Dr Umesh Kumar

Research Interest

• Development of speciality polymers for industrial application
• Utilization of CO 2 /chicken feather to polymers
• Processes for petrochemicals from low value refinery products
• Nanomaterials and photocatalysis
• Utilization of CO 2 to value added chemicals
• Renewable hydrogen production
• Development of Chemicals from renewable resources
• Catalytic conversion of Bio-ethanol to ethylene

Work Experience

Patents

• Composition for the calorimetric detection of water in hydrocarbon fuels and a process for the preparation thereof
  P K Khatri, S L Jain, I K Ghosh, U Kumar , A K Chatterjee and M O Garg
  US20150198576 A1
• Heavy petroleum residue derived sp 2 carbon nanogranules for improved synthesis of light olefins
  I K Ghosh, U Kumar and A. Bordoloi
  US Patent Appl No 201611037408
• A process for the aqueous polymerisation using bio free radical catalytic system
  P P Latha, A Bansal, I Shekhar, U Kumar, S L Jain, S S Ray and A K Chatterjee
  Indian Patent 938DEL2014
• An improved process for the production of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP)
  P P Latha, P K Khatri, U Kumar , I K Ghosh, S L Jain, A K Chatterjee and B Sain
  US20150198576 A1
• An improved process for the production of 1,3-butadiene from C 4 stream
  U Kumar, I K Ghosh and SL Jain
  201611034417

Selected Publications

• Continuous production of biodiesel in a packed-bed reactor using shell–core structural Ca(C 3 H 7 O 3 ) 2 /CaCO 3 catalyst
  L S Hsieh, U Kumar, J C S Wu
  Chem. Eng. J. 2010, 158, 250–256
• Perchlorate removal from aqueous solutions by granular ferric hydroxide (GFH)
  E Kumar, A Bhatnagar, J A Choi, U Kumar, B Min, Y Kim, H Song, K J Paeng, Y M Jung, R.A.I. Abou-Shanab and B H Jeon
  Chem. Eng. J. 2010, 159, 84–90
• Defluoridation from aqueous solutions by nano-alumina: Characterization and sorption studies
  E Kumar, A Bhatnagar, U Kumar and M Sillanpaa
  J. Hazard. Mater. 2011, 186, 1042-1049
• Synthesis, structural characterization, encapsulation in zeolite Y and catalytic activity of an oxidovanadium(V) complex with a tribasic pentadentate ligand
  M R Maurya, M Bisht, N Chaudhary, F Avecilla, U Kumar and H F Hsu
  Polyhedron 2013, 54, 180-188
• Oligonucleotides-assembled au nanorod-assisted cancer photothermal ablation and combination chemotherapy with targeted dual-drug delivery of Doxorubicin and Cisplatin prodrug
  V Shanmugam, Y H Chien, Y S Cheng , T Y Liu , C C Huang , C H Su , Y S Chen , U Kumar , H F Hsu and C S Yeh
  ACS Appl Mater Interfaces  2014, 6, 4382-4393
• Ionic-liquid-functionalized copper oxide nanorods for photocatalytic splitting of water
  R Gusain, N Singhal, R Singh, U Kumar and O P Khatri
  Chem. Plus. Chem. 2016, 81, 489 – 495
• Efficient approach for simultaneous CO and H 2 production via photoreduction of CO 2 with water over copper nanoparticles loaded TiO 2 ”
  N Singhal, A Ali, A Vorontsov, C Pendem and U Kumar
  Appl. Catal. A 2016, 523, 107–117
• Embedded iron nanoparticles in carbon nanogranules for direct synthesis of lower olefins
  I K Ghosh, A Ali, A Dukare, U Kumar and A Bordoloi
  Chem. Select 2016, 1, 4736 – 4741
• Fabrication of visible-light-responsive InVO 4 for photoreduction of CO2
  N Singhal and U Kumar
  Chem. Select 2017, 2, 3534 – 3537
• Noble metal modified TiO 2 : selective photoreduction of CO 2 to hydrocarbons
  N Singhal, U Kumar
  J. Mol. Catal. A 2017, 439, 91-99