Ranjeet Utikar
Biography
Ranjeet Utikar is an Associate Professor in the Discipline of chemical engineering at Curtin University’s West Australian School of Mines: Mining, Energy, and Chemical Engineering.
He leads the SMILE (Sustainable Manufacturing and Intelligence process Engineering) lab at Curtin University. The focus is on sustainable energy, bioprocesses, manufacturing, scale-up, and process intensification.
Ranjeet has extensive professional experience in technology development in chemical/ oil and gas, resources, and industrial biotechnology sector. His work in the area of industrial flow modelling has resulted into direct measurable benefits to the chemical, environmental, and auto industry and has been incorporated into proprietary commercial modelling and design systems.
He has worked with several multinationals on modeling, troubleshooting, optimization of various unit operations as well as process development.
He has published more than 100 peer reviewed research papers in premier international journals as well as has presented his work in more than 50 conferences and symposia. Dr. Utikar has previously worked at CSIR-NCL (premier research laboratory of India), University of Twente, and DSM Netherlands. He is also an entrepreneur and is a founder of two companies: Tridiagonal Solutions, and Vivira Process Technologies Pvt. Ltd..
Awards
- 2019 |Overall Winner, Commercial Innovation Award, Curtin University
- 2018 |Overall Winner, Imagine Chemistry, AkzoNobel
- 2018 |Excellence in Review Award, I&EC Research
- 2017 |Commercial Innovation Award, Curtin University
- 2010 |ORD Award for Early Career Researcher, Curtin University
- 2008 |Borealis student innovation award for best PhD thesis
- 2007 |Best poster at CAMURE-6 and ISMR-5
- 2002 |Senior Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- 2002 |S K Mitra Memorial Award for best paper, Institute of Chemical Engineers (India)
- 1998 |Best presentation award, Chemcon'98
Recent Publications
- Wong J C Q , Sun B , Shah M , Utikar R P , Pareek VAIChE Journal , 71 (10) : e18925 , 2025
- Arguello M E , Labanda N A , Calo V M , Gumulya M , Utikar R , Derksen JJournal of Energy Storage , 62 : 106854 , 2023
- Bhatelia T J , Sun B , Utikar R P , Pareek V K , Evans G M , Tade M OUs11602726b2 , 2023
- Ranade V V , Utikar R P , eds.Multiphase flows for process industries: Fundamentals and applications.1 ed. Wiley , 2022
- Arguello M E , Labanda N A , Calo V M , Gumulya M , Utikar R , Derksen JJournal of Energy Storage , 53 : 104892 , 2022
- Arguello M E , Gumulya M , Derksen J , Utikar R , Calo V MJournal of Energy Storage , 50 : 104627 , 2022
- Ranade V V , Utikar R PWiley-VCH GmbH Weinheim, Germany , 2022
- Ranade V V , Utikar R PMultiphase Flows for Process Industries: Fundamentals and Applications , 2 : 589–632 , 2022
- Shah M T , Utikar R P , Pareek V KMultiphase Flows for Process Industries: Fundamentals and Applications , 2 : 289–357 , 2022
- Gumulya M , Utikar R , Pareek V , Evans G , Joshi JChemical Engineering Journal , 405 : 126615 , 2021