Adarsh Penchala

Passionate Chemical Engineer seeking a challenging role that provides a strong platform to leverage experience, knowledge, and technical expertise, contributing to organizational growth while driving continuous self-development.

Process Design Engineer- Technology Transfer Group at SRF Limited (2025-10 – Present)

• Leading reviews of R&D process recipe documents, resolving operability issues, and driving engineering-based optimization.
• Recommending safety study requirements (RC1e, DSC, ARC, ARSST) for cross-functional teams to perform, ensuring safe and compliant process design.
• Preparing Design of Experiments (DoE) for process optimization and executing scale-up studies aligned with objectives.
• Developing and evaluating process intensification strategies; designing and scaling up feasible flow chemistry processes.
• Using Dynochem for mixing and heat transfer studies, and Aspen Plus for distillation column design and property estimation.
• Executing process scale-up from lab to pilot and commercial scale; ensuring feasibility, reliability, and equipment mapping.
• Preparing Basic Engineering Packages (BEP) and process design documents (PFD, P&ID, mass/energy balances, raw material norms).
• Conducting HAZOP studies before execution; preparing interlock sheets, batch process sheets, and SOPs for safe startup.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams for smooth startup and execution.
• Providing process engineering support during pre-commissioning and commissioning: monitoring, analyzing data, troubleshooting, stabilizing products, and enhancing yield/capacity.
• Preparing process datasheets, customer documents, project updates, and campaign closure/technology transfer reports.

Process Engineer at Deccan Fine Chemicals Private Limited (2023-06 – 2025-10)

• Managed complex reactions: catalytic hydrogenations, nitration, di-nitration, chlorination and Friedel-Crafts acylation.
• Executed and successfully stabilizing three commercial products, ensuring reliable scale-up and smooth plant operations with automation (DCS).
• Operated and optimized diverse equipment: Corning AFR G1 reactor, slurry flow reactor, Stolichem (SABR), Static mixers, Coils, Batch reactor, distillation columns, centrifuges, ANFDs, wiped film evaporators, dryers and pinched tube reactor.
• Executed continuous flow processes in engineering lab; designed and implemented DOE studies to determine optimal experimental trials.
• Contributed to flow process scale-up while resolving thermal degradation challenge.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams for smooth startups, process monitoring, troubleshooting, product stabilization, Solvent recovery and yield/capacity enhancement.

Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering – RGUKT-Basar, Telangana (2023)

Pre-University Course – RGUKT-Basar, Telangana (2019)

Secondary School Certificate – TSMS, Manakondur, Karimnagar (2017)