FACULTY PROFILE

Education
Ph D 2019 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
M Tech 2011 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
B Tech 2008 Institute of Engineering & Technology Lucknow, India 
Experience
Mar 2021 – Till Date Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi
Feb 2020 – Mar 2021 Guest Faculty, Harcourt Butler Technical University Kanpur, India
Jul 2019 – Dec 2019 Project Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
Jan 2017 – Jun 2019 Senior Student Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Jul 2008 – Aug 2009 Process Engineer, Jubilant Organosys Limited, Gajraula (U.P.), India

 

Research Interests
  • Economic and ‘Smart’ Control Structure Design
  • Design-Controllability Interaction in Integrated Chemical Processes
  • Modelling, Simulation and Control of Chemical Systems
Training / Workshop
  • Organized intensive short course on plantwide control, June 2014 at IIT Kanpur, for design/control engineers in the industry.
Journal Publications

V. Kumar, A. Anand and N. Kaistha, “Design and Control of a Vapour Recompression C3 Splitter”, Chem. Eng. Res. Des., 159, 410-423 (2020).

V. Kumar and N. Kaistha, "Invariants for Optimal Operation of a Reactor-Separator-Recycle Process", J. Process Control, 82, 1-12 (2019).

V. Kumar and N. Kaistha, "Inferential Self Optimizing Control of a Reactor-Separator-Recycle Process", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 58, 15209-15221 (2019).

V. Kumar and N. Kaistha, "Real Time Optimization of a Reactor-Separator-Recycle Process II: Dynamic Evaluation", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 58 (5), 1966-1977 (2019).

V. Kumar and N. Kaistha, "Real Time Optimization of a Reactor-Separator-Recycle Process I: Steady State Modelling", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 57 (37), 12429-12443 (2018).

A. Sahu, V. Kumar and N. Kaistha, “Conceptual Design and Plantwide Control of an Ethyl Acetate Process”, Chem. Eng. Process. Process Intensif., 126, 45-61 (2018).

S. S. Thakur, Ojasvi, V. Kumar and N. Kaistha, “Continuous Diisobutylene Manufacturing: Conceptual Process Design and Plantwide Control”, Comp. Chem. Eng., 97, 59-75 (2017).

V. Kumar and N. Kaistha, "Hill Climbing for Plantwide Control to Economic Optimum", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 53 (42), 16465-16475 (2014).

V. Kumar, B. Kiran, A. K. Jana, and A. N. Samanta, “A Novel Multi-stage Vapor Recompression Reactive Distillation with Intermediate Reboilers”, AIChE J., 59, 761-771 (2013).

Conference Publications

ACODS 2020: A. Anand, V. Kumar and N. Kaistha, “Vapor Recompression C3 Splitter: Design and Control, Feb 2020, IIT Madras, India.

AIChE Annual Meeting: V. Kumar and N. Kaistha, “Steady-State Real Time Optimization of Reactor-Separator-Recycle Process”, Oct 2017, Minneapolis, MN.

IFAC World Congress: V. Kumar and N. Kaistha, “Hill-Climbing for Economic Plantwide Control”, Aug 2014, Capetown, South Africa.

  • Best oral talk award in Chemical Engineering Research Scholars’ Day 2017, IIT Kanpur

Dr Vivek Kumar

Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
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