Ranjeet Utikar

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Ranjeet Utikar is an Assosiate Professor in the Descipline of chemical engineering at Curtin University’s West Australian School of Mines: Mining, Energy, and Chemical Engineering.

He leads the SMILE (Sustainable Manufacturing and InteLligent process Engineering) lab at Curtin University. The focus is on sustainable energy, bioprocesses, process modeling, 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.

Interests

  • Innovation, spin-outs and start-up companies
  • Process development/ intensification, scale-up
  • Multiphase flows
  • Sustainable developments and applications in industrial biotechnology, energy, and water sector.

Experience

  • Since August 2008: Curtin University, Perth, Australia
  • Since February 2015: Founder, Director, Vivira Process Technologies Private Limited
  • August 2006 – March 2008: Founder, director Tridiagonal Solutions Pvt Ltd. (TSPL)
  • August 2002 – July 2006: Senior Research Fellow, CSIR-NCL
  • Jan 1999 – March 2001: Junior research scientist, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Awards

  • Overall winner Curtin commercial innovation award 2019
  • Overall winner Imagine Chemistry (representing Water Knight), AkzoNobel 2018
  • I&EC Research 2018 Excellence in Review Award
  • Curtin commercial innovation award 2017
  • Curtin University ORD Award for highest RPI points (ECR), 2010
  • Runner up prize for Best PhD Thesis, Borealis student innovation award, 2008
  • Second prize for best poster award at CAMURE-6 and ISMR-5, 2007
  • Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, 2002
  • S K Mitra Memorial Award to the second best technical paper published in the journal of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (India), 2002
  • Best presentation award for session Transport processes, Chemcon’98

Education

  • 2008, PhD Chemical Engineering, IITBombay, Mumbai, India.
  • 1997, BE Petrochemical Engineering, University of Pune, India.