Academics

Bio

Prof. Vinayak S. Wadgaonkar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University in Pune. With over 14 years of teaching experience and one year of research experience, he has authored two book chapters in Taylor & Francis Book U.S.A. and presented eight papers in National Conferences. His research interests include wastewater treatment, natural gas engineering, adsorption, petrochemical processes, and environmental engineering. He has successfully completed a research project funded by Savitribai Phule Pune University and has guided several undergraduate projects. Prof. Wadgaonkar teaches various subjects, including Natural Gas Engineering, Heat Transfer, and Principles of Chemical Engineering.

Research Area
Produced water treatment, environmental engineering, natural gas engineering, membrane separations

Publication

1) Vinayak S. Wadgaonkar, R.P., Ugwekar, Removal of Cr(VI) From Waste Water By Powdered Husk of Red Gram As Adsorbent, “ Process, Modeling , Simulation and Environmental Applications in Chemical engineering”, APPLE Academic Press, U.S.A., Book Chapter 6, 2015.
2) Vinayak S. Wadgaonkar, R.P., Ugwekar, Removal of Cr(VI) From Waste Water By Powdered Husk of Peas As Adsorbent, “ Treatise on Modeling, Separation and Environmental Applications in Chemical Industries”, APPLE Academic Press, U.S.A., Book Chapter 8, 2016.
3) Vinayak S. Wadgaonkar, Niraj Topare, A review on application of low cost adsorbents for heavy metals removal from wastewater, Materials Today Proceedings, Volume 77, Part 1, 2023, Pages 8-18.
4) Siraj Bhatkar,Vinayak S. Wadgaonkar, Optimizing produced water quality for enhancing oil recovery, Materials Today Proceedings, Volume 77, Part 1, 2023, Pages 81-85. 
5) Siraj Bhatkar,Vinayak S. Wadgaonkar, Modifications of Petroleum Industry Effluent Treatment Method: An approach for Quality Improvement of process water for ASP flooding and Chemical EOR, Materials Today Proceedings, Volume 77, Part 1, 2023, Pages 371-375.
6) Siraj Bhatkar,Vinayak S. Wadgaonkar, Application of chemical EOR in viscous, heavy crude in thin stacked heterogeneous reservoirs using CMG simulator, Petroleum and Coal, Volume 64, Issue 4, 2022.

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Orcid Link
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7535-475X