Dushyant Shekhawat

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT DUSHYANT SHEKHAWAT

Serving as a team supervisor for the Reaction Engineering team, at NETL, that is developing technologies and approaches to produce value-added fuels and chemicals from natural gas, higher hydrocarbon fuels, and coal- Serving as a program chair for a topical & \"Advanced Fossil Energy Utilization” in AIChE national meetings for last six years. Under the same topical, he has organized multiple sessions of fuel processing for hydrogen production- Serves on the NCEES’s PE Chemical Engineering Exam Committee, which develops the Professional Engineer Exam for chemical engineers- Served as a guest-editor for the special issue (section) of Catalysis Today, Fuel, Energy & Fuels, and International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.Research interests: Fuel processing for fuel cell applications, reaction engineering, surface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, energy, fuel cell, plasma and microwave-assisted catalytic reactions, and plasma chemistry. Key Accomplishments- Key contributor to pyrochlore-based reforming catalyst which was recently licensed to a spin-off company, Pyrochem Catalyst Company- Co-recipient of the Federal Laboratory Consortium 2011 Mid-Atlantic Regional Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer \"Novel Pyrochlore Catalysts for Hydrocarbon Reforming\"- Published over 200 peer-reviewed journal publications, conference proceedings, and reports, seven book chapters, and one book- 15 patents (disclosed or full)