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
2021 - Current :Professor, Chemical Engineering, IITM
2016 - 2021 :Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, IIT-M
2010- 2016 :Sr. Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
2009-2010 :Post Doctoral Research Fellow, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa
2004-2009 :Ph.D Student & Graduate Research Assistant, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2003-2004 :Research Engineer, Hindustan Zinc Ltd, Udaipur (Sterlite Industries (I) Ltd), India
Gas Hydrates (Formation, Inhibition & Recovery)
Carbon Dioxide Capture & Sequestration
Methane & Hydrogen Storage material
Water Purification and Treatment by Gas Hydrate Process
Hydrothermal Liquefaction at sub-critical and super-critical conditions
Dr. Rajnish Kumar, FRSC
NAC # 449, Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology - Madras
Sardar Patel Road, Adyar, Chennai - 600036
Tamilnadu - India
Ph: +91 44 2257 4180; email: rajnish [at] iitm.ac.in