Welcome to Dr. Haresh Manyar Lab
Our research interests are in the area of Heterogeneous Catalysis, Continuous flow chemistry and Green Chemical Processes with projects in APIs, energy, biofuels, fuel additives and renewable chemicals.
Sustainability through Catalysis and Continuous Flow Platforms
We focus on the design and development of new and better catalysts, continuous flow reactors and chemical processes based on the fundamental aspects of Catalyst Structure-Activity relationship.
Catalysis by Design
We develop novel catalyst technologies for sustainable fuels and chemicals, guided by first principles of catalyst design, reactor design and process design.
We use the combined knowhow from experimental data, computational studies, in situ spectroscopy techniques, kinetic modelling and Design of Experiments (DoE) approach to develop most efficient and environmentally benign processes.
Continuous Flow Platforms
Our Continuous Flow platforms are highly flexible, robust, economic and more easily adaptable to changing process requirements than batch processing.
Continuous Flow Technology offers significant improvements in Safety, reduction in plant footprint and is regarded as the most exciting and innovative growth technology for manufacturing APIs.
Our Projects
Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) by upgrading Volatile Fatty Acids (VFAs)
Green diesel & Bio-LPG by hydrodeoxygenation of vegetable oils
Direct capture and conversion of CO2 to Solar fuels – Methanol, Formic acid
CO2 as feedstock for Cyclic carbonates – Glycerol carbonate, Diethyl carbonate
Green H2 production – photoreforming of alcohols
Advanced biofuel additives – Alkyl levuinates, functionalized furanics
Renewable Platform Chemicals – Glycerol carbonate, Glycerol acetins