Patidar, P.

Reliance Industries Ltd., Jamnagar, Gujarat, India

Prafull Patidar is a Senior Manager in the R&D division of Reliance Industries Ltd. He has 9 yr of industrial experience in separation processes, and in the process modeling and simulation of petrochemical and refinery units. Dr. Patidar earned a PhD in reactive distillation from IIT–Bombay.

Debottlenecking of an extractive distillation column for aromatics recovery: Effect of feed pre-vaporization

Rewatkar, M., Patidar, P., Patil, R., Gupta, A., Garg, M., Reliance Industries Ltd.

Extractive distillation is one of the most efficient techniques to separate aromatic and non-aromatic hydrocarbons by increasing the relative volatility of the mixture in the presence of a solvent.