Dr Bipul Sarkar

Research Interest

• Catalyst for Petrochemicals
• Depolymerization of Waste Plastic to Platform Chemicals
• Catalysis in Supercritical Fluids
• Surface Chemistry of Nanomaterials
• Hydrogen Production form Natural Gas

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Fellow, Korea (2016)
• Brian Korea Postdoctoral Fellow, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (2016)
• CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for Doctoral Fellowship (2009)
• Ranked 3rd in Masters in Chemistry from University of Kalyani, India (2009)

Patents

• An improved process and catalyst for low temperature non-oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene
  Bipul Sarkar, Ankit Agrawal, Om Vir Singh, Indrajit Kumar Ghosh, Shailendra Tripathi, Sanat Kumar and Anjan Ray
  Applied for India & US Patent (Patent Application: 0051NF2020)
• Process for the preparation of Cu-Cr oxides for selective oxidation reactions
  R Bal, B Sarkar, S S Acharyya, S Ghosh, C Pendem and J Kumar
  US 20130085305 A1
• Process for the selective hydroxylation of benzene with molecular oxygen
  R Bal, S S Acharyya, S Ghosh, B Sarkar, K S Rawat and C Pendem
  US 20130096351 A1
• A process for preparation of Ag-W oxide catalyst for the selective conversion of propylene to propylene oxide with molecular oxygen
  R Bal, S Ghosh, S S Acharyya, B Sarkar, R K Singha and C Pendem
  WO 2013098855A1
• Catalyst for single step conversion of glycerol to acrylic acid and process for the preparation thereof
  R Bal, B Sarkar, R K Singha, C Pendem, S S Acharyya and S Ghosh
  US2014128632-A1
• Coke resistant solid catalyst, process for the preparation thereof and a process for vapour phase dry reforming of methane
  R Bal, B Sarkar, R K Singha, S Ghosh, S S Acharyya and C Pendem
  US 20140145117 A1
• Catalyst for selective dehydrogenation / oxidative dehydrogenation reactions and process for the preparation thereof
  R Bal, B Sarkar, R K Singha, S Ghosh, S S Acharyya and C Pendem
  US 20140128653 A1
• Process for the preparation of nanocrystalline Pt-Ce oxide catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of phenol and its derivatives
  R Bal, B Sarkar, R K Singha, R Goyal, S Das, C Pendem, S S Acharyya, S Ghosh and A Bordoloi
  US 20150080614 A1
• Ni-MgO-ZnO catalyst for activation of methane and a process for the preparation thereof. R Bal, R K Singha, B Sarkar, C Pendem and A Bordoloi
  Application No: 2508Del2014 (Indian & US Patents)
• An improved process for the production of syngas by oxy-dry reforming of natural gas over bimetallic catalyst
  R Bal, B Sarkar, R Goyal, L N S Konthala, C Pendem and A Bordoloi
  Application No: 0226NF2014 (Indian & US Patents)
• An improved metal sulphide catalyst for the slurry hydrocracking of the refinery resid
  K Nagaraja , R Ravishankar, B Sarkar, G Valavarasu, , P V C Rao and N V Choudary
  US Patent App. 15/740,957

Selected Publications

• Renewable Aromatics from Tree-Borne Oils over Zeolite Catalyst Promoted by Transition Metals
  Omvir Singh, Ankit Agrawal, Tamilmani Selvaraj, Indrajit Ghosh, Bhanu Prasad Vempatapu, Balasubramanian Viswanathan, Rajaram Bal and  Bipul Sarkar
  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2020, Just Accepted
• Ag and WOx Nanoparticles Embedded in Mesoporous SiO₂ for Cyclohexane Oxidatio
  Reena Goyal, Bipul Sarkar, Siddharth Sameer, Arijit Bag and Ankur Bordoloi
  ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2019, 2, 9, 5989-5999
• Converting Lignocellulosic Pentosan Derived Yeast Single Cell Oil into Aromatics: Biomass to Bio-BTX
  Omvir Singh, Tripti Sharma, Indrajit Ghosh, Diptarka Dasgupta, Bhanu Prasad Vempatapu, Saugata Hazra, Alexander L Kustov, Debashish Ghosh and Bipul Sarkar
  ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7 (15), 13437–13445
• CNx stabilized Ni-Ga nanoparticles for CO2 hydrogenation: Role of preparation methods
  Goyal, W. J. Lee, S. Sameer, B. Sarkar, K. Chiang and A. Bordoloi
  Catalysis Today, 2019, in Press
• Supercritical methanol as an effective medium for producing asphaltenes-free light fraction oil from vacuum residue
  Kwek, M. K. Khan, B. Sarkar and J. Kim Supercritical Fluids, 2018, 133, 184-191
• K-Promoted Pt-Hydrotalcite catalyst for production of H₂ by Aqueous phase reforming of Glycerol
  Pendem, B Sarkar, N Siddiqui, LNSK Konathala, C Baskar and R Bal
  ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6 (2), 2122–2131
• Role of pyridinic-nitrogen on base catalyzed Knoevenagel condensation over pristine CNx
  Goyal, B. Sarkar, S. Sameer, N. Singhal and A. Bordoloi
  ChemistrySelect, 2017, 2, 8086-8071
• Effective vacuum residue upgrading using sacrificial nickel(II) dimethylglyoxime complex in supercritical methanol
  B. Sarkar, W. Kwek, D. Verma and J. Kim
  Appl. Catal. A: Gen, 2017, 545, 148-158
• Room temperature selective oxidation of cyclohexane over Cu-nanoclusters supported on nanocrystalline Cr₂O₃
  B Sarkar, P Prajapati, R Tiwari, S Ghosh, S S Acharyya, C Pendem, R K Singha, L. N. S.
  Konathala, J. Kumar, T. Sasaki and R. Bal
  Green Chem. 2012, 14, 2600-2606