Research Interest

• Process engineering
• Process development for the conversion of cresols dimer to phenolic monomers
• Process and catalyst development for the maximization of olefins from crude oil
• Evaluation of fresh FCC catalysts
• Co-processing of renewable feeds with petroleum fractions over FCC unit
• Co-processing of plastic pyrolysis oil with petroleum fractions over FCC unit

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• Best paper award for the paper entitled “A perspective of fast pyrolysis oil processing in refinery FCC unit”
  4th International Conference on Sustainable Development, SUSCON-2015 IIM, Shillong, India, March 11-13, 2015

Patents

• Fluid catalytic cracking of p-Cresol dimer into ohenolic monomers method thereof
  Naik, D.V.; Maity, S.K.; Rana, B.S.; Kanaujia, P.K.; Rana, A.; Tripathi,D.; (US20230202953A1, 2023)

Selected Publications

• High surface area eucalyptus wood biochar for the removal of phenol from petroleum refinery wastewater
  Singh, R.; Naik, D.V.; Dutta,R.K..; Kanaujia, P.K.;
  Environmental Challenges, 5, 100353, 2021
• Biochars for the removal of naphthenic acid from water: A perspective approach towards remediation of petroleum refinery wastewater Singh, R.; Naik, D.V.; Dutta, R.K..; Kanaujia, P.K.;
  Journal of Cleaner Production, 266, 1, 121986, 2020
• Determination of the aging profile of pyrolysis oil derived from Apricot seed cake through solvent extraction and GC-MS analysis Naik, D.V.; Kumar, R.; Tripathi, D.; Kanaujia, P.K.,
  Energy Fuels, 12297-12304, 2017
• Co-pyrolysis of Jatropha curcas seed cake and bituminous coal: Product pattern analysis Naik, D.V.; Kumar, R.; Tripathi, D.; Singh, R.; Kanaujia, P.K.,
  Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 121, 360-368, 2016
• Catalytic cracking of jatropha-derived fast pyrolysis oil with VGO and their NMR characterization Naik, D.V.; Kumar, V.; Prasad, B.; Behera, B.; Poddar, M.K.; Bal, R.; Khatri, O.P.; Adhikari, D.K.; Garg, M.O.
  RSC Adv. 5, 398-409, 2015
• Catalytic cracking of pyrolysis oil oxygenates (aliphatic and aromatic) with vacuum gas oil and their characterization Naik, D.V.; Kumar, V.; Prasad, B.; Behera, B.; Atheya, N.; Adhikari, D. K.; Nigam, K.D.P.; Garg, M. O.,
  Chem. Eng. Res. Des., 92, 1579-1590, 2014
• Effective catalytic conversion of cellulose into high yields of methyl glucosides over sulfonated carbon based catalyst Dora, S.; Bhaskar, T.; Singh, R.; Naik, D.V.; Adhikari, D.K.,
  Bioresource Technology, 120, 318-321, 2012
• Blending optimization of Hempel distilled bio-oil with commercial diesel Majhi, A.; Sharma, Y.K.; Naik, D.V.,
  Fuel, 96, 264-269, 2012
• Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels; In : Biofuels: Alternative Feedstocks and Conversion Processes; Chapter 3; Ashok Pandey, Christian Larroche, Steven C. Ricke, Claude-Gilles Dussap and Edgard Gnansounou (eds) Bhaskar, T.; Bhavya, B.; Singh, R.; Naik, D.V.; Kumar, A.; Goyal, H.B.,
  Elsevier-Academic Press, UK, pp 51-77 (ISBN: 978-0-12-385099-7), 2011