Dr Swapan Ghosh

B-***, GeeCee Cloud **, Plio No. 6, Sector -11

Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai-400701, Maharashtra, INDIA

Date of Birth: 11th August, 1959

M-773-***-****, e-mail: adj571@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from University of Calcutta, Kolkata in 1985

M. Tech in Chemical Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata in 1987

Ph. D(Tech) in Chemical Engineering under the able guidance of Prof. M M Sharma, Former Director UDCT (Presently ICT), Mumbai, 1991

EXPERTISE AND SKILL:

Process development of speciality Chemicals based on alkylation, hydrogenation, condensation, oxidation, etc following Green Chemistry

Scale-up, Basic Engineering, demonstration, commercialisation & Project Management

Troubleshooting/Process improvement w.r.t. quality improvement and enhancement of profitability while applying good understanding of Chemistry

Team Building and Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

July 2011 to August, 2019 (Superannuated): Reliance Industries Ltd, Jamnagar and Navi Mumbai as Asst. Vice President R&D/Section Head -Opportunity crude oil Processing and Advance Separation Group

Responsibilities & Key Results:

-Worked as Section Head of opportunity Crude oil processing, new process development and Advanced Separation Processes Group, provided guidance to a team of Chemical Engineers & Scientists (15-20) for the development of new processes, validating the same in Pilot & Demo scale and commercialization of the same

-Have detailed Process knowledge of modern Refinery, worked on troubleshooting/process improvement of various plants, worked in close association with Refinery Technology Group for development of new Technology and process improvement of petroleum and petrochemical plants

-Setting-up World class Research Centre at Reliance Corporate Park (RCP), starting from justification of Instruments to procurement of instruments, Design of labs giving utmost priority to Safety, Installation and successful commissioning of Equipment/Instruments

-Successfully published 70 reports internal reports and forty papers conference/ seminars

-Novel process for crude oil acidity neutralization: Lab development and pilot plant trials are completed, got Patent and work in progress for Demonstration unit

-Technology for Acidity reduction of Light kerosene to manufacture ATF: Alternative Technology for Electrostatic Coalescence Separator in ATF Merox and Patent granted

-Worked on Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) process using alternate feed-stock, scaled-up and prepared basic engineering package

-Provided unique solutions for hydrogen sulphide and ammonia removal from Desalter brine

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-Demonstrated (15 m3/hr for six months) process for removal of oxygenates from Petrochemical naphtha (PCN) by passing through cation exchange resin bed

-CS2 removal process (8 m3/hr) by anion exchange resin bed from PCN

-Characterization of feedstock, catalyst and adsorbent

-Removal of CS2 from petrochemical naphtha by selective hydrogenation

Dec’08 to Jul’11: Simon India Ltd., New Delhi, an EPC company of Zuari Group as

Dy. General Manager Process

-Worked on the project of recovery of ammonia from vent gas of Urea plant

-Feasibility of ammonia plant from coal gasification along with Synthesis Energy Systems Inc, USA

March ’07 to December, ’08; Engineers India Ltd, Gurgaon as Senior Manager R&D

-Studies on absorption of carbon dioxide in amine systems

-Team Leader for setting-up a Quality Control Laboratory at Panipat Refinery of IOCL along with Project Group of EIL

November ’06 to March ’07: Essar Excellent Centre, Mumbai as Chief Technologist-Petrochemicals & Petroleum

December 1998 to November, 2007: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd at Refinery, Mumbai and Corporate R&D Centre at Greater NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh

Growth Path:

Dec’98 to Dec’04: Dy. Manager (R&D)- CDU/VDU and Aromatic Recovery Unit Technologist

Dec’04 to Oct’06: Manager (R&D)

- Project Leader from Scientist side to set-up world class R&D Centre at Greater NOIDA

- Headed the Separation Processes group

Responsibilities & Key Results:

-Worked as head of Crude characterisation and Separation Processes Lab

-Carried out detailed characterisation of 30 crude oils

-Improvement of Merox Process

-Developed & commercialized LPG Merox catalyst along with Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun

-Process improvement of Merox, MTBE, Crude distillation unit, Benzene-Toluene Extraction unit

-Developed unique process for bio-diesel

-Successful commissioning of a world class R&D centre: Listing of lab Equipment/Instruments, writing of specifications of Instruments, assisting procurement, Design of Laboratories: Layout of Instruments, providing utilities, special Gases, provision of vents, Safety audit of Laboratories, Installation and commissioning of Instruments, on-job training to Scientists/ Engineers, etc

December 1991 to December 1998: Herdillia Chemicals Ltd (Presently SI Group(India)), Navi Mumbai as Manager R&D

Petrochemicals & Specialty Chemicals- Manufacturer of Phenol, Acetone, Di-acetone alcohol, Phthalic anhydride, Dodecylphenol, Nonylphenol, p-Cumylphenol, Diphenyl Oxide, Isobutylbenzene, Isophorone and so on~

Worked on Key Projects:

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-Para-Octyl phenol, High purity para-Nonyl Phenol commercialisation- starting from process development, scale-up, process improvement, etc

-Quality improvement of Dodecyl phenol to make high purity grade as per the requirement of an important customer

- Process improvement of Di-acetone alcohol (DAA) by implementation of cation exchange resin bed for neutralization of alkali catalyst in reaction mass

- DAA quality improvement by identification of colour developing impurities and process development for removal of the same to meet the requirement of an overseas customer

-Process improvement of phenyl xylyl Ethane (PXE)

-To provide technical support to Cumene-phenol plant from time to time

May 1987 to July 1988: Eastern Chemofarb Ltd, West Bengal as Shift In-charge for production of unsaturated polyester resin

Overall Commercialized/Process Improvement Projects:

Development & commercialization of LPG Merox catalyst along with Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun

Successful Commissioning of Three World Class Laboratories (2 Research & One QC) in BPCL, Reliance and IOCL Panipat

Para-Octyl phenol, High purity para-Nonyl Phenol commercialisation starting from process development, scale-up, process improvement, etc

Quality improvement of Dodecyl phenol to make high purity grade as per the requirement of an important customer

Process improvement of Di-acetone alcohol (DAA) by implementation of cation exchange resin bed for neutralization of alkali catalyst in reaction mass

DAA quality improvement by identification of colour developing impurities and process development for removal of the same

Process improvement of phenyl xylyl Ethane (PXE)

To provide technical support to Cumene-phenol plant from time to time

Commercialization of Hexylene Glycol process by hydrogenation of DAA, alpha-Methyl styrene hydrogenation to cumene

Commercialization of a process: Manufacture high value Di-sulphide oil from low value stream of LPG Merox Plant

Commercialisation of Benzene removal from FCC naphtha by Extractive distillation along with IIP, Dehradun

Demonstrated (15 m3/hr for six months) process for removal of oxygenates from Petrochemical naphtha (PCN) by passing through cation exchange resin bed

CS2 removal process (8 m3/hr) by anion exchange resin bed

Generation of high revenue by providing technical solutions for processing of various opportunity crude oils

Development & evaluation of Refinery Chemicals: Demulsifiers, antifoulants, dewatering chemicals: Published/accepted two papers in International Journals on Crude oil desalting

RESEARCH INTEREST:

Detailed Crude oil characterisation and blending of crude oils, Merox Processes, Advance separation Processes: Distillation- Extractive Distillation, Reactive distillation, distillation with divided wall column, Distillation design and distillation operation, Liquid-liquid Extraction,

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Gas absorption, Adsorptive separation, Polymeric membrane based separation, Forward Osmosis, Identification of Corrosion of Chemical plants and mitigation of the same

Alkylation of Aromatic Compounds in the presentation of heterogenous catalysts & Isobutane alkylation, Hydrogenation of Organic compounds (hydoprocessing), Oxidation (Oxy-desulphurisation), Condensation reactions, Chemicals based on syn gas and Carbon di-oxide

TRAINING ATTENDED/COMPLETED:

Successfully completed multiple trainings on Refinery Processes, Pilot Plant Operations and Managerial:

oBiturox Process and Bitumen Pilot Plant operation training at PORNER, Vienna

oCrude oil Characterization and operation of TBP unit at PIGNAT, France

oLiquid extraction and operation of Micro extraction column at PIGNAT, France

oAttended training program on ASPEN PLUS and ASPEN PIMS

oManagerial skills workshop for Executives conducted by NITIE, Mumbai

oManagement Development Programme at ASCI, Hyderabad

AWARDS & HONOURS:

Golden Peacock Product Innovation Award 2019

FICCI Petrochemicals Award in 2018

Best Innovation Award at RIL in 2015

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH WORK WITH ACDEMICS/NATIONAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION:

UDCT, Mumbai under BPCL Chair, Prof. V V Mahajani as BPCL in the period 1999-2001

IIT, Kanpur on Rate based liquid-liquid Extraction, Principle Investigator-Prof Ashok Khanna

IIP- Dehradun, Merox catalysts development, Principle Scientist-Dr G C Das

IIT-Mumbai, Improvement of desalter Operation, Research Guide- Prof. Vinayak Juvekar

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS:

Ghosh, S.K., Sharma, M.M.: Separation of m-and p-Xylene via Selective Alkylation/ Dealkylation Transalkylation. Ind. Engineering. Chem. Res. 1992, 31, 445-449

Ghosh, S.K., Sharma, M.M.; Separation of close boiling Phenols and Naphthols through their selective Etherification with Isobutylene and Isoamylene, acidic Ion Exchange Resin as catalyst, Reactive Polymers, 1991/1992, 16, 159-169

Malhotra, M; Singh Himmat, Ghosh, S.K.; George N.; Biodesulphurisation of Diesel' Presented in Refinery Technology meet in 1999

Monica Malhotra, Noble George, S K Ghosh, Himmat Singh, Removal sulphur compounds from diesel stream by microorganism, Paper published in the Journal published by CHT (special issue), 2000

Ramaswamy R, S K Ghosh, Sunil Raut, Himmat Singh, Enhancement of selectivity in the separation aromatics from naphtha - a case study, International symposium of IIChE, 2000

Manish Joshi, S k Ghosh, Monoca Malhotra, PVC Rao, Development of a correlation between cetane Index and poly nuclear aromatics of diesel streams, ISFL 2004

Gautam Das, Bir Sain, S K Ghosh, M O Garg, Development of LPG sweetening catalyst, Paper presented in TRM 2004

Jaya Rawat, T S Thorat, SK Ghosh, NV Chaudhary, Identification of antifoulant for residue, RTM 2005

T S Thorat, S K Ghosh, Sonal Maheswari, NV Choudhary, Determination of blend composition of crude oils by different techniques, ISFL 2006

Gautam Das, Bir Sain, SK Ghosh, MO Garg, Commercialization of LPG sweetening catalyst, Paper presented in the International symposium of Catalyst Society of India 2007

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A. Verma, R Chakravarthy, A K Savalia, J Kedia, B Kandela, M Paramati, B Shown, K Routray, S Ghosh, C Saravanan,; 23rd RPTM meet Mumbai poster presentation, “Replacing TAN constraint with true corrosivity constraint in Refinery”

S. Mitra, S Ghosh, Asit Das; Zeolite imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) based mixed matrix membrane for propane/propylene separation; Poster presentation at ICCHD 2018, Kolka

S Murali Racha, D Attarde, S Ghosh, Asit Das; Advanced membrane based processes for desalination application, Presented at IMS-IWA conference, 2018

V Anand, Manu Vashishtha, B Shown, P Patidar, A Malhotra, S Ghosh, S Jaguste, V M Naik, Rochis, M Thaokar, Vinay A Juvekar; Interrelationship between electrocoalescence and interfacial tension in a high acidity crude: Effect of pH and nature of alkalinity; Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects; volume SSS, 20 October, pages 728-735

Minimise Energy consumption in water treatment with forward Osmosis technology Part 1, Hydrocarbon Processing, July 2019

Mimimise Energy consumption in water treatment with forward Osmosis Technology Part -2, Hydrocarbon processing, August 2019

Advanced Membrane based processes for desalination application: Overview; IMS-IWA Conference, 2018

Total 30 papers published in National & International Journals/conferences

About 50 internal reports were published during my tenure at BPCL, 70 reports published in Reliance Industries Ltd.

10 Patents /claims forwarded for filing: 11 granted/published (Patent Nos. US9790175, US9809739, GC 0007245, NG001910, EP3116853,EP 3041889 and US 302778, etc list given in Annexure-I), one trade secret: “System of using true corrosivity of crude for planning”

List of Patents (Published)

Sr No.

Patent No.

Title of Patent

Remarks (If any)

1

US 9790175

Process for the removal of sodium from di-sulphide oil

Commercialised, got several awards

2

US 9809739

Method of regeneration of spent ion exchange resin

Patent is on TAN reduction of crude oil followed by regeneration

3

GC 0007245

A process for the removal of sodium from di-sulphide oil

4

US 201********

Process for reducing oxygenate content of hydrocarbon feed

Demonstrated at plant scale

5

WO 201-***-****

Process for reducing the amount of carbon di-sulphide in a hydrocarbon feed

Demonstrated

6

IN 201********* A 20190524

Process for obtaining isoparaffins from linear hydrocarbons

7

IN 2014MU00700 A 20151030

Method for extraction of linear hydrocarbon from hydrocarbon feed

8

NG 001910

9

EP 3116853

A process for the removal of sodium from di-sulphide oil

10

EP 3041889

A method for regeneration of spent ion exchange resin

11

PCT/IB2019/052718

Process for obtaining Vanadium oxide from a Gasifier slag

References:

1.Prof. M M Sharma, Former Director at UDCT, Mumbai

Chembur, Mumbai, Phone no. 022-********

2.Mr Praveen Kalantri,

Mumbai, M-982*******

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