Ram Prasad graduated in Chemical Engineering from University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee) in 1978 and obtained M. Tech. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He completed a three month special post graduate training course in Petroleum Refining Technology at Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun. After serving for about three years in Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (Refineries Division), Ram Prasad joined Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur in 1983 where he is presently working as Associate Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering Department. He has guided 7 Ph.D. and 18 M.Tech. thesis. He has contributed in Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design, Handbook of Piping Design and National/International journals as well as conferences. Ram Prasad has authored 4 chemical engineering books widely popular among chemical engineering students all across India and South-east Asia. He is a Member of The Institution of Engineers (India) and Life Member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Solar Energy Society of India and Oil Technologists' Association of India. His research interests include solar energy storage, triglycerides-based diesel fuels, rheological behaviours of petroleum products and fatty acid methyl esters, separation of azeotropic mixtures by extractive distillation and diffusion distillation and vapour-liquid equilibria. Currently, he is working on synthesis and characterization of biofuels and biolubricants. Ram Prasad can be contacted at rp_hbti@yahoo.co.in.
