1. Educational Qualification

2. Early life

3. Career
    Positions Held(1977-2011)  Accolades  Membership on Professional Bodies  Membership on Academic and Scientific Bodies  National & International Committees 

4. Areas of Specialization

5. Research activities

6. Leadership in Chemical & Environmental Engineering Science and Technology

7. Scientific and Technical Leadership in Environmental Protection
    Green Chemical Technologies  Montreal Protocol  GHG Emission Mitigation and Kyoto Protocol 

8. International Visits

9. Publications
    Books  Monographs  Chapters 

10. References

11. Dr. Sukumar Devotta Biography

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Dr.Sukumar Devotta is a renowned Indian Scientist born in Chennai, graudated from University of Salford, England. He is a Nobel Leaurate for his contribution towards research in reducing Global Warming. He spent his early life in Chennai, and held various positions in reputed Scientific and Academic bodies.

Educational Qualification

B.Tech. Chemical Engineering. (1971), M.Tech. Chem. Engg. (1973), Ph.D. (1978) from University of Madras and M.Sc. Chem. Engg. (1984) from University of Salford, England

Early life

Devotta, Sukumar was born on April 3, 1948 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India as second son to John Philip and Josephine Pichammal (Gonsal) Devotta.

He married Linnet Gonsal on May 18, 1979 and has two children.

Career

Dr.Sukumar served as a Lecturer at A. C. College of Technology, University of Madras between 1977 and 1979. Later he worked as a Senior (PostDoctoral) Research Fellow at the University of Salford in England from 1979 to 1984. Soon after his research fellowship, he graduated in Chemical Engineering and he pursued as a Scientist in various capacities (Sci. EI to Sci. G during 1984-2003). At the same time he held various positions as the Head of Engineering Divisions from 1993 to 1998, Process Engineering Unit from 1997 to 1999, Process Development Division (1999-2003), National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.

Positions Held(1977-2011)

• Lecturer, A. C. College of Technology, University of Madras (1977 79)
• Senior (PostDoctoral) Research Fellow, University of Salford, England (1979 84)
• Scientist in various capacities (Sci. EI to Sci. G during 1984-2003), & Head of Engineering Divisions (1993-98), Process Engineering Unit (1997-99), Process Development Division (1999-2003), National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
• Director, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur (August 2003-January 2008)
• Director, Board of Directors, and Member, Audit Committee, KIOCL, Bangalore (2006-09)
• Director, Board of Directors and Member, Audit Committee, HOCL Mumbai (2006-09)
• Environmental Consultant – to Alcoa Feb 2008- Jan 2011.
• Chemical & Environmental Engineering (2011 to present)

Accolades

• Nobel Peace Prize 2007 to IPCC, as one of the members of IPCC.
• Environmental Leadership Award for Outstanding Contributions made through Working in Partnership to Improve the Environment and Quality of Life for the People of Asia, United States - Asia Environmental Partnership (USAID/ASIA) in 2005
• CSIR Technology Award of the year 2003 and 2005 for the Chemical Technology, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi
• ICICI Technology Award of the Year 2004
• USEPA "Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award" for Technical & Scientific Leadership to eliminate CFCs in the Refrigeration Sector, United States Environment Protection Agency in 1997
• Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of Salford, England (1984-90, 1994-95)
• Salford Alumni Achievement Award 2017

Membership on Professional Bodies

Membership on Academic and Scientific Bodies

National & International Committees

• Member of UNEP Refrigeration Technical Options Committee (1991- present).
• Member, Board of Governors, A.M. Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre (MCRC), Chennai (2018- present).
• Member, Empowered Steering Committee and Technology & Finance Standing Committee on Montreal Protocol, Ozone Cell, Ministry of Environment & Forest, New Delhi (1992-present).
• Member, High Level Task Force for Multilateral Environmental Agreement (Montreal Protocol), Ozone Cell, Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi (1992-present).
• Member, Board of Governors, QCI-NABET, New Delhi (2018-present).
• Chairman, VASVIK Award Committee – Environment (2010-present).
• Chairman, Research Advisory Board, A.M. Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre (MCRC), Chennai (2014-2018).
• Member, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), New Delhi (2015-2018).
• Member, World Bank Ozone Operation Research Group (March 2008-2013).
• Chairman, Maharashtra State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) (2011-2013)
• Member, Accreditation Committee- EIA Consultants, QCI-NABET, New Delhi (2011-2014).
• Chairman, Technical Committee- EIA Consultants, QCI-NABET, New Delhi (2011-2014).
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Coordinating Lead Author (CLA), LA and member (1999-2005).
• Co-Chairman, UNEP Destruction Task Force - Technology & Economic Assessment Panel for Montreal Protocol (2002).
• Member, Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Waste Management in the matter of WP 657/95, Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi (2003-2007).
• Member, Expert Group on Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes, Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi (2003-2008)

Areas of Specialization

• Chemical Process Engineering & Development
• Environmental Science & Engineering (Wastewater and Environmental Impact Assessment)
• Industrial Energy Conservation
• Alternatives to CFCs, HCFCs and HFCs
• Global Environment Policy and Protocols

Research activities

Dr. Sukumar has done pioneering research in the field of energy and environment. He has contributed for over a decade to the issues on environmental protection. He has been deeply involved in the issue of CFC replacement both nationally and internationally particularly for the refrigeration sector. He was actively involved in the process engineering and development of environment friendly chemical and process technologies. He is widely consulted by Indian and International agencies and industries in the area of environmental management. He was also actively involved in the Montreal Protocol and Climate Change joint study under UNEP and IPCC.

Dr. Sukumar, with his technical and leadership skills, has collaborated with many national and international industries and agencies for R&D on a variety problems and areas. Dr. Devotta has been active consultant for a variety of R&D areas to many prestigious national and international companies and agencies including Alcoa (USA), EU, GE, GIZ, Infras (Zurich), UNDP, UNEP, World Bank.

Leadership in Chemical & Environmental Engineering Science and Technology

• A variety of experience including heading the various research groups, Units and Divisions e.g. Chemical Engineering Division, Process Engineering Unit, Engineering Services Division and Process Development Division at NCL, Pune (1984-2003).
• As the Director, NEERI, directed the institute for a variety of environmental science and engineering areas including, Air Pollution Control, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Materials, Environmental Modelling, Water & Wastewater Technology (2003-2008).
• As an independent Director in both KIOCL and HOCL, has been contributing to the growth of these industries and solving some of their chemical and environmental problems (2004-2007).
• As an advisor to Alcoa, USA, was coordinating R&D activities in India on a variety of subjects related to environmental science, engineering and management (2008-2011).
• As an advisor to CEMCOT, Chennai on various issues related to Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) in leather industries (2015-present.
• As a mentor to Indomer, Chennai on various issues related to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) (2015-present)

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Scientific and Technical Leadership in Environmental Protection

Green Chemical Technologies

As the Head of Process Development Division at NCL, Dr.Sukumar was actively involved in the process engineering design, simulation and development of environment friendly chemical and process technologies, including ‘Use of eco-friendly catalysts’; Better raw material utilisation and solvent recovery; Effluent treatment for pulp and paper mills and distilleries; Hazardous waste identification, characterization and minimization; Fuel Cell power pack; Biodegradable polymers and so on.

Montreal Protocol

Since 1990, even before India became a party to the Montreal Protocol, Dr. Sukumar was actively involved in the search for alternatives to CFCs with fundamental and applied research. He was one of the pioneering members in the formulation of GOI’s policy on Montreal Protocol by the Ministry of Environment & Forests through India’s Country Programme, CSIR Task Force, MOEF Task Force, MOEF Ozone Cell Steering committee and Monitoring Committee.

He played a key role in the phase out CFCs in India to comply with the Montreal Protocol, including R&D for using HFC-134a, Policy formulations to MOEF, Technical and Financial Audit of CFC production in India on behalf of MOEF/UNDP. He actively involved in an Indo-Swiss Ecofrig Project (SDC Sponsored) to phase out CFC in Refrigerator plants in India using HC refrigerant and Cyclopentane as the blowing agent.Dr.Sukumar was and is still safeguarding the interests of India and other developing countries in various National (CII, FICCI and ICMA) and International forums. He is actively participating since 1992 in the UNEP Refrigeration Technical Option Committee (RTOC) and Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP- Task Forces) under the Montreal Protocol for various reports, with special reference to developing countries. He collaborates with many national and international industries and agencies for R&D on a variety problems in this area, particularly on Ozone friendly and Climate friendly technologies.

GHG Emission Mitigation and Kyoto Protocol

Dr. Sukumar was actively involved in the India’s First National Communication and in the Third National Communication on Greenhouse Gas Inventory on behalf of MOEF to assess the GHG emission and their coefficients in Indian industries, particularly for Chemicals, Cement and Nitric acid production. He was involved in the joint study by UNEP and IPCC on "Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System: Issues related to Hydrofluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbons" (2003-2005).

International Visits

Dr. Sukumar Devotta has participated in many international committee meetings and international conferences, mostly on invitations. He has traveled widely on various assignments and deputations to Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bhutan, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, U.A.E., U.K., and U.S.A.

Publications

Books

• Holland, F.A., Watson. F.A. and Devotta, S., “Thermodynamic Design Data for Heat Pump Systems”, Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK, (1982)
• Mitra, A.P., Sharma, S., Bhattacharya, S., Garg, A., Devotta, S. and Sen, K., “Climate Change and India : Uncertainty Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Inventory Estimates”, Universities Press, Hyderabad, (2004)
• Raman, N.S. and Devotta, S., “Handbook on Indian Environmental Standards”, NEERI, Nagpur (2006)
• Goyal, S.K., Chalapati Rao, C.V. and Devotta, S., “Urban Air Pollution in India - Status and Future Challenges”, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, (2007)
• Devotta, S., Wate, S.R., Godfrey, S., Labhsetwar, P.K., Swami, A., Saxena, A., Dwivedi, H.B., and Parihar, G., “Guidance Manual - Greywater Reuse in Rural Schools”, NEERI, Nagpur, sponsored by UNICEF, Bhopal, (2007)
• Devotta S. and Chalapathy Rao, C.V., “Environmental Status of India”, Atlantic Publishers (2008)
• Devotta, S. and Thacker, N.“Dioxins and Furans “, Springler (2014)

Monographs

• Devotta S., High Temperature Heat Pump Working Fluids, HTFS Design Report, (1986)
• Devotta, S., Finkelstein, A. and Kuijpers, L., Report of the Task Force on Destruction Technologies, UNEP TEAP Report (2002)
• Rao, C.V.C., Nema, P. and Devotta, S., Proceedings of the Indo-US Workshop on Modelling of Transport of Air Pollutants, Jointly organized by NEERI, Nagpur and Ohio Supercomputer Center, Ohio, USA, (2003)
• Ramanathan, V., M. Agrawal, H. Akimoto, M. Aufhammer, S. Devotta, L. Emberson, S.I. Hasnain,
• M. Iyngararasan, A. Jayaraman, M. Lawrance, T. Nakajima, T. Oki, H. Rodhe, M. Ruchirawat, S.K. Tan, J. Vincent, J.Y. Wang, D. Yang, Y.H. Zhang, H. Autrup, L. Barregard, P. Bonasoni, M. Brauer, B. Brunekreef, G. Carmichael, C.E. Chung, J. Dahe, Y. Feng, S. Fuzzi, T. Gordon, A.K. Gosain, N. Htun, J. Kim, S. Mourato, L. Naeher, P. Navasumrit, B. Ostro, T. Panwar, M.R. Rahman, M.V. Ramana, M. Rupakheti, D. Settachan, A. K. Singh, G. St. Helen, P. V. Tan, P.H. Viet, J. Yinlong, S.C. Yoon, W.-C. Chang, X. Wang, J. Zelikoff and A. Zhu, Atmospheric Brown Clouds: Regional Assessment Report with Focus on Asia, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. (2008),

Chapters

• Sukhatme, S.P. and Devotta, S., “Classification of Heat Transfer Equipment” in “Heat Transfer Equipment Design”, Hemisphere Washington D.C., Eds. R.K. Shah, E.C. Subba Rao, R.A. Mashelkar, (1988)
• Devotta, S., Iyer, M. and Kammen, D.M., “Section-III: Case Studies” in "Methodological and Technical Issues in Technology Transfer, A Special Report of IPCC Working Group III", Cambridge University Press, 16, 375-444, (2000)
• Andersen, S.O., Carvallho, S.U.M., Devotta, S., Fujimoto, Y., Harnisch, J. Polak, B.K., Kuijpers, L., McFarland, M., Moomaw, W. and Moreira, J.R., “Options to Reduce Global Warming Contributions from Substitutes for Ozone Depleting Substances” in "Climate Change 2001: Mitigation", Cambridge University Press, (2001)
• Gaikwad, S.A., Kumar Sunil, Devotta, S. and Singh, R.N., “Methane Emissions from Solid Waste Management in India and its Uncertainty Analysis” in "Climate Change and India : Uncertainty Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Inventory Estimates", Universities Press, Hyderabad, Eds. A.P. Mitra, S.K. Sharma, S. Bhattacharya, Amit Garg, S. Devotta, Kalyan Sen, 14, 302-318, (2004)
• Rao, P.V., Qureshi, M.S. and Devotta, S., “Carbon Dioxide Emission Factor from Cement Production Process in India” in "Climate Change and India : Uncertainty Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Inventory Estimates", Universities Press, Hyderabad, Eds. A.P. Mitra, S.K. Sharma, S. Bhattacharya, Amit Garg, S. Devotta, Kalyan Sen, 7, 127-146, (2004)
• Devotta, S. and Asthana, S., “Uncertainties in HFC, PFC and SF6 Emissions from Industrial Processes” in "Climate Change and India: Uncertainty Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Inventory Estimates", Universities Press, Hyderabad, Eds. A.P. Mitra, S.K. Sharma, S. Bhattacharya, Amit Garg, S. Devotta, Kalyan Sen, 8, 147-170, (2004)
• Jager, D., Manning, M., Kuijpers, L. (Coordinating Lead Authors) and Devotta, S. (Lead Author), “Technical Summary” in "IPCC/TEAP Special Report Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System : Issues related to Hydrofluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbons" Cambridge University Press, USA, Eds. B. Metz, L. Kuijpers, S. Solomon, S.O. Andersen, O. Davidson, Jose Pons, D. Jager, T. Kestin, M. Manning, L. Meyer, 19-82, (2005)
• Devotta, S. and Sicars, S. (Coordinating Lead Authors), “Refrigeration” in "IPCC/TEAP Special Report Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System : Issues related to Hydrofluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbons" published by Cambridge University Press, USA, Eds. B. Metz, L. Kuijpers, S. Solomon, S.O. Andersen, O. Davidson, Jose Pons, D. Jager, T. Kestin, M. Manning, L. Meyer, 4, 227-267, (2005)
• Goyal, S.K., Rama Krishna, T.V.B.P.S., Singh, R.N. and Devotta, S., “Indian Air Quality Monitoring and Modelling” in "Glimpses of the Work on Environment and Development in India", Eds. J.S. Singh, V.P. Sharma, 9, 124-158, (2005)
• Juwarkar, A.A. and Devotta, S., “Pollution and Diseases : Soil Pollution” in "Textbook of Environmental Emergencies", Eds. A.C. Anand, A.S. Narula, R. Kakkar, R. Kalra, 10(3), 202-211, (2006)
• Nandy, T., Devotta, S. and Verma, A.K., “Pollution and Diseases : Water Pollution” in "Textbook of Environmental Emergencies", Eds. A.C. Anand, A.S. Narula, R. Kakkar, R.Kalra, 10(2), 173-201, (2006)
• Ashford, P., Baker, J.A., Clodic, D., Devotta, S., Godwin, D., Harnisch, J., Irving, W., Jeffs, M., Kuijpers, L., McCulloch, A., Peixoto, R.D., Uemura, S. and Verdonik, D.P., “Emissions of Fluorinated Substitutes for Ozone Deplicting Substances” in 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories for Industrial Processes and Product Use, Simon Eggleston, Leandro Buendia, Kyoko Miwa, Todd Ngara and Kiyoto Tanabe, 3, 7.7-7.70, (2006)

• Research Papers: More than 250 research papers in reviewed international journals and more than 100 papers in international and national conferences.

• US Patents: Granted 5 patents and few more filed.

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