Dr. Gaurav Pandey

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining: 07/09/2020 - Regular

Department of Petroleum Engineering & Earth Sciences and School of Engineering

Papers published in journals: 8

Papers presented in conferences: 12

Citations: 115, h-index: 5 and i-10 index: 4

Academic Background 

EDUCATION

Program Institution/Board Year of Completion
Joint Ph.D. IIT Madras – NUS Singapore 2020

M Tech in Petroleum Engineering

 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 2015

B Tech in Mechanical Engineering

 Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow 2012
XII Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi 2007
X Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi 2005

Career Graph:

Honours and Achievements:

  • Top 2 in the M.Tech (Petroleum Engineering).
  • Gate 2013 qualified with Gate score 595 (AIR 1187).
  • School Topper in class X. (CBSE Examination).
  • Fourth Position in District in Class X.
  • Session chair at AOTULE Conference held at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
  • Best Paper Award received at ADCHE 2020 Conference held at UPES Dehradun.

Research:

  • Contribution: Published 8 Peer reviewed international journal, and 12 International conferences, reviewer of Applied Energy (Elsevier, Impact factor: 8.848) , Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering (Elsevier, Impact factor: 3.841) and Energy and Fuels (American Chemical Society, Impact factor: 3.421)
  • Interests: Gas Hydrates, Clean Energy, Energy storage, Flow Assurance, Rheology, Crystallography, Morphology, Enhanced oil recovery and drilling fluids, CO2 capture/storage, desalination

Recent Publications:

  • Gaurav Pandey, Jitendra S Sangwai*, High Pressure Rheological Studies of Methane Hydrate Slurries Formed from Water-Hexane, Water-Heptane, and Water-Decane Multiphase Systems. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering (Elsevier, IF: 3.841), 2020 vol. 81, 103365.
  • Gaurav Pandey, Hari Prakash Veluswamy, Jitendra S Sangwai, Praveen Linga*, Morphology study of mixed methane-tetrahydrofuran hydrates with and without the presence of salt. Energy and Fuels (American Chemical Society, IF: 3.421), 2019 vol. 33 (6), 4865-4876.
  • Gaurav Pandey, Gaurav Bhattacharjee, Hari Prakash Veluswamy, Rajnish Kumar, Jitendra S Sangwai, Praveen Linga*, Alleviation of foam formation in a surfactant driven gas hydrate system: insights via a detailed morphological study. Applied Energy Materials (American Chemical Society, IF: 4.473), 2018 vol. 1 (12), 6899-6911.
  • Gaurav Pandey, Asheesh Kumar, Hari Prakash Veluswamy Jitendra S Sangwai, Praveen Linga*, Morphological studies of mixed methane tetrahydrofuran hydrates in saline water for energy storage application. Energy Procedia (Elsevier), 2017 vol. 143, 786-791.
  • Gaurav Pandey, Praveen Linga, Jitendra S Sangwai*, High pressure rheology of gas hydrate formed from multiphase systems using modified coquette rheometer. Review of Scientific Instruments (American Institute of Physics, IF: 1.480), 2017 vol. 88, 025102.
  • Deepjyoti Mech, Gaurav Pandey, Jitendra S Sangwai*, Effect of NaCl, methanol and ethylene glycol on the phase equilibrium of methane hydrate in aqueous solutions of tetrahydrofuran (THF) and tetra-n-butyl ammonium bromide (TBAB). Fluid Phase Equilibria (Elsevier, IF: 2.838), 2015 vol. 402, 9-17.
  • Deepjyoti Mech, Gaurav Pandey, Jitendra S Sangwai*, Effect of molecular weight of polyethylene glycol (PEG) on the equilibrium dissociation pressures of methane hydrate system. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data (American Chemical Society, IF: 2.369), 2015, vol. 60 (6), 1878–1885.
  • Varun Govindarajan, Deepjyoti Mech, Gaurav Pandey, Jitendra S Sangwai*, Kinetics of methane hydrate formation in the presence of activated carbon and nano-silica suspensions in pure water. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering (Elsevier, IF: 3.841), 2015, vol. 26, 810-818.

Professional Memberships/Fellowship:

  • Society of Petroleum Engineers
  • NUS Research Scholarship
  • MHRD Research Scholarship
  • Gate Scholarship