jadavpur University: 2006 - 2008
Lecturer: Jadavpur University: 2002 - 2006
Assistant Executive Engineer (Reservoir), ONGC:1999 - 2002
Dr. Bhui has both industrial as well as academic experience. He worked in ONGC as Reservoir Engineer and was involved in resesrvoir operation and management activities for field development and optimum oil production. Presently involved in research activities related to reservoir characterization, crude characterization for enhanced oil recovery, rheological characterization of crude oil, interaction of rock matrix and fluids (oil-water) of crude oil reservoir.His expertise is also in geological mapping and geochemical data (phase, bulk chemical and stable isotope) handling for magmatic rocks and associated economic mineral deposits particularly chromium,vanadium, nickel and platunum group of elements.
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| Dr Sivakumar P Associate Professor B.Tech., M.Tech., Ph.D Email : Sivakumar.P@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Enhanced oil Recovery, Loss control Materials, Microbial Isolation and Identification for MEOR,Petroleum Down Stream Processing; Petrochemical Engineering; Biofuels; Nano Technology; Catalysis; Cracking Brief Profile: Dr. Sivakumar P holds the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Petroleum Engineering, School of Energy Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University Gandhinagar, India since 2016. He received his Ph.D. degree in Faculty of Technology from Anna University, Chennai in 2013. His current research focuses on several interdisciplinary areas in Biofuels, Nano Technology, Petrochemicals, Petroleum Engineering, Fuel Cells, Concrete etc. Expertise in laboratory techniques for molecular and structural characterization include SEM, TEM, FEM, GC, HPLC, XPS, DSC, TGA, FTIR, AFM, NMR, Confocal microscopy, wear testing fatigue testing, fracture mechanics analysis, non-destructive testing, and nano-indentation. He has published more than 88 research articles in peer-reviewed international Journals. Currently, he is supervising seven Ph.D. scholars and 15 PG and UG students. He is an active member of 6 National and International professional societies and serves on a number of committees of National Academies and Industries. He has also established petrochemical engineering laboratories in different institutions. His teaching expertise includes PG and UG courses in Chemical, Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering.
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| Dr Achinta Bera Assistant Professor B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D Email : Achinta.Bera@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Reservoir Characterization and Modeling, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Unconventional Energy Resources, Colloids & Interface Science, Ionic Liquids, Nanotechnology in Oil and Gas, Drilling Fluids & Cementing, CO2 Sequestration, Polymer Gel Systems for Water Shut-off, Flow Assurance Brief Profile: Dr. Achinta Bera is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering at School of Petroleum Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, India. He received his Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad in 2014. After that, he worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada in EOGRRC Group from 2014-2015. Thereafter, he moved to the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi (Currently known as Khalifa University) to work as Postdoctoral Research Associate and spent 3 years working on a project related to carbonate reservoir characterization and modeling funded by ADNOC. He has published several articles in refereed international journals in the area of petroleum engineering. He serves as an active reviewer for several reputable international journals like Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Energy & Fuels, SPE Journal, Applied Energy, Fuel, Chemical Engineering Science etc. He is an active professional SPE member since 2014.
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| Dr Amit Verma Assistant Professor Ph.D, M.Tech., B.Tech. Email : Amit.Verma@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracturing Fluids, Foam Fluid, Rheology, Colloids and Interfaces, Drilling, Coal Bed Methane, Numerical Modelling, Shale Analytics and Petroleum Data Analytics Brief Profile: Amit Verma is an Assistant Professor in the School of Petroleum Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, India. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Tech degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India. He has worked as an Assistant Manager with NCL Industries Limited, Hyderabad, India, for three years. Currently, his research focuses on waterless fracturing for unconventional reservoirs, coal bed methane, shale gas, hydrogen storage, chemical conformance control, and enhanced oil recovery applications. He has published more than ten peer-reviewed research articles in the journal of repute and presented his work at various national and international conferences. He associated with various international organizations such as SPE, AGU, and EAGE. He is the faculty mentor for the PDPU-SPE student Chapter.
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| Dr Balasubramanian Ragunathan Assistant Professor M.Tech., Ph.D Email : Balasubramanian@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Petroleum Refinery Engineering, Petrochemicals, Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Transport Phenomena, Petroleum Process Unit Operations, Health, Safety and Environment, Natural Gas processing and Surface Production Operations Brief Profile: Dr. R. Balasubramanian joined Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University in September, 2014 as faculty in School of Petroleum Technology.
He is basically Chemical Engineer with M.Tech.,(Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals) from Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Dissertation:
B.Tech: Adsorption and Desorption of Lead by using Sargassum sp. Biomass
M.Tech: Studies on Customized Carbon Catalyst in Biodiesel production from A.Pavonina Seed Oil
PhD: Optimization and Kinetic Studies on Production of Biodiesel from Industrial Waste
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| Dr Hari S Assistant Professor B.Tech., M.S., Ph.D Email : Hari.S@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Offshore platform design and riser analysis; Sonic and shock wave enhanced oil recovery; Petroleum production engineering; Artificial Lift; Functionally Graded Materials for Oil and Gas Applications Brief Profile: Dr. Hari S is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the School of Petroleum Technology at the Pandit Deendayal Energy University. He received his B.Tech degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Kerala in 2012. He has worked as an Engineer(QA) with HAL,a PSU under Ministry of Defence for 3 years and 4 months. He was involved in several projects and technical committees and was in-charge of Calibration lab. He has completed his Master of Science (by research) and Ph.D. from IIT Madras at Ocean Engineering Department under the petroleum engineering program. He was selected for carrying out research on shock wave enhanced oil recovery at the shock wave laboratory, RWTH Aachen University, Germany under the UGC-DAAD program. He also has one international patent and three Indian patents filed in the field of petroleum and offshore engineering. He also serves as the faculty mentor for IADC PDEU student chapter.
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| Dr Madhavan Assistant Professor Ph.D, M.Sc., B.Sc., M.S. Email : N.Madhavan@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: The oilfield water generally contains toxic substances viz. lead, mercury, cadmium etc. along with cations of calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium and others. Previously, an attempt was made and looked at the feasibility to use Bhuj sandstones and bioturbated sandstones, which are available in plenty in the Katchh region. To address the quantitative aspect, the columns were packed with 10 grams of the 250 to 63 micron fraction and 100ml of the oilfield produced wastewater sample was filtered through it. A graph between 1/Ce versus 1/qe for Langmuir adsorption isotherm for sodium, potassium and calcium were drawn for batch adsorption experiment, which were conducted on various materials (Bhuj sandstone and bioturbated sandstone). From the result, it is concluded that the uptake of major cations by Bhuj sandstone and bioturbated sandstone was found to be negligible. Although, ferric iron is good for absorbing metal ions such as zinc, copper, cobalt, manganese, cadmium or lead. Experiments are on the way to determine the dissolved metals present in the oilfield produced wastewater. So, I am looking students who are interested to treat the oilfields produced wastewater to remove the excess cations using by available material. Brief Profile: After my graduation in Applied Geology, I continued my carrier in academics as a Research Fellow and then a Post Doctoral Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi; Uppsala University, Sweden and University of California, Santa Cruz in United States. Prior to PDPU, I was teaching at BBIT&RC affiliated with Uttar Pradesh Technological University and Delhi Technological University.
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| Dr Maunish Shah Assistant Professor Ph.D, M.Tech., B.E. Email : Maunish.Shah@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Particulate diverters, Fluid diversion technology, Hydraulic fracturing and refracturing, Stimulation, Enhance oil recovery, and Cement slurry design Brief Profile: Dr. Maunish Shah is serving as an Assistant Professor in the School of Petroleum Technology. He holds Ph.D. and M.Tech. in Petroleum Engineering from Pandit Deendayal Energy University and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from L.D. College of Engineering. He has ten years of experience in teaching and one year in the industry. He is also an active member of the Drilling, Cementing, and Stimulation Research Center. He is primarily interested in research on the application of chemical particulates as diverters for fluid diversion during hydraulic fracturing and refracturing treatments to increase hydrocarbon production rate and improve recovery. He is also interested in the research on stimulation, diversion technology, cementing technology, and enhance oil recovery.
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| Dr Rohit Srivastava (PE) Assistant Professor B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D Email : Rohit.S@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: In 21st century, the major challenges facing scientific community is to search an alternatives of energy resources. The main objective of my research is to design and developed novel catalysis for energy applications. My areas of research interest includes: Functional Nano-materials, Electro/photo-chemical Technology, Energy Storage & Conversion and Bio-physical Chemistry. Brief Profile: Dr. Rohit Srivastava received Master of Philosphy (M.Phil.) from Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University Agra, India in 2010 and after that he worked as Project Fellow on UGC major research project at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad India. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra Ranchi, India in 2015. He spent more than 1 year as Dr. DS Kothari Post-doctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) Bangalore India. During working at IISc., he got an offer for another Post-doctoral position at Harvard University USA, where he spent 2 years working on a research project sponsored by Repsol SA (An global energy company based in Madrid Spain). He is acting as reviewer of more than 5 international journals. He returned to the country and joined as Assistant Professor at School of Petroleum Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University Gandhinagar, since August 2018.
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| Dr Shanker Krishna Assistant Professor B.Tech., M.S., M.Tech., Ph.D Email : Shanker.Krishna@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Anisotropy and Fractures in Materials, Exploration Geophysics, Geomechanics, Non-Destructive Evaluation, Pipeline Engineering, Drilling and Production Engineering, Reservoir Engineering and Management, Rock Physics, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Gas Hydrates Brief Profile: Dr. Shanker Krishna is currently working as Assistant Professor in the School of Petroleum Technology at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University. He received his B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Kerala (India) in 2012, M.Res. degree in Exploration Geophysics from Paris Diderot University (France) in 2014 and M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India) in 2019. He is actively involved in teaching as well as research in the domains of Non-Destructive Evaluation, Petroleum Geomechanics and Rock Physics. His research has immense potential within the scope of hydrocarbon exploration and production related studies.
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| Dr Vivek Ramalingam Assistant Professor Ph.D, M.Tech., B.E. Email : Vivek.Ramalingam@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Reservoir Engineering; Reservoir modelling and Simulation; Multiphase Fluid Flow in Porous Media; Underground Hydrogen Storage; CO2 Sequestration Brief Profile: Dr. Vivek is an Assistant Professor at SPT in PDPU. He received his M.Tech and Ph.D. in upstream Petroleum Engineering from IIT Madras. His Ph.D. thesis is on "Numerical Investigations on Accelerating Trapping Mechanisms of CO2 Sequestration in Deep Subsurface Formations". In brief, his Ph.D. thesis focuses on developing a numerical simulation model conceptualizing multiphase fluid flow in porous media. His Master's research is on "Seismic Multi-Attribute Analysis of Porosity Prediction on Gas Field in Hammerfest Basin, Norway and Krishna Godavari Gas Hydrate Zones, India". He has also secured a research internship at the University of Tromso, Norway.
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