Dr. SANJAY SRIVASTAVA

Education Qualification

Work experience

Teaching Experience

Government Engineering College, Valsad

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, (30/06/2018 to till date)

S. N. Patel Institute of Technology & Research Centre, Umrakh, Bardoli, Surat (Gujarat)

Assistant Professor & I/C Head, Chemical Engineering, from 15/07/2016 to 29/06/2018 (2 years)

Moradabad Institute of Technology, Moradabad (U.P.)

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, from 25/07/2009 to 26/12/2013 (4.5 years)

Jaipur National University (Former Seedling College of Engg. & Technology), Jaipur (Rajasthan)

Lecturer, Chemical Engineering, 08/08/2007 to 22/07/2009 (2 years)

 Other Teaching Experience:

Worked as a science teacher in ‘CKJSR girls inter college, Farrukhabad’ from 01-07-2001 to 01-05-2003 (2 years)

Research Experience

A research experience of 2.5 years (Dec 2013 to July 2016) during full time PhD at S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, India     

Skill and Knowledge

Advanced Research Instruments Handling/Operating

Able to operate analytical instruments like XANES/ EXAFS, FE-SEM, TGA-DSC, XRD, BET-Surface area, Gas Chromatography, UV-vis Spectrophotometer, and Particle Size Analyser.

Computer/Software Knowledge

ASPEN PLUS, CHEMCAD, GAMBIT, MATLAB, Origin 8, Ms-Office, C and C++

Course Taught

Training and Workshop

1. Participated as delegate in TEQIP-II sponsored short term training program on “Concept of Green Chemistry in Engineering” organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, SVNIT Surat, Gujarat, India, 1^th to 5^th July, 2016.


2. Participated as delegate in the intensive course on “Carbon neutral energy” organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, SVNIT Surat, Gujarat, India, 25^th April 2015.


3. Participated as delegate in the intensive course on “Advances in Preparation and Characterization of Heterogeneous Catalysis” organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology, IIT, BHU, Varanasi, U. P. India, 8^th- 20^th June 2015.


4. Participated in TEQIP-II sponsored short term training workshop on “  Advanced Scientific tools for Materials science and Technology” organized by the Department of Applied Physics, SVNIT Surat, Gujarat, India, 29-31 May 2015.


5. Participated in TEQIP-II sponsored finishing school on “Design of Experiment using the Taguchi method: an overview” organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, SVNIT Surat, Gujarat, India, 25^th April 2015.


6. Participated in the “ Refinery Process Technology: Advances through Research & Development” organized by Petroleum Federation of India and Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust (LKMT) in association with IOCL (R & D division) Faridabad, Haryana, India, 30^th July, 2013.


7. Participated in TEQIP-II sponsored workshop on ”Nanotechnology Applications for Sustainable Development” organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, SVNIT Surat, Gujarat, India, 19-21 April,  2013.


8. Participated in industry defined problems (IDP) by DOW Chemicals, at Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India, 14 -17 January, 2012.


9. Attended a five day Faculty Development program on Entrepreneurship   organized by NSTEBB Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India at Moradabad Institute of Technology, 8^th – 13^th, July 2010.


10. Attended a one day workshop on “Renewable Energy Technologies and Management for Industries and Agricultural” organized by Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Rural and Integral Technology, Delhi, 19^th Feb, 2007.


11. Attended a three day “Entrepreneurship awareness camp” organized by NSTEBB Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India,  FETRBS College Bichpuri Agra, 12^th – 14^th Sep, 2006


12. Training experience of 1 month from 14-06-2006 to 13-07-2006 in NTPC, Dibyapur, Auria.

Portfolio

1. Finishing School Coordinator (I, D)

2. Training & Placement (Executive officer, I)

3. Training & placement coordinator (D)

I= Institute

D=department

Research Projects

NA

Publications

Papers published in International Journals

1. Sanjay Srivastava, Naveen Solanki, Pravakar Mohanty, Krunal A. Shah, Jigisha K. Parikh, Ajay K. Dalai, Optimization and Kinetic Studies on Hydrogenation of Furfural to Furfuryl Alcohol over SBA-15 Supported Bimetallic Copper–Cobalt Catalyst, Catalysis Letters, 145 (2015) 816–823. (Impact Factor- 2.91) ISSN: 1572-879X; Springer Publication. (Citation: 23, Source: Google Scholar)


2. Sanjay Srivastava, Pravakar Mohanty, Jigisha K. Parikh, Ajay K. Dalai, S. S. Amritphale, Anup Khare, Cr-free Co-Cu/SBA-15 catalysts for hydrogenation of biomass derived unsaturated aldehyde to alcohol, Chinese Journal of Catalysis (2015) 36: 933-942. (Impact Factor- 2.62) ISSN · 1872-2067; Elsevier Publication. (Citation: 19, Source: Google Scholar)


3. Sanjay Srivastava, G. C. Jadeja, Jigisha Parikh, A versatile bi-metallic copper–cobalt catalyst for liquid phase hydrogenation of furfural to 2-methylfuran, RSC Advances, 6 (2016)1649-1658. (Impact Factor- 3.84)ISSN · 2046-2069; Royal Society of Chemistry Publication. (Citation: 21, Source: Google Scholar)


4. Sanjay Srivastava, G. C. Jadeja, Jigisha Parikh, Synergism studies on alumina-supported copper-nickel catalysts towards furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural hydrogenation, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 426 (2017) 244-256. (Impact Factor-3.958) ISSN: 1381-1169; Elsevier Publication. (Citation: 19, Source: Google Scholar)


5. Sanjay Srivastava, G. C. Jadeja, Jigisha Parikh, Influence of supports for selective production of 2,5-dimethylfuran via bimetallic copper?cobalt catalyzed 5-hydroxymethylfurfural hydrogenolysis, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 38 (2017) 699–709 (Impact Factor- 2.62) ISSN · 1872-2067; Elsevier Publication. (Citation: 3, Source: Google Scholar)


6. Sanjay Srivastava, G. C. Jadeja, Jigisha Parikh, Copper-cobalt catalyzed liquid phase hydrogenation of furfural to 2-methylfuran; An optimization, kinetics and reaction mechanism Study. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 132 (2018) 313-324 (Impact Factor- 2.538) ISSN · 0263-8762; Elsevier Publication. (Citation: 1, Source: Google Scholar)


7. Sanjay Srivastava, G. C. Jadeja, Jigisha Parikh, Optimization and Reaction Kinetics Studies on Copper-Cobalt Catalyzed Liquid Phase Hydrogenation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural to 2, 5-Dimethylfuran.International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering, 16 (2018) 1-16.    (I. F.-0.881) ISSN · 1542-6580; DE GRUYTER Publication.

 CONFERENCE PAPERS/POSTERS

1. An ORAL talk on “Synthesis of gasoline additives via catalytic hydrogenation of biomass derived furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural” in 2^nd Green and Sustainable Chemistry conference, Elsevier, at Berlin, Germany, 13-17 May 2017.


2. An ORAL Talk on “Aqueous phase rearrangement of furfuryl alcohol to cyclopentanone using supported metal catalysts” in APCAT-7 at the Hotel Lalit Mumbai, 17-21 Jan 2017.


3.  A poster presented on “Liquid Phase Hydrogenation of Furfural to 2-Methylfuran over Alumina Supported Bimetallic Copper-Cobalt Catalysts” in APCAT-7 at the Hotel Lalit Mumbai, 17-21 Jan 2017.


4. Sanjay Srivastava, G. C. Jadeja, Jigisha parikh, “Effect of supports on structure and activity of bi-metallic copper-cobalt catalysts for liquid phase hydrogenation of furfural to 2-methylfuran” presented a poster in Annual Summit on Research and Innovation at SVNIT surat 15^th Oct 2016.


5. Sanjay Srivastava, Jigisha Parikh, ‘Catalytic Up-gradation of bio-oil’, presented at International conference CHEMCON-2012.Student’Chapter, NIT Jalandhar Punjab December 27^th-30^th. 

Academic Project

NA

Patents

NA

Professional Institutional Memberships

NA

Expert lectures

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Awards

1. Travel grant of Rs.101912.00/- awarded by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi for an ORAL presentation of technical paper titled “Synthesis of gasoline additives via catalytic hydrogenation of biomass derived furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural” in “2nd Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference 2017” to be held during 14/05/2017 to 17/05/2017 at Berlin, Germany.


2. PhD fellowship Rs.25000/28000 awarded by MHRD, India from 26/12/2014 to 11/07/2016 for doing Full time research at Chemical Engineering department, SVNIT, Surat-India.