Gupta, A.
Reliance Industries Ltd., Jamnagar, India
Dr. Ajay Gupta is Assistant Vice President and heads the fixed-bed process development group of refining R&D at Reliance Industries Ltd. in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. He earned BCh and MS degrees and a PhD in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India. His experience includes the modeling and simulation of chemical processes, implementation of advanced process control strategies in FCC and crude distillation units in several refineries, development of reactor models for various chemical processes (including effect of scale) and the application of computational fluid dynamics for solving problems in the petroleum refining and petrochemical industries.
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