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Particulars of organization, functions and duties

Education : B.E.(Chemical Engg), M.Tech(Chemical Engg) IIT BHU, Ph.D.(Chemical Engg.)(IIT Bombay)

ID. No.: 1257

Contact Details: 0376-2370011: Fax

Email id : ashutosh@neist.res.in

Research Interest

Heterogeneous catalytic reaction/Reaction Engineering, Reaction with and without mass transfer, Green Technologies and Environment sustainable processes (Waste to wealth; Biomass/Plastic conversion to value-added products), Catalyst Synthesis/ catalytic engineering, Reactor Engineering, design, and applications

Projects

Reaction engineering and catalytic studies on Bio-oil up-gradation (Bio-oil from catalytic pyrolysis of Biomass)- Funding Agency-DST (PI)-((~40.35 Lakh INR- Completed)
Ammonia from dinitrogen at ambient condition by new advanced material: a potential energy saving process than Haber-Bosch (FBR), (Co-PI) (1.2 Crore INR- Completed)
Non-coking coal to coking coal- Industrial Project – TATA Jamshedpur, India (Team Member)- Completed
Development for rapid biodegradability test of bioplastic correlating to the soil condition- DBT Project (~89 lakhs), Co-PI (Approved)
Development of lignocellulolytic multienzyme production process for bamboo based biorefinery- NRL project, Co-PI (Approved)

List of Publications

Ashutosh Namdeo, Jhaveri, J. H., Mahajani, S. M. & Suresh, A. K. Palladium catalyzed liquid phase oxidation of glycerol under alkaline conditions - Kinetic analysis and Modelling. Chem. Eng. J. 438, 135424 (2022). 10.1016/j.cej.2022.135424 Citations -20
Ashutosh Namdeo, Jainesh Jhaveri, S.M. Mahajani, A.K. Suresh, “Catalytic Oxidation of Glycerol in Alkaline medium - Influence of Mass Transport Limitations” The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol 101, April 2023, 2060 2074 DOI- 10.1002/cjce.24576 Citations -3
Bhushan Shrirame, Sachin Rameshrao Geed *,Saeikh Zaffar Hassan; Jitendra Singh Verma; Kulbhushan Samald, Ashutosh Namdeo* ; Birendra Nath Rai, “Supercritical CO2 extraction of caraway (Carum carvi L.) seed: Optimization and parametric interaction studies using design of experiments” - in- Journal of CO2 Utilization, Volume 65, November 2022, 102195 10.1016/j.jcou.2022.102195 Citations -9
Ashutosh Namdeo, S.M. Mahajani, A.K.Suresh, Palladium catalysed oxidation of glycerol—Effect of catalyst support, J. Mol. Catal. A Chem. 421 (2016) 45–56. 10.1016/j.molcata.2016.05.008 Citations -52
Devipriya Gogoi, Ashutosh Namdeo, Animes K Golder, Nageswara Rao Peela*, “Ag-doped TiO2 Photocatalysts with Effective Charge Transfer for Highly Efficient Hydrogen Production through Water Splitting” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 45, 4(2020),2729-2744 – 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.11.127 Citations -284

Awards

Early career research award-2017 by Science and Engineering Research Board, DST, Govt. of India

 Nominated Young Engineers Award-2018

 Nominated for CSIR young scientist award-2018

Address: CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology (Formerly Regional Research Laboratory), Jorhat-785006, Assam
Email: director.neist@csir.res.in
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Last updated date : 8/04/2026