swarom kanitkar

research scientist

About

Actively looking for a full-time position in Chemical/Process Engineering field. I have expertise in heterogeneous catalysis including but not limited to, catalyst synthesis, characterization, and performance evaluation in a reaction.

Country

united states

City

morgantown

Industry

research

Skill

chemical engineering, aspen plus, distillation, engineering, process control, microsoft office, aspen hysys, characterization, c, c++, gas chromatography, manufacturing, gc ms, filtration, reactor design, gc fid, water treatment, pro ii, heterogeneous catalysis, raman spectroscopy, atr ftir, catalysis, chemcad, process engineering, research and development

Experience

research scientist

national energy technology laboratory

graduate teaching assistant

university of louisiana at lafayette

2012-1 - 2014-8 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Assist Professor in conducting and evaluating tests and assignments for the two courses namely Chemical Process Calculations and Process Control.

laboratory manager

university of louisiana at lafayette

2012-8 - 2014-5 · 1 yr 10 mos

* Conducted research on kinetics and catalysis of hydrogenolysis of glycerol * Maintained and overlooked research activities in the laboratory * in the Bioprocessing and Advanced Chemical Processing Laboratory. * Guided undergraduate research students about various research techniques, different instruments and their working * Worked on fixing process instruments

summer intern

sabmiller

2009-6 - 2009-6 · 1 mo

* Collected, measured and analyzed process data in the plant's production unit. * Developed material and energy balances for the production unit * Contributed in designing of plate type heat exchanger * Conducted study on upgradation of water treatment unit

in-plant trainee

orchid pharma

2008-6 - 2008-6 · 1 mo

* Learnt unit operations in the production of penicillin precursors * Developed material and energy balances for process unit * Collected, measured, and analyzed process data * Conducted study on water treatment unit

graduate research assistant

louisiana state university

2014-8 - 2019-5 · 4 yrs 10 mos

* Conducted research in Alkane Isomerization, Aromatization and Oligomerization using solid acid catalysts (including zeolites, sulfated metal oxides, metal halides etc.): mostly gas-solid reactions * Conducted research on CH4 reforming (Dry/Bi) * Synthesized, characterized, and evaluated performance of heterogeneous catalysts * Carried out instrument troubleshooting such as FTIR, mass spec, chemical reactors, glovebox, GC-FID/MS