After serving a brief stint with Coal India Limited, I joined academics and have been serving at various academic positions over the last 25 years. My areas of expertise include rock engineering, unconventional gas reservoir development like coalbed methane and shale gas; and CO2 storage in deep geological formations. I have executed several sponsored research projects from various government and private agencies. Presently, I am engaged in slope design of pits and overburden dumps at a number of coal mines in the country.
On the international front, I served as a coalbed methane consultant for VICO Indonesia and Mitchell Energy of Australia. I was a post doctoral fellow at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 2005-06 and Blaustein Fellow at Stanford University in 2010. I also executed a collaborative research project with University of Leeds on shale gas reservoir characterisation in 2014-15.
Blaustein Fellow, Stanford University (2010)
Post Doctoral Fellow, Southern Illinois University (2005-06)
Geomechanics, Unconventional Gas, Carbon Sequestration
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Das S. and Dutta, P, Preliminary understanding of CO2sequestration and enhanced coalbed methane recovery in Raniganj coalfield of India by reservoir simulation, presented at GHGT-13, Lausanne November 14-18, 2016, 2016
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Bhowmik, S., Dutta, P, Adsorption rate characteristics of methane and CO2in coal samples from Raniganj and Jharia Coalfields of India, 113, 50-59, International Journal of Coal Geology, 2013
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Dutta P. and Zoback, M.D, CO2sequestration into the Wyodak coal seam of Powder River Basin- preliminary reservoir characterization and simulation, 9, 103-116, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2012
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Dutta, P., Bhowmik, S., Das. S, Methane and carbon dioxide sorption on a set of coals from India, 85, 289-299, International Journal of Coal Geology, 2011
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Bhowmik, S. Dutta, P, Investigation into the methane displacement behavior by cyclic, 25 (6), 2730-2740, pure carbon dioxide injection in dry, powdered, bituminous Indian coals, Energy and Fuel, 2011
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Dutta, P., Zoback, M.D., Yang, Y, Preliminary reservoir characterization and simulation of a nine-section area of Powder River Basin for CO2sequestration and enhanced coalbed methane production, Paper presented at Stanford Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics Annual Meeting June 23-25 2010, Stanford, California, 2010
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Dutta, P., Harpalani, S., Prusty, B.K, Modeling of CO2sorption on coal, 87(10-11), 2023-2036, Fuel, 2008
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Harpalani, S., Prusty, B.K., Dutta P, Methane/CO2sorption modeling for coalbed methane production and CO2sequestration, 20(4), 1591-1599, Energy and Fuels, 2006
