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    Dr Amit Kumar

    Petroleum Engineering
    Assistant Professor
    Ph D 2020 Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad
    IDD (B Tech & M Tech) 2015 Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad

     

    March 2021 – Till Date Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi
    October 2020 – March 2021 Assistant Professor, Presidency University, Bengaluru

     

    • Enhanced Oil Recovery
    • Reservoir Simulation
    1. N. Kumar, S. Ali, A. Kumar, A. Mandal, Design and formulation of surfactant stabilized O/W emulsion for application in enhanced oil recovery: effect of pH, salinity and temperature, Oil Gas Sci. Technol. – Rev. d’IFP Energies Nouv. 75 (2020) 72. doi:10.2516/ogst/2020066.
    2. A. Kumar, A. Mandal, Core-scale modelling and numerical simulation of zwitterionic surfactant flooding: Designing of chemical slug for enhanced oil recovery, J. Pet. Sci. Eng. 192 (2020) 107333. doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2020.107333.
    3. A. Kumar, A. Mandal, Critical investigation of zwitterionic surfactant for enhanced oil recovery from both sandstone and carbonate reservoirs: Adsorption, wettability alteration and imbibition studies, Chem. Eng. Sci. 209 (2019) 115222. doi:10.1016/j.ces.2019.115222.
    4. A. Kumar, R.K. Saw, A. Mandal, RSM optimization of oil-in-water microemulsion stabilized by synthesized zwitterionic surfactant and its properties evaluation for application in enhanced oil recovery, Chem. Eng. Res. Des. 147 (2019) 399–411. doi:10.1016/j.cherd.2019.05.034.
    5. A. Kumar, A. Mandal, Evaluation of Zwitterionic Surfactant for Applicability in Enhanced Oil Recovery, in: Day 3 Thu, April 11, 2019, SPE, 2019. doi:10.2118/194676-MS.
    6. N. Saxena, A. Kumar, A. Mandal, Adsorption analysis of natural anionic surfactant for enhanced oil recovery: The role of mineralogy, salinity, alkalinity and nanoparticles, J. Pet. Sci. Eng. 173 (2019) 1264–1283. doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2018.11.002.
    7. P. Pillai, A. Kumar, A. Mandal, Mechanistic studies of enhanced oil recovery by imidazolium-based ionic liquids as novel surfactants, J. Ind. Eng. Chem. 63 (2018) 262–274. doi:10.1016/j.jiec.2018.02.024.
    8. A. Kumar, A. Mandal, Characterization of rock-fluid and fluid-fluid interactions in presence of a family of synthesized zwitterionic surfactants for application in enhanced oil recovery, Colloids Surfaces A Physicochem. Eng. Asp. 549 (2018) 1–12. doi:10.1016/j.colsurfa.2018.04.001.
    9. S. Kumar, A. Kumar, A. Mandal, Characterizations of surfactant synthesized from Jatropha oil and its application in enhanced oil recovery, AIChE J. 63 (2017) 2731–2741. doi:10.1002/aic.15651.
    10. A. Kumar, A. Mandal, Synthesis and physiochemical characterization of zwitterionic surfactant for application in enhanced oil recovery, J. Mol. Liq. 243 (2017) 61–71. doi:10.1016/j.molliq.2017.08.032.
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