Use of neural networks for naphtha feed characterization in a cracker plant

Dr. Garimella Padmavathi is Senior General Manager in R&D at Reliance Industries Ltd. She works in thermal cracking, process modeling and simulation.

Raksh Vir Jasra, Senior VP (R&D) at Reliance Industries Ltd., is a world-renowned catalysis, adsorption and nanomaterials scientist. Dr. Jasra achieved his PhD from Indian Institute of Delhi (IIT), Delhi, his post graduate degree from Delhi University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine at London. He has developed 66 chemical processes, 27 of which were commercialized in industry. He has published 325 research articles and has 288 granted patents, including 68 U.S. patents. Dr. Jasra is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and Indian National Academy of Engineering, and was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Chemical Society. Dr. Jasra is also featured among the world’s top 2% of scientists in the field of physical chemistry for the years 2020 and 2021 as per a study by Stanford University.

Mrinali Modi is pursuing a chemical engineering degree at IIT Banarus. She contributed to this project during her training at Reliance.

K. K. Parmar works as an Assistant Vice President in the Technology Department at Reliance Industries Ltd., Vadodara. His focus is energy management and modeling and simulation. At present, he is pursuing his PhD research at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, focusing on thermal cracking.

Dr. Sukanta K. Dash works as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Chemical Engineering, PDPU, Gandhinagar, India. Dr. Dash has nearly 11 yr of academic experience, and 7 yr of research and industrial consultancy in carbon capture projects and floating storage LNG regasification projects.