RISHABH MISHRA

Junior Year Undergraduate, Contact no.: (+91)8755958217

Chemical Engineering, E-mail: m.rishabh.iitr@gmail.com
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Skype id: mailtorishabhmishra@gmail.com

Area of Interest
Gas Hydrates, Energy and Sustainability, Biochemical Engineering.

Education
Degree Board/Institution CGPA / %
B.Tech, Chemical Engineering (6th Sem.) Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee 7.184
All India Senior School Examination Navyug School 81.2 %
All India Senior School Examination Navyug School 9.4

Project and Research Experience

Development of Thermo-Catalytic Technique for Gas Production from IIT Roorkee || ONGC
Hydrate bearing sediments Ongoing
Undergrad Researcher Dec. 2017 to Present
• Done a thorough review on hydrate dissociation techniques, along with formation processes.
• Compared the formation and dissociation behavior of gas hydrates in presence and absence of inhibitor.
• Analyzed the kinetic and equilibrium reaction models in the simulation of gas hydrate behavior in porous
media.
Influence of Inhibitors and Promotes on the Kinetics study of Gas Hydrate GHRTC, Panvel || ONGC
Experimental Study March’18
• Took an insight of Indian National Gas Hydrate Program.
• Determined the effect of different chemicals on the rate of formation and dissociation of methane hydrate.
• Constructed webinar presentation to outline the impact of inhibitors and promoter and introduced the
microwave and laser technology for dissociation of gas hydrate for the other research groups on the
project.
Automatic Irrigation System by Sensing Soil Moisture Content. Course: Instrumentation Design
Semester Project || Idea Presentation
• The developed a model of a distributed in-field sensor-based site-specific irrigation system offers the
potential to increase yield and quality while saving water.
• Presented the design and instrumentation of variable rate irrigation, wireless sensor network and software
for real-time in-field sensing and control of a site-specific linear-move irrigation system.
SEZ- Refinery Gasoline Stream Manager Program Development Reliance Industries || Jamnagar
Including Blending Operations
Summer Intern May to July, 2019
• Aim was to minimize the loss in terms opportunity cost in gasoline.
• Assist in supervising blending operation in Refinery and prepared an excel tool for better supervision.
• Observed the cases of quality give-away and found solutions to that.
Insight of Petroleum Refinery and Thermal Design of Equipment Engineers India || New Delhi
Vocational Trainee June to July,2017
• Took an insight of petroleum refinery and studied the heat exchangers design.
• Assigned to determine the heat gain or loss and the surface temperature of different refractories of insulated
combustion chambers/ fired heaters etc.
 Courses Undertaken
Practical Courses: Chemical Reaction Engineering, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer (I & II), Process Dynamics and Control,
Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Operations, Advanced Thermodynamics And Molecular Simulation, Biochemial Engineering.
Other Academic Courses: Materials and Energy Balance, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Energy Engineering, Chemical
Engineering Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, Industrial Instrumentation. Physical Chemistry, Engineering
Mathematics, Economics, Indian Novels in English.

Position of Responsibility & Extracurricular Activities

Swimming Team, Sports Council, IIT Roorkee May, 2018
o Got selected for IIT Roorkee Swimming Team.
Theater Artist, Dramatic Section, IIT Roorkee. Feb., 2018
o Performed in an institute stage play, based on death sentence and its process.
o Titled as “best dramabazz.”
Awarethon, Pride of a Runner. March, 2017
o Successfully completed 21 Km half marathon.
Event Manager, Thomso, Cultural Festival. Oct., 2017
o Led a 25member team as the Event manager of 'Abhivyakti'- one of the biggest institute level Dramatic
competition (2017).
Theater Artist, Zariya Theater Group, New Delhi. Oct., 2018
o Attended the workshop ‘Let’s Talk Theater’ hosted by ‘The Root- Performing Art Society’.
o Performed in a short play festival hosted by ‘The Root’.

Skills & Interests

Apparatus Handling: Working experience with Methane Hydrate Energy Exploration Rig.
Technical: Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, Unity, Adobe Illustrator and Programing in C++. Experience
with Comsol Multiphysics (simulation software).
Currently involved with Tough+ Hydrate (numerical code for hydrate simulation).
Language: Hindi (SRW), English (SRW), Sanskrit (RW)
Interests: Dramatics, Music (Instrumental), Swimming, Teaching Enthusiast

References
Professor C. B. Majumder
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
chandfch@iitr.ac.in
01332-285321