Chaya Venkat's Research Credentials

You can get a better sense of Dr. Venkat's research background by going to the U.S. Patent Office website, and running a query with her name "Chaya" and "Venkat" as Terms 1 & 2. Several patent applications are still being processed. All of the patents are in the areas of refinery operations, petrochemical manufacture, and zeolite catalysis.

Dr. Venkat is a recipient of the Thomas Alva Edison award for industrial engineering for 2024 (Patent # 5,689,027).
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	Patent Number	Title
1	6,617,482	Removable of polar contaminants from aromatic feedstocks
2	6,525,234	Process for liquid phase aromatics alkylation comprising in-situ catalyst reactivation with polar compounds
3	6,313,362	Aromatic alkylation process
4	5,994,550	Pyridine/picoline production process
5	5,969,143	Pyridine/picoline production process
6	5,902,917	Alkylaromatics production
7	5,705,726	Xylene isomerization on separate reactors
8	5,689,027	Selective ethylbenzene conversion
9	5,600,048	Continuous process for preparing ethylbenzene using liquid phase alkylation and vapor phase transalkylation
10	5,569,805	Catalytic conversion of aromatic compounds
11	5,516,956	Dual bed xylene isomerization
12	5,406,015	Selective ethylbenzene disproportionation processes (SEBDP) with ex situ selectivated zeolite catalyst
13	5,382,737	Selective ethylbenzene disproportionation process (SEBDP) with ex situ selectivated zeolite catalysts
14	5,292,880	Synthesis of caprolactam using catalysts
15	4,908,341	Method for reactivating spent catalyst by contact with one or more aromatic compounds
16	4,892,646	Method for treating dewaxing catalysts
17	4,871,444	Distillate fuel quality of FCC cycle oils
18	4,830,729	Dewaxing over crystalline indium silicates containing groups VIII means
19	4,828,678	Catalytic cracking
20	4,549,815	Measurement of ignition characteristics of distillate fuels
21	4,494,961	Increasing the cetane number of diesel fuel by partial oxidation