P. Kumar

Pramod Kumar is a General Manager in HPCL’s corporate R&D center in Bangalore, India. He has 24 yr of experience in process design, research, engineering and technical services in FCC, delayed coking, biomass conversion processes, methane pyrolysis and catalyst scale-up. He earned an MTech degree in chemical engineering from IIT-Kanpur, India. Kumar is responsible for the commercialization of HPCL’s FCC feed nozzle, catalytic visbreaking process, and FCC catalyst and additives. He has > 30 patents in areas of FCC, crude-to-chemicals, catalyst, etc.