Sustainable and Green Catalytic Processes for Renewable Fuel Production with Net-Zero Emissions

Dr. Sreedevi Upadhyayula has worked as a Senior Design Engineer for five years in both public sector (BHPV Ltd., Visakhapatnam, subsidiary of BYNL group) and Private sector (APL, Chennai, subsidiary of PTE, Singapore) after completing her M. Tech in Chemical Engineering (Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemical Technology specialization) from IIT Kharagpur in 1993. She returned to academics in 1998 joining the Catalysis Division of National Chemical Laboratory, Pune as a CSIR Senior Research Fellow. She completed her PhD in 2001 jointly from NCL, Pune and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her research interests include environmentally benign heterogeneous catalysis involving ionic liquids, zeotype materials in Petrochemical and Refinery catalytic processes, biomass conversion to biofuels: Catalyst design, Parametric study, Kinetics and Modeling of heterogeneous reactions. Dr. Amita Chaudhary has completed her Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry from Chaudhary Charan Singh University. She has worked as a senior research fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Delhi, since June 2015 and completed her PhD in January 2019. Currently she is working as an assistant professor at Nirma University. Her research areas include waste management, global warming, and gas-liquid reactions.

1. Pyrolysis Bio-oil upgradation to fuels
2. Sustainable technologies for ethanol production from waste biomass
3. Synthetic diesel and gasoline fuels from carbon dioxide syngas derived from biomass gasification
4. Post combustion carbon dioxide gas conversion to methanol and DME
5. Post combustion carbon dioxide conversion to ethanol
6. Hydrogen production from hydrogen sulphide gas
7. Sustainable low temperature Ammonia production technologies
8. Hydrogen production from thermos-catalytic processes from renewable sources
9. Hydrogen production from biogas derived from waste biomass anaerobic digestion
10. Methanol production from biogas derived from waste biomass anaerobic digestion
11. Hydrogen production from ammonia cracking
12. Technologies to convert Lignocellulosic biomass to fuel components like DMF
13. Production of aromatics and olefins from biomass pyrolysis
14. A techno-economic analysis of green process routes for renewable fuels production
15. Life Cycle Assessment of various process routes including biological processes for renewable fuel production