Research Output 

Patent:

1. Sumit Kamal, Rakesh Dhillon, Sanjay Mahajani, Rahul Nabar, Ravi Nangia, "Continuous production of methyl pentenone using cation exchange resin in a fixed bed reactor"  USA Patent No: US 11,661,391 B2 

2. Sumit Kamal, Rakesh Dhillon, Sanjay Mahajani, Rahul Nabar, Ravi Nangia, "Continuous production of methyl pentenone using cation exchange resin in a fixed bed reactor" Indian Patent App. No.: 202021041062

3. Sumit Kamal, Rakesh Dhillon, Sanjay Mahajani, Rahul Nabar, Ravi Nangia, "Continuous production of methyl pentenone using cation exchange resin in a fixed bed reactor" China Patent No: CN114249640B

Book Chapter:

1. (2024)  Kamal, S., Tewari, P.K. (2024). Ammonia Decomposition Using Catalytic Membrane Reactor for Hydrogen Production. In: Kumar, S., Agarwal, A.K., Khandelwal, B., Singh, P. (eds) Ammonia and Hydrogen for Green Energy Transition. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0507-8_10 

Publications:

1. Nitin Sharma, Sumit Kamal, "Development of a Semibatch Process for the Synthesis of Methyl Pentenone", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2025, 64, 4794−4808 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.4c04529 

2. Sumit Kamal, "Catalyst deactivation of cation‐exchange resin in cross‐aldol condensation of acetaldehyde to methyl pentenone" Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 2023, 37, 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1002/ffj.3748 

3. S Kamal, PK Tewari, Developments Towards Low Energy Processes, Chemical Industry Digest 35 (9), 49-53, 2022

4. Sumit Kamal, Rahul Nabar, Sanjay Mahajani, "Fixed-bed reactor with side injection: A promising option for the aldol condensation of acetaldehyde" Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2021, 60, 2058-2069,  https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.0c05166 

5. Sumit Kamal, Sanjay Mahajani, "Kinetic Study for Oligomerization of Acetaldehyde over Cation Exchange Resin" Applied Catalysis A, General, 2020, 608, 117841 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2020.117841 

6. Sumit Kamal, Sanjay Mahajani, "A Greener Alternative for the Synthesis of Methyl Pentenone Using Reusable Cation Exchange Resin" Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2020, 59, 21312-21321, https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.0c03864 

Conference:

2019 -

1. Aayushi Pandey, Sumit Kamal, " Synthesis of Anethole using hydrogenation-dehydration of 4′-Methoxypropiophenone using heterogeneous catalyst", CHEMCON; 27-30 Dec 2024, NIT Jalandhar, India

2. Nitin Sharma, Sumit Kamal, “Development of semi-batch process for the synthesis of Methyl Pentenone" 12th International Symposium on Catalysis in Multiphase Reactors and the 11th International Symposium on Multifunctional Reactors (CAMURE12-ISMR11)-2024, Ghent, Belgium, on 8-11 September 2024

3. Nitin Sharma, Sumit Kamal, “Process Modelling for Batch scale production of fine chemicals:  Methyl Pentenone as a case study”, Chemference 2023, BITS Pilani, India 

4. Sumit Kamal, Sanjay Mahajani, Process development for methyl pentenone synthesis using cation exchange resin, 4th North American Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (10-13 March 2019)