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Kumar, P.

Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Center, Hindustan Petroleum, Bangalore, India

Pramod Kumar is a Deputy General Manager in the Corporate R&D Center of Hindustan Petroleum in Bengaluru, India. He has more than 18 yr of experience in process design, research, engineering and technical services in the areas of FCC, visbreaking and delayed coking. He is responsible for commercialization of FCC feed nozzles and catalytic visbreaking processes. Mr. Kumar holds an MTech degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur. He also holds more than 10 patents in the area of FCC process and catalyst.

Maximize FCC product yields with a specialty catalyst formulation

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2020
Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Center, Hindustan Petroleum: Kukade, S.  |  Kumar, P.  |  Ramachandrarao, B.
Catalysts / Refining / Petrochemicals / Asia/Pacific

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is one of the most important conversion processes used in petroleum refineries and has been in use for more than 75 yr.

Production of renewable fuels in existing refinery assets: A cost-effective coprocessing strategy

Hydrocarbon Processing / January 2018
Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL): Kumar Dhar, P.  |  Meesala, L.  |  Valavarasu, G.  |  Rao, P. V. C.  |  Sriganesh, G.
Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Center, Hindustan Petroleum: Kumar, P.
Refining / Biofuels / Diesel / Hydrotreating / Treating

Vegetable oils are a renewable biomass resource used in the production of biofuels. Biodiesel production from transesterification of vegetable oils (fatty acid methyl ester, or FAME) is the primary route for producing biofuels from vegetable oils.

Visbreaking technology: Is it obsolete, or is there potential for upgrade?

Hydrocarbon Processing / April 2016
Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Center, Hindustan Petroleum: Kumar, P.
Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL): Rao, P. V. C.  |  Choudary, N. V.  |  Sriganesh, G.  |  Singh, P.  |  Kumar, K. M.
Refining / Asia/Pacific

Visbreaking technology is a well-known, simple thermal cracking process for residual oils.

Improve FCC margins by processing more vacuum residue in feed

Hydrocarbon Processing / December 2015
Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL): Shidhaye, H.  |  Kukade, S.  |  Rao, P. V. C.  |  Choudary, N. V.
Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Center, Hindustan Petroleum: Kumar, P.
Process Optimization / Refining / Asia/Pacific / Economics / Engineering & Design

With the greater processing of heavy crude oils in refineries, the importance of fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCUs) has increased.

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