Prafulla Patil
ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt Certified | Refinery | Hydroprocessing | Polymer | Catalysis | Renewable Fuels | Lubricants
- Role
- Quality Engineer at American Refining Group, Inc.
- Location
- Bradford, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Prafulla Patil
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt skilled at leading cross-functional teams on process improvement and variable cost reduction capital projects.• Senior Process Technology Professional with combined 12 years of development and optimization experience with petroleum refining technologies, acetal polymer production, and biofuel conversion processes. • Dedicated and collaborative self-starter developing novel processes, products and process improvements for improved efficiency, cost, and sustainability.• Demonstrated competencies in catalytic hydro-processing, distillation troubleshooting, process fouling control, polymer synthesis, reforming and isomerization, solvent residuum upgrading, process chemicals, biomass to biofuel production, and lubricant formulations. • Adept at project management, process hazard analysis, statistical process control, model-based design of experiments, and process scale-up. • Proven track record of deployment of technologies from Lab-Pilot Scale to commercial launch. • Extensive experience in the research plans, start-up, troubleshooting, and scale-up operation of pilot plants for refining and conversion processes in the development of new products, testing, and technology. • Proven background in the green refinery transportation fuel and biomass to biofuel conversion and upgradation processes (process economics, kinetics, Life Cycle Analysis) • Good exposure to the Homopolymer reactions/chemistry, monomer purification, Polymer fouling and Capping mechanism. • Principal Investigator with companies and national labs/universities to develop innovative technologies.• Trained young and dedicated engineers conducting safe technical work to foster a culture of continuous improvement within the organization. Dr. Patil has published over 30 technical research papers in peer-reviewed journals, symposia, book chapters, and invited international conferences (Citations In addition, he is a reviewer for over 15 international peer-reviewed journals and has US patents on algal biofuel conversion technologies.Skills:Refinery Processes, Project Management, Knowledge Management, Process Safety Management, Six Sigma, Analytical and Critical thinking, Catalytic Hydroprocessing, Polymer Synthesis, Crude Oil Fouling, Biomass upgradation, DMAIC/Optimization, Adsorption, Catalytic reactions, Scale-up, UniSim Simulation, LIMS, PI Vision, RCA, FMEA, HAZOP, FD/P & ID, DCS/PLC control
Experience
Quality Engineer
May 2025 — Present · US
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Master of Technology - MTech, Chemical Engineering
New Mexico State University
PhD, Chemical Engineering
2007 — 2010
TKIET(Autonomous), WARANANAGAR
BE, Chemical Engineering
1999 — 2003
Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology
Post-Graduation Diploma, Applied Biotechnology
2003 — 2004
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