Research Interest

• Materials & Surface Science
• Heterogeneous catalysis
• Petroleum refining
• Petrochemicals
• Bio-Fuels
• Photo-chemistry

Work Experience

Awards and Honors

• CSIR Technology Award for innovation, 2021. Novel single step catalytic lipid hydroprocessing route resulted in India’s first Bio-Aviation Fuel Flight in India on 27 August, 2018. Globally, this was the first biofuel flight with fuel from a hydrocracking process. Using this technology, a continuous production plant was fabricated locally with in-house expertise to produce Bio-Jet Fuel specifically for the Indian Air Force (IAF) which resulted in the general certification of the fuel for use in aircrafts of IAF.
• Placed in world top 2% scientists lists under Physical chemistry, prepared by Stanford University, USA, in 2020.
• Omnipreneurship Award Grand Challenge 2021, Petrolube Oil, Demonstration phase.
• CSIR-Energy and Energy Devices (E2D), Sub-Vertical Leader 2020-till date,
• The (Late) Shri G.D. Gokhale Endowment Lectureship, ICT, Mumbai, November 2013
• Associate Researcher, Materials Department, Toyota Central Research & Developement Labs Inc., JAPAN (March 2003 – February 2007)
• AIST Postdoctoral Fellow, Kansai National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science andtechnology, AIST, JAPAN, November 2002 – February 2003
• STA-JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kansai National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and technology, AIST, JAPAN, November 2000 – November 2002
• Awarded Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Fellowship, Austria to work on the project Hydroisomerizatrion of n-alkane more over molecular sieves (FWF project No.: M556)) from 25 Jan. 2000 to 25 Jan. 2001
• Postdoctoral Researcher, IAMS, Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University, Taiwan October 1999 – July 2000
• Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), India, 1994
• Qualified UGC Fellowship for Lectureship, India, 1994

Professional Affiliations

• Member, International Zeolite Association (IZA)
• Member, International Mesostructured Material Association (IMMA)
• Member, Catalysis Society of India
• Serving as reviewer to several international journals such as Advanced Materials, Small, Angewandte Chemie, JACS, Applied Catalysis etc.
• Associate Professor (Chemical Science, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR)) 2013 – Present
• Technical Expert Member, BIS, Aviation Biofuels
• Technical Expert Member, CII, Task Force on Bioenergy
• Technical Expert Member, MoPNG Task Force on Bioenergy
• Convener, BIS, Aviation Biofuels
• Technical Expert Member, Technical Committee, ISO
• Technical Expert Member, LTAG-TG, ICAO (Biofuels for Aviation)

Patents

• Gold Catalyst for Partial Oxidation of Hydrocarbon
  PCT WO2005/056181
• Manufacturing Method of Mesoporous Silica
  Japan Patent JP2004277270
• An improved process for the preparation of silicoaluminophosphate molecular sieve
  Indian Patent 574/DEL/99
• Mesoporous Body, Air Purifying Material, And Method of Manufacturing Mesoporous Body
  Japan Patent JP 2005-225705
• Porous Material, Air Purifying Material and Method For Manufacturing The Porous Material
  Japan Patent JP 2005-305290
• Metal Oxide Nanotube and Its Manufacturing Method
  Japan Patent JP 2005-225705
• Method for manufacturing metal oxide porous body having mesopore and micropore, metal oxide porous body having mesopore and micropore, and gas purification material using the same
  Japan Patent JP 2009-080937
• Air battery
  Indian Patent (0730DEL2011)
• Process to prepare hierarchical mesoporous zeolites with varying micro- and mesoporosities using organosilane templates
  Japan Patent JP 2008-230876
• Process for covalent immobilization of oxo-rhenium catalyst to inorganic support
  Indian Patent (1899DEL2010)
• Process to convert vegetable triglycerides, free fatty acids, and their mixtures with petroleum derived feedstocks for transportation fuel pool and method
  for controlling catalyst deactivation
  Indian Patent (0052NF2010)
• Single step catalytic liquid phase hydroconversion of DCPD into high energy density fuel exo-THDCPD
  Indian Patent (3823DEL2011)
• A catalytic process to convert renewable feedstock into aromatics rich aviation fuel
  Indian Patent (3039DEL2012)
• Catalytic process to convert renewable feedstocks directly into aromatics rich feedstock pool
  Indian Patent (3144DEL2012)
• A single step catalyst and process to convert triglycerides and free fatty acids directly into isomerized hydrocarbons
  Indian Patent(3196DEL2012)
• A catalytic process to convert microbial lipids, bio-crude and lignin directly into aromatics rich feedstock
  Indian Patent (3441DEL2012)
• Second stage selective hydrogenation of pyrolysis gasoline to produce quality solvents
  Indian Patent (865DEL2013)
• Method for the synthesis of magnetically separable and silica decorated metal nanostructures
  Indian Patent (864DEL2013)
• Catalyst coating formulation for process Intensification in hydroprocessing of vegetable oils
  Indian Patent(3246DEL2013)
• Magnetically separable functionalized acidic carbon nano-sheets for biomass processing
  Indian Patent (054DEL2012)
• Organosilane templated mesoporous titania
  Indian Patent (2990DEL2013)
• An improved process to produce aromatics rich aviation fuel along with other C1-C24 hydrocarbons
  Indian Patent (2622 DEL2014)
• Catalyst coating formulation for Microchannel reactors
  Indian Patent (2622 DEL2014)
• Improved hydrogenation function incorporated in the hydroprocessing catalyst
  Indian Patent (2622 DEL2014)
• Process to prepare inorganic microporous materials and hierarchical porous materials from natural clay materials
  Indian Patent (2418DEL2011)

Selected Publications

• A Density Functional Theory and Experimental Study of CO2 Photoreduction to Methanol over α-Sulfur-TiO2 Composite
  R. Yadav, A. Mishra, V. Verma, N. Pal, A. K. Sinha
  Electrocatalysis 12(5325), 2021
• Catalytic Conversion of Dicyclopentadiene into High Energy Density Fuel: A Brief Review
  A. Khan, S. S. Ali, V. P. Chodimella, S. A. Farooqui, M. Anand, and A. K. Sinha
  Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 60, 5, 1977–1988, 2021
• Reactivity of allyl methyl sulphide, the in-vitro metabolite of garlic, with some amino acids and with phospholipid involved in viral infections
  Anil K. Sinha, Saleem A. Farooqui, Ankita Sharma, Ankit Mishra & Vikas Verma
  Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2020.1811154, 2020
• The Development of Mesoporous Ni‐Based Catalysts and Evaluation of Their Catalytic and Photocatalytic Applications.
  S Kour, A Mishra, A Sinha, P Kaur, H Singh
  Chemistry Select, 5(12), 3710-3723, 2020
• Unusual Photoactive Water Oxidation Activity of Pt/PtOx Cocatalyst Decorated Crystalline α‐Fe2O3 Nanostructures: Exposed Facets Dependent Reactivity
  AK Patra, V Amoli, D Kim and A K Sinha
  ChemCatChem 2020,12(8), 2315-2323
• Hydroprocessing of aqueous phase of pyrolysis oil over NiMo/Al2O3–SiO2 in microchannel reactor
  MK Poddar, S Kumar, PK Das and A K Sinha
  Green Chemistry and Engineering, 2019, 2 (1), 1-10
• Surface modified C, O co-doped polymeric g-C3N4 as an efficient photocatalyst for visible light assisted CO2 reduction and H2O2 production
  S. Samanta, RK Yadav, A Kumar, R. Srivastava and A K Sinha
  Applied Catalysis B: Envir. 2019, 259, 15
• Nanoporous nickel oxide catalyst for enhanced hydrogen production from organic waste
  H Singh, RK Yadav, SA Farooqui, O Dudnyk and A K Sinha
  Int J Hydrogen Energy, 2019, 44, 19573
• Hydrodeoxygenation of cashew nut shell oil a phenolic agriculture waste on magnetically recoverable Ni/NiO catalyst
  H Singh, RK Yadav, P Rajput and A K Sinha
  Energy Fuels, 2019, 33, 5332
• Photo-electrochemical hydrogen evolution over Ni electrode
  RK Yadav, H Singh, S Saini, B Biswas, A Kumar and A K Sinha
  Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 2019, 49, 991–1002
• Ultra-fine Pt nanoparticles on mesoporous titania photoelectrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution
  RK Yadav, H Singh and A K Sinha
  Applied Surface Science, 2019, 495, 143525
• Mesoporous γ-Alumina with Isolated Silica Sites for Direct Liquid Hydrocarbon Production during Fischer–Tropsch Reactions in Microchannel Reactor
  A Rai, M G Sibi, S A Farooqui, M Anand, A Bhaumik and A K Sinha
  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering; 2017, 5(9), 7576-7586
• Improved hydrogenation function of Pt@SOD incorporated inside sulfidedNiMo hydrocracking catalyst
  M G Sibi, Aditya Rai, Mohit Anand, Saleem A Farooqui and A K Sinha
  Catal. Sci. Technol.,2016, 6, 1850-1862
• Kinetics, thermodynamics and mechanisms for hydroprocessing of renewable oils
  Mohit Anand, SaleemAktharFarooqui, Rakesh Kumar, Rakesh Joshi, Rohit Kumar, M G Sibi, Hari Singh and A K Sinha
  Applied Catalysis A: General, 2016, 516, 144-152
• Optimizing renewable oil hydrocracking conditions for aviation bio-kerosene production,
  Mohit Anand, SaleemAktharFarooqui, Rakesh Kumar, Rakesh Joshi, Rohit Kumar, M G Sibi, Hari Singh and A K Sinha
  Fuel Processing Technology, 2016, 151, 50-58
• Faceted titania nanocrystals doped with indium oxide nanoclusters as a superior candidate for sacrificial hydrogen evolution without any noble-metal cocatalyst under solar irradiation
  V Amoli, M G Sibi, B Banerjee, M Anand, A Maurya, S A Farooqui, A Bhaumik and A K Sinha
  ACS Appl., Mater Interfaces., 2015, 14, 7
• Process Intensification for hydroprocessing of vegetable oils: experimental study
  A K Sinha, M Anand, B S Rana, R Kumar, S A Farooqui, M G Sibi, R Kumar and R K Joshi
  Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2014, 53 (49), 19062–19070
• Aviation biofuels through lipid hydroprocessing
  A K Sinha, M Anand and S A Farooqui
  Biofuels for Aviation, 2016, 85-108