Specialized Chemical Engineering: Resins, Emulsions, Paints, Adhesive, Renewables

Technical Consultant #2012

Polymer development from resin to end application in paints, coatings adhesives and market.
Phenolic resins: Water base, solvent base and natural phenol base.
Acrylic resins: Emulsions, Cumulative Energy Demand, (CED) solvent base.
Polyester; Solvent base, unsaturated polyesters.
Epoxies: CED epoxies, epoxy phenolics and poxy dispersions
Alkyds; Water base alkyds and modified alkyds
Polyurethanes: Sealants and polyurethane dispersions.
Architectural paints: Water base paints and solvent base paints.
Contributed to over 200 recipes of alkyd, phenolic, acrylic, polyester for paint and adhesive applications and developed 20 acrylic emulsion recipes, 10 solvent based formulations for construction and decorative applications.
Working in cost effective replacement petroleum feed stock with natural renewable chemicals; cardanol and curcumen in phenolic resin, epoxydised soya oil as reactive diluents in acrylic resin formulations.
Silicon resin modifications and antifouling paint formulation.
Chemical characterizations: GC, HPC, IR, UV-VIS, MASS.
Special interest in pollution free chemical synthesis: Renewable petrochemical resources - vegetable oil based adhesives, vegetable oil extraction methods and adhesive traps for insect and mosquitoes.

Expert Witness Experience

Legal support for the insurance industry providing coverage for resin manufactures.
Provided expert witness for the financial industry supporting resin manufacturing.

Independent Technical Consultant, 2011 - Present

Formulation of phenolic, alkyd, acrylic resin and emulsions formulations, production trials, plant investigations for improper installations of emulsions and resins.
Resin industry set up, resin formulations and resin technology transfer.
Paint industry set up: Paint formulations and product development.
Adhesive formulation: Adhesive industry set up.
Clients providing international resin consulting:
Valspar Coating Corporation, India
Oriental Coatings, Thailand
Meknim Resin, LLP, Mumbai
Build Core Chemicals, Mumbai
Oneyex Crown Oil, Nigeria
NTL Chemicals, Greece
Wingroth Chemicals, Mumbai

Undisclosed Phytochemicals and Consulting Group, Executive Director, 2012 - Present

Administrating and executing consulting assignments in coating resins, paints and adhesives.
Managing research and manufacturing of photochemicals and phytochemical base resins.
Providing expert witness for industrial loans and insurance related to the polymer and resins manufacturing.

Kansai-Nerolac Paints Ltd., India, Senior Executive Research and Development, 2007 - 2012

Formulating and developing resins for paints, coatings, adhesives and construction chemicals.
Conducting research on new requirement of resins by costumers and implementations in production.
Testing and evaluating resins for paint, coating, inks and adhesives.
Facilitating customer visit for analyzing technical problems.
Processing resin lab batches for evaluating raw material and research.
Developed high solid alkyds for packaging and automotive paints.
Developed water based alkyd for decorative paints.
Phenolic resin adhesive developed for foundry applications
Alkyd resin modified with penolics, acrylic, silicone, epoxy resins for HPC paints.
Acrylic emulsions developed for decorative paints.
Deodorization and decolonization of the CNSL achieved.

Gargi - Huttenes Albertus Ltd., India, Executive Research and Development, 2005 - 2007

Formulating and developing resins for foundry applications.
Executing research trials and manufacturing trials.
Executing online quality control of the resin manufacturing.
Conducting costumer visits to understand technical issues and solving by research and development.
Heat curing phenolic adhesives.
Biodiesel from soya, cardanol, castor oil, (potential solvent in adhesive and coating formulations).
Phenolic resins based on turmeric waste and CNSL.

Abhijit Plastic Industries, India, Executive Research and Development, 2000 - 2005

Quality assurance and quality control of the plastic chemicals, textile chemicals, species and food.
Rotational Molding, (RM) for polyethylene polystyrene processing, quality analysis of master batches and plastic additives, quality analysis of raw food like starch, turmeric, natural colors.

Academic and Professional Affiliations

National Young Scientist Award - Rubber Technical Center IIT Kgp
GATE chemistry
Junior Research Fellowship - Textiles Committee of India
Thesis: Synthesis and characterizations of conducting polymers for super capacitor and energy storage devices.

Patents