Safety in Petroleum Industries

Dhananjoy Ghosh is an industrial professional and visiting faculty in universities. He is a chemical engineer, did his graduation with honours in chemistry also; he holds a PhD in petroleum technology, all from Calcutta University, India. Since beginning, his focus was on innovation, troubleshooting & safety. He had been in many refineries for safe commissioning of their projects and in this way, he became the expert of operation in all petroleum technologies. Due to his apt on innovation, he developed technology of a new process, "Re-extraction of Aromatics from petroleum residual extract" in 1995 and got innovation award from NPMP (under petroleum ministry of India) in 2000. In 1996, he developed another technology, "Simultaneous de-oiling & de-waxing in a single unit to produce quality Base oil & Micro-crystalline Wax at the same time" with the objective of integration and energy savings which got commercially implemented in 2002. He has a number of research publications in national and international journals. He served petroleum refineries for about 35 years starting from his career up to senior position heading refinery operation, maintenance, safety and training. He also served chemical and petrochemical industries in senior position after long stint in refinery sector. He worked as an expert panel member from Centre for High Technologies (CHT) on behalf of Petroleum Ministry for audit of benchmarking performance of Indian refineries.