Chief Scientist
M Sc | 1988, Andhra University |
Ph D | 1997, Roorkee University |
E Mail | nvish@iip.res.in |
Telephone No. | +91 – 135-2525856 |
Cell No. | +91 – 9760166857 |
Research Interest
- Synthesis of materials for heterogenous catalysis
- Synthesis of nano crystalline, nano porous and composite materials from low value substrates such as coal tar, glycerol and glucose
- Light hydrocarbon conversion processes to produce petrochemicals and fuel
- Carbon chain growth reactions through selective oligomerization to produce diesel and kerosene range hydrocarbons from naphtha
- Selective cracking reactions to produce light olefins, LPG, hydrogen and propane
- Catalyst preparation, physico-chemical characterisations and activity measurements
- Production of oxygenates from bio-based feeds such as glycerol and phenols for fuel applications
- Production of new generation fuels
- Fossil and bio-feed conversions
- New generation catalytic reforming to produce BTX from low value feedstocks
Work Experience
Chief Scientist | CSIR – Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (2018 – Till Date) |
Senior Principal Scientist | CSIR – Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (2013 – 2018) |
Principal Scientist | CSIR – Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (2009 – 2013) |
Senior Scientist | CSIR – Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (2005 – 2009) |
Scientist | CSIR – Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (2001 – 2005) |
Junior Scientist | CSIR – Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (1996 – 2001) |
Awards and Honours
- Technology development- (8000TPA capacity NTGG demo unit at GAIL India’s Vaghodia)
- Professor Shanti Ranjan Palit Award, Indian Chemical Society-1994
- Hindustan Platinum Award, Catalysis Society of India-1997
- BOYSCAST Fellowship-1999
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, 2000
- Brain Pool Fellowship, KRICT, South Korea 2007
- Visiting Professorship under Indo-Japan Co-operative Science Programme (IJCSP), 2003
- Editorial member
- Asian journal of Spectroscopy, Spectral-Force Publishers
- International Journal of Oil, Coal and Gas Technologies, Interscience Publishers
- Asian Material Sciences Letters (AMSL), Spectral-Force Publishers
- Journal of Applied Chemistry, Hindawi Publishing Corporation
- Journal of Advanced Catalysis Science and Technology, Cosmos Scholars Publishing
Patents
- A novel single step catalytic process for the simultaneous production of aromatics, naphthenics and isoparaffins for gasoline and petrochemical applications
N Viswanadham, Anjan ray, Sandeep Kumar Saxena, Rajiv Panwar
US and Indian Pat. Appl. 201911029825 (2019) - A single -step catalytic process for conversion of naphtha to diesel range hydrocarbons
N Viswanadham, Peta Sreenivasulu, Sandeep K Saxena, Panwar, Devaki Nandan, Jagdish Kumar
Russian Patent No. 2648239 (2018) - A single step catalytic process for the conversion of naphtha to diesel range hydrocarbons
N Viswanadham, Peta Sreenivasulu, Sandeep K Saxena, Panwar, Devaki Nandan, Jagdish Kumar
Saudi Arabian Application No. 516371948 (2018) - A single step catalytic process for the conversion of naphtha to diesel range hydrocarbons
N Viswanadham, Peta Sreenivasulu, Sandeep K Saxena, Panwar, Devaki Nandan, Jagdish Kumar
Australia Patent Application No. 2013342997 (2017) - A single step catalytic process for the conversion of naphtha to diesel range hydrocarbons
N Viswanadham, Peta Sreenivasulu, Sandeep K Saxena, Panwar, Devaki Nandan, Jagdish Kumar
US Patent No. 9,598,649 B2 ( 2017) - A single step catalytic process for the conversion of naphtha to diesel range hydrocarbons
N Viswanadham, Peta Sreenivasulu, Sandeep K Saxena, Panwar, Devaki Nandan, Jagdish Kumar
South Africa, Patent No. 2015/03452 (2016) - A catalyst and process for the conversion of bio-ethanol into gasoline
N Viswanadham and Sandeep K Saxena
US Patent No. 9, 267, 081 (2016) - Modified zeolite catalyst useful for the conversion of paraffins olefins and aromatic in a mixed feedstock into isoparaffins and process thereof (second series)
N Viswanadham, Raviraj Kamble, Amit Sharma, Jagdish Kumar, B S Negi, G Murali Dhar and M O Garg
US Patent No. 8772560 (2014) - A catalyst and process for the conversion of bio-ethanol into gasoline
N Viswanadham and Sandeep K Saxena
Indian Patent No. 13/619,608 (2014) - Sulfonated carbon silica composite and a process for the preparation therof
N Viswanadham and Devaki Nandan
US Patent No. 8722573 (2014) - A single step catalytic process for the conversion of naphtha to diesel range hydrocarbons
N Viswanadham, Peta Sreenivasulu, Sandeep K Saxena, Panwar, Devaki Nandan, Jagdish Kumar
WO Patent No. 2014/073006 A1 (2014) - Modified zeolite catalyst useful for the conversion of paraffins olefins and aromatic in a mixed feedstock into isoparaffins and process thereof
N Viswanadham, Raviraj Kamble, Amit Sharma, Jagdish Kumar, B S Negi, G Murali Dhar and M O Garg
US Patent No. 8349754 (2013) - A process for the preparation of a novel zeolite catalyst useful for the hydro-isomerization of light alkanes
N Viswanadham, Sandeep K Saxena, Sneh Chopra, Lalji dixit
Indian Patent No. 246902 (2011)
Selected Publications
- Production of higher hydrocarbon-pool from bio-ethanol for fuel applications
Amit Sharma, Swati Saini, Rajeev Panwar, N. Viswanadham*
Renewable Energy 219 (2023) 119498 - 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 Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
ACS Applied Nano Materials 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.2c05349 - Renewable p-Xylene Production by Catalytic Conversion of Crude Bioglycerol (GTA-pX Process)
Vijendra Singh, Selvamani Arumugam*, Mahesh Kumar, Anup Prakash Tathod, and Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
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 Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2023, 61, 18371-18381 - Nickel nano-particles confined in ZSM-5 framework as an efficient catalystfor selective hydrodeoxygenation of lignin-derived monomers
Bhavna Saini, Anup Tathod*, Jitendra Diwakar, Selvamani Arumugam and Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
Biomass and Bioenergy, 2022, 157, 106350 - Sustainable Upgrade of Bioderived Glycerol to Solketal through Acetalization over Metal-Free Mordenite Catalysts
Bhavna Saini, Anup Tathod*, Sandeep Saxena, Selvamani Arumugam and Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng, 2022, 10, 1172- 1181 - Conversion of bio-derived crude glycerol into renewable high-octane gasoline-stock
Vijendra Singh, Selvamani Arumugam, Anup Prakash Tathod and Viswanadham Nagabhatla*
Chemical Communications, 2022, 58, 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 Viswanadham Nagabhatla*
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng, 2022, 10, 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, Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2022, 55, 257-265 - Single pot template-free synthesis of a glycerol-derived C–Si–Zr mesoporous composite catalyst for fuel additive production
Saurabh Kumar, N. Viswanadham*, Sandeep K. Saxena, Arumugam Selvamani, Jitendra Diwakar, Ala’a H. Al-Muhtaseb
New Journal of Chemistry 2020, Volume 44, Pages 8254-8263 - India transitions to Bharat stage VI fuels
N. Viswanadham, Devendra Singh, A.K. Gupta , Anjan ray
DEW – Complete energy journal 2020, Volume 29-06, Pages 35-43 - Single- pot synthesis of ordered nanoporous amorphous H-Zn-Aluminosilicate for bulky molecular catalysis
Jitendra Diwakar, Nagabhatla Viswanadham, Saurabh Kumar, Adarsh Kumar, Sandeep K. Saxena
Sustainable Energy & Fuels 2018, Volume 2, Pages 1693-1698 - Liquid-phase solvent-less reactions for value addition of glycerol and phenol over nano porous aluminosilicates
Jitendra Diwakara, Nagabhatla Viswanadham, Sandeep K Saxenaa, Saurabh Kumara and Ala’a H Al-Muhtasebb
Materials Today Communications 2018, Volume 15, Pages 260-268 - Facile synthesis of bio-fuel from glycerol over zinc aluminium phosphate nano plates
Nagabhatla Viswanadham, Sandeep K Saxena and P Sreenivasulu
Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017, 1, 1018 – 1022 - Cu functionalized nano crystalline ZSM-5 as efficient catalyst for selective oxidation of toluene
N Viswanadham, Sandeep K Saxena and Ala’a H Al-Muhtaseb
Material Today Chemistry 3 (2017) 37-48 - Enhanced catalytic properties of nano porous mordenite for benzylation of benzene with benzyl alcohol
Sandeep K Saxena and Nagabhatla Viswanadham
Applied Surface Science, 2017, 392, 384–390 - Carbonized glycerol nano tubes as efficient catalysts for biofuel Production
Viswanadham Nagabhatla, Debnath suman, Sandeep Kumar Saxena and Ala’a H Al-Muhtaseb
RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 41364 – 41368 - Nano particles of ZrPO4 for green catalytic applications
Peta Sreenivasulu, Nagabhatla Viswanadham and P Chandrasekhar
Nanoscale, 2014, 6 (24), 14898 – 14902 (Recognized as high quality Indian research by RSC) - Facile synthesis of mesoporous aluminosilicate nano particles for selective production of N-Benzylidenaniline in solvent-free reaction of aniline with benzyl alcohol
Peta Sreenivasulu, Nagabhatla Viswanadham and Sandeep K Saxena
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2 (20), 7354 – 7359 (Hot article) - Synthesis of hierarchical ZSM-5 using glucose as templating precursor
Devaki Nandan, Sandeep K Saxena and Nagabhatla Viswanadham
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2 (4), 1054 – 1059
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Researcher ID : H-6844-2015
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