Bhajan Lal

Bhajan Lal, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. He is a core research member of the Carbon Dioxide Research Centre at the UTP Institute of Contaminant Management. After receiving his PhD degree from JMI, Central University, India, he worked as postdoctoral research fellow and Research Scientist in USA, Canada, South Africa, Turkey, and Malaysia. His main areas of research interests are gas hydrates and their applications in...See more

Bhajan Lal, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. He is a core research member of the Carbon Dioxide Research Centre at the UTP Institute of Contaminant Management. After receiving his PhD degree from JMI, Central University, India, he worked as postdoctoral research fellow and Research Scientist in USA, Canada, South Africa, Turkey, and Malaysia. His main areas of research interests are gas hydrates and their applications in CO 2 capture and storage, natural gas storage, flow assurance, Desalination. He graduated five MSc, seven PhD, and one postdoc students since 2013. He has published 90 peer-reviewed journal papers, 45 conference papers, and 4 book chapters and two books titled Chemical Additives for Gas Hydrates and Application of ionic liquids in Flow assurance . Dr. Lal has secured consultancy projects and delivered short courses on gas hydrate in flow assurance and machine learning in flow assurance. In addition, as project leader, he has secured eight gas hydrate-related research projects worth RM 2.3 million from oil and gas industries, UTP, and the Malaysian Government. Sirisha Nallakukkala is a Research Fellow and Graduate Assistant at Research Centre for CO 2 Capture (RCCO2C), Chemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. She holds an ME in Chemical Engineering from McNeese State University, USA and is also a recipient of Graduate Academic Scholarship and B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. She has worked as a process engineer and as an academician prior to pursuing her PhD. Her main research areas are desalination, gas hydrates, and separation techniques. See less