Publications
Conversion of waste plastic into low-carbon olefins: Directly producing C2 -C4 light olefins from low-density polyethylene waste using a Cu/ZSM-5 catalyst, Himanshu Raghav, Laxmi Sah, Bhanu Joshi, Rahul Tiwari, Prem Lama, Bal Rajaram, Bipul Sarkar, Green Chemistry, (2025) Just Published [HTML]
Improved Styrene Yield from Thermocatalytic Disintegration of Waste Styrofoam over Ceria Nanospheres, Bhanu Joshi, Poorna Tyagi, Anjali Dimri, Aishwarya Juyal, Ashok Kumar Yadav, Bhanu Prasad Vempatapu, Omvir Singh, Bipul Sarkar, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 13 (2025) 14928 [HTML]
Effect of synergy on selective low-temperature dehydrogenation of propane to propylene over a defect-induced copper titanium catalyst, Himanshu Raghav, Tuhin Suvra Khan, AV Sri Jyotsna, Piyush Gupta, Shailendra Tripathi, Bipul Sarkar, RSC Applied Interfaces, 2 (2025) 984 [HTML]
Enrichment of Aromatic Hydrocarbon from Hydrotreated Light Coker Gas Oil over a Bimetallic Zeolite Catalyst, Bhanu Joshi, Subham Singhal, Ashok Kumar Yadav, Bhanuprasad Vempatapu, Ankit Agarwal, Navin Gopinathan, Omvir Singh, Bipul Sarkar, ChemCatChem, 17(2025) e00424 [HTML]
Catalytic pyrolysis of low-density waste polyethylene into light olefins and hydrogen over manganese-supported alumina, Himanshu Raghav, Bhanu Joshi, KDP Lakshmee Kumar, Sanat Kumar, Bipul Sarkar, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 13 (2025) 115254 [HTML]
Production of renewable aromatics from tree-borne oils (TBO): Advances and future prospects, Omvir Singh, Bhanu Joshi, Rahul Tiwari, Reena Goyal, Rafael Luque, Chanchal Samanta, Bipul Sarkar, Chemical Engineering Journal, 505 (2025) 159387 [HTML]
Highly Efficient Production of 2,3-Pentanedione form Condensation of Bio-Derived Lactic Acid over Polymorphic ZrO2, Neha Dhiman, Moses Abraham Abraham Bokinala, Deepti Agrawal, Sudhakara Reddy Yenumala, Jyoti Porwal, Bipul Sarkar, Green Chem. 26 (2024) 8330 [HTML]
Enhanced Light Olefin Production from CO2 over Potassium Promoted Fe–Co Bimetallic ZrO2 Supported Catalysts, Himanshu Raghav, Chandrashekar Pendem, Shailendra Tripathi, Sanat Kumar, Bipul Sarkar, Fuel, Just Publish
Advancing light olefin production: Exploring pathways, catalyst development, and future prospects, Omvir Singh, Hafila S Khairun, Harsh Joshi, Bipul Sarkar, Navneet Kumar Gupta, Fuel, 379 (2024) 132992 [HTML]
Renewable Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Waste Cooking Oil over Hierarchical Imidazole Supported Zeolite, Bhanu Joshi, Omvir Singh, Ankit Agrawal, Neha Dhiman, Bhanu Prasad Vempatapu, Navin Gopinathan, Anjan Ray, Bipul Sarkar, J. Mater. Chem. A, 12 (2024) 12733 [HTML]
Greener production of styrene via low-temperature dehydration of phenethyl alcohol over Co-supported P/ZrO2, Neha Dhiman, Bhanu Joshi, Sudhakara Reddy Yenumala, Omvir Singh, Rajaram Bal, Anjan Ray, Bipul Sarkar, Chemical Engineering Journal, 480 (2024) 148005 [HTML]
Sustainable Bioaromatics from Sapium Oil over Encaged AlPO4 Zeolite Material: A Feasibility Study, Omvir Singh, Akshata Vijay Ramteke, Bhanu Joshi, Bhanu Prasad Vempatapu, Kamal Kishore Pant, Anjan Ray, and Bipul Sarkar, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c05236 [HTML]
Production of Acrylic Acid from Bio-Derived Lactic acid over a Defect-Rich Molybdenum Phosphosulfide Catalyst, Neha Dhiman, Sudhakara Reddy Yenumala, Deepti Agrawal, Ankit Pandey, Jyoti Porwal, Bipul Sarkar, Chemical Engineering Journal, 466 (2023) 143240 [HTML]
Sustainable Production of Styrene from Catalytic Recycling of Polystyrene over Potassium Promoted Fe-Al2O3 Catalyst, Bhanu Joshi, Himanshu Raghav, Ankit Agrawal, Bhanu Vempatapu, Anjan Ray, Bipul Sarkar, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2023,7, 1256-1264 [HTML]
Catalytic Cracking of Yeast Borne Single Cell Oil for the Production of Small-Chain Olefins over PtSn/Alumina Catalyst, Ankit Agrawal, Neha Bansal, Himanshu Raghav, Arijit Jana, Reena Goyal, Debashish Ghosh, Thallada Bhaskar, Bipul Sarkar, Green Chemistry, 25 (2023) 728-735. [HTML]
Low-temperature selective production of propylene from non-oxidative dehydrogenation of propane over unconventional Zr/ZK-5 catalysts, Ankit Agrawal, Omvir Singh, B Moses Abraham, Sudhakara Reddy Yenumala, Anjan Ray, Bipul Sarkar, Fuel Processing Technology, 235 (2022) 107362. [HTML]​
Low-Temperature Nonoxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane over Sn-promoted Mo-Y Zeolite: Catalytic performance and nature of the active sites, Ankit Agrawal, Omvir Singh, Ashok Kumar Yadav, Shailendra Tripathi, Anjan Ray, Vivek Pawar, Bipul Sarkar, Fuel, 323 (2022) 124350. [HTML]
A Comprehensive Review on the Synthesis Techniques of Porous Materials for Gas Separation and Catalysis, Vikrant Sharma, Ankit Agrawal, Omvir Singh, Reena Goyal, Bipul Sarkar, Navin Gopinathan, Sarang P Gumfekar, The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, (2022), 100, 2022, 2653–2681. [HTML]
Gasification of hydrolysis lignin with CO2 in the presence of Fe and Co compounds, Artem A Medvedev, Alexander L Kustov, Daria A Beldova, Alexei V Kravtsov, Konstantin B Kalmykov, Bipul Sarkar, Egor M Kostyukhin, Leonid M Kustov, Mendeleev Communications, 32 (2022) 402-404. [HTML]
Integration of Zeolite@Metal–Organic Framework: A Composite Catalyst for Isopropyl Alcohol Conversion to Aromatics, Omvir Singh, Ankit Agrawal, B. Moses Abraham, Reena Goyal, Chandrashekar Pendem, B. Sarkar, Materials Today Chemistry, 24 (2022) 100796. [HTML]
Process development for crystalline xylitol production from corncob biomass by Pichia caribbica, A.S. Diptarka Dasgupta, Bipul Sarkar, Snehal More, DebashishGhosh, Thallada Bhaskar, Anjan Ray, Food and Bioproducts Processing, 133 (2022) 45. [HTML​]
Encaged Cu2+/Co2+ zeolite materials: Efficient and reusable catalysts for oxidation of phenol, K. Akinlolu, B. Joshi, H. Raghav, P. Rawat, M. Kumar, B. Sarkar, S. Tripathi, Current Research in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 5 (2022) 100310. [HTML​]
Process development for detoxification of corncob hydrolysate using activated charcoal for xylitol production, V. Ahuja, S. Kshirsagar, P. Ghosh, B. Sarkar, A. Sutar, S. More, D. Dasgupta, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 10 (2022) 107097. [HTML​]
Production of renewable aromatics from jatropha oil over multifunctional ZnCo/ZSM-5 catalysts, O. Singh, A. Agrawal, N. Dhiman, B.P. Vempatapu, K. Chiang, S. Tripathi, B. Sarkar, Renewable Energy, 179 (2021) 2124-2135. [HTML​]
Enhanced CO2 utilization via methane tri-reforming over Ru incorporated Co/MgO-Al2O3 catalyst: Influence of La and Ce promoters, K.L. Kumar, B.N. Naidu, B. Sarkar, P. Mondal, K. Ghosh, V. Prasad, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9 (2021) 105949. [HTML​]
Zeolite-Y Encapsulated Copper (II) and Cobalt (II) Species as Hybrid Nano-catalysts: Structural and Catalytic Aspects, K Akinlolu, H.R., B. Joshi, M. Kumar, B. Sarkar, S. Tripathi, Journal of Catalyst & Catalysis, 8 (2021) 19-33. [HTML​]
Fe-decorated hierarchical molybdenum carbide for direct conversion of CO2 into ethylene: Tailoring activity and stability, H. Raghav, L.N.S.K., N. Mishra,B. Joshi, R. Goyal, A. Agrawal, B. Sarkar, Journal of CO2 Utilization, 50 (2021) 101607. [HTML​]
Synthesis of sub-nanometric Cu2O catalysts for Pd-free C–C coupling reactions, A. Agrawal, R. Goyal, B.M. Abraham, O. Singh, S. Tripathi, M.K. Poddar, R. Bal, B. Sarkar, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 6 (2021) 929-936. [HTML​]
Dehydrogenation of propane in the presence of CO2 on Cr (3%)/SiO2 catalyst under supercritical conditions, M.A. Tedeeva, A.L. Kustov, P.V. Pribytkov, N.D. Evdokimenko, B. Sarkar, L.M. Kustov, Mendeleev Communications, 30 (2020) 195-197. [HTML​​]
Renewable Aromatics from Tree-Borne Oils over Zeolite Catalyst Promoted by Transition Metals, O. Singh, A. Agrawal, T. Selvaraj, I. Ghosh, B.P. Vempatapu, B. Viswanathan, R. Bal, B. Sarkar, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, (2020). [HTML​​]
​Advantages and limitations of catalytic oxidation with hydrogen peroxide: from bulk chemicals to lab scale process, R. Goyal, O. Singh, A. Agrawal, C. Samanta, B. Sarkar, Catalysis Reviews, (2020) 1-57. [HTML​​]
​​CNx stabilized Ni-Ga nanoparticles for CO2 hydrogenation: Role of preparation methods, R. Goyal, W. J. Lee, S. Sameer, B. Sarkar, K. Chiang, A. Bordoloi, Catalysis Today, 2020, 343, 48-55. [HTML​​]
Converting Lignocellulosic Pentosan-Derived Yeast Single Cell Oil into Aromatics: Biomass to Bio-BTX, Omvir Singh, Tripti Sharma, Indrajit Ghosh, Diptarka Dasgupta, Bhanu Prasad Vempatapu, Saugata Hazra, Alexander L Kustov, Bipul Sarkar, Debashish Ghosh, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 7 (15), 2019, 13437–13445 [HTML]
Ag and WOx Nanoparticles Embedded in Mesoporous SiO2 for Cyclohexane Oxidation, Reena Goyal, Bipul Sarkar, Siddharth Sameer, Arijit Bag, Ankur Bordoloi, ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2019, 2, 9, 5989-5999. [HTML​​]
Supercritical methanol as an effective medium for producing asphaltenes-free light fraction oil from vacuum residue, W. Kwek, M. K. Khan, B. Sarkar, J. Kim, J. Supercritical Fluids, 2018, 133, 184-191. [HTML​​]
​K-Promoted Pt-Hydrotalcite catalyst for production of H2 by Aqueous phase reforming of Glycerol, C Pendem, B Sarkar, N Siddiqui, LNSK Konathala, C Baskar, R Bal, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6 (2), 2122–2131. [HTML​​]
Synthesis of AgWCNx nanocomposite for one-step conversion of Cyclohexene to Adipic Acid and its mechanistic studies, R. Goyal, S. Sameer, B. Sarkar, A. Bag, N. Singhal, A. Bordoloi, Chem. Eur. J., 2017, 23, 16555-16563. [HTML​​​]
​Role of pyridinic-nitrogen on base catalyzed Knoevenagel condensation over pristine CNx, R. Goyal, B. Sarkar, S. Sameer, N. Singhal, A. Bordoloi, ChemistrySelect, 2017, 2, 8086-8071. [HTML​​​]
​Effective vacuum residue upgrading using sacrificial nickel(II) dimethylglyoxime complex in supercritical methanol, B. Sarkar, W. Kwek, D. Verma, J Kim, Appl. Catal. A: Gen, 2017, 545, 148-158. [HTML​​​]
​MoO3 Nanoclusters Decorated on TiO2 Nanorods for Oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene. B. Sarkar, R. Goyal, L.N.S. Konathala, C. Pendem, T. Sasaki, R. Bal, Appl. Catal. B: Env, 2017, 217, 637-649. [HTML​​​]
​Simultaneous breaking and conversion of petroleum emulsions into synthetic crude oil with low impurities. M. K. Khan, B. Sarkar, H. Zeb, M. Yi, J. Kim, Fuel, 2017, 199, 135-144. [HTML​​​]
​Highly selective transfer hydrogenation of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds using Cu based nanocatalysts. N. Siddiqui, B. Sarkar, C. Pendem, R. Khatun, L.N.S. Sivakumar, A. Bordoloi, T. Sasaki, R. Bal, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2017, 7, 2828-2837. [HTML​​​]
​A Non-Catalytic, Supercritical Methanol Route for Producing High-Yield Saturated and Aromatic Compounds from De-oiled Asphaltenes. W. Kwek, M. K. Khan, B. Sarkar, R. Insyani, M. Yi, J. Kim, J. Supercritical Fluids, 2017, 120, 140-150. [HTML​​​]