Research Interest

• Surface Chemistry
• Heterogeneous Catalysis Designing
• Synthesis of nanocrystalline, nano-porous composite materials
• Valorization of waste bio-oils
• Carboxylation of low value feedstocks using CO2
• Hydrocarbon conversion processes for petrochemicals and fuels applications
• Catalytic naphtha reforming for BTX production

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• National Postdoctoral Fellowship- Science and Engineering Research Board, 2017, India.

Patents

• Method for Producing Renewable Hydrocarbons Fuel from Crude Byproduct of Animal Wastes Fat Oil Biodiesel Process
  Arumugam Selvamani, Nagabhatla Viswanadham, Ray Anjan, Tathod Anup Prakash, Arumugam Sivasamy, Kalarical Janardhanan Sreeram, US-18/981/153
• Method for Producing Renewable Hydrocarbons Fuel from Crude Byproduct of Animal Wastes Fat Oil Biodiesel Process
  Arumugam Selvamani, Nagabhatla Viswanadham, Ray Anjan, Tathod Anup Prakash, Arumugam Sivasamy, Kalarical Janardhanan Sreeram, IN-202311086231
• Single-Step Catalytic Process For The Production Of Alkylated Aromatics Using CO₂
  Anup Prakash Tathod, Anjan Ray, Nagabhatla Viswanadham, Selvamani Arumugam, US-18/613733
• Single-Step Catalytic Process For The Production Of Alkylated Aromatics Using CO₂
  Anup Prakash Tathod, Anjan Ray, Nagabhatla Viswanadham, Selvamani Arumugam,  IN-20231 10202 20 

Selected Publications

• Sustainable production of aromatics-rich gasoline stock from bio-glycerol over hierarchically porous Zn-decorated HZSM-5 catalyst
  Vijendra Singh, Selvamani Arumugam*, Anup Prakash Tathod, Kuldeep, Bhanu Prasad Vempatapu and Viswanadham Nagabhatla*
  Renewable Energy 2023, Volume 217, Pages 119180
• Renewable p-Xylene Production by Catalytic Conversion of Crude Bioglycerol (GTA-pX Process)
  Vijendra Singh, Selvamani Arumugam*, Mahesh Kumar, Anup Prakash Tathod and Viswanadham Nagabhatla*
  ACS Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2023, Volume 62, Pages 1788-1796
• CeO2–TiO2 Nanoparticle-Grafted gC3N4 Sheets as an Efficient Catalyst for the Oxidation of Cyclohexane to KA oil
  Selvamani Arumugam*, Vijendra Singh, Anup Prakash Tathod, Santhanaraj Daniel and Viswanadham Nagabhatla*
  ACS Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2023, Volume 61, Pages 18372-18381
• Hybrid Nanocomposite Comprising Mg–Al Hydrotalcite Nanocrystals on ZSM-5 Zeolite for Production of Renewable Fuel Additives from Furfural
  Anup Tathod*,Bhavna Saini, Selvamani Arumugam and Viswanadham Nagabhatla*
  ACS Applied Nano Materials 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.2c05349
• Conversion of bio-derived crude glycerol into renewable high-octane gasoline-stock
  Vijendra Singh, Selvamani Arumugam*, Anup Prakash Tathod and Viswanadham Nagabhatla*
  RSC Chemical Communications 2022, Volume 58, Pages 4873-4876
• Efficient Bifunctional Catalysts for Enhanced Carbon Conversions and Alky-Aromatics Production in Crude Bio-glycerol Methanol Processes
  Vijendra Singh, Selvamani Arumugam*, Anup Prakash Tathod, and Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2022, Volume 10, Pages 5323-5332
• Mesoporous titanium-aluminosilicate as an efficient catalyst for selective oxidation of cyclohexene at mild reaction conditions
  Jitendra Diwakar, Selvamani Arumugam,* Bhavna Saini, Anup Prakash Tathod and Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
  Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering-Elsevier 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjche.2022.04.025
• Fe‐Pd‐Immobilized Al‐Pillared Laponite Clay as an Efficient Catalyst for the Conversion of Furfural into Tetrahydrofurfuryl Alcohol
  Selvamani Arumugam, Jayaprakash Kuppan, Murugan Devaraj, Sivasamy Arumugam
  Wiley ChemistrySelect 2020, Volume 5, Pages 9314-9322
• Low temperature vapor phase selective oxidation of ethylbenzene over Ce1− xMnxO2 nanocubes
  Selvamani Arumugam, M Selvaraj, P Santhana Krishnan, M Gurulakshmi, K Shanthi
  Applied Catalysis A: General 2015, Volume 495, Pages 92-103
• Citric Acid Recovery and Methanol Production from a Waste Food Fruit Sample by Thermal Decomposition of a Reusable Zinc Citrate Complex Santhanaraj Daniel, Sagar Baskar, Vishwa Rohini Manivasagam, Ana Carolina Jerdy, Ramkumar Vanaraj, Selvamani Arumugam, and Seong Chelol Kim ACS Sustainable Chemistry & amp; Engineering 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c03730
• Sustainable Upgrade of Bioderived Glycerol to Solketal through Acetalization over Metal-Free Mordenite Catalysts
  Bhavna Saini, Anup Prakash Tathod*, Sandeep K. Saxena, Selvamani Arumugam, and Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2022, Volume 10, Pages 1172–1181
• Nickel nano-particles confined in ZSM-5 framework as an efficient catalyst for selective hydrodeoxygenation of lignin-derived monomers
  Bhavna Saini, Anup Prakash Tathod*, Jitendra Diwakar, Selvamani Arumugam, Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
  Biomass and Bioenergy- Elsevier 2022, Volume 157, Pages 106350
• Unravelling the cooperative role of lattice strain on MnO 2/TiO 2 and MnO 2/ZnO catalysts for the fast decomposition of hydrogen peroxide
  D Santhanaraj, Selvamani Arumugam, K Rajakumar, N Ricky Joseph, S Giridhar, T Adinaveen, P Leema Sophie, V Ramkumar
  RSC New Journal of Chemistry 2021, Volume 45, Pages 9944-9958
• Single-pot template-free synthesis of a glycerol-derived C–Si–Zr mesoporous composite catalyst for fuel additive production
  Saurabh Kumar, Nagabhatla Viswanadham, Sandeep K Saxena, Arumugam Selvamani, Jitendra Diwakar, H Ala’a
  RSC New Journal of Chemistry 2020, Volume 44, Pages. 8254-8263