Scientist
| M Sc | 2009, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India |
| Ph D | 2013, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark |
| E Mail | tuhins.khan[at]iip[dot]res[dot]in |
| Telephone No. | +91 – 135-2525925 |
| Cell No. | +91 – 7042410146 |
Research Interest
- Computational Catalysis
- Heterogeneous Catalysis
- In-silico Catalyst Design using Microkinetic Modeling
- Molecular Modeling
- Density Functional Theory
- C1-C4 Chemistry
- Bio-Renewable Fuels and Chemicals, Renewable Energy
- Machine Learning for Materials and Process Design
Work Experience
| Scientist | CSIR – Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (2020 – Till Date) |
| Post Doctorate | West Virginia University, WV, USA (2019-2019) |
| Post Doctorate | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (2016-2019) |
| Senior R&D Engineer | UOP India Pvt. Ltd., India (Honeywell), Gurgaon, India (2014-2016) |
Awards and Honours
- Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards 2018 from BIRAC-SRISTI, India for project on “An Alternative Technology to Produce Biomass- Based Food Grade Flavors, Fuels and Value Added Chemicals”.
- Biotechhnology Ignition Grant (BIG) 2018 from Department of Biotechnology, India for Startup on “Integrated Fermentation and Catalytic Processing to Produce Food Grade Flavoring Agents from Biomass”.
- Best oral presentation at APCAT-7 Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis conference (Session: Methane), organized by ICT Mumbai and Catalysis Society of India, 2017.
- Bravo award at UOP India Pvt. Ltd. for work on hydrotreating process for sulfur removal from FCC gasoline (2014-2015).
Patents
- Removal of Sulfur from Naphtha
US10443001B2 - Gasoline Composition Comprising Alkyl Levulinates and Process of Making the Same
Indian patent No. 318476 - Process for Producing δ-decalactone (DDL)
Indian patent application No. 201711037804 - A process for producing Trimellitic acid from biomass
PCT/IB2020/051226
Selected Publications
- Direct Oxidation of Cyclohexane to Adipic Acid by a WFeCoO(OH) Catalyst: Role of Brønsted Acidity and Oxygen Vacancies
Dnyanesh Vernekar, Mohammad Dayyan, Satyajit Ratha, Chandrashekhar V Rode, M Ali Haider, Tuhin S. Khan, Dinesh Jagadeesan
ACS Catalysis, 11 (2021) 10754-10766 - CuO as a reactive and reusable reagent for the hydrogenation of nitroarenes
K Rajendran, N Pandurangan, CP Vinod, Tuhin S. Khan, Shelaka Gupta, M Ali Haider, D Jagadeesan
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 297, 120417 (2021) - In-situ Experimental and Computational Approach to Investigate the Nature of Active Site in Low-temperature CO-PROX over CuOx-CeO2 Catalyst
Shubhadeep Adak, JaborRabeah, Ravi Ranjan, Tuhin S. Khan, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Rishi Kumar Gupta, Takehiko Sasaki, Sagar Kumar, Ankur Bordoloi, Chinnakonda S Gopinath, Angelika Brückner, Rajaram Bal
Applied Catalysis A: General, 118305, 624 (2021) - Selective transfer hydrogenation of biomass derived furanic molecules using cyclohexanol as a hydrogen donor over nanostructured Cu/MgO catalyst
Nazia Siddiqui, Rubina Khatun, Vivek Kumar Mishra, Tuhin S. Khan, Chanchal Samanta, Rajaram Bal
Molecular Catalysis, 513, 111812 (2021) - Microwave-enhanced catalytic ammonia synthesis under moderate pressure and temperature
Yuxin Wang, Tuhin S. Khan, Christina Wildfire, Dushyant Shekhawat, Jianli Hu
Catalysis Communications, 159, 106344 (2021)
Google Scholar link
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=fNTamGIAAAAJ
