Jasvinder Singh

Research Interest

• Computer Aided process and Plant design
• Upgrading heavy petroleum fraction by thermal conversion processes
• Computational modelling of biomass conversion to fuels
• Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment of Technologies

Work Experience

• Principal Technical Officer at CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun
• Visiting research fellow (2009-2010) at Energy Technology Research Group, School of Engineering Science, University of Southampton, UK
• Visiting faculty (2004) at IIT Roorkee

Awards and Honours

• Received Technocrat Excellency Award for the year 2004, given by Technocrats welfare society of India, in the field of Chemical Engineering.
• Awarded Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.) research exchange fellowship (major award) for carrying out research work on “Computational modeling of fast pyrolysis” at School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton (U.K.) for one year (2009 – 10)
• Awarded membership of American Chemical Society for 2015 – 2018

Patents

• An improved process for Single step air oxidation of cyclohexane to Adipic Acid
  N Kulsreshtha, Uma Shanker, J.P.S. Sharma, Jasvinder Singh.
  Patent No. 076/DEL/93
• Process for oxidative desulfurization of liquid hydrocarbon fuels
  M O Garg, Bir Sain, M K Khanna, B R Nautiyal, S M Nanoti, T V Rao, Dharam Paul, Gautam Das, Jasvinder Singh, C D Sharma, Basant Kumar, A K Gupta.

Selected Publications

• Kinetics and modelling study on etherification of glycerol using isobutylene by in-situ production from tertiary-butanol
  Jasvinder Singh; Jitendra Kumar; Mahendra Negi; Dinesh Bangwal; Savita Kaul; Madhukar Garg,
  Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.  2015, 54 (19), pp 5213–5219
• A comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of jatropha biodiesel production in India
  Sunil Kumar, Jasvinder Singh, S.M. Nanoti, M.O. Garg,
  Bioresource Technology (2012), 110, pp 723–729
• Comparison of flow patterns in a visbreaking soaker drum with two different sieve tray internals
  Jasvinder Singh, M O Garg and S M Nanoti,,
  Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. (2012), 51 (4), pp 1815–1825
• Kinetic modelling of thermal cracking of petroleum residues: A critique
  Jasvinder Singh, Surendra Kumar, Madhukar O. Garg,
  Fuel Processing Technology 94 (2012) 131–144
• Commercialization potential of microalgae for biofuels production”
  Jasvinder Singhand Sai Gu,
  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 14 (2010) 2596-2610