Industrial Decarbonization and the Energy Transition

Suresh Sundaramurthy is the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and has held postdoctoral, visiting faculty, and research positions at institutions including CUNY (USA), AIT Thailand, JNCASR Bengaluru, IIT Kanpur, and Pondicherry University. His research interests span catalysts, reactor design, environmental biotechnology, waste-to-energy, nanoengineered materials, critical minerals, decarbonation, and biofuels, green hydrogen.

Dr. Sakthivel Sundaresan serves as Deputy General Manager in the Technology Group at Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd., based in Mumbai, India. His areas of focus include green chemicals, green ammonia, green fuels, the energy transition, and decarbonization, with responsibility for the evaluation of emerging technologies and commercialization. Dr. Sakthivel has experience in process engineering, technology analysis, screening and selection, techno-economic analysis, pilot setups, process hazard analysis, basic, applied and market research, and powder and science technology. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and has published several articles in national and peer-reviewed international journals. He actively contributes to the advancement of the chemical engineering field through research, thought leadership, and industry collaboration.

Affiliations and expertise

Technology Team, TATA Consulting Engineers Ltd., Mumbai, India

Prof. Sarat Kumar Swain is a Professor of Chemistry at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, India, since 2011. Previously, he served as Associate Professor at North Odisha University and held several key positions at VSSUT, including Dean of Academic Affairs and Head of the Chemistry Department. He completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Akron, Ohio, after earning his Doctoral degree from Utkal University, and has been a visiting researcher at IACS, Kolkata, and JNCASR, Bengaluru. Prof. Swain has received different awards such as BOYSCAST, DAE-Young Scientist Research, Samanta Chandra Sekhar. With over 25 years of teaching and research experience, Prof. Swain focuses on hybrid nanomaterials and advanced materials for environmental remediation and decarbonization. He has published over 150 research papers in SCI-indexed journals, authored or edited seven books and 35 book chapters, and holds two patents-one in the USA and another in India.

Affiliations and expertise

Department of Chemistry, Veer Surendra Sai University Technology, Odisha, India