Bipin V. Vora

Education

M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of New Mexico, 1967
B.Sc. Chemistry, University of Mumbai, 1963
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of New Mexico, 1966
PE Registered Professional Engineer, State of Illinois

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Member, American Chemical Society (ACS)

Member of the mentoring program for chemical engineering students at University of Illinois, 2015-present

Member of the R&D Advisory Committee, HPCL, India 2015-2016

Visiting Professor, Pandeet Dindayal Petroleum University (PDPU) Gandhinagar, Gujarat, (Jan-March) 2016-2018

Invited as visiting professor by Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat Jan-March 2017, Guest Lecturer at IIT, Chicago, Fall Semester 2016-2018

Member Emeritus of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

Member of Advisory Council, Department of Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2002-2009

Member of Advisory Council, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of New Mexico, 2000-2010 and 2017-present

Director, Fuels & Petrochemical Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE),  2006-2009

Chair, Area 16b, Fuels & Petrochemical Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2003-2006

Awards

• Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (NAI), 2020 
• Foreign Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE),  2020
• Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), 2018
• Process Development Practice Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2015
• Citation for Outstanding Technical Contribution to Chemical Process Industry jointly by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering, Bangalore Chapter and M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, 2014
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Platts Global Energy Forum, 2013
• Distinguished Honorary Professor at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), 2013-2015
• Chemtech (India) Technology Leadership Award, 2011
• Distinguished Service Award, Fuels & Petrochemical Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2009
• Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Chemical Process Technology, jointly by the Catalysis Society of India, Maharaja Sayajirao University, and the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering, 2005
• Chemical Engineering Practice National Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2003
• Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2002
• National Award in Industrial Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2002
• Named among Top 50 Outstanding Chemical Engineers at Diamond Jubilee of Chicago Section of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2000
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of New Mexico, 1999

Publications

Number of Publications: 160+

Including contributions to:

• Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Engineering
• Encyclopedia of Chemical Processes and Design
• Handbook of Detergents
• Proceedings of Surface Science and Catalysis Applied Catalysis
• Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalysis
• Handbook of Petroleum Processing, Second Edition, Springer International Publishing

Number of US Patents: 95 (US), 200+ (International) 

Expertise

1. Catalytic dehydrogenation
2. Detergent alkylation
3. Methanol to olefins
4. Motor fuel HF alkylation
5. Broad knowledge of refining and petrochemical processes
6. Reaction mechanisms, process and catalysis research, process development, process design and scale-up, and new technology commercialization, techno-economic analysis and evaluation