Dr Anoop Kumar Personal Profile
Dr. Anoop Kumar is a well known specialist in the field of lubricating greases and a much-sought speaker in lubricants related conferences/meetings, education courses, and a regular contributor of articles on current issues/topics in various lubrication magazines. Working in the field of lubricating greases is his passion and he loves the everyday challenges faced in formulating, manufacturing and their applications ever since he joined this industry. He started his lubricating greases career in 1991, just after completing his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India and liked it so much that never planned to switch over to another discipline. At the beginning of his career, he was told by peers that the making of lubricating greases is an art, and since then, he has been trying to find the answer to whether grease making is really an art or a science.
Dr. Kumar has over 25 worldwide patents, and more than 80 technical papers and presentations in Journals and conferences of international repute. He has been accredited with many awards. His hands-on expertise lies not only in the product and process development – scaling up the process and manufacturing in plant – but also in end-use applications, tailor- making the products as per their customised requirements. His quest to work in applied research, brought him to join the R&D Center of the Indian Oil Corporation in 1991where he worked for 17 years in product and process development of lubricating greases, manufacturing and visiting the end use industry. During this period, in an effort to find a suitable substitute to lithium, he invented novel titanium complex grease which received many awards.
Transition from India to United States He moved from India to the United States in 2008 and joined Royal Mfg Co LP in 2008 as Director of R&D, a 100 years old company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After working with large corporations like Indian Oil, he enjoys working with a family owned company and is currently a member of its Senior Management Board. Royal Mfg Co LP manufactures lubricating oils and greases for almost all applications with focus on high performance, synthetic, biodegradable, food grade lubricants especially for industrial applications like mining, marine, food grade, off highway, cement, steel mills, railways etc. In 2010, he received the US Green Card under EB1 category, person with extraordinary ability and in 2016 he enjoyed voting in the US presidential elections.
Dr Kumar has significantly contributed to the field of lubricating greases. He played a key role in the formation and running of NLGI (National Lubricating Grease Institute) - India Chapter in 1998 and ran it until 2008. He joined the Board of NLGI, USA in 2010 and contributes to the institute as Instructor to its advanced education course, coordinator to NLGI working groups and also currently serves the executive committee as Treasurer. In addition, he is the Technical Editor to the STLE’s TLT Magazine and speaker to its webinar. Dr Kumar has contributed to the technical articles of current industry interest in various lubrication magazines including Lube published by UKLA, Compoundings published by ILMA, Greasetech India of NLGI-India Chapter, Machinery Lubrications of Noria, Lubes’n’Greases of LNG publications, TLT of STLE, Modern Contractor, Chemical Industry Digest, etc.
He has many awards to his credit for his work in the field of lubricants; Chevron Lubricants Award 2012, NLGI-India Chapter Long Service award 2010, National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) Award-1996, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) - Silver medal – 1996, Indian Chemical Manufacturers Association (ICMA) Award 95, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Award 1995-96, National Petroleum Management Program (NPMP) Award 2000-01, three times PPC Gonsalves awards (2003, 2004 and 2010) by NLGI India Chapter for best paper, twice Best Paper Awards (2002 and 2006) by ISFL (International Symposium on Fuels & Lubricants), Khosla Research Award (1992).
He enjoys working on new lubrication/application problems and handling his customers’ requirements, visiting industry worldwide. On a personal note he enjoys watching Bollywood movies with his wife Kumud at home over scotch on the rocks. Cooking Indian food is his favorite pastime and strongly believes that one can’t be a good grease professional unless knows how to cook good food at home!
LINK
www.royalmfg.com
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LUBE MAGAZINE NO.137 FEBRUARY 2017
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