Catalysis Chemical Engineer
Resume:
Curriculum Vitae of Prashant Reuben Daggolu
Address:
The Gene and Linda Voiland School of
Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Washington State University
Pullman, WA – 99164
Phone No: 662-***-****
Fax: 509-***-****
E-mail: ********.*******@***.***
Personal:
Citizenship: India
Immigration Status: H-1
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering – completed all degree requirements in December 2010; Graduated in April 2011.
Mississippi State University
Major Advisor: Prof. Mark G. White
Dissertation Title: “De-oxygenation Catalysis on Titania for Renewable Fuel Applications”
GPA: 3.79
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering - 2007
Mississippi State University
GPA: 3.69
Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering - 2004
Osmania University, India
Professional Experience:
December 2010 – Present: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Washington State University.
Advisor: Dr. Yong Wang, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Lab Fellow of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Research Topics: “Surface Chemistry of Bimetallic Catalysts used in Aqueous Phase Reforming of Biomass” & “Aqueous Phase Reforming of Bio-oil”.
January 2006 – June 2010: Graduate Research Assistant, Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University.
March 2009 – May 2009: Student Intern at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
December 2004 – March 2005: Trainee Engineer at Virchows Laboratory Limited, Hyderabad, India. Worked at a pilot plant performing new chemical development in this pharmaceutical company.
May 2003 – June 2003: Student Internship at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Hyderabad, India.
Teaching and Mentoring Experience:
Worked as a grader on Chemical Engineering courses between 2006 – 2009.
Mentored undergraduate students in the laboratory. This includes mentoring students through the Research for undergraduates (REU) program (summer 2006) of the National Science foundation (NSF).
More details of the above information can be provided on request.
Technical Expertise:
Running and maintenance of catalytic batch and fixed bed flow reactors at high pressure and temperature conditions.
Preparation of catalysts using wet impregnation, incipient wetness, ion exchange and physical mixture methods.
Characterization of catalysts using Physisorption, Chemisorption (pyrometry techniques involving Temperature programmed desorption (TPD) & Temperature programmed reduction (TPR)), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (DRIFTS), Thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA). Cursory knowledge in Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM).
Sample analysis using Gas chromatography with Mass spectrometer, Flame ionization detector and Thermal conductivity detector. Also used UV Spectrometry and High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC).
Worked with both acid catalysis (Zeolites like H+/ZSM-5, Silica-Alumina, γ-Alumina) and base catalysis (Magnesia, Titania, Alkali metal doped catalysts). Presently working with metal catalysis using supported Platinum, Rhenium and Nickel catalysts.
Worked in deoxygenation catalysis involving aldol condensation reactions, oligomerization catalysis involving ethanol up gradation to higher alcohols. Presently working in aqueous phase reforming and bio-oil up gradation involving hydrogenation as well as hydrogen production.
Has worked with kinetic modeling from reaction data.
Studied biomass derived syngas conversion to fuels and deoxygenation catalysis with implication on bio-oil up gradation as well.
Studied alcohol fuels, particularly, converting biomass-derived ethanol to higher alcohols.
All aspects of project management from inception to writing reports.
Very strong mathematical and computational skills and interest. This includes statistical skills like Design of Experiments (DOE), Regression Analysis and programming skills on MATLAB and C.
Modeling experience using COMSOL multiphysics.
Some process development experience within the PhD project framework. Very interested in developing new processes and products.
Oversee pharmaceutical batch processes in a pilot plant in India.
Publications:
(Name shown in bold wherever Daggolu is the corresponding author)
Daggolu PR, Hernandez R, White MG, “Deoxygenation Catalysis for Renewable Fuel”, to be submitted to Advances in Catalysis. This is a review paper by invitation from editors.
Daggolu PR, White MG, “De-Oxygenation of Syngas Derived Oxygenates On Titania: Batch and Temperature Programmed Study”, (to be submitted to Biomass & Bioenergy in 4 weeks).
Daggolu PR, White MG, “Catalytic Conversion of Acetone to Liquid Hydrocarbon using TiO2-H+/ZSM-5”, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, (Submitted).
Daggolu PR, White MG, “Higher Alcohol Synthesis from Ethanol on Zirconia”, Fuel Processing Technology, (Submitted).
Keshavamurthy SS, Daggolu PR, Burgess SC, Minerick AR, Dielectrophoretic Characterization of Erythrocytes: Positive ABO Blood types, Electrophoresis 2008, 29, pp 5033 – 5046.
Note: Some of the publications are in advanced stage of drafting and the data will be presented on request.
Patents:
Daggolu PR, White MG, “ Method to enable selective production of particular hydrocarbons from oxygenates”, Provisional Patent, February 2010, Serial number – 61/336,144.
Presentations:
Prashant R. Daggolu, Yong Wang and Zhehao Wei, AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011 (accepted).
Prashant R. Daggolu and Mark G. White, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010.
Prashant R. Daggolu and Mark G. White, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 2009.
Prashant R. Daggolu, Graduate student seminar, Mississippi State University, MS, October 2009.
Prashant R. Daggolu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, May 2009.
Prashant R. Daggolu and Mark G. White, AIChE Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, November 2008.
Soumya S. Keshavamurthy, Prashant R. Daggolu and Adrienne R. Minerick, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2007.
Prashant R. Daggolu and Adrienne R. Minerick, Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Mississippi State University, MS, February 2007.
Prashant R. Daggolu and Adrienne R. Minerick, AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2006.
Prashant R. Daggolu and Adrienne R. Minerick, 2006 Southern BioProducts Conference, Philadelphia, MS, April 2006.
Professional Memberships:
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers
North American Catalysis Society
Sigma Xi
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Honors:
Selected for “The Richard J. Kokes Travel Award” of North American Catalysis Society for the NACS meeting 2009, San Francisco, CA.
Received First prize in Student Paper Contest jointly with Ms. Sowmya Keshavamurthy in Dave C Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University for the year 2008.
Honorary mention for my poster, “Blood typing in a Dielectrophoretic Microdevice”, AIChE Annual Meeting 2006, San Francisco, CA, November 2006.
Received “AES Expense Grant Award” from American Electrophoresis Society at AIChE Annual Meeting 2006, San Francisco, CA, November 2006.
Miscellaneous:
Research featured in Spring 2010 edition of Momentum, a half-yearly magazine of the Bagley college of Engineering, Mississippi State University with the title “Passing the Torch of Knowledge”, pp 36-37.
Acknowledged on the publication – “Reactions of methanol and higher alcohols over H-ZSM-5”, AC Gujar, Guda VK, Nolan M, et al, Applied Catalysis A: General, 2009, 363, 1-2, pp 115 – 121.
Acknowledged on the publication – “The Rapidly Growing Field of Micro and Nanotechnology to Measure Living Cells”, Minerick AR, AIChE Journal, 2008,54,9,pp 2230 – 2237.
Computational Skills:
Programming: C, C++, FORTRAN, PASCAL
Mathematical: MATLAB, MATHCAD, SAS, COMSOL Multiphysics
Other: WINDOWS OS, MAC OS, MS OFFICE, AXIOCAM, SAP (Production Planning module)
Academic Pedigree:
Prashant Daggolu completed all Ph.D. requirements in Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University under the guidance of Prof. Mark White.
Prof. Mark White received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Rice University in 1978 under the guidance of Prof. Joe Hightower. Prof. White then served as a faculty in Chemical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology for nearly 3 decades before moving to Mississippi State University as department chair of Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering in 2006.
Prof. Joe Hightower received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at The John Hopkins University in 1963 under the guidance of Paul Emmett. Prof. Hightower was a post-doctoral fellow with Professor Keith Hall at the Mellon Institute (Pittsburgh, PA) before beginning his tenure at Rice University.
KEYWORDS: Heterogeneous catalysis, biofuels, sustainable energy, modeling, process engineer, chemical engineer, product development engineer, renewable chemicals, biomass, catalytic processes, catalyst design and testing, pilot plant, research and development.
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