Project Engineering

Sumedh Warudkar

Work Address Home Address

Rice University Brompton Court Apartments

Dept. of Chemical Engineering 7490 Brompton St, #468

**** **** **, **-*** Houston, TX-77025

Website: http://sumedh.web.rice.edu

Houston, TX-77005

E-mail: ******@****.***

Education

Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.

Fall 2007 Present (Expected graduation: Spring 2013)

PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering (CGPA: 3.78/4.0)

National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, INDIA.

August 2003 May 2007

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Bachelors of Technology in Chemical Engineering (CGPA: 8.19/10, Ranked 4 out of 29 students)

Research Experience

1. Shell International Exploration and Production Company, Summer Research Internship

(Advisor: Dr. Karthik Ramanathan, Flow Assurance Engineer, Shell International E&P Company;

Summer 2011)

Project: Experimental Studies on Inhibitor Effectiveness on Asphaltene Deposition in Capillaries

Synopsis: Several chemical inhibitors which claim to reduce asphaltene deposition are commercially

sold. Experimental studies were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of various commercially

available inhibitor chem icals on preventing asphaltene deposition in metal capillaries. It was found

that the existing method used to characterize inhibitor effectiveness is possibly flawed and better

testing methods need to be developed.

2. Reduction in cost of CO2 capture by use of low quality waste heat (Advisors: Prof. George

Hirasaki & Prof. Michael Wong)

Project: Combined pressure and temperature contrast separation of CO 2 for post-combustion carbon

capture

Synopsis: The combined pressure and temperature contrast CO2 separation process is a novel

process for CO2 capture from flue gas from coal and natural gas-fired power plants. The process aims

at reducing CO2 capture costs by integrating the absorber and stripper into a single unit and

conducting stripping under vacuum with the use of low quality, low cost energy (waste heat).

3. Application of NMR T2 relaxation time measurements in nanotechnology (Advisor: Prof.

George Hirasaki; Summer 2009)

Project: Surface area measurement of nanoparticle suspensions using NMR T2 relaxation time

measurements

Synopsis: Particle size distribution of silica nanoparticles in a suspension were determined using

NMR T2 relaxation time measurements. CPMG pulse sequence was used for these measurements.

4. GE John F Welch Technology Center Research Internship Project (Advisor: Mr. Shailesh

Bhaisora, Manager-GE Global Research, Bangalore, India; Summer 2006)

Project: Modeling the effects of tar reactions and soot combustion in an IGCC coal gasifier

Synopsis: A reaction engineering based model for an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle

(IGCC) gasifier reactor was extended to include tar reactions and soot combustion. This modeling

was performed in MS Excel in the VBA environment.

5. JNCASR Research Fellowship Project (Advisor: Dr. Vivek Ranade, Head, Catalysis, Reactors and

Separations, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India; Summer 2005)

Project: Eulerian Lagrangian model for a cement calciner reactor

Synopsis: A reaction engineering based model was developed to predict product composition from a

cement calciner reactor. This modeling was performed using Visual Fortran framework with Fortran

90 as the language for coding.

Relevant Coursework

Fluid Mechanics and Transport Processes, Advanced Topics in Thermodynamics, Numerical Methods

in Differential Equations, Exploration geophysics, Flow and Transport through Porous Media -I (Basics

of Petroleum Engineering & EOR), Flow and Transport through Porous Media II (Reservoir Modeling)

Relevant Software Skills

AspenPlus, ProMax (TSWEET ), MATLAB, Visual Fortran, C, Microsoft Excel with VBA

Publications & Presentations

1. S S. Warudkar, M S. Wong and G J. Hirasaki. Comparison of alkanolamines for post-combustion

carbon capture at different stripper pressures: Part I. High Pressure strippers, International Journal of

Greenhouse Gas Control [in preparation]

2. S S. Warudkar, M S. Wong and G J. Hirasaki. Comparison of alkanolamines for post-combustion

carbon capture at different stripper pressures: Part II. Vacuum strippers, International Journal of

Greenhouse Gas Control [in preparation]

3. S. S. Warudkar, K.R. Cox, M. S. Wong, W. E. Billups, J.C. Forsythe and G.J. Hirasaki. Combined

Pressure, Temperature Contrast and Surface-enhanced separation of CO2, Annual NETL CO2

Capture Technology Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2012

4. S. S. Warudkar, K.R. Cox, M. S. Wong and G. J. Hirasaki. Amine Absorption with Vacuum Stripping

for Post-combustion Carbon Capture, AIChE Spring Meeting, Houston, TX, April 2012

5. S S. Warudkar, K.R. Cox, M S. Wong and G J. Hirasaki. Performance of different alkanolamine

absorbents for CO2 capture application under varying stripper operating pressures, AIChE Annual

Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011

Patents

1. S S. Warudkar, G J. Hirasaki, M S. Wong and K R. Cox. Improved absorbents for carbon-dioxide

Capture [in preparation]

Academic awards and Honors

Rice University Graduate Student Association Service Award Fall 2012

Lead person on preparing and submitting a $960,811 Department of Energy funding grant for the

Combined Pressure, Temperature Contrast and Surface-enhanced separation of CO2 for post-

combustion Carbon Capture Fall 2011

International Student of Excellence award by International Trade Center, Houston Fall 2011

Rice University Graduate Student Association Robert Lowry Patten Award Fall 2011

Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Travel grant (2011-12) Summer 2011

One of the 50 students (out of 300+ applicants) selected worldwide for the IEAGHG CO2 Capture

and Storage Summer School 2011 Spring 2011

Dean of Engineering Teaching Assistantship Spring 2010

Loewenstern Graduate Fellowship Spring 2008

Leadership Experience

President, Rice University Graduate Student Association (2011-12)

President, Society of Petroleum Engineers Rice University & University of Houston chapter (2009-

10) (Selected internationally as Chapter of Month for April 2010 by SPE)

President, Rice University Cricket Club (2008-10)

References

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