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Welcome to Dr Taraknath Das's home page

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Publications

7. Taraknath Das, In wook Nah, Geong-Gil Choi, In-Hwan Oh,"Synthesis of iron oxide catalysts using various methods for the spin conversion of hydrogen", Reac Kinet MEch. Cat (2016), DOI: 10.1007/s11144-016-1035-4.

6. Taraknath Das, Soon Cheol Kweon, In Wook Nah, Sarng Woo Karng, Jeong gil Choi, In-Hwan Oh, Spin conversion of hydrogen using supported iron catalysts at cryogenic temperature; Cryogenics 69 (2015) 36-43,

5. Taraknath Das, Soon Cheol Kweon, Jeong Gil Choi, Seo Young Kim, In Hwan Oh, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 40, 2015, 383-391.

4. Taraknath Das, Siddharth Sengupta, Goutam Deo; Reaction Kinetics Mechanism and Catalysis, 110, 2013, 147-162.

3.Taraknath Das, Goutam Deo,Catalysis Today, 198, 2012,116-124.

2.Taraknath Das, Goutam Deo, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, 2012, 20812-20819.

1.Taraknath Das, Goutam Deo, Journal of Molecular catalysis A: Chemical,350, 2011, 75-82.

Conferences and workshop attended

9. 2014-KOCS Fall and 30th Anniversary International Conference, The Korean Oil Chemists Society, Nov 1-6, 2014, Seoul,South Korea, 2014

8. 20th World Hydrogen Energy Conference, Gwangju, South Korea, 2014

7.The Korean Hydrogen and New energy Society, Gumi, South Korea, 2013

6. 4th International congress on Operando spectroscopy,BNL, New York, USA, 2012

5. 2nd Indo-German workshop, Advances in Reaction and Separation process, Bad Herrenalb, Germany, 2012

4. Chemcon-2011, Bangalore, India, 2011

3. International summer school on Vibrational Spectroscopy, Spectrocat2010,Caen, France, 2010

2.Chemference2010, IITKanpur, India, 2010

1. Nineteenth National symposium on catalysis, NCL Pune, India, 2009

A. In situ DRIFTS Model for Cyclohexane oxidation reaction)

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Research Interest

My research interests are on Heterogeneous Catalysis, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Surface Science and Vibrational Spectroscopy. The supported metal catalysis (synthesis and reactivity) using In-situ spectroscopic characterizations. The study is covered with Application of Operando FTIR spectroscopy and other characterization techniques for the understanding of supported cobalt catalysts.

Presently, we are working on various industrial reactions such as cyclohexane oxidation, CO2 hydrogenation reaction, Dry reforming of methane and also on hydrogen energy. The production, storage, and generation of hydrogen. The production of hydrogen from dry reforming of methane reaction using perovskite catalysts. The storage and generation of hydrogen as metal-hydride, NaBH4/additive. The work is basically on development of additive/catalyst for solid phase hydrogen storage.

Current status: Assistant Professor, IITR

Research Areas of Interest

Catalytic Cyclohexane oxidation (insitu/operando study) reaction
In situ Spectroscopy:(FTIR, UV-vis-NIR), also studied on XRD, BET Surface area measurement, H2-TPR, FE-SEM-EDS, Raman spectroscopy
Hydrogen Energy: Production, Storage and generation
Catalysis and Spectroscopy with Cryogenics,
Perovskite catalyst(LaFeO3/Al2O3), ortho to para hydrogen spin conversion, hydrogen liquefaction process and storage system
Supported Metal Catalysis ( Co/Al2O3): synthesis, characterization and reactivity
CO2-H2 methanation reaction; Hydrogen production

Academic Educations