Academics

Bio

Dr. Pratiksha Khurpade is an experienced academician and researcher with a background in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. She holds an M. Tech in Chemical Engineering from LIT Nagpur and a Ph. D in Petroleum Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University. With over 14 years of academic experience and 2 years of industrial experience, she teaches courses such as Momentum Transfer, Process Heat Transfer, Process Instrumentation at the undergraduate level, and Catalysis Technology for Masters level students. Dr. Khurpade's previous research work focused on the synthesis of biodiesel from various feedstocks and its blending with petroleum diesel, along with the prediction of properties of diesel-biodiesel blends. Her present research interests include flow through porous media, nanomaterial synthesis and its applications, and green corrosion inhibitors.

Research Area

Nanomaterials, Catalysis, Biofuels, Flow through Porous Media, Energy

Publication

1. Pratiksha D. Khurpade, Lalit K. Kshirsagar, Somnath Nandi, Characterization of heterogeneous petroleum reservoir of Indian Sub-continent: An integrated approach of hydraulic flow unit – Mercury intrusion capillary pressure – Fractal modeJournal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 205 (2021), 108788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2021.108788

2. Pratiksha R Kale, Anand D Kulkarni, Somnath Nandi, "Synthesis of biodiesel from low-cost vegetable oil and prediction of the fuel properties of a biodiesel–diesel mixture", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2014, 53 (51), 19654-19659

3. Pratiksha D Khurpade, Lalit K Kshirsagar, Somnath Nandi, "Prediction of Reducing Permeability due to Scale Deposition during Water-flooding Operations of Crude Reservoirs", Petroleum & Coal, 2022, 64(2), pp. 455–466.

4. Gaidhani, K.Y., Khurpade, P.D., Nandi, S., "Hibiscus leaves extract: A green corrosion inhibitor:", Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 2020, 97(6), pp. 865–869

5. Kulkarni, A.D., Humbare, T.R., Khurpade, P.D., Nandi, S., "Comments on “Measurements and empirical correlations in predicting biodiesel-diesel blends’ viscosity and density”, Fuel, 2019, 256, 115837.

6. Pratiksha D Khurpade, Somnath Nandi, Pradeep B Jadhav, Lalit K Kshirsagar, "CMG-Based Simulation Study of Water Flooding of Petroleum Reservoir", In: Bose, M., Modi, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research. 2020, Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5955-6_2

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