M.O. Garg, is presently Director of the Indian
Institute of Petroleum, Dehra Dun since 15th August, 2003.
Born on 17th September, 1954, Dr Garg is Gold Medalist in B.
Tech. Chemical Engineering from Nagpur University and M. Tech. from
IIT-Kanpur. In 1976, he joined the Research & Development Division of
Engineers India Ltd., New Delhi. In 1978 he bagged the prestigious Post
Graduate Research Scholarship of the University of Melbourne
where he did his Ph.D. in the area of Liquid-Liquid Extraction under the
supervision of world renowned expert Dr H.R.C. Pratt. He also served on the
faculty of the University of
Melbourne
during the period 1980-81. He returned back to Engineers India Ltd. in
1982, where he worked on several areas closely linked with the refining
industry. In 1994, he joined Kinetics India Ltd. as General Manager of
Process System Services Division, where he was responsible for providing
advanced process engineering services to the refining industry. In July
1998 he joined Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun as Scientist ‘G’ and
was Head of the Refining Technology Division
Dr Garg is acknowledged expert in the area of Liquid-Liquid Extraction,
Advanced Controls, Simulation & Modelling and Process Integration, with
specific application to the refining industry. During his career, he has
been instrumental in developing and commercializing several large scale
technologies in the area of Liquid-Liquid Extraction in the Indian
refineries. He was involved in successful transfer of advance control
technology to India and its implementation in various refineries. Also he
built strategic alliances with various companies abroad to transfer and
implement process integration technologies.
Dr
Garg has contributed immensely to the development and growth of the Indian
hydrocarbon industry and possesses unique capability of conceptualizing
development and implementation of new research ideas – the development of
RAGE package for data reconciliation and gross error detection is considered
as unique example of successful collaboration between industry and
academics. He possesses advance skills in numerical mathematics, applied
statistics and linear and non-linear programming and computers systems
languages. He has been instrumental in building strategic alliances for
carrying out projects in India and abroad and provided his expertise,
technical support and strategic planning to help industry.
Dr
Garg has won several Awards and Honours noteworthy, among them is the CSIR
Technology Awards of 2001 and 1999 for development of technology for
production of food grade Hexane (2001) and for development of propane
deasphalting technology (1999). He also received the CSIR Technology Shield
in 2000 for development of NMP based refining technology for simultaneous
production of quality lube oil base stocks (LOBS) and high BMCI (Bureau of
Mines Correlation Index) extract. He is recipient of the 1973-74 NELP Gold
Medal for topping the list of successful students in the final B.Tech.
Examination and Mahadeo Dajiba Memorial Silver Medal for securing highest
marks in Chemical Engineering.
He
has over 90 publications in reputed national and international journals. He
is a well known authority in the petroleum industry and has delivered
several invited lectures on all aspects of hydrocarbon industry, advanced
and basic lectures on several technical subjects. His several
techno-commercial presentations for marketing technologies have contributed
to the increase of Extra Budgetary Resources (EBR) of the institute in major
way.
Dr
Garg is a life member of various professional bodies such as the Indian
Institute of Chemical Engineers, Instruments Society of India, and the
Indian Society of Analytical Scientists. He is also Member of Research /
Management Councils of various important research organizations in the
country, notably Engineers India Limited, RRL-Bhubaneswar, CMRI-Dhanbad.
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