About

Ashok Pathak is a highly experienced Process Engineer with expertise in Process Design, Simulation & Modelling of refinery & petrochemical plant digital twins. He has a basic understanding of LP modelling, Refinery Planning & scheduling and has worked on Spiral Crude Assay Manager, Molecular Characterization of Crude oil & refinery streams. Ashok has worked on various troubleshooting, debottlenecking & process improvement projects. He is proficient in Process Simulation software like Aspen Plus, Aspen Hysys, Aspen Online, KBC Petrosim, ROMEO. He has a relevant experience of 11.36 years. Currently, Ashok is working as a Technology Services Consultant at KBC, a Yokogawa Company. In his current role, he is responsible for providing expert guidance to clients in the areas of Process Modeling & Simulation, Optimization, and Digitalization. Prior to his current role, Ashok worked at Reliance as a Senior Engineer - Modeling & Simulation and Senior Manager (Senior Research Scientist). At Reliance, he worked on online deployment of open loop process digital twins of different plant units for process monitoring & optimization. He also worked on various projects related to refinery reactor models, extractive distillation, liquid-liquid extraction, crystallization, rate based models, LP Vector generation. Ashok has a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur, and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from LIT, Nagpur RTM University. He also has a Higher Secondary degree in Science from M.P Deo Memorial Science College Nagpur and a Secondary School degree in English, Maths, Science, Social Studies from Hindu Dnyanpeeth Convent. Ashok's TechStack includes Research Scientist. With his rich experience and expertise in Process Modeling & Simulation, Optimization, and Digitalization, Ashok is a valuable asset to any organization in the refinery and petrochemical industry.