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Dr Ashutosh Namdeo

Designation : Senior Scientist & Assistant Professor of AcSIR(Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research)

Education : PhD: Chemical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) M.Tech: Chemical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi)

Contact Details: Chemical Engineering Group, Calorimetric Study Centre, CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat, Extn No. 2467

Email id : ashutosh[at]neist[dot]res[dot]in, ashutoshnamdeo83[at]gmail[dot]com

Research Interest

• Heterogeneous catalytic reaction/Reaction Engineering, Green Technologies and Environment sustainable processes, Alternative green sources for energy and chemicals

• Reaction engineering and catalytic studies on Bio-oil up-gradation (Bio-oil from catalytic pyrolysis of Biomass)- Funding Agency-DST (PI)-((~40.35 Lakh INR- Completed)
• Ammonia from dinitrogen at ambient condition by new advanced material: a potential energy saving process than Haber-Bosch (FBR), (Co-PI) (1.2 Crore INR- Completed)
• Non-coking coal to coking coal- Industrial Project – TATA Jamshedpur, India (Team Member)- Completed
• Development for rapid biodegradability test of bioplastic correlating to the soil condition- DBT Project (~89 lakhs), Co-PI (Approved)
• Development of lignocellulolytic multienzyme production process for bamboo based biorefinery- NRL project, Co-PI (Approved)

• Ashutosh Namdeo, S.M. Mahajani, A.K.Suresh, Palladium catalysed oxidationof glycerol—Effect of catalyst support, J. Mol. Catal. A Chem. 421 (2016) 45–56. 
• C.S.Thatte, M.V.Rathnam, Ashutosh Namdeo,  Kiran Rane, Transesterification: Heterogeneously catalyzed solvent free synthesis of some new 3,3,5-trimethyl cyclohexyl anthranilic acid esters, Chem. Pap. (2017) 1–10.
• F.L. Hussain, M. Suri, A. Namdeo, G. Borah, D. Dutta, T. Goswami, P. Pahari, A mild aerobic oxidation of benzyl alcohols and oxidative decarboxylation of phenylacetic acids by cellulose-supported Ag-Ag 2 S nanoparticles, Catal. Commun. 124 (2019) 76–80.
• Devipriya Gogoi, Ashutosh Namdeo, Animes K Golder, Nageswara Rao Peela*, “Ag-doped TiO2 Photocatalysts with Effective Charge Transfer for Highly Efficient Hydrogen Production through Water Splitting” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 45, 4(2020),2729-2744
• Santosh Kumar Yedla, Bharath Velaga, Souradip Chowdary, Ashutosh Namdeo, Amines Kumar Golder, Nageswara Rao Peela * “1-Butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Bromide Functionalized Zeolites: Nature of Interactions and Catalytic Activity for Carbohydrates Conversion to Platform Chemicals”- Reaction chemistry & Engineering (2020),5, 1738-1750
• A. Unnarkat, A. Namdeo, and R. Bhoi, “Materials Today: Proceedings Bimetallic catalyzed decomposition of hydrogen peroxide – Kinetics, effect of support and reaction medium,” Mater. Today Proc., 2021.
• Ashutosh Namdeo, Jhaveri, J. H., Mahajani, S. M. & Suresh, A. K. Palladium catalyzed liquid phase oxidation of glycerol under alkaline conditions - Kinetic analysis and Modelling. Chem. Eng. J. 438, 135424 (2022).
• Ashutosh Namdeo, Jainesh Jhaveri, S.M. Mahajani, A.K. Suresh, “Catalytic Oxidation of Glycerol in Alkaline medium - Influence of Mass Transport Limitations” The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol 101, April 2023, 2060-2074
• Bhushan Shrirame, Sachin Rameshrao Geed *,Saeikh Zaffar Hassan; Jitendra Singh Verma; Kulbhushan Samald,Ashutosh Namdeo* ; Birendra Nath Rai, “Supercritical CO2 extraction of caraway (Carum carvi L.) seed: Optimization and parametric interaction studies using design of experiments” - in- Journal of CO2 Utilization,Volume 65, November 2022, 10219
• Rajashree Bhuyan, Ashutosh Namdeo, Jitendra Singh Verma, Sachin Rameshrao Geed “Isolation of indole biodegrading bacterial species from petroleum contaminated site of northeast India: Growth kinetics and crude oil biodegradation assessment”Journal of Water Process Engineering, Volume52, April 2023, 103544
• Mrinaly Suri, Ujwal Pratim Saikia, Farhaz Liaquat Hussain, Pankaj Das, Ashutosh Namdeo*, Pallab Pahari* “Synthesis of dihydroquinazolines at room temperature using a copper oxide supported on silica (CuO/SiO2) catalyst” – Current Organic Chemistry, Vol 27, 2023.
• Pawan Baghmare, Ashutosh Namdeo, Vishal Thakur, Pradeep Kumar, Jitendra Singh Verma*, Sachin Rameshrao Geed*, “Advancements in lignocellulolytic multienzyme bioprocesses for sustainable biofuels and biochemicals: strategies, innovations, and future prospects”- Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (Springer Nature), 23 Oct 2024
• Athparia, Mondita; Saikia, Nabajyoti; Namdeo, Ashutosh; Garg, Ankit; Sarangi, Prakash Kumar; Kataki, Rupam; “Kinetic analysis and pyrolysis behavior of organic fraction of municipal solid waste towards the production of renewable fuel: A sustainable approach to resource recovery for circular economy” -Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy (Elsevier), 42, 2024, 101822.

• Ashutosh Namdeo, S.M. Mahajani, A.K. Suresh, Pd Catalyzed Oxidation of Glycerol: Effect of Different Supports, in: AIChE Annu. Meet. Conf. Proceeding, San Francisco, 2013.
• Ashutosh Namdeo, D. Manisaran, S.M. Mahajani, A.K. Suresh, A. Sarkar, Active Metal Surface Area: PULSE Chemisorption, TemeraturePrograme Technique and Cyclic Voltammetry, in: AIChE Annu. Meet. Conf. Proceeding, San Francisco, 2013.
• Ashish P. Unnarkat, Ashutosh Namdeo, S.M. Mahajani, A.K. Suresh., Palladium Catalyzed Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide in Alkaline Medium, 7th Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis, Mumbai,2017
• Ashutosh Namdeo, Jainesh Jhaveri, S.M. Mahajani, A.K. Suresh, Effect of mass transfer limitation on catalytic activity and selectivity for oxidation of glycerol, The 25th International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering, Florence, Italy 2018
• Jainesh H. Jhaveri, Ashutosh Namdeo, Sanjay M. Mahajani, A. K. Suresh * “Tuning the activity and selectivity of glycerol oxidation by changing the oxidation states of palladium in the supported palladium catalyst”The 8th Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT-8), Bangkok, Thailand, 2019.
• Ashutosh Namdeo, Jainesh H. Jhaveri, Sanjay M. Mahajani, A. K. Suresh* “Glycerol oxidation over supported palladium -- Influence of mass transport limitations on reaction performance” The 8th Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT-8), Bangkok, Thailand, 2019.
• T Aziz, A Namdeo* “Strategies on Catalytic Up-gradation of Bio-oil”MATCON 2019, Kochi, India.
• Sabnam Azad,T Aziz, A Namdeo* “Synthesis of iron supported carbon catalyst using biomass resources for N2 reduction reaction” ESTEC 2020, Jorhat, India.
• T Aziz, Sabnam Azad,B Saha, A Namdeo* “Synthesis of low-cost catalyst for up-gradation of bio-oil produced by biomass pyrolysis” ESTEC 2020, Jorhat, India.
• Ashutosh Namdeo, JH Jhaveri, SM Mahajani, AK Suresh, Pd-catalyzed glycerol oxidation under alkaline condition: Experiment and kinetic modelling, The 26th International Conference on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE 26), New Delhi, India 2021.

• Tariq Aziz, Shabnam Azad, Sidharth P. Nair, Jitendra Singh Verma, Ashish P. Unnarkat, Sharadwata Pan, Ashutosh Namdeo*, “Chapter 3 - Potential risk and safety concern of nanomaterials used for wastewater treatment”, Handbook of Nanomaterials for Wastewater Treatment, Elsevier,2021, Pages 59-83, ISBN 9780128214961(Citation-2)
• Sidharth P. Nair, Tariq Aziz, Dhanjit Das, Jayant J. Bora, Ashish P. Unnarkat, Ashutosh Namdeo*, “Chapter 10 - Production and applications of biochar, Editor(s): Hu Li, S. Saravanamurugan, Ashok Pandey, Sasikumar Elumalai, “Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals”, Elsevier, 2022, Pages 263-286, ISBN 9780128244197. (Citation-1)
• Gyanab Konwar, Vishal Thakur, Pawan Baghmare, Jitendra Singh Verma, Sachin Rameshrao Geed*, Ashutosh Namdeo*“Chapter 9- Biochemical Conversion and Cultivation Strategies for Microalgae Biomass: Challenges and Future Prospects in Biofuel Production” in Microalgal Biofuels Sustainable Production and Conversion, Elsevier, 2025.

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