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Personal profile
Biography
Professor Sankar Bhattacharva has a strong background in industry and academia. Having started his career in India as a design and commissioning engineer for coal-fired power stations, he then worked in Thailand on the utilisation of agro-forestry residues for gaseous fuels production. Professor Bhattacharva came to Australia as a Principal Research Engineer with Lignite CRC and then as a Principal Process Engineer with Anglo Coal Australia. He then moved to France as a Senior Energy Analyst with the International Energy Agency in Paris managing their Cleaner Fossil Fuels program.
At Monash University, Professor Bhattacharva’s research area includes advanced coal and biomass utilisation for power and fuels production through gasification and combustion and biofuels including algae. He leads a group of 16 PhD students and two research fellows, and through his career has supervised 12 PhD students to completion.
He advises the Japanese Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry (METI) on low-rank coal utilisation and Clean Coal Victoria. He also advises and contributes to the International Energy Agency’s flagship publications and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as an expert reviewer. He also acts as a reviewer on refereed journals including Jülich - Germany and the South Africa Research Council. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy and a Member of the American Chemical Society.
Research interests
Professor Bhattacharva’s research interests includes advanced coal and biomass utilisation for power and fuels production through gasification and combustion, and the production of biofuels utilising biomass algae.
His research group is currently investigating:
- Entrained flow gasification - brown coal/biomass/algae/MSW and ash viscosity
- Liquid fuels and chemicals from brown coal
- Coal drying
Monash teaching commitment
ENE3048 - Energy and the environment
CHE5299 – Biorefinery Processes – MS level
CHE5188 - Advanced Reaction Engineering – MS level
Research area keywords
- Gasification
- combustion
- biofuels
- catalysis
- coal
- biomass
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Research Output
A study on the performance of coke resistive cerium modified zeolite Y catalyst for the pyrolysis of scrap tyres in a two-stage fixed bed reactor
Khalil, U., Vongsvivut, J., Shahabuddin, M., Samudrala, S. P., Srivatsa, S. C. & Bhattacharya, S., 1 Feb 2020, In : Waste Management. 102, p. 139-148 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Investigating the dynamic structural changes on Cu/CeO2 catalysts observed during CO2 hydrogenation
Sripada, P., Kimpton, J., Barlow, A., Williams, T., Kandasamy, S. & Bhattacharya, S., Jan 2020, In : Journal of Catalysis. 381, p. 415-426 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Citation
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A review on catalytic pyrolysis of microalgae to high-quality bio-oil with low oxygeneous and nitrogenous compounds
Li, F., Srivatsa, S. C. & Bhattacharya, S., 1 Jul 2019, In : Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 108, p. 481-497 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Other › peer-review
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Citations
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Cellulose fast pyrolysis for platform chemicals: assessment of potential targets and suitable reactor technology
Parihar, A. & Bhattacharya, S., 26 Nov 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
Comparison of entrained flow CO2 gasification behaviour of three low-rank coals – Victorian brown coal, Beulah lignite, and Inner Mongolia lignite
Xu, T., Pisupati, S. V. & Bhattacharya, S., 1 Aug 2019, In : Fuel. 249, p. 206-218 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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