DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Research Assistants

Mr. Sameer Punnapala Graduate research and teaching assistant  C-Block, Room No: 02 Office: +971 2 60 75311 E-mail: spunnapala@pi.ac.ae

Education:

Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut (NIT), India (2010)

Profile:

Mr. Sameer graduated from National Institute of Technology-Calicut in 2010 with Distinction. He has joined PI in Fall 2010 and is currently working on Asphaltene Modeling under the supervision of Dr. Francisco Vargas. Sameer has undergone in-plant training at Fertilizers and Travancore Chemicals Limited (FACT), India and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), India. He was the Student Chapter Secretary of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) at NIT-Calicut (2008-2010).

National Conference Presentations:

• Sameer.P and Suresh Kumar, “Effluent Treatment in Petrochemical Industries”, National Conference on Chemical and Biological Waste Treatment Processes for Green Environment at Trivandrum, 25-26 June 2010, Kerala.
• Sameer.P and Dr. V.Sivasubramanian, “Performance of Adsorption in the purification of Mineral Oils”, ChEM’09 – Kerala State Chemical Engineers Conference at BPCL-Kochi Refinery, 05-06 June 2009.
• Arun.K, Sameer.P and Dr. G.Unnikrishnan, “Nanofiller Reinforced Poly (Ethylene-Co-Vinyl Acetate) Composites”, ChEM’09 – Kerala State Chemical Engineers Conference at BPCL-Kochi Refinery, 05-06 June 2009.

 Projects:

• Application of Nanotechnology in Fuels (part of 250,000 $ funded project by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited R & D Division)
• Effluent Treatment in Petrochemical Industries
• Recovery of Ammonia from Latex
• Modeling of Asphaltene Phase Behavior (in progress, funded by ADCO)