Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Biswapriya Das

Brijesh Kumar

Debasis Bhattacharyya

Mohan Prabhu Kuvettu

Biswanath Sarkar

Naduhatty Selai Raman

Velusamy Chidambaram

Ravinder Kumar Malhotra

Ram Mohan Thakur

Arumugam Velayutham Karthikeyani

Alex Cheru Pulikottil

Anurag Ateet Gupta

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar

Madhusudan Sau

Satyen Kumar Das

Ponoly Ramachandran Pradeep

Terapalli Hari Venkata Devi Prasad

Ganesh Vitthalrao Butley

Satheesh Vetterkunnel Kumaran

Jagdev Kumar Dixit

Jayaraj Christopher

Shiba Prasad Choudhury

Gautam Thapa

Mahesh Kadgaonkar

Mahendra Pratap Singh

Pravesh Kumar

Manoj N Kumar

Suresh Kumar Puri

Santanam Rajagopal

Gadari Saidulu

Sadhullah Mukthiyar

Balaiah Swamy

Mainak Sarkar

Vivekanand Kagdiyal

Dheer Singh

Saravanan Subramani

Pankaj Kumar Kasliwal

Vineeth Venu Nath

Reshmi Manna

Manoj Kumar

Kochappilly Ouseph Xavier

Anju Chopra

Samik Kumar Hait

Palvannan Mohanasundaram

Narayanam Seshubabu

Sayapaneni Gopinath Bhanuprasad

Rajesh

Kamal Kumar

Murugan Balasundaram

Bhanumurthy Samala

Yamini Gupta

Sanjeev Singh

Darshankumar Manubhai Dave

Amardeep Singh

Umish Srivastava

Pushkar Varshney

Arangarasu Arun

Swapan Kumar Das

Eswar Prasad Dalai

Manoj Kumar Yadav

Veena Yadav

Qazi Mohammad Amir

Chandrasekaran Kannan

Amitava Mitra

Brijesh Kumar Verma

Vinod Kumar Sharma

Vatsala Sugumaran

Umish Srivastva

Karumanchi Ramesh

Prakash Bhagwant Bhalavi

Bandaru Venkata Hariprasadgupta

Sova Bhattacharya

Ashish Kumar Panda

Rajat Kumar Roy

Tarun Kumar Das

Subramani Saravanan

Rajender Singh Negi

Rashmi Bagai

Dhanesh Kumar

Pappu Naresh

Indranil Roy Choudhary

Vinay Kumar Chaudhary

Paramasivam Sakthivel

Om Parkash

Mohana Rao Damacherla

Om Prakash Nandwani

Irudayaraj Devotta

Doosa Hima Bindu

Terapalli Hari Prasad

Rajesh,

Ravinder Kumar Malhorta

An inoculum of microbial consortium containing live microorganisms is described. More particularly, the enviro-tolerant methane-producing microbial consortium and a method for the production of biogas having high methane content from organic wastes and biomass slurries are described. The microbial consortium of the present disclosure produces stable biogas production without any seasonal variation impact.

Microbial consortium for enhancing the methane production from feedstock

This invention relates to a process for hydro cracking of heavy oils. More particularly, this invention relates to a catalytic process for converting heavy oils, such as vacuum gas oil (VGO) and VGO containing a high proportion of vacuum resid (VR) to middle distillate products.

Catalyst and process for conversion of vacuum resid to middle distillates

A catalyst composition for the production of carbon nanotubes (CNT) with controlled morphology is disclosed. The catalyst is represented by formula [(MMn)Mo][binary metal oxide], where x is in the range 1 to 25 wt %, y is in the range 0.1 to 20 wt %, and z is in the range 0.0 to 10 wt %. Further M represents either iron or cobalt or nickel along with manganese and molybdenum supported on binary metal oxides comprising of boron, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, calcium, barium, and combination thereof. The CNT morphology can be tailor-made with the plural combination of nature of metal and promoters in appropriate proportions. The process yields the CNT with bulk density in the range of 0.01 to 0.20 g/cc, diameter in the range of 5 to 30 nm and purity greater than 95 wt %.

Multi-metal catalyst composition for production of morphology controlled CNT's and process thereof

The invention relates to the production of High purity n-hexane from low value stream such as raffinate from benzene extraction unit in crude oil refineries employing extractive distillation. The present invention further related to an extractive distillation employing an organic solvent having comparable or same Hansen dispersive force parameter (&#x3b4;) of that of the key component of to be separated through extractive distillation. The present invention is useful for separating and isolating pure cyclohexane, pure methylcyclopentane and pure iso-heptane along with the pure n-hexane.

Process for high purity hexane and production thereof

The present invention relates to delayed coking of heavy petroleum residue producing petroleum coke and lighter hydrocarbon products. The invented process utilize a pre-cracking reactor for mild thermal cracking of the feedstock and an intermediate separator, before being subjected to higher severity thermal cracking in delayed coking process, resulting in reduction in overall coke yield.

Delayed coking process with pre-cracking reactor

The present invention relates to a process for the production of high quality synthesis gas rich in hydrogen during the process of upgrading the residual hydrocarbon oil feedstock by rejuvenating the spent upgrading material in Reformer in absence of air/oxygen without supplying external heat source other than the heat generated inside the process during combustion of residual coke deposited on the upgrading material. The present invention further relates to the apparatus used for preparation of syngas wherein said syngas thus produced is used for production of hydrogen gas. Furthermore, the present invention also provides system and method for preparing pure hydrogen from syngas.

Process for production of high quality syngas through regeneration of coked upgradation agent

The present subject matter describes a method and apparatus for operating a delayed coker. The method comprises contacting a vapour produced in a delayed coker-drum with a catalyst maintained in form of a bed, and maintaining a level of said catalyst-bed within pre-defined limits during catalytic-cracking of the vapour. Thereafter, the cracked-vapour is routed to a coker-fractionator column to trigger conversion into one or more hydrocarbon products.

Delayed coker drum and method of operating thereof

The present invention relates to a process of increasing syngas production during an upgradation process of petroleum residual oil by circulation of rejuvenated upgrading material through a heat removal zone such as an Auxiliary Reformer and by regeneration of spent upgrading material.

Production of high yield of syngas through regeneration of coked upgrading agent

The present invention deals with employing Heteroatoms namely Nitrogen, Sulphur intrinsic embedded carbon nanotubes (H-CNT) as multifunctional additive for preparing lead acid battery electrodes to substitute the expander chemicals namely, Vanisperse, Dinel Fibre, Barium sulphate and carbon black. Further the invention provides H-CNT in-situ produced from Crude oil or its products.

Compositions for preparing expander free electrodes for lead acid battery and performance thereof

The present invention relates to a device for bioassisted conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds that can be used a fuels and chemicals. The present invention also relates to a bioassisted process of converting carbon dioxide to organic compounds.

Device and method for conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds

The present invention relates to a catalyst product for cracking of heavy hydrocarbon feed stocks predominantly in to light olefins and processes for preparing the catalyst. More specifically the present invention relates to a process of preparing Fluidic Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalyst additive composition. The FCC catalyst additive composition of the present invention is a LPG selective catalyst particles comprising a medium pore zeolite bonded with clay-phosphate-silica-alumina binder. The catalyst of the present invention exhibits improved selectivity towards high value components like propylene and gasoline and suppressing low value components like dry gas and bottoms.

Process and composition for preparation of cracking catalyst suitable for enhancing LPG

The present invention relates to a fluid catalytic cracking additive composition for cracking of heavy hydrocarbon feed stocks and process for preparing the additive. The additive is suitable for enhancing yields of light olefins such as propylene, isobutylene, LPG and reduces the bottom yields. The invention specifically relates to a fluid catalytic cracking additive composition comprising a pentasil zeolite, zeolites having pore size in a range of 5.4-7.7 &#x212b;, alumina, colloidal silica, kaolin clay, and phosphate, wherein the zeolites having pore size in the range of 5.4-7.7 &#x212b; is present in an amount of 1 to 10 wt % with respect to the total amount of the pentasil zeolite and zeolite having the pore size in the range of 5.4-7.7 &#x212b;.

Composition and process for preparation of cracking catalyst suitable for enhancing yields of light olefins

This present invention relates to oil-soluble metal compositions of metals and a method for its preparation. The composition finds application in catalysis as catalysts precursors or additives for in situ generation of nano dispersed metal/metal sulfide clusters for heavy oil hydroconversion and in the area of lubrication as friction modifiers.

Hydrocarbon soluble metal composition and a method of making it thereof

The present invention relates to a Cracking Catalyst composition for cracking of heavy hydrocarbon feed stocks and process for preparing the catalyst. The catalyst is prepared by incorporating 1-10 wt % phosphate treated USY zeolite in which phosphate is present in the range of 10 to 50 wt % on the basis of phosphated zeolite, in a mixture of 10-50 wt % dispersible alumina, 0-30 wt % non-dispersal alumina, 5-30 wt % colloidal silica, 15-50 wt % clay and 5-15 wt % phosphate.

Cracking catalyst composition for cracking of heavy hydrocarbon feed stocks and process for preparing the same

The present invention relates to attrition resistant hydrocarbon cracking catalyst additive composition comprising aluminum phosphate binder for cracking of hydrocarbon molecules to produce light olefins and process of preparation thereof. The present invention further relates to the process of preparation of the aluminum phosphate binder wherein said binder is incorporated into the ZSM-5 additive composition to enhance its attrition resistance property as well as enhance selectivity and activity of additive composition for production of light olefins such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

Composition and process for preparation of attrition resistant additive suitable for cracking hydrocarbon feed

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