Rajnish Kumar

10.9k citations

168 papers · 9.2k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 52

Impact in

Environmental Chemistry top 0.01%
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Environmental Engineering top 0.1%
- CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions

Papers in

Environmental Chemistry 120
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena 120
Global and Planetary Change 58
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 58

Co-authors: Praveen Linga Peter Englezos Ponnivalavan Babu Asheesh Kumar Hari Prakash Veluswamy Gaurav Bhattacharjee John A. Ripmeester Tushar Sakpal
Journals: Energy & Fuels (13 papers)Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (12 papers)Applied Energy (8 papers)Fuel (5 papers)Energy (5 papers)
Partner nations: India Singapore Canada

In The Last Decade

Rajnish Kumar

163 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Rapid methane hydrate formation to develop a cost effective large scale energy storage system 2016 · 288 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Chemical Engineering Journal
2015 Energy
2015 Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
2014 Applied Energy
2007 Journal of Hazardous Materials

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1	Molecular dynamics insights into tetrahydrofuran-assisted formation of CH ₄ , CO ₂ , and H ₂ gas hydrates Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·Р. Г. Хабибуллин, पूजा ए. पटेलए, Nilesh Choudhary, Rajnish Kumar, Tarak K. Patra	2025	0
2	Engineering gold nanoparticles-infused silica aerogel composite for trace mercury adsorption RSC Advances ·Alyce Currier, Thomas Beyens, Hadas Mamane, Rajnish Kumar	2025	3
3	Hybrid Hydrate-Based Strategy for Petrochemical Effluent Purification and Sustainable Water Management ACS ES&T Water ·Alyce Currier, G. Yucef, Rajnish Kumar	2025	0
4	Hydrothermal Co-liquefaction of Cellulose and Polypropylene using Co-solvents SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·B. Fisher, 吴永和, Rajnish Kumar, R. Vinu	2024	1
5	Impact of acetamide, 1,2,4-triazole, and 1-dodecyl-2-pyrrolidinone on carbon dioxide hydrate growth: Application in carbon dioxide capture and sequestration Journal of environmental chemical engineering ·S. E. Maltsev, Chandan Sahu, Rajnish Kumar, Jitendra S. Sangwai	2023	9
6	Induced Migration of CO₂from Hydrate Cages to Amorphous Solid Water under Ultrahigh Vacuum and Cryogenic Conditions The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Santosh Patel, Devi Angelina, Chethana Mudenur, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Bárbara Artimis Gonçalves Carvalho, Sharma S. R. K. C. Yamijala, Sandeep K. Reddy, Rajnish Kumar, Thalappil Pradeep	2023	13
7	Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Morphology, and Raman studies for sH Hydrate of Methane and Cyclooctane 大蔵草柳, Hyunho Kim, Gaurav Bhattacharjee, Jitendra S. Sangwai, Rajnish Kumar, Praveen Linga	2023	3
8	Design of CO₂ Thickeners and Role of Aromatic Rings in Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Molecular Dynamics Langmuir ·Anna Luiza de Araújo Henriques Tessarollo, Suman Chakrabarty, Pramod S. Patil, Rajnish Kumar	2023	9
9	Formation and Transformation of Clathrate Hydrates under Interstellar Conditions Accounts of Chemical Research ·Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Santosh Patel, Rajnish Kumar, Thalappil Pradeep	2023	13
10	Can Ammonia Be Used To Enhance the CO₂ Sequestration in Methane Hydrates: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective Energy & Fuels ·Anna Luiza de Araújo Henriques Tessarollo, Rajnish Kumar	2022	4
11	In Situ Characterization of Mixed CH₄–THF Hydrates Formed from Seawater: High-Pressure Calorimetric and Spectroscopic Analysis The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Asheesh Kumar, Hari Prakash Veluswamy, Sanat Kumar, Rajnish Kumar, Praveen Linga	2021	16
12	Kinetic and Morphology Study of Equimolar CO₂–CH₄ Hydrate Formation in the Presence of Cyclooctane and l-Tryptophan Energy & Fuels ·大蔵草柳, Gaurav Bhattacharjee, Jitendra S. Sangwai, Rajnish Kumar, Praveen Linga	2020	19
13	Effect of Cyclooctane and l-Tryptophan on Hydrate Formation from an Equimolar CO₂–CH₄ Gas Mixture Employing a Horizontal-Tray Packed Bed Reactor Energy & Fuels ·大蔵草柳, Gaurav Bhattacharjee, Omkar Singh Kushwaha, Jitendra S. Sangwai, Praveen Linga, Rajnish Kumar	2020	28
14	Direct use of seawater for rapid methane storage via clathrate (sII) hydrates Applied Energy ·Asheesh Kumar, Hari Prakash Veluswamy, Rajnish Kumar, Praveen Linga	2018	49
15	Alleviation of Foam Formation in a Surfactant Driven Gas Hydrate System: Insights via a Detailed Morphological Study ACS Applied Energy Materials ·Gaurav Pandey, Gaurav Bhattacharjee, Hari Prakash Veluswamy, Rajnish Kumar, Jitendra S. Sangwai, Praveen Linga	2018	73
16	Hydrate phase equilibrium data of mixed methane-tetrahydrofuran hydrates in saline water The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics ·Asheesh Kumar, Дудниченко А.Н., Rajnish Kumar, Praveen Linga	2017	63
17	Experimental Investigation To Elucidate Why Tetrahydrofuran Rapidly Promotes Methane Hydrate Formation Kinetics: Applicable to Energy Storage The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Asheesh Kumar, Nagu Daraboina, Rajnish Kumar, Praveen Linga	2016	63
18	A review of the hydrate based gas separation (HBGS) process for carbon dioxide pre-combustion capture Energy ·Ponnivalavan Babu, Praveen Linga, Rajnish Kumar, Peter Englezos Hit paper breakdown →	2015	512
19	Enhanced kinetics for the clathrate process in a fixed bed reactor in the presence of liquid promoters for pre-combustion carbon dioxide capture Energy ·Ponnivalavan Babu, Norimichi Tatsuta, Rajnish Kumar, Praveen Linga	2014	61
20	Unusual behavior of propane as a co-guest during hydrate formation in silica sand: Potential application to seawater desalination and carbon dioxide capture Chemical Engineering Science ·Ponnivalavan Babu, Rajnish Kumar, Praveen Linga	2014	134

About Rajnish Kumar

Rajnish Kumar is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Energy Engineering and Power Technology, having authored 168 papers that have together received 9.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (120 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (58 papers), Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies (57 papers), CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (38 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (35 papers), Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (21 papers), Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds (9 papers) and Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Chemistry (7.6k citations), Environmental Engineering (3.4k citations), Aerospace Engineering (3.4k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.8k citations) and Mechanics of Materials (2.7k citations). Rajnish Kumar has collaborated with scholars based in India, Singapore and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Praveen Linga, Peter Englezos, Ponnivalavan Babu, Asheesh Kumar, Hari Prakash Veluswamy, Gaurav Bhattacharjee, John A. Ripmeester, Tushar Sakpal, Jitendra S. Sangwai and Sudip Roy. Their work appears in journals such as Energy & Fuels, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Applied Energy, Fuel and Energy.

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