P K Arya

Research Interest

• Basic and Applied Combustion
• Modeling of Combustion and Flames
• Energy based Rural Technologies
• Gasification of Biomass and Petroleum Residues

Work Experience

Senior Scientist	CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (2015 – Till Date)
Scientist	CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (2012 – 2015)
Junior Scientist	CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (2009-2012)
GET	Kirby (Alghamin Industries) (2007- 2008)

Awards and Honours

• Successfully completed many industrial and government sponsored projects
• Appointed as Radiological Safety Officer RSO
• Member of Bureau of Indian Standards, Sectional Committees of MED-26
• Nodal Scientist for MSME activities
• Installed 35 units of Gur making plants in rural areas under the Institutes’s societal initiative

Patents

Selected Publications

• DME blended LPG as a cooking fuel option for Indian household: A review
  Arya, P K, Tupkari S, Satish K., Thakre G D, and Shukla B M
  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 53, 1591-1601, 2016
• Design based improvement in a three pan Jaggery making plant for rural India
  Pankaj K Arya, Satish Kumar and U K Jaiswal
  IJER Vol. No.2 , Issue No.3, pp:264-268, 2013
• Experimental study on the efficacy of MoS2 microfluids for improved tribological performance
  Kumar A, Thakre G D, Arya P K, Konathala L N S, Saran S, Singh R and Jain A K
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology, 1350650116647306, 2016
• Prediction of Useful Life of Rolling Contact Bearings Using Monte Carlo Simulation Technique
  Singh E, Thakre G D, Arya P K and Shukla B M
  In Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Tribology and Engineering Systems (pp. 369-373). Springer India, 2014
• A process integration to valorize lignocellulosic biomass: generation of fuel and chemical with a biorefinery approach
  D Dasgupta, P Arya, and D Ghosh
  Energy & Fuels