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Dr. Bibhas Ranjan Sarkar

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Industrial Catalysis Experimentation (ICE) Group


Research Focus

  • Dr. Sarkar's research is focused on the development of catalytic technology routes for the industrially important chemicals reactions. The activities include but are not limited to,
  • Design and Development of Novel Catalyst Systems for Existing and New Applications
  • Performance Enhancement of Catalytic Systems using improvized solutions
  • Understanding/ enhancing the commercial viability of catalytic reactions by inculcating "Green Chemistry" Principles, Sustainable feedstock, Catalyst-product separation and efficient catalyst reuse and recycle etc.
  • Proposing futuristic designs for catalyst performance enhancement e.g. use of supercritical fluids (SCFs), Xerothermal systems, Gas-Expansion of Liquid (GXLs) Solvents etc.

 

Experimentation Setups

  • In his efforts to build a sophisticated Industrial Catalysis Experimentation (ICE) Facility, the following setups are already in function
    1. 100 mL High Temperature High Pressure Stirred Autoclave Reactor Setup (MOC: Hastelloy C276)
    2. High Vacuum Pump Setup for Product Separation by Fractionation

 

Upcoming Setups

  • Membrane-assisted ultra/ nano filtration setup for catalyst separation (2020)

Doctoral Students

  • Sonam Sharma
    Education: M.Sc. in Chemistry from Rajasthan University (RU), Ajmer, Rajasthan
    Area of Study: Catalytic C-C Bond Formation Reactions
    Duration: August 2014 - November 2020 (Submitted Thesis, Nov 2020)
  • Soumana Joardar
    Education: M.Sc. in Chemistry from Calcutta University (CU), Kolkata, West Bengal
    Area of study: Carbonylation Reactions of Biomass-based Polyols
    Duration: December 2017 - Ongoing
  • Shivani B. Thakkar
    Education: M.Sc. in Chemistry from M. S. University (MSU), Baroda, Gujarat
    Area of study: Use of Carbondioxide as a Sustainable Chemical Feedstock
    Duration: January 2020 - Ongoing

Masters Thesis Students

 

AY 2020-21

  • Semester I: Sitakanta Mahapatra, Saksham Agarwal
  • Semester II: TBA


AY 2019-20

  • Semester I:
  • Semester II: Rithwik M.


AY 2018-19

  • Semester I:Tushar Dhalwani
  • Semester II: Nirmit Gupta, Satvik Adarsh

 

AY 2017-18

  • Semester I:XXXX
  • Semester II: YYYY

 

AY 2016-17

  • Semester I:AAAA
  • Semester II: BBBB

Lab Project & Study Project Students


AY 2018-19

 

Semester I

 

Semester II

  • Shivam Khandelwal
  • Pratyush Samal