Chemical Engineering Contact Details

NIKITA SHARMA

Contact details : *************@*****.***, 626-***-****

EDUCATION

SCHOLASTIC ACHIVEMENTS

Selected for the Master’s Project in Bharat Petroleum corporation Limited for the year 2019-2020.

Secured 94 percentile in GATE 2017

Secured 92.9 percentile in GATE 2018

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited R&D Centre(Project Intern) May 2019-Present Mentor – Prof. B Viswanathan, Mr. Kishore Kumar, Dr. Ashvin L. Karemore.

Prepared some metal based catalyst(Benzene hydrogenation + Benzene Alkylation + Dicyclohexyl benzene transalkyation) by Wet Impregnation Method.

Did the Catalyst Characterization like XRD Analysis, BET Analysis and various other Analysis.

Doing Catalyst analysis and reaction kinetics using reaction real time data and MATLAB. Indian oil Corporation Limited (Industrial trainee) June 2015-July 2015 Mentor - Mr. Sarjeet Kumar

Worked in a team of three to study various refinery processes.

Furnace performance and characteristics by using real time data. COURSE WORK

Chemical Reactor Theory Experimental Methods in Catalysis

Catalyst in Petroleum Technology Fundamentals of Adsorption and Catalysis

Surface Chemistry

Transport Phenomena in Catalysis

Photo and Electro Catalysis

Homogeneous Catalysis

Principles of Solid and Surfaces

Catalyst Preparation & Characterization lab

f

Program Institution %/CGPA

Year of

Completion

M.Tech(catalyst Technology)

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 8.24/10 2020 B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur

64.9 2016

HSC,Madhya Pradesh Board Ujjain Public School, Ujjain 83.8 2011 SSC, Madhya Pradesh Board Ujjain Public School, Ujjain 81.83 2009

KEY PROJECTS

Title: Hydroalkylation and Transalkylation reaction kinetics May 2019-Present Description : Synthesis of catalyst comprising of metal and acid sites by wet impregnation method and calcinations, Characterization of catalysts such as BET Surface area, Metal dispersion, Pore volume and diameter, TPR, TPD, X ray diffraction etc., Catalyst analysis. At different reaction operating conditions(Temperature, Pressure, WHSV, Feed ratio etc.) to prepare a kinetic model for Hydro alkylation of benzene and Trans alkylation reaction . Title : Grey water Treatment December 2016-May 2016 Description: Characteristics of Synthetic and Real grey water, Removal of surfactants using Fenton process, Reactive adsorption and Plain adsorption .After these processes the ESI-MS analysis and TGA/DTG Analysis of the sample and spent Fe-GAC respectively. Sedimentation and filtration are also used as treatment processes. Title : Furnace performance June 2015- July 2015

Description : Furnace performance and characteristics by using real time data . SKILLS

Software known- MATLAB, ChemDraw, ASPEN, Origin .

Office – MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint.

Language known – Basic knowledge of C.

Operating Systems: Windows

POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY

Registration Coordinator, CHEMPLUS 2019 Mar 2019

Coordinated with students and organizers for registrations of different events in CHEMPLUS-2019 at IIT Madras .

Help in organizing events such as Paper & Poster Presentation, Chem-e-debate, 3 minutes talk, MATLAB workshop etc. in March 2019.

EXTRA CIRCULAR ACTIVITIES

Attended AIChE Workshop (CHEMPLUS-2019) for MATLAB and ASPEN held in IIT Madras (March 2019)

Was a member of editorial board of newsletter "Chemical Times" issued by Chemical Engineering Department of MNIT, Jaipur.

Participated in animation workshop organized under National Level Technical Fest "NEURON 12" at MNIT

,Jaipur.

Contact this candidate