Saurabh Arora
Date of Birth: 5th December, 1986
Education
Year
Degree/ Certificate
2009
B.Tech., Chemical Engineering
2004
Class XII, Punjab Board
2002
Class X, Punjab Board
B-317/1, IIT Kanpur, U.P.-208016
Phone: +91-9335704280
E-mail: sarora@iitk.ac.in
Institute/School, City
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
S.C.D. Government College, Ludhiana
Jain Public Sen. Sec. School, Ludhiana
CGPA/%
8.8
75.6
87.7
Rank
6
9
1
Scholastic Achievements
Awarded merit scholarship in Class X from Punjab Board for being in Top 0.1% among 350,000 students
(2002)
Received the certificate of merit in the National Standard Examination in Physics conducted by the Indian Association
of Physics Teachers
(2003-04)
Positions of Responsibility/Extra-Curricular Acivities
Head, Public Relations (PR), Techkriti09, Annual Science and Technology Festival, IIT Kanpur (May08- present)
Leading a team of 25 PR executives to confirm lectures of eminent personalities like Dr. Stephen Wolfram (Founder,
Mathematica), Dr. Doris Daou (NASA), Dr. R.K. Pachauri (Chairman, IPCC), Dr. Martin Perl (Nobel Prize, 1995)
Conceptualized a panel discussion on Energy 2020. Confirmed presence from key actors like Reliance, Shell,
Transocean, and Directorate General of Hydrocarbons in the same.
Planned the Science Express exhibition in Kanpur during the festival by coordinating with Department of Science
and Technology, Government of India
Consolidated the ties of the festival with embassies like UK, USA, Canada, and Finland
Coordinator, Public Relations, Techkriti08, Annual Science and Technology Festival, IIT Kanpur (Jun07-Feb08)
Convinced Dr. Robert H. Grubbs (Nobel Prize, Chemistry 2005) to conduct a video conferencing in the festival
Acted quickly on the declaration of Nobel prize winners to invite Dr. Peter Gruenberg (Physics 2007) to the campus
Looked after the hospitality of eminent personalities including CEOs, Nobel Laureate in the campus during the festival
Senior Security Officer, Antaragni07, Annual Cultural Festival, IIT Kanpur
(Oct07)
Led a team of 40 security officers to ensure smooth conduction of the festival, attended by 8000 students and celebrities
Handled the crowd of around 300 trespassers who were forcefully trying to get into the arena of a professional show
Student Guide, Counselling Service, IIT Kanpur
(2006-07)
Helped out 7 fresher students to acclimatize to life on campus by addressing their academic and emotional concerns
Motivated my counselees to improve their academic performance significantly in their second semester
Secretary, Photography Club, IIT Kanpur
(2006-07)
Organized a lecture series in photography with participation of more than 200 members of student community
Revitalized the dark room which is now used very extensively by enthusiasts for developing and printing
Internships
Modeling solar-grade silicon production in a Fluidized Bed Reactor (FBR)
(May08-Jun08)
Location: Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC), Pune
Devised a modeling strategy to account for the dominant physical phenomena in the production mechanism
Executed the model successfully to obtain trends as observed experimentally in the literature
Proposed model was approved by TRDDC and is now clubbed with fluid mechanics package to increase its accuracy
Analysis of current and future potential of CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) projects in India (Dec07-Jan08)
Location: Verve Consulting, Bhubaneswar
Prepared a report on the estimation of the CER (Certified Emission Reduction) potential of projects in different
sectors for the company to deliver to one of its client in London
Identified the key CDM actors in India and interviewed them to get to know the problems in their domain
B.Tech. Project
Optimization of in-situ sulfidation of NiMo catalyst in a hydrodesulfurization process
(Aug08-till date)
Designed and procured the reactor equipment i.e. reactor and pump by identifying the physical conditions needed
Identifying the problems involved in the scale-up of the project for its implementation in the industry
Courses Undertaken
Fluid Mechanics
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Chemical Reaction Engineering
Chemical Process Control
Mass Transfer Operations
Unit Operation Lab-II*
Thermodynamics
Chemical Process Calculations
Heat and Mass Transfer
Biochemical Engineering
Unit Operation Lab-I
Computer Application in Chemical Engineering*
*Courses in the present semester
Technical Skills
Programming Skills
Languages Familiar: JAVA, FORTRAN, MATLAB
Simulation Software
Software Familiar: HYSYS, ASPEN
Successfully simulated the hydrodealkylation (HDA) plant of toluene in both HYSYS and ASPEN in the term projects
in the 6th and 7th semester respectively
