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A word from the Director...WELCOME! DR GIRISH SAHNI TAKES OVER AS THE NEW CSIR DIRECTOR-GENERAL

Dr Girish Sahni, the erstwhile director of the CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology in Chandigarh, was appointed as the new Director-General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. He will also act as the Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science And Technology.

Dr Sahni, a microbiologist, obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru in 1984 after his research work in Protein Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology. After having worked in the US for five years, Dr Sahni returned home and joined the CSIR-IMTECH in 1991 and became its Director in 2005.Dr Sahni has underlined that all bacteria are not bad and referred to 'gut microflora' in the digestive tracts of animals and human beings. Dr Sahni has contributed to the production technology for India's first indigenous clot bluster drug, natural streptokinase and recombinant streptokinase. Above all, he says that no antibiotic can beat pineapple juice in curing throat infection. Natural vinegar (acetic acid) is beneficial in diabetes according to Dr Sahni. He recently developed the fourth-generation 'anti-thrombotic' clot busters for cardio-vascular diseases which have been commercialized by multi-million dollar collaborations.Dr Sahni was responsible for completing the high-efficiency process package for production of natural streptokinase for the first time in India, called STPase, which was commercially launched by M/s Cadilla Pharma Ltd. (Ahmedabad) in 2002.His team has developed the process for recombinant Indian bovine species, buffalo and goat hormone production. Other contributions of Dr Sahni and his team include recombinant (rDNA-based) streptokinase production successfully transferred to M/s Shasun Drugs and Chemicals Ltd., Chennai. Even “Lupiflo” and “Klotbuster” launched in the Indian market in July 2009 were developed by his team.Dr Sahni received the National Biotechnology Product and Process Development Award (for Protein Engg. and Molecular Biology) from the Indian government in 2002 and he was the recipient of the 2001-02 CSIR Technology Shield for Natural Streptokinase Process development leading to its successful commercialization. He received the Vasvik Award in Biological Sciences in 2000 and the Ranbaxy award (2003) in pharmaceutical sciences.He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, and the Association of

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By the time this newsletter comes to your hands, we will have Dr Girish Sahni, the erstwhile Director of the CSIR-I n s t i t u t e o f M i c r o b i a l Technology, Chandigarh, as the new Director-General of CSIR and Secretary, DSIR. On my personal behalf, and on behalf of my CSIR-IIP family, I welcome him for this prestigious position and wish him all the best to take CSIR to greater heights.

thI may note here that I handed over the charge of DG-CSIR on 25 August, 2015. The period between February to August was indeed a very busy time for me as I had to shoulder the responsibilities of DG-CSIR along with running the Institute. I tried to do my very best in order to meet the expectations of this coveted position.

Yet again, we won the CSIR Technology Award but this was different. This is the most significant CSIR Technology of the Five-Year Plan period given to us for commercializing Thoxcat ES. I am happy to inform that this catalyst has worked successfully in the LPG Sweetening Unit of Oman. Also, the Wax Deoiling Unit at Numaligarh has now gone to 100% capacity and continues to produce Type I wax. The unit for Recovery of Benzene from FCC Gasoline at Reliance is nearing mechanical completion and we shall be commissioning the same by the end of this year.

This quarter has been particularly productive in terms of a large number of research publications as well as filing of patents. There has been a renewed thrust by CSIR to implement the Dehradun Declaration, more particularly for initiating translational research as well as for commercializing technologies. CSIR-IIP has always believed in this mandate and has delivered successfully. Of course, it needs support of the industry and I request our friends from the industry to help support indigenous technologies so that we can help the nation

Dr M O Garg

Microbiologists of India.

• Shekhar Kumar, Neeraj Kumar Maheshwari and Girish Sahni, “Mutants of streptokinase and their covalently modified forms,” Indian Patent Application No. 0837/DEL/2008

• K.L. Dikshit, V.V. Vyas, R. Mahajan, J. Kaur, N. Thapar, J. Pratap, D.Nihalani and Girish Sahni, “A process for the extracellular

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preparation of streptokinase and its new analogs,” Patent application number 1727/DEL/94/dated 30.12.94. Patent No. 183828 granted on 15.12.2000

• Girish Sahni, Rajesh Kumar Gupta, Kummara Rajagopal, Vasudha Sundram, Deepak Nihalani, Chaiti Roy and Mahavir Yadav, “New fibrin clotspecific streptokinase proteins with altered plasminogen activation kinetics, and process for preparation of the said proteins,”

• G. Sahni, R. Kumar, C. Roy, K. Rajagopal, D.Nihalani, V. Sundaram and M. Yadav, 'Novel clot-specific streptokinase proteins processing altered plasminogen activation characteristics and a process for the preparation of said proteins', EP Patent No. 1024192 (2005)

Dr Sahni has been granted other foreign and Indian patents: • USA (Patent No. 7163817, 2007)• Europe (No. 99310541) India (190822, 2005)The CSIR-IIP family greets Dr Sahni on his new assignment.Welcome, once again!

The Institute bagged yet another award for its scientific and technological contributions in the form of “Technology Award for the Most Significant CSIR Technology of the Five-Year Plan Period-2015” from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. The award was given jointly to the Institute and the CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru. The Institute's recognition from the CSIR came for “Technology Development of a Novel Catalyst 'Throxcat ES' for Sweetening of LPG and Lighter Petroleum Fractions” while the CSIR-NAL was given the award for “Development of Indigenous State-of-the-Art Aerospace Class Autoclave Technology”.The CSIR-IIP team responsible for the Institute's honour included M/s Bir Sain, Gautam Das, Sunil Kumar, S K Ganguly, S M Nanoti, M O Garg, B M Shukla and Amar Kumar Jain. The CSIR also acknowledged the contribution of D T Gokak and T Thorat of the Corporate R&D Centre, BPCL, Greater NOIDA, in the development of this technology.

thThe award was given at the CSIR Foundation Day function on 26 September, 2015, organized at New Delhi. It was presented to Dr

M O Garg & the other team members from the Institute & the BPCL by Dr Harsh Vardhan, Hon'ble Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences and Vice-President, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), and Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Mr Y S Chowdary at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

The CSIR-IIP family is proud to have this honour, and thanks CSIR for giving us this great

CONGRATULATIONS!CSIR-IIP EARNS HONOUR ONCE AGAIN!

TECHNOLOGY AWARD TO THE CSIR-IIP

opportunity to celebrate. The Institute congratulates all the team members and lauds their efforts.

•Testing of gear oil sample

•Studies on bio-diesel

•Testing of ISO HV-68 & VG-32 oil

•Short evaluation studies on Kakinada crude oil

•Testing of HFDU-68 fluid Plantoflux 68 AT-Z

•Compatibility & stability studies on RJ crude oil-diesel blend

•Bench-scale reaction studies on ionic CA

•Renewable energy from bio-gas : technology development

•Feasibility study for value-addition to low polymer wax

•Process simulation and design of soaker drum internals for

visbreaking unit

•MIBK dewaxing / deoiling studies on PWD (370-482 AET CUT)

& Foots Oil (dewaxed oil)

•Production of second- and third-generation bio-fuels

(biomass-to-liquid)

•Revamp of existing naphtha hydrotreater to process

vegetable oil for renewable aviation fuel production

•Hydrogenation activity of PD/C catalyst

•To study deposit characteristics of three numbers of Honda

Activa scooter engine components

•Investigation & wear analysis on Mahindra engines

•Gear teeth surface distress rating of a truck transmission

gear box

•Development of graphene-metal oxide nano-composites as

potential candidates for photovoltic applications

•Studies on the napthyl fuel

•Crude preheat maximization study for CDU-I & II

•Analysis of fire-resistant hydraulic fluid (FRHF)

•Study of used emulsion oil; testing of fire-resistant hydraulic

fluids

•Short evaluation studies on CB-NO/3 oil & gas block crude oil

•Study of physico-chemical lubricant samples of hydraulic oils

•Short evaluation studies on crude oil samples

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Sponsored Projects Completed

Cycles and Waste Management, 17(3), 459-464. July 2015

•Resinous species as a source of bio-fuels, K V Padmaja, Neeraj Atheya and K K Singh, Energy Sources, Part A: 37(13) 1392-1396, July 2015

•Mesoporous TUD-1 supported indium oxide nanoparticles for epoxidation of styrene using molecular O , Sumbul 2

Rahman, Saleem A Farooqui, Aditya Rai, Rawesh Kumar, Chiranjit Santra, V C Prabhakaran, G R Bhadu, Debasis Sen, S Mazumdar, Sudip Maity, A K Sinha and Biswajit Chowdhury, RSC Adv., 5(58), 46850-46860, July 2015

•Removal of refractive sulphur and aromatic compounds from straight-run, fluidized catalytic cracking, and coker gas oil using N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone in batch and packed-bed extractors, Sunil Kumar, V C Srivastava, Rohit Raghuvanshi, S M Nanoti and Nisha Sudhir, Energy & Fuels, 29(7), 4634-4643, July 2015

•High-level expression, purification and characterization of carbazole dioxygenase, a three-component dioxygenase of Pseudomonas GBS.5, Samiya Khan, D K Adhikari, Sanjay Gupta and Nidhi Gupta, Biotechnology Letters, July 2015

•Solvent evaluation for desulphurization and de-nitrification of gas oil using performance and industrial usability indices, Sunil Kumar, V C Srivastava, S M Nanoti and Abhishek Kumar, AIChE Journal, 61(7) 2257–2267, 2015

•Photo-assisted oxidation of thiols to disulphides using cobalt 'Nano-rust' under visible light, Deepak Chauhan, Pawan Kumar, Chetan Joshi, Nitin Labhsetwar, S K Ganguly and Suman L Jain, New Journal of Chemistry, 39(8), 6193-6200, Aug 2015

•Industrial resin 'INDION 130' modified with vanadyl cations as highly efficient heterogeneous catalyst for epoxidation of fatty compounds with TBHP as oxidant, Praveen K Khatri, Mounika Aila, Jyoti Porwal, Savita Kaul and Suman L Jain, New Journal of Chemistry, 39(8), 5960-5965, Aug 2015

•Bio-catalytic green approach for epoxidation of fatty compounds derived from soyadeodistillate under acid-free conditions, Sunil K Suman, Manisha Dhawaria, Jyoti Porwal, Mounika Aila, Neha Karanwal, Babita Behera, Savita Kaul, Sanjoy Ghosh and Suman L Jain, RSC Advances, 5(66), 53708-53712, Aug 2015

•Nitrogen-doped graphene-supported copper complex: a novel photocatalyst for CO reduction under visible light 2

irradiation, Pawan Kumar, Harshal P Mungse, O P Khatri and Suman L Jain, RSC Advances, 5(68), 54929-54935, Aug 2015

•Molecular pillar supported graphene oxide framework: conformational heterogeneity and tunable d-spacing, Harshal P Mungse, Raghuvir Singh, Hiroyuki Sugimura, N Kumar and O P Khatri, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(32), 20822-20829, Aug 2015

•A vapour phase adsorptive desulphurization process for producing ultra-low sulphur diesel using NiY zeolite as a regenerable adsorbent, Soumen Dasgupta, Swapnil Divekar, Aarti Arya, Pushpa Gupta, Rekha Chauhan, Sonal Bhadauria, Aamir Hanif, M O Garg and Anshu Nanoti, RSC Advances, 5,(69) 56060-56066, Aug 2015

•Selective oxidation of n-hexane by Cu (II) nano-clusters

RESEARCH OUTPUTPapers Published

•Algae based biorefinery-how to make sense?, Jayati Trivedi, Mounika Aila, D P Bangwal, Savita Kaul and M O Garg, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 47, 295-307, July 2015

•Value-addition to rice straw through pyrolysis in hydrogen and nitrogen environments, Bhavya Balagurumurthy, Vartika Srivastava, Vinit, Jitendra Kumar, Bijoy Biswas, Rawel Singh, Piyush Gupta, K L N Sivakumar, Raghuvir Singh and T Bhaskar, Bioresource Technology, 188, 273-279, July 2015

•Conversion of rice straw to monomeric phenols under supercritical methanol and ethanol, Rawel Singh, Vartika Srivastava, Kajal Chaudhary, Piyush Gupta, Aditya Prakash, Bhavya Balagurumurthy and T Bhaskar, Bioresource Technology, 188, 280-286, July 2015

•Derivatizing L-histidine to develop a novel additive for a polyol-based bio-lubricant, Rajkumar Singh, Shubham Pandey, R C Saxena, G D Thakre, Neeraj Atray and S S Ray, New J. Chem., 39(7), 5354-5359, July 2015

•H e t e r o - s t r u c t u r e d n a n o - c o m p o s i t e t i n phthalocyanine@mesoporous ceria (SnPc@Ce ) for photo-O2

reduction of CO in visible light, Pawan Kumar, Arvind Kumar, 2

Chetan Joshi, Raghuvir Singh, Sandeep Saran and Suman L Jain, RSC Adv, 5(53), 42414-42421, July 2015

•Potassium ion cationized polyether cyanide [K+{PEG}CN-] as a novel cyanide source for oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines, Vineeta Panwar, S S Ray and Suman L Jain, Tetrahedron Letters, 56(28) 4184-4186, July 2015

•Dual catalysis with magnetic chitosan: direct synthesis of cyclic carbonates from olefins with carbon dioxide using isobutyraldehyde as sacrificial reductant, Subodh Kumar, Nikita Singhal, Raj Kumar Singh, Piyush Gupta, Raghuvir Singh and Suman L Jain, Dalton Transaction, 44(26), 11860-11866, July 2015

•Efficacies of novel Gemini compounds derived from dibasic acids as multi-functional additives for tribological applications, Neha Karanwal, Praveen Khatri, Sandeep Joshi, G D Thakre, R C Saxena, Savita Kaul and Suman L Jain, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 54(27), 6831-6835, July 2015

•Oxidative coupling of aniline and desulphurization over nitrogen-rich mesoporous carbon, Reena Goyal, Deepa Dumbre, K L N Sivakumar, Monica Pandey and Ankur Bordoloi, Catalysis Sci & Technol., 5(7), 3632-3638, July 2015

•Metal–support interactions in surface-modified Cu–Co catalysts applied in higher alcohol synthesis, Ankur Bordoloi, Johan Anton, Holger Ruland, Martin Muhler and Stefan Kaluza, , 5(7), 3603-3612, July 2015

•Hydrothermal liquefaction of agricultural and forest bio-mass residue: Comparative study, Rawel Singh, Aditya Prakash, Bhavya Balagurumurthy, Raguvir Singh, Sandeep Saran and Thallada Bhaskar, J of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 17(3), 442-452, July 2015

•Prospects of 2,5-dimethylfuran as a fuel: physico-chemical and engine performance characteristics evaluation, M K Shukla, Eshan Singh, Nishan Singh and S K Singal, J of Material

The shield and the plaque of the CSIR-Technology Award

Dr Harsh Vardhan and Mr Y S Chowdhary conferring the award on the CSIR-IIP & the BPCL teams

C S I R - I I P N E W S L E T T E R

•An improved process for production of syn-gas by combining supported on nano-crystalline zirconia catalyst, Shankha oxy- and dry-reforming of natural gas over bi-metallic Shubhra Acharyya, Shilpi Ghosh, Shubhadeep Adak, Raghuvir catalyst, Rajaram Bal, Bipul Sarkar, Reena Goyal, Ankur Singh, Sandeep Saran and Rajaram Bal, Journal of Nano-Bordoloi, Chandrashekar Pendem and L N Sivakumar science and Nano-technology, 15(8), 5816-5822, Aug 2015Konthala, Application No. 2464Del2015, dt. 11.08.2015•The production and evaluation of bio-oil obtained from the

•Bio-degeradable multi-purpose gear oil composition, Jyoti Jatropha curcas cake, A Majhi, Y K Sharma, D V Naik and R Porwal, G D Thakre, Babita Behera and Savita Kaul, Chauhan, Energy Sources, Part A, 37(16),1782-1789, 2015Application No. 2597Del2015, dt. 21.08.2015•Characterization and identification of polycyclic aromatic

•A process for production of low-sulphur fuel oil from the hydrocarbons in diesel particulate matter, Pankaj Kanaujia, heavy ends of thermally cracked residues, B R Nautiyal, Nisha Devendra Singh, Deependra Tripathi, K L N Sivakumar, Sudhir, Pooja Yadav, Sunil Kumar, S M Nanoti, M O Garg, S Sandeep Saran, R K Chauhan, Y K Sharma and M O Garg, Dharmalingam, V Selvavathi and A Meenakshisundaram, Analytical Letters, 48(14),2303-2318, Sep 2015Application No. 2901Del2015, dt. 16.09.2015 (Jointly with •Hydrothermal liquefaction of rice straw: Effect of reaction CPCL and CHT)environment, Rawel Singh, Kajal Chaudhary, Bijoy Biswas,

•A process for production of low-sulphur fuel oil from heavy Bhavya Balagurumurthy and Thallada Bhaskar, the Journal of end residues of petroleum hydrocarbons, B R Nautiyal, Nisha Supercritical Fluids, 104,70-75, September 2015Sudhir, Pooja Yadav, Sunil Kumar, S M Nanoti, M O Garg, S Dharmalingam, V Selvavathi and A Meenakshisundaram, •Production, Upgrading and Analysis of Bio-oils Derived from Application No. 2902DEL2015, dt. 16.09.2015 (Jointly with Lignocellulosic Bio-mass, Pankaj K Kanaujia, Polysaccharides, CPCL and CHT)1219-1250, 05 Jun 2015, Published by the Springer

International Publishing •A process for production of low-sulphur fuel oil from the heavy end residues of petroleum hydrocarbon through •An Introduction to Microalgae: Diversity and Significance, oxidation, B R Nautiyal, Nisha Sudhir, Pooja Yadav, Sunil Jasvinder Singh, Rakesh Chandra Saxena, Handbook of Kumar, S M Nanoti, M O Garg, S Dharmalingam, V Selvavathi Marine Microalgae, 11-24, 2015, Published by M/s Academic and A Meenakshisundaram, Application No. 2903DEL2015, Press, Chapter 2 dt. 16.09.2015 (Jointly with CPCL and CHT)

•A process for microwave-assisted synthesis of n-methyl pyrrolidone, Praveen Kumar Khatri, Suman Lata Jain, A K

•For the Officers of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Chaterjee and Bir Sain, USA, Patent No. 9,09,0560, dt. New Delhi, July 20-31, 201528.07.2015

•A single-step catalytic process for conversion of naphtha to diesel-range hydrocarbons, N Viswanadham, Peta Sreenivasulu, Sandeep K Saxena, Rajiv Panwar, Devaki Nandan and Jagdish Kumar, USA, Application No. 14/441,379, dt. 07.05.2015

•Ni-MgO-ZnO solid catalyst for syn gas preparation and process for preparation thereof, Rajaram Bal, Rajib Kumar Singha, Chandrashekar Pendem, K L N Sivakumar, Ankur Bordoloi and Sandeep Saran, USA, Application No. 14.842301, dt. 01.09.2015 •For the Chemical Engineers of the Indian Oil Corporation

•An improved process to produce aromatics-rich aviation fuel Limited (IOCL), New Delhi, August 24 – October 9, 2015along with other C -C hydrocarbons, A K Sinha, Mohit 1 24

Anand, Saleem Akthar Farooqui, Rakesh Kumar, R K Joshi, •Training course on 'Corrosion Control and Material Selection in Rohit Kumar, Tasleem Khan and Parvez Alam, PCT, Application Refinery' for M/s Axens Indi Pvt. Limited, September 14-17, 2015No. PCT/IN2015/050109, dt. 11.09.2015

•An improved process for production of ã- valerolactone by hydrogenation of levulinic acid over Pt-hydrotalcite catalyst, Rajaram Bal, Chandrashekar Pendem, Ankur Bordoloi, K L N Sivakumar, Manoj Kumar and Saneep Saran, Application No. 2252Del2015, dt. 24.07.2015

•An improved process for production of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), Indrajit K Ghosh, Suman L Jain, Praveen K Khatri, S S Ray and M O Garg, Application No. 2353Del2015, dt. 31.07.2015

Chapter(s) Published in Book(s)

Patent(s) Sealed Abroad

Programmes on Petroleum Refining Technology

Patent(s) Filed Abroad

Other Programmes

Patent(s) Filed in India

TRAINING PROGRAMMES ORGANIZED

EXCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGE

MoU'S /AGREEMENTS SIGNED

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES/SEMINARS/ WORKSHOPS

Papers Presented in Conferences/Seminars/Symposia

Colloquia and Talks

International Conference on Advances in Engineering and Management Research ( ICAEMR 2015, Dehradun (Uttarakhand), July 19, 2015

Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust (LKMT) R&D Meet on CTL/GTL, LKMT, EIL and IIChe (NRC), New Delhi, July 24-25, 2015

International conference on Contemporary Advances of Science and Technology, BHU, Varanasi, August 7-9, 2015

th8 International Conference on Feedstock Recycling of Polymeric thMaterials (8 ISFR), Leboben, Austria, September 7 -10, 2015

•Mr N S Murthy, Technology Advisor and Dr Kalaga M Krishna, Senior Technologist, GE Power & Water, Bangalore, July 15-16, 2015

•Mr Rabishankar Mukhopadhyay, Dy General Manager, NTPC Limited, NOIDA, July 15-16, 2015

•Prospects of dimethyl ether as a transportation fuel : A •Mr Kareemudin Shaik, Senior Research Scientist, M/s Saudi review, M K Shukla, Sameer Sharma and Nishan Singh Aramco, Saudi Arabia, July 20-21, 2015

•Mr Avinash Pathak, Director and Mr Jaydeep Dange, Joint Director, Center for High Technology, NOIDA, July 27,2015

•Monetisation of unconventional gas resources: Role of •Mr R K Kashyap, Executive Director, GAIL India Limited, oxymethylene ether, Ankur Bordoloi NOIDA, July 28,2015

•Hydrodeoxygenation of fast pyrolysis oil over Pd/Al O 2 3 •Mr Karunakaran Hari, Head, Marketing & Sales and Mr Tarun catalyst, D V Naik, Vimal Kumar, Basheshwar Prasad and Chandel, Manager, Mktg, M/s Cairn India Ltd, Barmer, Ranjan Kumar Rajasthan, July 30, 2015

•Dr Ravichandar Babarao, Research Scientist, Monash University, Australia, August 5, 2015

•h-boron nitride nano-platelets: Tuning of band-gap energy by •Mr A K Jain, DGM (Retail), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation grafting ionic liquids, Sangita Kumari, Rashi Gusain and O P Khatri Limited, Mumbai, Mr B K Pandey, Dy. General Manager (Retail

Sales), India Oil Corporation Limited, Mumbai, and Mr Ratan Panda, Deputy General Manager Sales (Retail) HQ, M/s Bharat

•Hydrothermal liquefaction of defatted microalgae, Rawel Petroleum Corporation Limited, Mumbai, August 26, 2015 Singh, Kajal Choudhary, Bhavya B Krishna and T Bhaskar •Mr Anitesh Pattanayak, Vice President (Business

•Pyrolysis as a valorization technique for aquatic bio-mass, Development), and Mr Tanmay Taraphdar, Group Leader Bhavya B Krishna, Bijoy Biswas, Jitendra Kumar, Rawel Singh (Process), M/s Technip India Ltd., NOIDA, August 28, 2015 and T Bhaskar •Mr B Rajeev, Dy. General Manager (P), Oil and National Gas

•Thermal and catalytic valorization of lignin through Corporation Ltd., New Delhi, September 2, 2015 hydrothermal process, Aditya Prakash, Rawel Singh, Bhavya •Mr R K Kashyap, Executive Director, Mr Arun Shukla, Chief B Krishna, Jitendra Kumar and T Bhaskar Manager and Mr Sunil Haldar, Manager, GAIL India Ltd,

•Pyrolysis approach for conversion of e-waste plastics into NOIDA, September 3-4, 2015fuel, Jitendra Kumar, Bijoy Biswas, Bhavya B Krishna and T •Mr Shamsher Singh, Deputy General Manager and Mr D K Bhaskar Khanna, Deputy General Manager, Oil and Natural Gas

Corporation Ltd., New Delhi, September 21, 2015•Dr Christian Emmenegger, Product Manager & Application •Mr Harsh Merchant, Business Head, M/s UTEC Asia, USA,

Specialist, Metrohm International Headquarters, September 22, 2015 Switzerland, Scope and applications of combustion ion •Mr Chiranjeevi Thota, Manager, M/s BPCL, NOIDA, chromatography, April 7, 2015 September 22, 2015

•Mr Glan Hytoft, Vice President, Ms Mikala Grubb, Business •Non-disclosure Agreement with M/s GE India Technology Development Manager, Mr Raju Chopra, General Manager,

Centre Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, for 'Evaluation technology, M/s Haldor-Topsoe, Denmark, September 23, 2015 exploring research opportunities and engaging in future •Mr K Parijaat, M/s CBS Technologies Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi research', July 1, 2015 September 24, 2015

•Dr J K Srivastava, General Manager, ONGC, Surat, September •Mr Tarun Chandel, Manager (Mktg.) and Mr Vikash Guliani, 29, 2015

M/s Cairn India Ltd, Gurgaon, July 1, 2015

•Mr Y B Ramakrishna, Mentor (Biofuels), Consultant (Bio- •Dr Anshu Nanoti, Senior Principal Scientist, Dr Thallada Energy), Bangalore & Chairman, Working Group on Bio-fuel, Bhaskar, Senior Scientist and Dr Debashish Ghosh, Scientist, MoP&NG, Dr Vivek Rathore and Mr Manish Sharda, Biofuel 'National Seminar on Scaling up Bio-fuel Programme - Cell, MoP&NG, July 2, 2015 Drawing up a Road Map for India', organized by MoP&NG,

•Dr R Rajmohan, Sr. Manager (Product Development), Balmer Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, July 13, 2015 Lawrie & Co. Ltd., Chennai, July 6, 2015 •Mr M K Shukla, Scientist, 'International Conference on

•Mr Shamsher Singh, Dy. General Manager, Oil and Natural Advances in Engineering and Management Research(ICAEMR Gas Corporation Ltd., New Delhi, July 7, 2015 2015)', Dehradun (Uttarakhand), July 19, 2015

•Mr Hemant Kumar, Technical Sales Engineer and Mr Jaykumar •Dr M O Garg, Director & DG-CSIR, participated in the LKMT Teli, Application Engineer, M/s COMSOL Multiphysics Pvt. Ltd. R&D Meet-2015 in IIChE Auditorium, New DelhiNew Delhi, July 10, 2015 •Dr V V D N Prasad, Principal Scientist and Dr Ankur Bordoloi,

Faculty & trainees of the Programme during July 20-31, 2015

Faculty & trainees of the course on corrosion control, September 14-17, 2015