Associate Fellow

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Dr. Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay

Permanent address: 302/F-2, Shamibai Apartment, Purna Village, Thane, Maharashtra 421302, India

Email: *********@********.**

Mobile No.: +917*********

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3695-8662

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TcNlpWQAAAAJ&hl=en Current Affiliation:

Associate Fellow June 2023-present

The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India Research Associate January 2021- June 2023

The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India Past Affiliations:

• Junior Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow August 2014 – December 2016 NIIT University, Neemrana, Rajasthan, India

• Visiting Assistant Professor July 2013- July 2014 Vidyalankar Institute Technology, University of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Educational qualifications:

Examination Passing year Board/University Percentage/CGP Ph.D. Chemistry 2019 NIIT University

M.Sc. Chemistry 2011 University of Mumbai 61.70%

B.Sc. Chemistry 2008 University of Mumbai 62.50%

H.S.C. Science 2005 Maharashtra State Board 63.67% S.S.C. 2003 Maharashtra State Board 67.46%

Research Project Work:

Work Undertaken that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Tasks Assigned Assigned

Name of assignment or project: Advanced Green Fuels for Maritime Application. Year: 2023 - 2024

Location: India

Client: Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Government of India Main project features: Comparative study for ranking of green fuels based on suitability in marine application (both co-blending and dual fuel) India best options. Study and prepare a report on technical feasibility of establishment of green fuel at selected. Steps to establish sustainable supply chain logistics for green fuel/s for marine at ports/ nearby areas- comparative analysis for green fuel options. Developing rules and regulation for use, storage, transport, bunkering of green fuel(s) for marine application in India. Converting/constructing a vessel as pilot project to prove the best identified green fuel.

Positions held: Team Member

Activities performed: As per the deliverables (Literature search on green fuels, Assessment on their feasibility, Policy & White paper writing, Port visit, Workshop organization, Technology partners outreach, Report submission with recommendations) Name of assignment or project: Integrated Production of Advanced Biofuels & Bio- commodities [Development of Value-Added Biocommodities - Production of acrylate polymers/bioplastic from glycerol].

Year: 2021 - 2022

Location: India

Client: Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India Main project features:

Inexpensive and highly efficient catalyst identification, testing and modification. Lab scale process development, process parameters optimization for acrolein and acrylate polymer synthesis from glycerol produced from algal and waste/fried cooking oil trans esterification. Characterization of the produced acrylate polymers/bioplastics. Scaling up of the process to pilot scale.

Positions held: Team Member

Activities performed: As per the deliverables (Catalyst identification, modification, and testing for acrolein synthesis from glycerol. Optimization of process parameters in laboratory scale. Production of acrylate polymers, physio-chemical characterization of acrylate polymers, and process modelling. Paper and report writing work.) Name of assignment or project: Selective Hydrogenation of CO2 by Ionic Liquid Supported Ru on TiO2.

Year: 2014-2016

Location: India

Client: Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India Main project features: Carbon dioxide conversion into value added product (formic acid). Synthesis of task-specific ionic liquids and their applications in carbon dioxide adsorption activity. Catalyst impact study on carbon dioxide reduction to formic acid, and catalyst life cycle study.

Positions held: Team Member

Activities performed: As per the deliverables (Catalyst identification, modification, and testing for carbon sequestrations. Synthesis of TSILs, catalysts, and formic acid, physio- chemical characterization. Optimization of process parameters in laboratory scale. Paper and report writing work.)

Publications:

• Research Articles:

1) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Prashant Gautam, Vivek Srivastava: Magnetic organic-silica hybrid supported Pt nanoparticles for carbon sequestration reaction. Chemical Papers 2019, 73(9); DOI:10.1007/s11696- 019-00773-2

2) Prashant Gautam, Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Selective Hydrogenation of CO2 to Formic Acid over Alumina-Supported Ru Nanoparticles with Multifunctional Ionic Liquid. Catalysis Letters 2019, 149(6); DOI:10.1007/s10562-019-02773-z

3) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Prashant Gautam, Vivek Srivastava: Magnetic Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nano System Anchored Platinum Nanoparticles for Carbon Sequestration Reaction. Letters in Organic Chemistry 2019, 16(1); DOI:10.2174/1570178616666190228141754 4) Prashant Gautam, Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Preparation, Characterization, and Application of Ru-Silica-Ionic Liquid System for CO2 Hydrogenation Reaction. Letters in Organic Chemistry 2019, 16(1); DOI:10.2174/1570178616666190429150333 5) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Ionic Liquid Mediated In Situ Synthesis of Ru Nanoparticles for CO2 Hydrogenation Reaction. Catalysis Letters 2017; DOI:10.1007/s10562-017-1995-7 6) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Selective Hydrogenation of CO to methane over TiO2- supported Ruthenium nanoparticles. Materials Today: Proceedings 2016; 3(10), DOI: 10.1016/j.matpr.2016.11.079

7) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Carbon Sequestration: Hydrogenation of CO2 to Formic Acid. Present Environment and Sustainable Development 2016; 10(2)., DOI:10.1515/pesd-2016-0022 8) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Clays: An Encouraging Catalytic Support. Current Catalysis 2016, 5(3); DOI:10.2174/2211544705666160624082343 9) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Selective Hydrogenation of CO2 Using Ruthenium Nanoparticles Intercalated Montmorillonite Clay. Letters in Organic Chemistry 2016, 13(6); DOI: 10.2174/1570178613666160815095733

10) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Silica Tethered Ruthenium Catalyst for the Hydrogenation of CO2 Gas. Letters in Organic Chemistry 2016, 13(5); DOI: 10.2174/1570178613666160303002129

11) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Titanium dioxide supported ruthenium nanoparticles for carbon sequestration reaction. Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics 2016; DOI:10.17586/2220- 8054-2016-7-3-513-517

12) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Heterogeneous Silica Tethered Ruthenium Catalysts for Carbon Sequestration Reaction. Catalysis Letters 2016; DOI:10.1007/s10562-016-1772-z 13) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Selective hydrogenation of CO2 gas to formic acid over nanostructured Ru-TiO2 catalysts. RSC Advances 2016; 6(48); DOI:10.1039/C6RA03660K 14) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Recyclable graphene supported palladium nanocomposites for Suzuki coupling reaction. Green Processing and Synthesis 2016; 5(2); DOI:10.1515/gps-2015- 0112

15) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Synthesis of Monometallic Ru/TiO2 Catalysts and Selective Hydrogenation of CO2 to Formic Acid in Ionic Liquid. Catalysis Letters 2015; 146(1); DOI:10.1007/s10562-015- 1654-9

16) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Synthesis of Supported Ru-Nanoparticles for Selective Hydrogenation of Carbonyl Compounds. Letters in Organic Chemistry 2015; 12(8); DOI:10.2174/157017861208150826112807

17) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Ruthenium nanoparticle-intercalated montmorillonite clay for solvent-free alkene hydrogenation reaction. RSC Advances 2015; 5(1); DOI:10.1039/C4RA12324G

• Book Chapters:

1) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay and Piyali Das, in Green Gasoline A Green Spark Transportation Fuel, ed. M. Aslam, S. Maktedar, and A. K. Sarma, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023, vol. 77, ch. 4, pp. 65-95. 2) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Piyali Das, “Catalytic Materials for Green Diesel Production. In: Aslam, M., Shivaji Maktedar, S., Sarma, A.K. (eds) Green Diesel: An Alternative to Biodiesel and Petrodiesel. Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981- 19-2235-0_3

3) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Synthesis of Ionic Liquid Mediated Nanoparticle Synthesis. Nanomaterials Physical, Chemical, and Biological Applications, Edited by Nandakumar Kalarikkal, Sabu Thomas, Obey Koshy, Apple Academic CRC Press, 2017, ISBN:978********** 4) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava, Synthesis and Application of Pd-Graphene Nano- Composite. Research and Innovation in Carbon Nanotube-Based Composites, Edited by Dr. Brahim Attaf, The World Academic Publishing Co. Ltd., 2015, ISBN:978-0-9889190-1-3 5) Praveenkumar Ramprakash Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava, Titatnium Dioxide Supported Ruthenium Nanoparticles for Carbon Sequestration Reaction. Application of Nanostructured Materials for Energy and Environmental Technology, Edited by V Rajendran, Bloomsbury Publication, India, 2015, pp. 265-270, ISBN:978**********

• Conference Proceedings Articles:

1) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava: Synthesis of Ruthenium Metal Doped Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles for CO2 Hydrogenation. 5TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES: (NCTP 09); 04/2016, DOI:10.1063/1.4945194 2) Vivek Srivastava, Praveenkumar Upadhyay: Monometallic TiO2-Ru Catalyst for the Selective Hydrogenation of CO2 to Formic Acid. Proceedings of the International Conference on Nanotechnology for Better Living; 01/2016, DOI:10.3850/978-***-**-****-7nbl16-rps-40

Conferences Attended:

1) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava, “Selective Hydrogenation of CO to Methane Over TiO2-Supported Ruthenium Nanoparticles” International Conference on Materials Research and Applications (ICMRA-2016), March 11-13, 2016, at CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. 2) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava, “Carbon Sequestration by Task Specific ILs Mediated TiO2 Supported Ruthenium Nanoparticles” International Conference on Nanoscience, Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials (NANOS 2015), December 14-17, 2015, at GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India. 3) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava, “Titanium Dioxide Supported Ruthenium Nanoparticles for Carbon Sequestration Reaction” International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (NANO 2015), December

07-10 2015 at Centre for Nanoscience and Technology K.S.R. College of Technology, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, India.

4) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava, “Synthesis of Ruthenium Metal Doped Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles for CO2 Hydrogenation” Second International Conference on Emerging Technologies: Micro to Nano

(ETMN 2015), October 24-25, 2015, at Manipal University, Jaipur, India. 5) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava, “In Situ Synthesis of Ru Nanoparticles to Catalyze Hydrogenation of CO2 to Formic acid” 17th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry and 9th CRSI-RSC Symposium February 06-08, 2015, at NCL Pune, Maharashtra, India.

6) Praveenkumar Upadhyay, Vivek Srivastava, “Ruthenium Nanoparticles Exchanged Montmorillonite Clay Catalyzed Selective Alkene Hydrogenation” Second International Conference on Nanostructured Materials and Nanocomposites (ICNM 2014), December 19-21, 2014, at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Workshops and Training:

1) SHORT TERM QIP COURSE ON TEM and HRTEM in Materials Characterization (TEM/HRTEM-2017) September 18th-22nd, 2017, Department of Materials Science & Eng., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. 2) In-plant training in Urea Plant for 21 days at Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited (NFL, a Schedule ‘A’

& a Mini Ratna (Category-1) Company), Chembur, Mumbai-400074, (1st Nov. 2010 to 21st Nov. 2010). Awards and Achievements:

1) Awarded “PhD Scholarship” (25K per month) by NIIT University from August 2015- February 2019. 2) Recipient of “NANO Trip-China” 2017 an academic forum for international graduate students and got scholarship of USD $600 from the organizer National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, China. 3) Awarded with “Certificate of Excellence” 2017 by NIIT University for my contribution toward community connects program during my PhD.

Extracurricular activities:

• Participated as a Photography Club member during my PhD at NIIT University. Area of interests:

• Ionic Liquids • Organometallics • Carbon Sequestration

• Organic Synthesis • Nanocatalysts • Renewable fuels Personal information:

• Languages known: English, Hindi, and Marathi

• Hobbies: Nature Photography, Travelling, Gardening, Painting, and Gym

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