Shushil Kumar Email & Phone Number

Roorkee, UT, IN

Roorkee, Uttaranchal, India

Sundsvall, Sweden

Worked in a team responsible for developing a process to convert black liquor (by-product of pulp and paper mil) into bio-fuelsResponsible for demonstrating the process in a pilot scale: Day-to-day pilot plant operations, process optimization, process improvement, process design, HAZOP for new changes, product characterization, preparation of standard.

Contributed in developing a cost-effective and sustainable production process for a new UV gelling inkFound sources of issues with product quality, and proposed solutions to mitigate them

Enschede Area, Netherlands

• Direct liquefaction of lignocellulose: Exploration, design and evaluation of conceptual processes.
• Proposed and experimentally demonstrated a two-step liquefaction process with intermediate upgrading.
• Developed a new bio-oil fractionation technique and provided a proof of concept and a techno-economic assessment of the whole liquefaction process with bio-oil fractionation. Process simulation was done in Aspen HYSYS.
• Developed two other process concepts of biomass liquefaction and provided a proof of concept and a techno-economic assessment. Process simulation was done in Aspen HYSYS.

• Process study of biomass liquefaction.
• Developed a process concept for liquefaction of biomass, successfully modeled and simulated it in Aspen PLUS and determined energy demands.
• Pinpointed critical points and the scope of major improvements that helped in directing further research.

Jamnagar Area, India

• Audited a part of Flare network of Jamnagar Export Oriented petroleum refinery.
• Performed feasibility study to improve performance of Crude distillation unit heater by evaluating different type of fins in convection section of the heater.
• Checked adequacy of Post Treatment Unit fired heater under changed conditions.
• Determined Max stretch capacity of Alkylation unit heat integration loop.
• Process simulations required in all the above works were done in Aspen PLUS.

Mumbai Area, India

• Designed pump, heat exchanger and studied distillation column under modified process conditions.
• Successfully designed a pump and a heat exchanger to suit increased plant throughput.
• Investigated effect of the changed plant conditions on the main distillation column.

Guwahati Area, India

• Assessed performance of three boilers of the refinery and suggested areas of improvements.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering

Direct liquefaction of lignocellulose: Exploration, design and evaluation of conceptual processes

Master'S Degree, Chemical Engineering (Process Technology), 8.6

Thesis: Supercritical water gasification of biomass. • Experimentally investigated chemistry of decomposition of alcohols and organic.

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering, 8.1

Thesis: A planning model for the optimal production of a real world Soda ash plant. • Successfully modeled a plant for production of soda.