Small-scale coal-to-chemicals can revitalize India’s petrochemicals industry, economy—Part 1

is a senior technologist at Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. He completed his PhD in physics from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2008 and his MSc in sensor systems technology from FH-Karlsruhe in Germany in 2003. Dr. Paluskar has been working with Tata Consulting Engineers since 2009 in the field of renewable and sustainable energy.

Dr. S. Sakthivel works as the Deputy General Manager in the Technology Group at TATA Consulting Engineers Ltd., located in Mumbai, India. His expertise on green chemicals, green fuels, energy transition, and decarbonization, with a key role in evaluating emerging technologies for commercialization. He has experience in process engineering, technology analysis, selection, and screening, along with techno-economic assessments, pilot project development, and process hazard analysis. His background also extends to basic, applied, and market research, as well as powder and science technology. Dr. Sakthivel is a prolific contributor, having authored several articles in both national and internationally peer-reviewed journals.

is chief technology officer (CTO) and senior vice president at Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) Ltd. He has a chemical engineering degree from ICT in Mumbai, India, with 25 years of extensive experience in refining, petrochemicals and technology management. Prior to joining TCE, he worked for Reliance Industries for 24 years. His last role at Reliance was chief of advanced technical services for Reliance’s Jamnagar refinery. He was instrumental in a significant debottlenecking of the original refinery and played a key role in concept-to-commissioning work of the second refinery at Jamnagar.