RAHUL DEV ROY

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Education

University of South Carolina Columbia, SC

Masters of Science, Chemical Engineering

Graduated: December 2010

Core Courses: Electrochemistry, Corrosion engineering, Nanomaterials

M.S.Ramaiah Institute Of Technology Bangalore, India

Bachelors of Engineering, Chemical Engineering

Graduated: June 2007

Core Courses: Design & Drawing, Heat transfer, Fluid mechanics, Reaction engineering, Transport phenomenon, Thermodynamics

Work Experience

Jul’11- Present Ronald Mark Associates Hillside, NJ

Research & Quality Engineer

• Test and monitor the production of thermoplastic material created using extrusion process

• Work on new product development

• Use Control Charts, Ishikawa Diagrams and Pareto Charts to improve the quality

• Perform mechanical tests and analyze incoming raw materials as per ASTM specification

• Creating and updating SOP’s and process sheets

• Response Coordinator of DPCC/DCR regulations in accordance with The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

Aug’08 – Dec’10 University of South Carolina Columbia, SC

Research Assistant

• Established and optimized the process set-up of the electrolyzer for efficient production of Hydrogen by the Copper-Chlorine thermochemical cycle

• Characterized catalyst for the MEA’s using RDE and CV experiments

• Worked on battery testing and development, fuel cell setup and operations

• Performed SEM, TEM and EDAX analysis on MEA’s

Sep’07 – Feb’08 Met Chem Laboratories Bangalore, India

Quality Engineer

• Performed qualitative analysis on metals, minerals, water by various analytical techniques such as optical emission spectroscopy and UV- spectroscopy

Skills

Electrochemical

• Cyclic Voltametry (CV)

• Rotating Disk Electrode (RDE)

Mechanical Testing

• Heat Stability testing

• Material property testing

Physical

• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

• Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)

• X- Ray Diffraction (XRD)

• UV spectroscopy Modeling

• COMSOL

• Maple

• HYSYS

• ASPEN Plus

• Fluent

• Matlab

• Lab View

Others

• Google Sketch Up 3D designing tool

• Windows applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

• Language skills: Hindi, English, German (beginner)

Research Experience

Aug’08- Dec’10 Master Thesis at USC Columbia, SC

“Development of CuCl-HCl electrolyzer for Production of Hydrogen using Copper Chloride thermochemical cycle”

• Worked on the process set-up for efficient production of hydrogen studying different operating and design parameters in the electrolyzer (modified fuel cell)

• Characterized different catalyst materials for the anode using CV and RDE

• Fabricated MEA’s and analyzed their performance using SEM and TEM techniques

• Developed a mathematical model to predict the electrolyzer performance

Mar’08-Jun’08 Research at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India

“Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of fuel cell”

• Developed a CFD model for the fuel cell flow channel using Fluent®

• Obtained a better understanding of the fuel cell flow and the heat related issues using experiments and models

• Experimented on an alternate design for the flow channel, other than the conventional serpentine flow

Mar’07 – May’07 Undergraduate Project at IISc Bangalore, India

“Thermal Management of electronics using phase change materials”

• Established an effective thermal storage unit to sustain cyclic heat loads for small electronic devices like mobile phone, transistors and walkie-talkies

• Demonstrated through both experiments and modeling the effect of different fin configuration on heating and cooling the phase change material

• Obtained two dimensional simulations using CFD software Fluent® and Gambit® and validated the model with the experiments

Publications and Presentations

• Rahul Roy and John Weidner, “Copper Chloride electrolyzer for Production of Hydrogen using Copper Chloride thermochemical cycle”, -In preparation to be submitted to International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

• Poster presentation on “Copper Chloride thermochemical cycle for the production of Hydrogen”, at Graduate Student Research day, University of South Carolina, April, 2010 – Third Place

• Paper presentation on “Hydrogen storage” at Rasayan ‘07 a national level technical symposium, MSRIT, Bangalore in April 2007 – Second Place

• Team Lead, NHA Design Contest, 2011 held at Washington D.C –Residential Fueling of Hydrogen, submitted a design for residential hydrogen production using a PEM electrolyzer power by PV solar panels and wind turbines

Professional Affiliations

• Electrochemical Society (ECS) & ECS Student Chapter at USC

• International association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE)

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE)

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