Prof. Kamal Kishore Pant
Present Designation:
Director, IIT Roorkee , INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY RoorkeeAreas of Interest:
Heterogeneous Green Catalysis for Hydrocarbon Conversion Processes, Green Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Environment, CO2 capture and conversion, Crude oil to Chemicals (COTC)
Biomass Conversion to Biofuel and platform Chemicals
Metal Recovery from WEEE waste, Integrated Biorefinery,
Water Treatment,
Specialisation:
Chemical Engineering : Heterogeneous Catalytic Reaction Engineering, Biomass to Hydrogen and platform chemicals
Major Professional Contributions:
- Prof. Kamal K. Pant is Presently Director at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee .
He also serves as Adjunct faculty at University of Saskatchewan in Canada, Joint Faculty at CRDT, IIT Delhi and Honorary Faculty at University of Queensland in Australia. He is among the leading academicians in India who is working on cutting edge and futuristic technologies of national and international importance like coal to methanol conversion, e-waste treatment, waste plastic conversion, biomass valorization, etc., using catalysis and reaction engineering. Prof. Pant academic and industrial research experience spans over 30 years with 150+ publications having 8300 citations and numerous patents. He has successfully completed over 50 high impact projects and consultancies valued more than 500 million Indian Rupees from premier companies and government organizations such as GAIL, HPCL, DRDO, TATA, MHRD, Ministry of Defense, SERB, CSIR, DST. Prof. Pant has also been conferred twice with the prestigious Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) award by President of India, besides several other honors such as CHEMCON distinguished speaker award, Herdilia Award by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, thrice with Dr. A V Rama Rao award for best Ph.D. supervision, Dr. S. S. Deshpande Award, etc.
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Education
PhD Chemical engineering
Awards and Recognitions
1. Herdilia Award for Excellence in Basic Research in Chemical Engineering by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers at CHEMCON 2017
2. CSIR-ICT-Avon’s Padmashri Dr G. S. Sindhu CHEMCON Distinguished Speaker Award 2019, IIChE Award for the Year 2019
3. Dr. A. V. Rama Rao Foundation’s Best Ph.D. Thesis Supervised and Research Award in Chemical Engineering/Technology, IIChE Award for the Year 2019
4. Dr. A. V. Rama Rao Foundation’s Best Ph.D. Thesis Supervised and Research Award in Chemical Engineering/Technology, IIChE Award for the Year 2015
5. Received Gold medal for best Ph.D. thesis supervised at CHEMCON 2015
6. Dr. S. S. Deshpande Award (2013) for Journal Impact factor for the last three years 2011 to 2013 papers. The total citation is 2755 and h-index is 26 and i-10 index is 45 for all the years.
7. Dr. A. V. Rama Rao Foundation’s Best Ph.D. Thesis Supervised and Research Award in Chemical Engineering/Technology, IIChE Award for the Year 2009
8. Gandhian Young Technological Innovation, 2019 by Vice President of India for innovation of “Utilization of Real-world Waste Plastic for the Production of Fuel Range Liquid Hydrocarbons using Two-step Approach.”
9. Special Prize in Innovative ideas and POC for project on “Extraction of Precious metals from electronic waste” by the Indian National Academy of Engineering in the INAE Youth Conclave 2019
10. Special Prize in Innovative ideas and POC for project on “Enhanced Concrete Aggregates from Steel Slag and Atmospheric CO2” by the Indian National Academy of Engineering in the INAE Youth Conclave 2019
11. INAE Award for the year 2002 on M. Tech. project entitled “Fluoride removal from drinking water using activated alumina” (student Ms. S. Ghorai)
Link to Website
http://web.iitd.ac.in/~kkpant/INAE Section Affiliated
IV: Chemical Engineering
Year of Election to Fellowship
2020
Year of Birth
1965
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