Dr Mukesh K. Poddar

 

Research Interest

• Economically viable heterogeneous catalyst/nanomaterials design, synthesis, and characterization for Biomass to fuels and chemicals synthesis
• Carbon utilization (CO₂ to methanol and light hydrocarbons)
• Insertion of oxygen form molecular oxygen (O₂) in between the C-C and C-H bonds
• Heavy oil processing to transportation fuels
• Spectroscopy
• Py-oil (biomass and plastic) upgradation
• Crude to chemicals

Work Experience

Patents

• Process for the preparation of zeolite
  Rajaram Bal, Anil Chandra Kothari, Akashdeep Karmakar,Sonu Bhandari, Ankur Bordoloi, Tuhin Surva Khan, Mukesh Kumar Poddar;
• Method development for preparing heterogeneous catalyst supported on red mud from the Jharkhand area for the single step conversion of benzene to phenol
  Rajaram Bal, Shivani Singh, Manish Rawat, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Ankur Bordoloi, Tuhin Surva Khan;
• A Process for methanol synthesis via Carbon dioxide hydrogenation, A Joint patent filled, CSIR-IIP and NTPC- NETRA, U.P., India
  Rajaram Bal, Ankur Bordoloi, Sunil Kumar, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Ojasvi, Nagabatla Viswanadham, Anjan Ray, Rajendra Kumar Saini, Shyam Khatana, Upain Kumar Arora
• An improved Process and catalyst for Oxidation Coupling of Methane, A Joint patent filled, CSIR-IIP and GAIL, U.P., India
  Rajaram Bal, Rohan Singh Pal, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Tuhin Surva Khan, Ankur Bordoloi, Anjan Ray, Rahul Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar
• Nanostructured Ca-doped La2Ce2O7 catalyst for C2H4 production and its Preparation thereof, A Joint patent filled, CSIR-IIP and GAIL, U.P., India
  Rajaram Bal, Rohan Singh Pal, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Tuhin Surva Khan, Ankur Bordoloi, Anjan Ray, Rahul Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar;

Selected Publications

• Rubina Khatun, Rohan Singh Pal, Mohammad Ahmad Shoeb, Deepak Khurana, Shubham Singhl, Nazia Siddiqui, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Rajaram Bal, Generation of active oxygen species by CO2 dissociation over defect-rich Ni-Pt/CeO2 catalyst for boosting methane activation in low-temperature dry reforming: Experimental and theoretical study, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 340 (2024) 123243
• Rohan Singh Pal, Swati Rana, Sachin Kumar Sharma, Rubina Khatun, Deepak Khuran, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Rahul Sharma, Rajaram Bal, Enhancement of Oxygen Vacancy sites of La2-xMxCe2O7-δ (M=Ca, Ba, Sr) Catalyst for the Low Temperature Oxidative Coupling of Methane: A Combined DFT and Experimental Study, Chemical Engineering Journal, January 2023, 141379
• Rohan Singh Pal, Swati Rana, Souvik Sadhu, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Rajib K Singha, Suman Sarkar, Rahul Sharma, Rajaram Bal, Highly active and selective Li/MgO catalyst for methane transformation to C2 hydrocarbons: Experimental and DFT study, Energy Adv., 2023
• Sonu Bhandari, Rubina Khatun, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Deepak Khurana, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Astha Shukla, V. V. D. N. Prasad, Rajaram Bal, Preparation of a nanostructured iron chromite spinel in the pure form and its catalytic activity for the selective oxidation of benzene to phenol: experimental and DFT studies, Green Chem., 2022,24, 9303-9314
• Rubina Khatun, Sonu Bhandari, , Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Chanchal Samanta, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Deepak Khurana, Rajaram Bal, Partial oxidation of methane over high coke-resistant bimetallic Pt-Ni/CeO2 catalyst: Profound influence of Pt addition on stability, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Volume 47, Issue 92, 29 November 2022, Pages 38895-38909
• Subhashree Mishra, Simon Sangma, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Rajaram Bal, Ratan Kumar Dey, TiO2 supported Cobalt Oxide for Olefin Epoxidation Reaction – Characterization, Catalytic Activities and Mechanism – Using DFT Model, Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 10486
• Shubhadeep Adak, Rohan Singh Pal, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Md Sarfaraz Ahmad, Vemulapalli V. D. N. Prasad, Mohammad Ali Haider, Rajaram Bal, Role of Interfacial Cu-Ions in Polycrystalline Cu-CeO2: In-Situ Raman, In-situ DRIFT and DFT Studies for Preferential Oxidation of CO in Presence of Excess H2, Chemistry Select 2021, 6, 1– 10
• Mukesh Kumar Poddar*, Ankit Pandey, Mukund Kumar Jha, Suresh Chandra Andola, Syed Saif Ali, Sonu Bhandari, Govind Kumar Sahani, Rajaram Bal, Aqueous Phase Hydrogenolysis of Renewable Glycerol to 1, 2 Propanediol over bimetallic Highly Stable and Efficient Ni-Cu/Al2O3 Catalyst; Molecular Catalysis 515 (2021) 111943
• Shubhadeep Adak, Jabor Rabeah, Ravi Ranjan, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Rishi Kumar Gupta, Takehiko Sasaki, Sagar Kumar, Ankur Bordoloi, Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Angelika Brückner, Rajaram Bal, In-situ Experimental and Computational Approach to Investigate the Nature of Active Site in Low-temperature CO-PROX over CuOx-CeO2 Catalyst; Applied Catalysis A, General 624 (2021) 118305
• Sachin Kumar Sharma, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Rajib Kumar Singha, Bappi Paul, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Takehiko Sasaki, Ankur Bordoloi, Chanchal Samanta, Shelaka Gupta, Rajaram Bal, Design of highly stable MgO promoted Cu/ZnO catalyst for clean methanol production through selective hydrogenation of CO2, Applied Catalysis A, General 623 (2021) 118239
• Sachin Kumar Sharma, Arghya Banerjee, Bappi Paul, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Takehiko Sasaki, Chanchal Samanta, Rajaram Bal, Combined experimental and computational study to unravel the factors of the Cu/TiO2 catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol, Journal of CO2 Utilization Volume 50, August 2021, 101576
• Sachin Kumar Sharma, Bappi Paul, Piyali Bhanja, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Chanchal Samanta, Tuhin Suvra Khan, M. Ali Haider, Rajaram Bal, Understanding the origin of structure sensitivity in nano crystalline mixed Cu/Mg‐Al oxides catalyst for low‐pressure methanol synthesis, ChemCatChem, 2021,13, 3290–330
• Astha Shukla, Rajib Kumar Singha, Sonu Bhandari, V.V.D.N. Prasad, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Rajaram Bal, Synthesis of Ni-Pd decorated spindle-shape CeO2 for catalytic reduction of Nitroarene, Catalysis Communications 142 (2020) 106038
• M. K. Poddar, M. Anand, S. A. Farooqui, G. J. O. Martin, M. R. Maurya, A. K. Sinha, Hydroprocessing of lipids extracted from marine microalgae Nannochloropsis sp. over sulfided CoMoP/Al2O3 catalyst, Biomass and Bioenergy, 119 (2018) 31–36.
• M. K. Poddar, S. Kumar, P. K. Das, M. R. Maurya, A.K. Sinha, Hydroprocessing of Aqueous phase of Pyrolysis oil over NiMo/Al2O3-SiO2 in microchannel reactor, Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering 1(3) (2018) 1–10.
• R. K. Singh, A. Kukrety, O. P. Sharma, M. K. Poddar, N. Atray, S. S. Ray, Synthesis of a Novel Efficient Antioxidant for Use in Lubes and Biodiesel, Petroleum Chemistry 57 (1) (2017) 100–105.
• P. K. Kanaujia, D. V. Naik, D. Tripathi, R. Singh, M. K. Poddar, L.N. S. K. Konathal, Y. K. Sharma, Pyrolysis of Jatropha Curcas seed cake followed by optimization of liquid–liquid extraction procedure for the obtained bio-oil, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 118 (2016) 202–224.
• M. K. Poddar, A. Rai, M. R. Maury and A. K. Sinha, Co-processing of bio-oil from de-oiled Jatropha curcas seed cake with refinery gas–oil over sulfided CoMoP/Al2O3 catalyst, RSC Adv., 6 (2016) 113720-113726
• D. V. Naik, V. Kumar, B. Prasad, M. K. Poddar, B. Behera, R. Bal, O. P. Khatri, D. K. Adhikari and M. O. Garg, Catalytic cracking of jatropha-derived fast pyrolysis oils with VGO and their NMR characterization, RSC Adv. 5 (2015) 398-409