Dr. Nitin Somkuwar
Job Title: Senior Manager (Research and Development)
Company: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
Dr. Nitin Somkuwar is a Senior Manager (R&D) at the Corporate R&D Centre of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), India. With over 15 years of industrial and research experience, he specializes in polymeric membrane technology, gas separation, process modeling, advanced water treatment, process intensification and refinery process modeling. He has commercialized BharatH2Sep hydrogen recovery technology for petroleum refineries and vapor recovery systems for retail outlets. He holds a Ph.D. from the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune, and an M.Tech. from the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai, India. He has received several prestigious awards, including the “Innovator of the Year” award from the Government of India. He has authored numerous publications in leading international and national peer-reviewed journals and has presented his work at several international and national conferences.