PhD Fellowship

The main objective of this fellowship scheme is to create an ambience where PSUs and academia collaborate and develop scientific and technological human resources in mutually interested areas through technology development for problems faced by Oil and Gas PSUs. At the same time, this will open-up new opportunities for faculty members to interact with PSU personnel and help in exchanging knowledge and experience between industry and academia. The possible benefits to IITB are exposure to industrial problems, experience in technology development, implementation and commercialization, and improving the employment opportunities for the students.

Faculty members of IIT Bombay may send proposals in the attached format to CoE-OGE to avail TAP PhD positions under them with fellowships and research grants through CoE-OGE. The Research Scholars supported through CoE OGE are expected to do research with Oil and Gas PSUs for addressing PSUs’ problems and develop technology solutions.

Sr. No.	Title	Guide/Co-Guide from IITB	Guide/Co-Guide from PSU	Ph. D. Student
1	Development of Deposition (Ink) Chemistry for Large Area Printable Perovskite Devices: Aiming for R2R applications	Prof. Shaibal K Sarkar	Dr. Narayanan Krishnamurthy (HPCL)	Mr. Arya Vidhan
2	Investigations on the Geomechanical Properties of the Hydrate Bearing Sediments during Dissociation (Depressurization and CH4-CO2 Replacement)	Prof. D N Singh Prof. Sanjay Mahajani	Dr. Altaf Usmani (EIL)	Mr. Reddi Srinivasa Rao
3	Evaluation of Pitch Combustion in Solid and Liquid form	Prof. Sudarshan Kumar	Mr. K. N. Raja (HPCL)	Mr. Khokan Sahoo
4	Mechanistic understanding of organic additives through molecular modelling for cleaner and efficient combustion (in IC engines)	Prof. Neeraj Kumbhakarna Prof. Sudarshan Kumar	Dr. Sandip Bhowmik (HPCL)	Ms. Aboli Pingle
5	Geothermal Energy Extraction from Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells (AOGS)	Prof. D N Singh Prof. Sandip Kumar Saha	Mr. Rajib Sarmah (OIL)	Ms. Faakirah Rashid Mir
6	Effect of injecting chemical on bulk and interfacial rheology of waxy crude oil	Prof. Lalit Kumar	Mrs. Ibha Kalita (OIL)	Ms. Teja Sree Addepalli
7	Modeling of wax deposition on transporting pipelines with and without chemical injection	Prof. Lalit Kumar	Mrs. Ibha Kalita (OIL)	Mr. Abhay Pratap Singh
8	Nanocomposite materials for coating to avoid bio fouling and corrosion mitigation	Prof. S. Parida	Dr. Narayanan Krishnamurthy (HPCL)	Ms. Tathwika Jugunta
9	Combined theoretical and experimental development of novel adsorption based hydrogen storage material at ambient temperature with reversible desorption characteristics	Prof. Abhijit Chatterjee	Mr. T A Rajivkumar (HPCL)	Mr. Sourabh Singha
10	Detection of Damage in Pipes using Ultrasonic Guided Waves	Prof. Nitesh P. Yelve	HPCL
11	Understanding the thermodynamics for economical methane production from gas hydrate reservoirs using CO2 injection	Prof. Jhumpa Adhikari	Dr. Samik Kumar Hait (IOCL)	Mr. Bhavesh Tulsibhai Moorjani
12	Near-Zero liquid discharge (NZLD) and sludge management through membrane technology for drill site and produced wastewater of Oil and Gas Industries	Prof. Swatantra Pratap Singh Prof. Tabish Nawaz	Mr. Rajendra Kumar Raigar (ONGC)	Mr. Partho Mukherjee
13	Investigation of flow-deformation attributes of gas hydrate bearing sediments from Krishna-Godavari Basin, India	Prof. Vikram Vishal	Mr. Gaurav Dixit (ONGC)	Mr. Krunal Tulsawadekar
14	Development of Treatment Scheme for Spent Caustic to Promote Resource Recovery	Prof. Anurag Garg Prof. Tabish Nawaz	Dr. Manoj Upreti (IOCL)
15	Design of a Robotic Vehicle Refuelling System	Prof. Anirban Guha Prof. Arpita Sinha	Mr. Ranjith Kumar (IOCL)	Mr. Abhinav Katiyar
16	Numerical Studies on Ebullated Bed Hydrodynamics using OpenFOAM	Prof. Janani Srree Murallidharan	Dr. Abdul Quiyoom (BPCL)
17	Molecular Simulation & Experimental Studies on Thermodynamics of High-Value Chemicals derived from Biomass	Prof. Jhumpa Adhikari	Mr. Alok Satlewal (IOCL)
18	Study on effect of pretreatment option on Compressed Biogas (CBG) production from biomass	Prof. Yogendra Shastri	Mr. Manoj Kumar (IOCL)	Mr. Amey Kulkarni
19	Catalyst and process development for Plasma-catalytic conversion of Methane to C2 hydrocarbons	Prof. Sonali Das	Dr. Chanchal Samanta (BPCL)	Mr. Arkaprava Gupta
20	Assessment of E-fuel production Pathway using life cycle and techno-economic assessment	Prof. Yogendra Shastri	Mr. Alok Satlewal (IOCL)	Ms. Jyoti Yadav
21	Development of electrochemical and ozonation based processes for PW treatment coupled with ZLD and resource recovery	Prof. Tabish Nawaz Prof. Anurag Garg		Ms. Pavithra Nair
22	Fouling-Resistant Nanofiltration and Ultrafiltration Electroconductive Membrane for Produced Water Treatment	Prof. Swatantra Pratap Singh		Mr. Lukose George
23	Flow-deformation attributes of coal for CBM recovery	Prof. Vikram Vishal	Dr. Raju Kumar (ONGC)	Mr. Sayem Irshad

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