Centre of Excellence in Oil, Gas and Energy

Mission Mode Projects

The Centre of Excellence in Oil, Gas, and Energy at IIT Bombay envisages to develop technology interventions in consortium mode with PSUs to address future challenges in the oil, gas, and energy sector. To facilitate this, various projects in mission mode will be undertaken. These projects will aim at developing and delivering technologies related to present and future issues of the PSUs taking from lab to implementation-ready stage with the core teams that will consist of faculty from IIT Bombay, and representatives from minimum two relevant PSUs.
Sr. No. Title PIs from IITB PIs from PSU Project Status
1 Portable membrane technology based unit for drilling site wastewater treatment PIs: Prof. Swatantra Pratap Singh
Co-PIs: Prof. Tabish Nawaz 		Mr. R K Raigar (ONGC), Mr. Diganta Kumar Borah (OIL) Completed
2 Integrated reservoir characterization of Eocene Hydrocarbon- bearing carbonates of Mukta Field of HPB sector, Bombay Offshore Basin PIs: Prof. Kumar Hemant Singh
Co-PIs: Prof. Sudipta Dasgupta, Prof. Santanu Banerjee 		Dr. Dharmendra Kumar Gogoi (OIL), Mr. B. S. Haldia (ONGC) Completed
3 Simultaneous Nitrification and Denitrification for Nitrogen Removal from Refinery Wastewater PIs: Prof. Suparna Mukherji
Co-PIs: Prof. Anurag Garg 		Dr. Manoj Upreti (IOCL), Mr. Ashok Kumar (HPCL), Ms. R. V. Sreevidya (EIL) Completed
4 Design and development of IoT solution for underwater pipeline inspection PIs: Prof. Leena Vacchani
Co-PIs: Prof. Hemendra Arya 		Mr. Satyaprakash Yadav (IOCL) , Dr. Deepashri Nage (HPCL) Under Closure
5 Developing an Open Source Simulator for Refinery Operations PIs: Prof. Kannan Moudgalya
Co-PIs: Prof. Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya, Prof. Ranjan Malik 		Mr. Kanuparthy N. Raja, (HPCL), Mr. Rakesh Vankayala (BPCL) Completed
6 An embedded structural health monitoring system for long-range monitoring of pipelines using torsional guided wave ultrasonics and acoustic emission sensing PIs: Prof.Siddharth Tallur
Co-PIs: Prof. Sauvik Banerjee 		Mr. Lalit Kumar Maurya (GAIL), Mr. Raj Yashartha & Mr. Paramartha Purkait (EIL), Mr. Q Amir (IOCL) Completed
7 Development of a bimodular CCUS technology based on bio- inspired CO2 activating catalysts PIs: Prof. Arnab Dutta
Co-PIs: Prof. Debabrata Maiti, Prof. Vikram Vishal 		Dr. Ajay Arora (IOCL), Dr. G. Valavarasu & Dr. Kotni Santhosh (HPCL), Mr. Nitin Mohan Chautre & Mr. Balaji Lakavath (EIL) Completed
8 Tool chain for oil and gas pipeline monitoring (Drones for Pipeline Surveillance) PIs: Prof. Hemendra Arya
Co-PIs: Prof. Arnab Maity, Prof. Arpita Sinha 		Mr. Brijesh Mishra (IOCL), Dr. Deepashri Nage (HPCL), Mr. Lalit Kumar Maurya (GAIL) Under-Closure
9 Fluoride-rich Interlayers for Anodeless Solid-State Batteries PIs: Prof. Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
Co-PIs: Prof. Amartya Mukhopadhyay 		Dr. K. Narayanan (HPCL), Dr. Nandakumar T. (GAIL) Completed
10 Development of Co-free/less high voltage Ni-containing Li- transition metal oxide based cathode materials (i.e., Li-NMC and beyond) for Li-ion batteries PIs: Prof. Amartya Mukhopadhyay
Co-PIs: Prof. Srinivasan Ramakrishnan 		Dr. Veena Yadav (IOCL), Dr. K. Narayanan (HPCL), Dr. Nandakumar T. (GAIL), Mr. Samiran Das (EIL) Completed
11 Integrated Monitoring System for Offshore Assets: A Pilot-scale physical oceanographic measurements off Western offshore region of India PIs: Prof. Balaji Ramakrishnan
Co-PIs: Prof. Srineash V K 		Mr. Bhaskara Mandalika (EIL), Mr. Vijay Singh Mandloi (IEOT ONGC) Completed
12 Estimation of CO2 storage potential in select hydrocarbon fields of North-East India based on an integrated risk-assessment-and-management framework PIs: Prof. Vikram Vishal
Co-PIs: Prof. Sudipta Dasgupta, Prof. Anand Singh, Prof. Santanu Banerjee 		Mr. Arnab Nag (BPCL-BPRL), Mr. Jayanant Topno & Mr. Akhtar Uddin Ahmed (OIL-CoEES) Under Closure
13 Decarbonization of Petrochemical, Gas Processing, and Petroleum Refineries: Technology evaluation and life cycle assessment PIs: Prof. Yogendra Shastri
Co-PIs: Prof. Anish Modi 		Mr. Anand Acharya (GAIL) Under Closure
14 Materials and Interface Engineering for Long Cycle Life Sodium - Sulfur Batteries PIs: Prof. Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
Co-PIs: Prof. Amartya Mukhopadhyay 		Dr. Krishnanmurthy Narayanan (HPCL), Dr. Veena Yadav (IOCL), Mr. T. Nandakumar (GAIL) Ongoing
15 Integrated Plasma- Catalytic system for Direct Conversion of Methane to Olefins PIs: Prof. Sonali Das
Co-PIs: Prof. Sanjay Mahajani 		Dr. Chanchal Samanta & Dr. Arundathi Racha (BPCL), Dr. Rahul Sharma (GAIL) Ongoing
16 Development of high energy storage thin film and printed lithium-ion battery PIs: Prof. Dipti Gupta
Co-PIs: Prof. Amartya Mukhopadhyay 		Dr. Sonal Maheshwari & Mr. Muzaffar Ahsan (BPCL), Mr. Pankaj Sinha (GAIL) Ongoing
17 Development of cheap base metal catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to value-added chemicals and fuels PIs: Prof. Debabrata Maiti
Co-PIs: Prof. Arnab Dutta, Prof. Vikram Vishal 		Dr. Xavier (IOCL), Dr. Chanchal Samanta (BPCL), Mr.Vijay Yalaga (EIL) Ongoing
18 Early-Stage Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Techno-economic Assessment (TEA) of E-fuel Pathways for Technology Prioritisation and Performance Targeting PIs: Prof. Yogendra Shastri
Co-PIs: Prof. Anish Modi 		Dr. Valavarasu (HPCL) , Mr. Pintu Maity (BPCL), Dr. Rahul Sharma & Dr. Nandakumar. T (GAIL) Under Closure
19 Optimizing the catalyst performance for carbon dioxide hydrogenation to methanol: A combined experimental and computational study PIs: Prof. Ojus Mohan
Co-PIs: Prof. Sanjay Mahajani 		Mr. M Sirajuddin (IOCL), Dr. Arundathi Racha & Dr. Chanchal Samanta (BPCL), Mr. Rajesh Yadav (GAIL) Under Closure
20 High-resolution sequence stratigraphic interpretations of Cretaceous succession of Jaisalmer Basin and its implication for reservoir characterization PIs: Prof. Santanu Banerjee
Co-PIs: Prof. Jahnavi Punekar, Prof. Sudipta Dasgupta 		Mr. Arnab Nag (BPCL-BPRL), Dr. Snehasis Chakarborty (ONGC -KDMIPE), Mr. Pranav Shekhar (OIL) Ongoing
21 Enhanced coalbed methane recovery with potential carbon sequestration in Damodar Valley coalfields PIs: Prof. Vikram Vishal
Co-PIs: Prof. Santanu Banerjee, Prof. Arnab Dutta 		Dr. Altaf Usmani & Mr. Balaji Lakavath (EIL), Mr. Nawin Lugun & Mr. M Amrit (ONGC) Ongoing
22 Produced water treatment coupled with resource recovery and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) strategies PIs: Prof. Tabish Nawaz
Co-PIs: Prof. Santanu Bandyopadhyay, Prof. Suparna Mukherji, Prof. Swatantra Pratap Singh, Prof. Anurag Garg, Prof. Santanu Banerjee 		Mr.Bijan Mahanta (OIL), Mr. Om Prakash Rout (GAIL) Ongoing
23 Exploring ammonia blended fuels as future fuel for industrial furnace applications PIs: Prof. Sudarshan Kumar
Co-PIs: Prof. Hrishikesh Gadgil 		Dr. Krishnamurthy Narayanan (HPCL), Mr. Rahul Sharma, Dr. Nandakumar T. (GAIL) Ongoing
24 New design of a Domestic pressure regulator for LPG cylinders PIs: Prof. Sudarshan Kumar
Co-PIs: Prof. Nagendra Kumar 		Mr. Satya Pal Singh (IOCL), Dr. Krishnamurthy Narayanan (HPCL), Mr. Kishore Kumar, Mr. Aniruddha Kukarni (BPCL) Ongoing
25 Quantifying impact of hydrogen permeation through pipeline steel weldments with computational phase field modelling for safe and reliable blended hydrogen gas transport PIs: Prof. Vijayshankar Dandapani
Co-PIs: Prof. M. P. Gururajan, Prof. Nagamani Jay Balila 		Mr. Q Amir (IOCL), Dr. Jaya Rawat (BPCL), Dr. Nandakumar T. (GAIL) Ongoing
26 Combined Modelling and Experimental Study Towards Realizing Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) PIs: Prof. Sanjog Nagarkar
Co-PIs: Prof. Ateeque Malani 		Dr. Nandakumar T. (GAIL) Mr. Bijan Mahanta (OIL), Mr. Rajarshi Panigrahi(OIL) Ongoing