A. Kumar

Anil Kumar is the Executive Director (Technical) at Engineers India Ltd. (EIL), New Delhi, with more than 31 yrs of experience in process design, technology development and plant commissioning across the oil and gas, refining and petrochemical sectors. His career has been rooted in translating refinery concepts into operating assets, with a strong grounding in both design fundamentals and operational realities. Kumar’s expertise spans crude oil distillation, hydrotreating, hydrocracking and complex refinery configurations, with particular strength in refinery configuration studies and LP-based optimization modeling to evaluate feedstock flexibility, product slate optimization and energy efficiency. He has served as Group Lead and Technical Authority for several large and complex projects, including Dangote Refinery, HMEL, GAIL, etc., contributing across the full project lifecycle from early configuration studies to commissioning support. Kumar heads the R&D Division at EIL, leading indigenous technology development, process innovation and intellectual property creation, with a focus on improving refinery performance and addressing emerging energy-transition challenges. He earned a B.Tech degree in chemical engineering from Banaras Hindu University. The author can be reached at akumar@eil.co.in.