Prasenjit Ghosh

Research Interest

• Solvent Extraction- Liquid-liquid extraction and extractive distillation for aromatics recovery and production, dearomatization of middle distillates
• Process Engineering- Design of bench scale experimental set up, scale up of laboratory process to pilot and industrial scale, process integration, revamp and retrofitting of refinery’s process, heat integration, process simulation (ASPEN Plus & HYSYS), Pinch analysis, preparation of Technology Information Package (TIP)
• Reaction Engineering- Conceptualization and development of processes, kinetic modeling and parameter estimation, numerical modeling of catalytic processes

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Centre for High Technology, Best Innovation in R&D Award for technology development for simultaneous production of US grade gasoline and high pure purity benzene from C6 heart cut of FCC gasoline, 2014-2015
• CSIR Innovation Award for process development for simultaneous production of US grade gasoline and high pure purity benzene and from C6 heart cut of FCC gasoline, 2014
• All India Rank 107 in GATE Examination (Chemical Engineering), 2008

Patents

• A process for production of benzene lean gasoline by recovery of high purity benzene from unprocessed cracked gasoline fraction containing organic peroxides
  M O Garg, S M Nanoti, B R Nautiyal, Sunil Kumar, Prasenjit Ghosh, Nisha, Pooja Yadav, Jagdish Kumar, Manish Tiwari, M R G Rao and N S Murthy
  US 8722952B2, 2014

Selected Publications

• Boosting energy efficiency in aromatics processing
  Petroleum Technology Quarterly, Q2 2018, 51 – 54
• Improve Solvent Recovery in Wax Production
  Hydrocarbon Processing, November 2013, 77-80
• Ethanol fermentation from molasses at high temperature by thermo-tolerant yeast Kluyveromyces sp.IIPE453 and energy assessment for recovery
  Bioprocess and Bio-systems Engineering, D.O.I 10.1007/S00449-014-1177