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Rajnish Kumar is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of various topics within these domains. Major areas of work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems.

Rajnish Kumar's recent publications illustrate their research interests and scholarly output. Selected papers include:

  • Aerogels for water treatment: A review, 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Comprehensive Review on Exploration and Drilling Techniques for Natural Gas Hydrate Reservoirs, 2020, Energy & Fuels
  • Solidified Hydrogen Storage (Solid-HyStore) via Clathrate Hydrates, 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Gas Hydrate-Based Process for Desalination of Heavy Metal Ions from an Aqueous Solution: Kinetics and Rate of Recovery, 2020, ACS ES&T Water
  • Hydrothermal liquefaction of municipal solid wastes for high quality bio-crude production using glycerol as co-solvent, 2021, Bioresource Technology

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of their research career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Jitendra S. Sangwai (17 collaborations)
  • Praveen Linga (15 collaborations)
  • Omkar Singh Kushwaha (13 collaborations)
  • Chandan Sahu (10 collaborations)
  • Gaurav Bhattacharjee (8 collaborations)

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • Energy & Fuels (13 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (6 publications)
  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (5 publications)
  • ACS Engineering Au (4 publications)
  • Journal of Molecular Liquids (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • The clathrate hydrate process for post and pre-combustion capture of carbon dioxide.

    Praveen Linga;Rajnish Kumar;Peter Englezos

  • A review of the hydrate based gas separation (HBGS) process for carbon dioxide pre-combustion capture

    Ponnivalavan Babu;Praveen Linga;Rajnish Kumar;Peter Englezos

  • Synthesis of biodiesel in supercritical fluids

    Giridhar Madras;Chandana Kolluru;Rajnish Kumar

  • Gas hydrate formation from hydrogen/carbon dioxide and nitrogen/carbon dioxide gas mixtures

    Praveen Linga;Rajnish Kumar;Peter Englezos

  • Hydrogen storage in clathrate hydrates: Current state of the art and future directions

    Hari Prakash Veluswamy;Rajnish Kumar;Praveen Linga

  • Role of Surfactants in Promoting Gas Hydrate Formation

    Asheesh Kumar;Gaurav Bhattacharjee;B. D. Kulkarni;Rajnish Kumar

  • A new apparatus to enhance the rate of gas hydrate formation: Application to capture of carbon dioxide

    Praveen Linga;Rajnish Kumar;Rajnish Kumar;Ju Dong Lee;John Ripmeester

  • Rapid methane hydrate formation to develop a cost effective large scale energy storage system

    Hari Prakash Veluswamy;Alison Jia Hui Wong;Ponnivalavan Babu;Rajnish Kumar

  • Influence of contact medium and surfactants on carbon dioxide clathrate hydrate kinetics

    Asheesh Kumar;Tushar Sakpal;Praveen Linga;Rajnish Kumar

  • Pre-combustion capture of carbon dioxide in a fixed bed reactor using the clathrate hydrate process

    Ponnivalavan Babu;Rajnish Kumar;Praveen Linga

  • An innovative approach to enhance methane hydrate formation kinetics with leucine for energy storage application

    Hari Prakash Veluswamy;Asheesh Kumar;Rajnish Kumar;Praveen Linga

  • Capture of carbon dioxide from flue or fuel gas mixtures by clathrate crystallization in a silica gel column

    Adebola Adeyemo;Adebola Adeyemo;Rajnish Kumar;Rajnish Kumar;Praveen Linga;John Ripmeester

  • Enhanced clathrate hydrate formation kinetics at near ambient temperatures and moderate pressures: Application to natural gas storage

    Hari Prakash Veluswamy;Sharad Kumar;Rajnish Kumar;Pramoch Rangsunvigit

  • Structure and Kinetics of Gas Hydrates from Methane/Ethane/Propane Mixtures Relevant to the Design of Natural Gas Hydrate Storage and Transport Facilities

    Rajnish Kumar;Rajnish Kumar;Praveen Linga;Igor Moudrakovski;John A. Ripmeester

  • Incipient hydrate phase equilibrium for gas mixtures containing hydrogen, carbon dioxide and propane

    Rajnish Kumar;Hui-jie Wu;Peter Englezos

  • Structure and composition of CO2/H2 and CO2/H2/C3H8 hydrate in relation to simultaneous CO2 capture and H2 production

    Rajnish Kumar;Rajnish Kumar;Peter Englezos;Igor Moudrakovski;John A. Ripmeester

  • Carbon Dioxide Sequestration: Influence of Porous Media on Hydrate Formation Kinetics

    Gaurav Bhattacharjee;Asheesh Kumar;Tushar Sakpal;Rajnish Kumar

  • Unusual behavior of propane as a co-guest during hydrate formation in silica sand: Potential application to seawater desalination and carbon dioxide capture

    Ponnivalavan Babu;Rajnish Kumar;Praveen Linga

  • Effect of the amino acid l-histidine on methane hydrate growth kinetics

    Gaurav Bhattacharjee;Nilesh Choudhary;Asheesh Kumar;Suman Chakrabarty

  • HBGS (hydrate based gas separation) process for carbon dioxide capture employing an unstirred reactor with cyclopentane

    Leong Chuan Ho;Ponnivalavan Babu;Rajnish Kumar;Praveen Linga

  • Medium pressure hydrate based gas separation (HBGS) process for pre-combustion capture of carbon dioxide employing a novel fixed bed reactor

    Ponnivalavan Babu;Rajnish Kumar;Praveen Linga

Frequent Co-Authors

Praveen Linga
Praveen Linga National University of Singapore
Peter Englezos
Peter Englezos University of British Columbia
John A. Ripmeester
John A. Ripmeester National Research Council Canada
Jitendra S. Sangwai
Jitendra S. Sangwai Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Igor L. Moudrakovski
Igor L. Moudrakovski Max Planck Society
Giridhar Madras
Giridhar Madras Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Swaranjit Singh Cameotra
Swaranjit Singh Cameotra Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Jayant M. Modak
Jayant M. Modak Indian Institute of Science
Dennis D. Klug
Dennis D. Klug National Research Council Canada
Thalappil Pradeep
Thalappil Pradeep Indian Institute of Technology Madras

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