Research Interest

• Gas Hydrates: Fundamentals and Applications
• Recovery of Natural Gas from Hydrate Reservoirs
• Waste Plastic to Fuels
• Wax Rheology
• Modeling and Simulation of Energy and Process Engineering Systems

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• Secured 1st rank (Gold Medal) consecutively for four years in Chemical Engineering from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar University Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India (2009-2013)
• Secured 2nd rank in Master of Technology – Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India (2013-2015)
• Full Financial Assistance for delivering a lecture in the 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Barcelona, Spain (2017) by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
• Full Financial Assistance for presenting the research work in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA (2018) by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
• Certificate of Excellence for securing First position in Reactor Design by Chemical Engineering Association, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2012)
• Certificate of Merit for winning all India level BASF-IIT Industrial Visit Quiz (2013)
• Recognized as AZeotropy Ambassador for the dedication towards the AZeotropy 2K13, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2013)

Selected Publications

• Clathrate hydrate dynamics with synthetic-and bio-surfactant in porous media: Model formulation and validation
  Avinash V Palodkar and Amiya K Jana
  Chemical Engineering Science 213 (2020) pp. 115386-1-11 [Elsevier]
• Gas hydrate dynamics in distributed porous particles with saltwater: Model formulation and experimental validation
  Avinash V Palodkar and Amiya K Jana
  Chemical Engineering Journal 392 (2020) pp. 123660-1-9 [Elsevier]
• Modeling recovery of natural gas from hydrate reservoirs with carbon dioxide sequestration: Validation with IġnikSikumi field data
  Avinash V Palodkar and Amiya K Jana
  Scientific Reports9(1) (2019) pp. 18901-1-14. [Nature Research]
• Growth and decomposition mechanism of clathrate hydrates in the presence of porous media and seawater: Experimental validation
  Avinash V Palodkar and Amiya K Jana
  Energy & Fuels 33(2) (2019) pp.1433-1443. [American Chemical Society]
• Fundamental of swapping phenomena in naturally occurring gas hydrates
  Avinash V Palodkar and Amiya K Jana
  Scientific Reports8(1) (2018) pp. 16563-1-10. [Nature Research]
• Formulating formation mechanism of natural gas hydrates
  Avinash V Palodkar and Amiya K Jana
  Scientific Reports7(1) (2017) pp. 6392-1-8. [Nature Research]
• Modeling growth kinetics of gas hydrate in porous media: Experimental validation
  Avinash V Palodkar, Subhasis Mandal and Amiya K Jana
  Energy & Fuels 30(9) (2016) pp. 7656-7665. [American Chemical Society]