Sustainable and Green Catalytic Processes for Renewable Fuel Production with Net-Zero Emissions

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Dr. Sreedevi Upadhyayula has worked as a Senior Design Engineer for five years in both public sector (BHPV Ltd. Visakhapatnam subsidiary of BYNL group) and Private sector (APL Chennai subsidiary of PTE Singapore) after completing her M. Tech in Chemical Engineering (Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemical Technology specialization) from IIT Kharagpur in 1993. She returned to academics in 1998 joining the Catalysis Division of National Chemical Laboratory Pune as a CSIR Senior Research Fellow. She completed her PhD in 2001 jointly from NCL Pune and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her research interests include environmentally benign heterogeneous catalysis involving ionic liquids zeotype materials in Petrochemical and Refinery catalytic processes biomass conversion to biofuels: Catalyst design Parametric study Kinetics and Modeling of heterogeneous reactions. Dr. Amita Chaudhary has completed her Masters degree in Organic Chemistry from Chaudhary Charan Singh University. She has worked as a senior research fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering IIT Delhi since June 2015 and completed her PhD in January 2019. Currently she is working as an assistant professor at Nirma University. Her research areas include waste management global warming and gas-liquid reactions.