Dr. Adhirath S. Wagh
Principal Scientist
Process Development and Equipment Design
Dr. Adhirath Wagh has been working on process development of ten molecules for the last two years, out of which commercially viable process for five molecules has already been developed. His expertise lies in selection and design of reactors to marry process chemistry and engineering to improve the productivity while reducing the effluent.
He is currently handling a team of eight organic and analytical chemists for different projects. He completed his Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering) from Curtin University, Perth, Australia in the area of biomass pyrolysis. Research was focused towards developing reaction kinetics of the pyrolysis reaction followed by modelling and simulation of bubbling fluidized bed reactors.
He was devised a fractional condensation system to separate different chemical families in the bio-oil. He completed his Masters (Chemical Engineering) and Bachelors (Polymer Science and Technology) from Institute if Chemical Technology, Mumbai (Formerly known as UDCT).
He has three peer-reviewed publications in international journals with a combined impact factor of 12.
As Principal Scientist (April 2020-Till date),
Chemtasc, Matrudarshan, Opp. Vasant Market, Gangapur Road, Nashik-422005
- Successful developed processes and scaled-up processes for 8 molecules (API, API intermediate, Dye intermediate) whose production capacities range between 5 MT/month to 400 MT/month
- Successful developed processes for purification of 4 bulk chemicals for the Japanese electronics market
- Setting up of lab for Chemtasc at Taloja, Mumbai
- Successfully designed a API intermediate plant with production capacity 50 MT/month as a part of green field project for Chemika Innovate Pvt. Ltd. Reactors were designed as per process requirement, which resulted in 18% increase in the yield of the final product thus, significantly reducing the raw material consumption and saving on utility costs
- Designing innovative route of synthesis for products
- Process optimization
- Process Scale up
- Equipment design (Reactors, distillation column, extraction)
- Utility load calculations for commercial scale plants