Chemical Engineering

Faculty Details

Sandip Kumar Lahiri Associate Professor
Joined the Institute in 2019
sklahiri[dot]che[at]nitdgp[dot]ac[dot]in
Education

Listed in World Who's Who  (2010,2012 and 2015 edition) as significant contributor  & achiever in chemical  industry across globe

Innovation Ambassador awarded by Ministry of Education, Govt of India

  1. Ph.D in the year of 2010 from NIT Durgapur
  2. M.Tech in Chemical Engineering in the year of 1994 from IIT Kharagpur
  3. B.Ch.E in the year of 1992 from Jadavpur University
Work Experiences
Synopsis
  1. Wide international exposure in petrochemical companies across globe
  2. Over 26 years experience in production and technical services of leading petrochemical industries across globe
  3. Expertise in all aspects of production and technical services of ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol plant.
  4. Expertise in implementing APC (Advance process control) & fault diagnosis system in process plants .
  5. Listed in World Who's Who  (2010,2012 and 2015 edition) as significant contributor  & achiever in chemical  industry

Professional Inudstrial experience : 

  1. 3 years in Durgapur Projects Ltd, Durgapur, India , Durgapur as Process Controller
  2. 9 years in  Indian petrochemical corporation Ltd, Nagothane (later taken over by RIL) as Manager
  3. 5 years in Jubail United Petrochemical Company, Saudi Arabia as Senior production engineer
  4. 5 years in Scientific Design Company, New Jersey, USA as Manager, Technical services
  5. 1.5 years in Supra International Pvt Ltd, india as Technical advisor
  6. 1 year in Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd, India as Vice President, Technology

Presently working as Associate Professor in NIT Durgapur (since April, 2019)

Research Interest

Research Interest

  1. Application of artificial intelligence in chemical process industries
  2. Application of process optimixzation in industry
  3. Meta heuristic process optimization
  4. energy savings in industry
  5. New break through technology development
  6. Industrial consultancy to troubleshoot industry problems 
  7. data driven modelling
  8. Industry consultancy to improve profit margin
  9. Advance process control application in industry
  10. fault diagnosis fro running chemical plants

Dr. Sandip Kumar Lahiri is a professional chemical engineer with Doctorate from NIT, Durgapur and master degree from IIT, Kharagpur. Currently working as Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering dept., National Institute of technology, Durgapur. He has over 25 years industrial experience in operations and technical services of leading petrochemical industries across globe. His interest includes simulation, process modeling, artificial intelligence in process industry, Advance Process Control, soft sensor, slurry flow modeling etc. He has over 35 publications in various international journals. His publication includes both in industry application oriented subjects and academic oriented subjects. He also authored two books. For more details please visit his Personal web page http://works.bepress.com/sandip_lahiri/ .

Projects
Title Investigator Co-investigator Sponsered Agency Duration Status

Development of DI unit lead lag arrangement

SK Lahiri   Indian Oil company, Panipath 3 month Completed

Development of modeling and optimization scheme of Ethylene Oxide reactor using artificial neural network and differential evolution algorithm.

SK Lahiri   Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia 8 months Completed

Develop numerous soft sensors for performance parameters and product quality parameters in ethylene glycol plant.

SK Lahiri   Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia 6 months Completed

Development of a software called ‘Third Eye’ to monitor and diagnosis fault of pumps, compressor, distillation tower, Control valves etc in real time basis.

SK Lahiri   Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia 3 month Completed

APC project full life cycle in Paraxylene plant in RIL patalganga unit

SK Lahiri   Reliance Industries Ltd 6 months Completed

Modeling and optimization scheme of MEG product quality using PLS and Genetic algorithm.

SK Lahiri   Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia 8 months Completed

Development a full training plan and gap analysis for all levels of employee for a large petrochemical complex

SK Lahiri   Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia 3 months Completed

Development of online fault diagnosis software

Sandip Kumar Lahiri   Scientific Design Co., USA 1 year Completed

APC project full life cycle in EG plant ,Sabic

SK Lahiri   Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia 6 months Completed
Teachings
  1. Process Modelling & Simulation ( B.Tech and M.Tech)
  2. Advance Process Control
  3. Process Modelling through Aspen Plus simaltion software
  4. Chemical Engineering calculations by Matlab
  5. Industrial process modelling by Artificial neural network and genetic Programming
  6. Meta heuristic process optimization
  7. Optimization of industrial processess
  8. Energy savings in chemical process  industry

UG / PG Students

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Doctoral Students

Narottam Behera

Narottam Behera

Sr engineer
Application of AI and ML in Steel Industry
Application of AI and ML in Steel Industry
Narottam Behera

Narottam Behera

Sr engineer

Application of AI and ML in Steel Industry

Application of AI and ML in Steel Industry
Sumana Roy

Sumana Roy

Research Scholar
Application of AI for Fault diagnosis in Industry
Application of AI for Fault diagnosis in Industry
Sumana Roy

Sumana Roy

Research Scholar

Application of AI for Fault diagnosis in Industry

Application of AI for Fault diagnosis in Industry
Somnath Chowdhury

Somnath Chowdhury

PhD (Ongoing)

Somnath Chowdhury

Somnath Chowdhury

PhD (Ongoing)


Somashish Saha

Somashish Saha

PhD (Ongoing)

Somashish Saha

Somashish Saha

PhD (Ongoing)


Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
1 Root cause analysis of Air turbine failure in fertilizer plant Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Matix fertilizer ltd. 500,000 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-12-01
2 “Soft sensor at drying column overhead” Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 980,875 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-11-01
3 “Argon Purge optimization module” Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 980,875 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-11-01
4 “Cost based performance dashboard of ethylene glycol plant” Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 1,438,618 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-11-01
5 “Energy dashboard of ethylene glycol plant” Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 1,438,618 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-11-01
6 “Ethylene glycol reactor optimization module” Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 1,569,400 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-11-01
7 Ethylene oxide reactor optimization module Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 1,642,500 Consultancy Completed 2021-02-01
8 Development of DI unit lead lag arrangement Sandip Kumar Lahiri Indian Oil company, Panipath Sponsored Completed
9 Development of modeling and optimization scheme of Ethylene Oxide reactor using artificial neural network and differential evolution algorithm. Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed
10 Develop numerous soft sensors for performance parameters and product quality parameters in ethylene glycol plant. Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed
11 Development of a software called ‘Third Eye’ to monitor and diagnosis fault of pumps, compressor, distillation tower, Control valves etc in real time basis. Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed
12 APC project full life cycle in Paraxylene plant in RIL patalganga unit Sandip Kumar Lahiri Reliance Industries Ltd Sponsored Completed
13 Modeling and optimization scheme of MEG product quality using PLS and Genetic algorithm. Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed
14 Development a full training plan and gap analysis for all levels of employee for a large petrochemical complex Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed
15 Development of online fault diagnosis software Sandip Kumar Lahiri Scientific Design Co., USA Sponsored Completed
16 APC project full life cycle in EG plant ,Sabic Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
1 Development of DI unit lead lag arrangement Sandip Kumar Lahiri Indian Oil company, Panipath Sponsored Completed
2 Development of modeling and optimization scheme of Ethylene Oxide reactor using artificial neural network and differential evolution algorithm. Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed
3 Develop numerous soft sensors for performance parameters and product quality parameters in ethylene glycol plant. Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed
4 Development of a software called ‘Third Eye’ to monitor and diagnosis fault of pumps, compressor, distillation tower, Control valves etc in real time basis. Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed
5 APC project full life cycle in Paraxylene plant in RIL patalganga unit Sandip Kumar Lahiri Reliance Industries Ltd Sponsored Completed
6 Modeling and optimization scheme of MEG product quality using PLS and Genetic algorithm. Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed
7 Development a full training plan and gap analysis for all levels of employee for a large petrochemical complex Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed
8 Development of online fault diagnosis software Sandip Kumar Lahiri Scientific Design Co., USA Sponsored Completed
9 APC project full life cycle in EG plant ,Sabic Sandip Kumar Lahiri Jubail United Petrochemical company, Saudi Arabia Sponsored Completed

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
1 Root cause analysis of Air turbine failure in fertilizer plant Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Matix fertilizer ltd. 500,000 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-12-01
2 “Soft sensor at drying column overhead” Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 980,875 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-11-01
3 “Argon Purge optimization module” Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 980,875 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-11-01
4 “Cost based performance dashboard of ethylene glycol plant” Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 1,438,618 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-11-01
5 “Energy dashboard of ethylene glycol plant” Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 1,438,618 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-11-01
6 “Ethylene glycol reactor optimization module” Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 1,569,400 Consultancy Ongoing 2022-11-01
7 Ethylene oxide reactor optimization module Sandip Kumar Lahiri NA Scientific Design Company Inc, USA 1,642,500 Consultancy Completed 2021-02-01
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Awards and Recognitions
  1. Listed in World Who's Who  (2010,2012 and 2015 edition) as significant contributor  & achiever in chemical  industry.
  2. US patent for fault diagnosis and reactor monitoring 
  3. Received best Innovation and achiever award by Scientific Design Company, USA  ( technology Licensing comapny)
  4. Received best innovation and best paper award in global sabic technology meet, Saudi Arabia
Administrative Responsibilities

1. Faculty representative of Training and Placement

2. Faculty representative for industry- academicia collaborations

Contact

Mobile : +91-9007659000
Email : sandipkumar.lahiri@che.nitdgp.ac.in

Miscellaneous

Nature of Experience :

Technical service and technical Consultancy

  • Providing advice and technical consultancy to the operational units across globe on process engineering issues and act as licensor.
  • Responsible for developing breakthrough technology.
  • P&ID development work based on Heat & Material balance and PFDs
  • Familiarity with process simulation tools like ASPEN, PRO-II etc
  • Familiarity with Distillation Column hydraulics calculation using speciality software.
  • Hands on experience in different software like Fluent (CFD software), mat lab, DMC (APC software), Aspen IQ etc.
  • Expertise in de bottlenecking related calculation and heat integration related calculation using pinch technology.
  • Monitor and evaluate process operation, including the use of design tools (ASPEN) and online monitoring systems
  • Challenging and guiding change in the installations.
  • Provide technical support to the business through participation in multifunctional team and direct contact with key members of the EO/Glycols SBU
  • Support benchmarking studies
  • Provide recommendations on changes to process operating conditions
  • Monitor technical availability to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Monitor variable cost performance within the business to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Conduct strategic technical studies on behalf of the business
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  • Accomplishment
Development of a novel approach for Ethylene oxide reactor fault diagnosis using PLS modelling.
Development of modelling and optimisation scheme of Ethylene Oxide reactor using artificial neural network and differential evolution algorithm.
Development of modelling and optimisation scheme of MEG product quality using PLS and Genetic algorithm.
Develop software to predict the optimum changeover time of EO catalyst and also economic evaluation of different EO catalyst available in market.

 

Production and Petrochemical operation support

  • Provide production units with an appropriate level of technological support to ensure sustainable operation, analyze upsets and close production loss gaps so that units meet or exceed various commitments
  • Experience in working in production dept of world largest ethylene glycol plant.
  • Responsible for Operations / technical monitoring, unit capability performance, unit yields and the respective identification and resolution of issues so as to maintain and improve unit optimization.
  • Provides support to the Operating team in maintaining optimum unit process performance and preventing and / or resolving process and operating problems
•Accomplishment
Development of a novel approach for process plant monitoring using PCA (awarded best paper in STM’08)
Development of a software called ‘Third Eye’ to monitor and diagnosis fault of pumps, compressor, distillation tower,Control valves etc in real time basis.

Advance process Control

  • Expertise in implementing APC in process plants starting from conceptual design stage to final implementation step using DMC plus software of Aspen.
  • Expertise in building reliable soft sensors in plant using Aspen IQ software.
  • Worked one year in APC group in Group manufacturing services in Reliance. ( corporate technical services group, RIL)

Industrial Training

  • Serves as the expert in developing, documenting and sharing operating knowledge of the unit processes
  • Responsible for maintaining the Operating manual and Operating procedures accurate and to date.
  • Provides process and operating skills coaching to Production
  • Plays an active role in Operator training, Operator reviews and qualification
  • Joint responsibility with the Training Co-coordinators to develop effective unit training material
  • Develop leadership skills in a role as coach and mentor for less experienced staff
  • Experience in training need assessment, gap analysis, training objective setting for an organization.
  • Expertise in training program design, organizing, planning and effective training program delivery for shop floor operators and practicing engineers.
  • Expertise in training simulator.

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