Welcome to Rajnish's Research Group @ IIT Madras !

Rajnish Kumar is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology - Madras. In 2018, he was recognized as Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering. He is also a recipient of NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award for the year 2016. His research interests are in the areas of unconventional energy resources including natural gas hydrates. Role of additives in gas hydrate inhibition and growth and its application in methane recovery from marine gas hydrates, flow assurance, hydrate based gas separation process and methane storage and transportation are some of the projects in which the group is actively working. His research group has published close to 85 research articles, book chapter and patents and has delivered multiple invited talks in international and national conferences/ institutes. In the year 2020, he has received Dr. YBG Varma award for teaching Excellence in Chemical Engineering. He could be contacted at rajnish [at] iitm.ac.in