Dr.

DILIP KUMAR RAJAK

Researcher
Department of Petroleum Engineering Phone: +91-9631924878
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Email: dilip.123bit@gmail.com
dil.108@rediffmail.com
Mines) , Dhanbad, 826004, Jharkhand

Current Field of Interest: Drilling fluid additives,

Functionalization and utilization of fly ash, Grinding
mechanism and modulation of solid materials,
Rheological analysis of aqueous suspensions of non-
Newtonian fluids

Key words: Milling, Population balance model, Breakage parameters, Parameter optimization,
Synthesis and characterization of chemically activated flu ash, Alkali dissolution, Rheology etc.
Sophisticated instruments I am familiar with: Planetary ball mill, Rotational viscometer, AC-arc
furnace, FTIR, SEM-EDX, XRF, XRD, XPS etc.

PERSONEL DETAILS
Name : Dilip Kumar Rajak Address for Correspondence:
Mother’s Name : Smt Parwati Devi C/O-Sanatan Rajak
DOB : Dec. 2, 1982 Sec-12/A, Q.No-3278
Maratial Status :Unmarried B.S.City, Jharkhand
Nationality : Indian Pin-823012, India
Languages Known : English & Hindi

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Degree University/Board Year of Passing Subject

Ph.D. Indian Institute of 2017 Petroleum engineering

Technology (Drilling fluid additives)
(Indian School of
Mines), Dhanbad,
India

Master in Technology Indian School of 2013 Petroleum Engineering

Mines, Dhanbad,
India

Bachelor of science in Birsha Institute of 2008 Chemical Engineering

engineering Technology
(Sindri), India
 ADDITIONAL MERITS & QUALIFICATIONS

1) Qualify Ministry of Human Resource and Development funded scholarship scheme

(ISM EE-2016)
2) Qualify Ministry of Human Resource and Development funded scholarship scheme
(GATE-2011)
3) Qualify Jharkhand combined entrance competitive examination-2004

4) 4th prize in third international conference on Petroleum Science and Technology

2014 (ICPST-2014) held on 3rd – 5th November 2014 in Oral presentation at Indian
Institute of Technology (Chennai), India

Professional Experience
Sl. No. From To Nature of Position Employer
Job
1 July December Research & Senior Petroleum Engineering
2013 2017 Development Research Department of Indian
Fellow Institute of Technology
(Indian School of Mines),
Dhanbad, India
2 March September Research & Project MEF Div., CSIR-National
2009 2010 Development Assistant Metallurgical Laboratory,
Jamshedpur, India

List of publications
I. PAPER PUBLISHED IN SCIENCE JOURNALS

1. Improved determination of apparent and plastic viscosity for aqueous solution of

drilling fluid additives. Rajak, D. K., Pathak, A. K., Guria, C. (2014), International
Journal of Petroleum Technology, 1, 1-6.
2. An improved estimation of shear rate using rotating coaxial-cylinder viscometer: A
rheological study of bentonite and fly ash suspensions. Kumar, R., Kumar, V., Rajak,
D. K., Guria, C. (2014), International Journal of Mineral Processing, 126, 18–29.

3. An improved estimation of shear rate for yield stress fluids using rotating concentric
cylinder Fann viscometer. Sisodia, M. S., Rajak, D. K., Pathak, A. K., Guria, C.
(2015), Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 125, 247–255.

4. Alkali assisted dissolution of fly ash: A shrinking core model under finite solution
volume condition. Rajak, D. K., Guria, C., Ghosh, R., Agarwal, S., Pathak, A. K.
(2016), International Journal of Mineral Processing, 155, 106–117.
 5. Grinding of Class-F fly ash using planetary ball mill: A simulation study to determine
the breakage kinetics by direct-and back-calculation method. Rajak, D. K., Raj, A.,
Guria, C., Pathak, A. K. South African Journal of Chemical Engineering, 24, 135-
147.

6. Functionalization of Fly Ash for the Substitution of Bentonite in Drilling Fluid.

Gautam, S., Rajak, D. K., Guria, C., Pathak , A. K. Under revision in Journal of
Petroleum Science and Engineering.

II. PAPER IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

1. An experimental and thermodynamic study on reduction smelting of sea nodules to
recover valuable metals. Agarwal, S., Sahu, K. K., Godiwalla, K. M., Rajak, D. K.,
Smita, K., Jana, R. K., Mineral Processing Technology (MPT-2010) in NML,
Jamshedpur.

2. Improved determination of apparent and plastic viscosity for aqueous solution of

drilling fluid additives. Rajak, D. K., Pathak, A. K., Guria, C. (2014 ), E-proceedings
of the third International Conference on Petroleum Science and Technology (ICPST-
2014), November 3-5.

3. Shear rate estimation: A detailed Review. Raj, A., Rajak, D. K., Gautam, S., Guria,
C., Pathak, A. K. (2016)27180-MS, Offshore Technology Conference (OTC, 2016).

4. Alkali assisted dissolution of fly ash: A shrinking core model under pseudo steady
state finite solution condition. Rajak, D. K., Guria, C., Pathak, A. K. International
Conference on Chemical Engineering and Advanced Polymeric Materials (ICEAPM-
2016).

REFERENCES

Dr. Chandan Guria (Associate Professor), Dr. Jitendra Kumar Singh

Department of Petroleum Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology
(Indian School of Mines),
Dhanbad-826004,
Email ID. cguria.che@gmail.com
Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of
Architectural Engineering, Hanyang
University, 55, Hanyangdeahak-ro,
Sangnok-gu, Ansan, Geonggi-do, 15588,
Korea
Email ID. Jk200386@hanyang.ac.kr

Declaration: I hereby declare that the above statements are true and correct to the best of my
knowledge

Place: Dhanbad
Signature of candidate
Date: 16/12/2017