(Northern Regional Centre)

Dr Sachchida Nand holds a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from University of Ottawa, Canada (commonwealth scholar). He also has Masters in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was post-doctoral fellow and lecturer at University of Connecticut, USA. He worked at Hindustan Lever Research Centre, Mumbai.  He has several years of research experience in India, Canada & USA in the areas of hydrocarbon reforming, coal gasification, coal desulphurization and gas analysis.

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He was with Fertiliser Association of India for more than 35 years and retired as Additional Director General. He was responsible for issues related to fertilizer production technologies, feedstock, raw materials and fertiliser pricing policies. He has more than 50 research and review papers in leading national/international journals and conference proceedings. He wrote more than 50 articles in leading Indian newspapers on energy including green hydrogen and ammonia, fertilizers and agriculture.  He received U.S. Awasthi-IFFCO Award in 2019 for his Lifetime Contribution to Growth and Development for Fertilizer Industry.  He also received distinguished speaker award of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2019.

 

Dr Nand has been Chairman or a member of a number of expert Groups and Committees of the Government of India. He was member of Strategic Advisory Group for Sustainability of International Fertilizer Association, Paris. He is a senior member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers and was Chairman of Northern Regional Centre of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers during 2021-24.​ He is now available for consulting in areas of fertilizers, green ammonia, and policy matters related to fertilizers, energy, environment and agriculture.