Biofuels & Bioenergy

T.M.Sankaranarayanan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Thermochemical Processes Unit of the IMDEA Energy Institute. Before joining IMDEA, he worked as a senior research fellow at the National Centre for Catalysis Research for his doctoral research (2008-2013). During his doctoral research, he studied the Transesterification and Hydroprocessing of vegetable oil (non-edible oils) on mixed metal oxides. He was also involved in collaboration with others for the Hydrogenolysis of polyols, Catalytic cracking and Hydrotreating (viz. HDS, HDM, HDN and HDO) reactions. His postdoctoral research is focused on the Second Generation Biofuels from lignocellulose biomass. He has 11 publications in international journals.