Dr. Pankaj Tiwari

Professor

Key Research Areas :Conventional and unconventional energies, Reservoir Engineering, Complex organic solids, Biomass conversion, Pyrolysis process, Kinetic analysis.


Research Projects

Sponsored

Title : Centre of Excellence, Sustainable & innovative Design and manufacturing of polymer-TOYS (SUNDAR - TOYS)
Duration : 2022-2025
Funding agency : Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals
Budget : 50000000
PI : S.N. Joshi
Co-PI : Pankaj Tiwari and Others (Multidepartment)


Title : Bio-surfactant mediated enhanced oil recovery for Assam oil reservoirs
Duration : 2022-2025
Funding agency : DBT
Budget : 3600000
PI : Lalit Pandey
Co-PI : Pankaj Tiwari


Title : Study on Two and Three-Phase Fluidized Beds: Hydrodynamic and Machine Learning (ML) based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Investigations
Duration : 2022-2025
Funding agency : BRNS
Budget : 3500000
PI : Ashutosh Yadav
Co-PI : Pankaj Tiwari, Ankit Tyagi (Multiinstitute)


Title : Investigation of Solid Flow in an Elevated Temperature Fluidized Bed with Decomposing and Non-Decomposing Liquid Injection through Side Wall Pneumatic Nozzles
Duration : 2022-2025
Funding agency : BRNS
Budget : 3500000
PI : Pankaj Tiwari
Co-PI : Raghvendra Gupta and Rajesh Kumar Upadhyay (Multiinstitute)


Title : Recycling of Fiber (Carbon & Glass) reinforced Polymer Composites
Duration : 2022-2024
Funding agency : Tata Steel
Budget : 240000
PI : Pankaj Tiwari
Co-PI : Nelson Muthu


Title : Ultrasonic Washing for Desulfurization of Coal
Duration : 2022-2024
Funding agency : Coal India
Budget : 19800000
PI : V. Prabu
Co-PI : Pankaj Tiwari and Others (Multiinstitute)


Title : Design, fabrication, and installation of raw MSW to charcoal conversion system at NTPC Ramagundam township
Duration : 2022-2024
Funding agency : NTPC
Budget : 7500000
PI : Senthil S Murugan
Co-PI : Pankaj Tiwari


Title : Study on the effect of H2 blending in Natural Gas
Duration : 2022-2023
Funding agency : Oil India Limited
Budget : 12800000
PI : Senthil S Murugan
Co-PI : Pankaj Tiwari and others (Multiinstitute)


Title : Design and Development of a Membrane Reformer Prototype for Production of Ultra-Pure Hydrogen from Methanol for Fuel Cell Based Vehicle and Power Generators
Duration : 2016-2019
Funding agency : DST
PI : Rajesh Upadhyay
Co-PI : Pankaj Tiwari and Amit Kumar


Title : Pyrolysis and Combustion Studies of Waste Plastics to Yield Targeted Value Added Chemicals
Duration : 2015-2018
Funding agency : DST
PI : Pankaj Tiwari


Title : Identification of Competent Alkali-Surfactant-Polymer Formulations for Enhanced Oil Recovery of Assam Crude Oil
Duration : 2014-2017
Funding agency : DST
PI : Subrata Gogoi and Pankaj Tiwari
Co-PI : Ramgopal Uppaluri


Title : Study of Interaction between Pneumatic Spray Nozzle and Bubbling Gas Fluidized Bed using Radioactive Particle Tracking (RPT) and γ-ray Densitometry
Duration : 2013-2016
Funding agency : BRNS
PI : Pankaj Tiwari
Co-PI : Rajesh Upadhyay


Title : Development of a Mathematical Model for Solid Material Conversion to Useful Chemicals through Chemical and Physical Processes
Duration : 2013-2015
Funding agency : IIT Guwahati
PI : Pankaj Tiwari


Consultancy

Title : Laboratory Studies for Chemical and CO2 EOR Flooding Scheme to maximize recovery from the reservoir in OIL’s Operation Area
Duration : 2019-2021
Funding agency : Oil India Limited
PI : Pankaj Tiwari
Co-PI : Rajesh Upadhyay