Construction of kinetic model for pyridine HDN over industrial catalyst according to the SEMK methodologyDesign and development of a three phase bench scale Robinson-Mahoney reactor set-up for catalyst testing and kinetics data extraction.

Analysis and treatment of pilot plant data, construction of mathematical kinetic models using first principles. Model simulations and parameter tuning for satisfactory representation of kinetics. Designing and planning of experimental programme for acquisition data for kinetics, catalyst testing and process optimisation for nitrogen spiked feeds.

DOE for extracting intrinsic kinetcis data for pyridine under liquid phase conditions.Modelling of gas phase data and extension of gas phase model to liquid phase reactions by considering thermodynamic non idealities.

Developing an algorithm to detect collision between model particles in a dynamic environment, and writing FORTRAN subroutines to test the feasibility of using super quadrics in Discrete Element Models (DEM)