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{{short description|Indian chemical engineer (born 1949)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = B. D. Kulkarni
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1949|5|5}}
| birth_place = [[Nagpur]], [[Maharashtra]], India
| death_date = 14 January 2019
| death_place = Pune, India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Chemical reaction engineering]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[National Chemical Laboratory]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Laxminarayan Institute of Technology]] | [[National Chemical Laboratory]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist| [[L. K. Doraiswamy]] }}
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Development of delayed diffusion concept in chemical reaction engineering
| awards = {{ublist|1981 [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Young Scientist Medal | 1981 [[Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers|IIChE]] Amar Dye Chem Award | 1988 Herdillia Award | 1988 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 1992  [[National Chemical Laboratory|NCL]] Best Scientist of the Year | 2000 ChemTech-CEW Award | 2000 [[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry|FICCI]] Award }}
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'''Bhaskar Dattatraya Kulkarni''' (1949–2019), popularly known as '''B. D.''' among his friends and colleagues, was an Indian chemical reaction engineer and a Distinguished Scientist of Chemical Engineering and Process Development at the [[National Chemical Laboratory]], Pune.<ref name="Scientist Profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ncl.res.in/files/Resources/Contacts.aspx?DispName=Kulkarni |title=Scientist Profile |date=2017 |publisher=National Chemical Laboratory}}</ref> An [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Senior Scientist and a J. C. Bose fellow,<ref name="Bhaskar Dattatraya Kulkarni on INAE">{{Cite web |url=http://inae.in/expert-search/index.php/bhaskar-dattatraya-kulkarni |title=Bhaskar Dattatraya Kulkarni on INAE |date=2017 |publisher=Indian National Academy of Engineering}}</ref> he was known for his work on [[fluidized bed reactor]]s and [[chemical reactors]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=159 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> He is an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Kulkarni,_Dr_Bhaskar_Dattatraya |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> [[Indian National Science Academy]],<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N91-1078 |title=Indian fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> [[The World Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="TWAS fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/member/kulkarni-bhaskar-d |title=TWAS fellow |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}}</ref> and the [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]].<ref name="INAE fellows">{{Cite web |url=https://inae.in/search-of-fellows/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403030936/http://inae.in/search-of-fellows/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-04-03 |title=INAE fellows |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Academy of Engineers }}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1988.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}

== Biography ==
[[File:LIT Nagpur Main Building.jpg|thumb|235px|left|Laxminarayan Institute of Technology]]
B. D. Kulkarni, born on 5 May 1949 in [[Nagpur]] in the western Indian state of [[Maharashtra]], did his schooling at New English High School and after passing the [[matriculation]] with distinction in 1964, he did his pre-university course at [[Hislop College]] before joining [[Laxminarayan Institute of Technology]] of [[Nagpur University]] from where he graduated in chemical engineering in 1970.<ref name="Festschrift in Honor of Dr. B. D. Kulkarni">{{Cite journal |last=Ganapati D. Yadav |last2=V. K. Jayaraman |last3=V. Ravikumar |title=Festschrift in Honor of Dr. B. D. Kulkarni |journal=Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. |date=2009 |volume=48 |issue=21 |pages=9355–9356 |doi=10.1021/ie901367r|doi-access=free }}</ref> He continued there to complete his master's degree in chemical engineering in 1972 and enrolled at [[National Chemical Laboratory]], Pune (NCL) in 1973 for his doctoral degree under the guidance of [[L. K. Doraiswamy]], a noted chemical engineer and [[Padma Bhushan]] recipient. He worked under Doraiswamy, who is credited with developing Organic Synthesis Engineering as a definitive scientific stream,<ref name="Organic Synthesis Engineering">{{cite book | title=Organic Synthesis Engineering | publisher=Oxford University Press | author=L. K. Doraiswamy | year=2001 | pages=936 | isbn=978-0195096897}}</ref> and secured a PhD in 1978<ref name="Kulkarni Dr. B.D. on NCL">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ncl.res.in/files/Research/ScientistProfile/Default.aspx?menuid=ql8&Id=42&NCLEmpId=2006&UserId=118 |title=Kulkarni Dr. B.D. on NCL |date=2017 |publisher=National Chemical Laboratory}}</ref> during which time he was invited by [[Man Mohan Sharma]], a [[Padma Vibhushan]] laureate, to join the [[Institute of Chemical Technology]], Mumbai but, on advice from Doraiswamy, he remained at NCL where he would spend the rest of his career. He served the institution in various capacities as Scientist C (1979–84), Scientist EI (1984–88), Scientist EII (1988), Scientist F (1988–93) and superannuated as Scientist G in 2010.<ref name="Bio-Data">{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/sites/default/files/member/brief_biodata1-ipdated-sept_2015_0.pdf |title=Bio-Data |date=2017 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}}</ref> On the administration front, he served as the Deputy Director and Head of the Chemical Engineering Division.<ref name="B. D. Kulkarni on IITK">{{Cite web |url=http://iitk.ac.in/new/index.php/b-d-kulkarni |title=B. D. Kulkarni on IITK |date=2017 |publisher=IIT Kanpur}}</ref> Post-retirement, he served NCL as a Distinguished Scientist and continues his researches.<ref name="Kulkarni Dr. B.D. on NCL" />

== Legacy ==
[[File:Fluidized Bed Reactor Graphic.svg|thumb|Fluidized Bed Reactor Graphic]]
[[File:Batch reactor.2.jpg|thumb|Batch reactor]]
Kulkarni's researches were mainly in the fields of [[Chemical Reaction Engineering]], [[Applied Mathematics]] and [[Transport phenomena]] and he is known for his work on [[fluidized bed reactor]]s and [[chemical reactors]].<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=21 January 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He is credited with introducing an integer-solution approach and novel ideas on noise-induced transitions and his work on [[Artificial Intelligence]]-based evolutionary [[Formalism (philosophy of mathematics)|formalisms]] is reported to have assisted in a better understanding of reacting and reactor systems.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> His work spanned from conventional chemical reaction engineering in gas-liquid and gas-solid catalytic reactions to reactor stability to stochastic analysis of chemically reacting systems as well as inter-disciplinary fields.<ref name="B. D. Kulkarni Festschrift: Editorial">{{Cite journal |last=L. K. Doraiswamy |title=B. D. Kulkarni Festschrift: Editorial |journal=Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. |date=2009 |volume=48 |issue=21 |page=9357|doi=10.1021/ie900989b |doi-access=free }}</ref> A model reaction system termed ''Encillator'',<ref name="Chemical instabilities and bifurcations in encillator">{{Cite journal |title=Chemical instabilities and bifurcations in encillator |journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry |volume=95 |issue=8 |pages=3422–3425 |date=2017 |doi=10.1021/j100161a083 |last1 = Inamdar|first1 = S. R.|last2=Rajani |first2=P. |last3=Kulkarni |first3=B. D. }}</ref> an analytical approach for the solving model equations based on arithmetics, use of initial value formalism for modelling fluidized-bed reactors, introduction of [[Normal form (dynamical systems)|normal form theory]], [[evolutionary algorithms]] and [[stochastic approximation]] in analysing reactor behavior and performance are some of the contributions made by him.<ref name="Festschrift in Honor of Dr. B. D. Kulkarni" /> He holds US and Indian patents for several processes he has developed<ref name="Patents by Inventor Bhaskar Dattatraya Kulkarni">{{Cite web |url=http://patents.justia.com/inventor/bhaskar-dattatraya-kulkarni |title=Patents by Inventor Bhaskar Dattatraya Kulkarni |date=2017 |publisher=Justia Patents}}</ref><ref name="On Patent Docs">{{Cite web |url=http://www.patentsencyclopedia.com/inventor/kulkarni-pune-4/ |title=On Patent Docs |date=2017 |publisher=Patent Docs}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Lactates—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEYK1ydQuusC&pg=PA198|date=21 June 2013|publisher=ScholarlyEditions|isbn=978-1-4816-7707-3|pages=198–}}</ref> which include ''Method and an Apparatus for the Identification and/or Separation of Complex Composite Signals into its Deterministic and Noisy Components'',<ref name="Method and an Apparatus for the Identification and/or Separation of Complex Composite Signals into its Deterministic and Noisy Components">{{Cite web |url=https://www.google.ch/patents/US6208951 |title=Method and an Apparatus for the Identification and/or Separation of Complex Composite Signals into its Deterministic and Noisy Components |author1=Viruthiamparambath Ravi Kumar |author2=Bhaskar Dattatraya Kulkarni |author3=Narendra Madhukar Dixit |author4=Nitin Vaish |publisher=Google Patents |work=US 6208951 B1 |date=27 March 2001}}</ref> ''Process for preparation of pure alkyl esters from alkali metal salt of carboxylic acid'',<ref name="Process for preparation of pure alkyl esters from alkali metal salt of carboxylic acid">{{Cite web |url=https://www.google.com/patents/WO2011027211A3?cl=en |title=Process for preparation of pure alkyl esters from alkali metal salt of carboxylic acid |last=Prashant Purushottam Barve, Bhaskar Dattatraya Kulkarni, Milind Yashwant Gupte, Sanjay Narayan Nene, Ravindra William Shinde |publisher=Google Patents |work=WO 2011027211 A3 |date=5 May 2011}}</ref> and ''Enantioselective resolution process for arylpropionic acid drugs from the racemic mixture''.<ref name="Enantioselective resolution process for arylpropionic acid drugs from the racemic mixture">{{Cite web |url=https://www.google.ch/patents/US6093830 |title=Enantioselective resolution process for arylpropionic acid drugs from the racemic mixture |last=Nirmal Kishor Yadav, Bhaskar Dattatraya Kulkarni, Ramdas Bhagvan Khomane |publisher=Google Patents |work=US6093830 A |date=15 March 1999}}</ref>

Kulakrni's researches have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles;{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected articles'' section}} and the online article repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 250 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Kulkarni=3ABhaskar_Dattatraya=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> Besides, he has contributed chapters to books edited by others<ref name="Carberry1986">{{cite book|author1=L. K. Doraisway|author2=B. D, Kulkarni|editor=Carberry|title=Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i19FrUHMmdQC&pg=PA293|date=29 September 1986|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-8247-7543-8|pages=293–|chapter=Gas-Solid Non-catalytic Reactions}}</ref> and has published seven edited or authored texts, including ''Recent Trends in Chemical Reaction Engineering'',<ref name="Kulkarni1987">{{cite book|author=B. D. Kulkarni|title=Recent Trends in Chemical Reaction Engineering|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OfwnAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Wiley Eastern Limited|isbn=978-0-85226-509-3}}</ref> ''Advances in Transport Processes'',<ref name="MujumdarDoraiswamy1987">{{cite book|author1=A.S. Mujumdar|author2=Laxmangudi Krishnamurthy Doraiswamy|author3=B. D. Kulkarni|title=Advances in Transport Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzm3AAAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Wiley Eastern|isbn=9780852261712}}</ref> ''The Analysis of Chemically Reacting Systems: A Stochastic Approach''<ref name="DoraiswamyKulkarni1987-1">{{cite book|author1=Laxmangudi Krishnamurthy Doraiswamy|author2=B. D. Kulkarni|title=The Analysis of Chemically Reacting Systems: A Stochastic Approach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G-mW1La2flQC|date=January 1987|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-677-21670-6}}</ref> and ''Transport processes in fluidized bed reactors''.<ref name="DoraiswamyKulkarni1987-2">{{cite book|author1=Laxmangudi Krishnamurthy Doraiswamy|author2=B. D. Kulkarni|title=Transport processes in fluidized bed reactors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_DhHAQAAIAAJ|date=1 January 1987|publisher=Wiley Eastern|isbn=978-0-85226-171-2}}</ref> He has guided several master's and doctoral scholars in their studies and has conducted training for students on [[mathematical modelling]].<ref name="Festschrift in Honor of Dr. B. D. Kulkarni" /> He also serves as one of the directors of Hitech Bio Sciences India Limited, a [[probiotics]] and [[nutraceuticals]] manufacturer based in Pune<ref name="Board Of Directors">{{Cite web |url=http://www.htblindia.com/Board-of-Directors.html |title=Board Of Directors |date=2017 |publisher=HTBL India}}</ref> and is a member of the advisory committee of the International Conference on Sustainable Development for Energy and Environment (ICSDEE 2017).<ref name="Advisory Committee ICSDEE 2017">{{Cite web |url=http://icsdee2017.com/advisory-committee.html |title=Advisory Committee ICSDEE 2017 |date=2017 |publisher=ICSDEE 2017 |access-date=21 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202042512/http://icsdee2017.com/advisory-committee.html |archive-date=2 February 2017 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
The Indian National Science Academy awarded Kulkarni the Young Scientist Medal in 1981,<ref name="INSA Young Scientists Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/youngmedal.php |title=INSA Young Scientists Medal |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> making him the first chemical engineer to receive the honor.<ref name="Festschrift in Honor of Dr. B. D. Kulkarni" /> He received another award in 1981, the Amar Dye Chem Award of the [[Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers]]; IIChE would honor him again in 1988 with the Herdillia Award for Excellence in Basic Research in Chemical Engineering.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards the same year.<ref name="Engineering Sciences">{{Cite web|url=http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Engineering_SCIENCES.htm |title=Engineering Sciences |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211647/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Engineering_SCIENCES.htm |archivedate=23 September 2015 }}</ref> The National Chemical Laboratory selected him s the Best Scientist of the Year in 1992 and the year 2000 brought him two awards, ChemTech-CEW Award of the ChemTech Foundation and the FICCI Award of the [[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry]].<ref name="Festschrift in Honor of Dr. B. D. Kulkarni" />

Kulkarni, a [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research|CSIR]] Distinguished Scientist at NCL,<ref name="CSIR Distinguished Scientist">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ncl-india.org/files/ContactUs/Downloads/CSIR_NCL_directory.pdf |title=CSIR Distinguished Scientist |date=2017 |publisher=National Chemical Laboratory}}</ref> was elected as a fellow by [[Maharashtra Academy of Sciences]] in 1988,<ref name="MAS fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://mahascience.org/files/Fellowship/files/academyMembers.htm#k |title=MAS fellows |date=2017 |publisher=Maharashtra Academy of Sciences}}</ref> the same year as he became a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.<ref name="Fellow profile" /> He received the elected fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering<ref name="INAE fellows" /> and the Golden Jubilee Fellowship of the [[Institute of Chemical Technology]] (then known as the University Department of Chemical Technology-UDCT) in 1989.<ref name="Festschrift in Honor of Dr. B. D. Kulkarni" /> The Indian National Science Academy elected him as a fellow in 1990<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=21 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104001952/http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |archive-date=4 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[The World Academy of Sciences]] chose him as an elected fellow in 2002.<ref name="TWAS fellow" /> When the [[Science and Engineering Research Board]] of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] selected scientists for the J. C. Bose National Fellowship in 2009, he was also included in the list of recipients.<ref name="Festschrift in Honor of Dr. B. D. Kulkarni" /> [[Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research]], the official journal of the [[American Chemical Society]], issued a [[festschrift]] on him in 2009 titled ''Kulkarni Issue'' with the guest editorial written by his mentor, L. K. Doraiswmy and the issue featured his biosketch jointly written by [[G. D. Yadav|Ganapati D. Yadav]], V. K. Jayaraman and V. Ravikumar, all known chemical engineers.<ref name="Kulkarni Issue">{{Cite journal |title=Festschrift in Honor of Dr. B. D. Kulkarni |journal=Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research |volume=48 |issue=21 |pages=9355–9356 |date=2017 |publisher=American Chemical Society|doi=10.1021/ie901367r |last1=Yadav |first1=Ganapati D. |last2=Jayaraman |first2=V. K. |last3=Ravikumar |first3=V. |doi-access=free }}</ref>

== Contributions ==

=== Books ===
* {{cite book|author=B. D. Kulkarni|title=Recent Trends in Chemical Reaction Engineering|year=1987|publisher=Wiley Eastern Limited|isbn=978-0-85226-509-3}}
* {{cite book|author1=A.S. Mujumdar|author2=Laxmangudi Krishnamurthy Doraiswamy|author3=B. D. Kulkarni|title=Advances in Transport Processes|year=1987|publisher=Wiley Eastern}}
* {{cite book|author1=Laxmangudi Krishnamurthy Doraiswamy|author2=B. D. Kulkarni|title=The Analysis of Chemically Reacting Systems: A Stochastic Approach|date=January 1987|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-677-21670-6}}
* {{cite book|author1=Laxmangudi Krishnamurthy Doraiswamy|author2=B. D. Kulkarni|title=Transport processes in fluidized bed reactors|date=1 January 1987|publisher=Wiley Eastern|isbn=978-0-85226-171-2}}

=== Chapters ===
* {{cite book|author1=L. K. Doraisway|author2=B. D, Kulkarni|editor=Carberry|title=Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering|date=29 September 1986|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-8247-7543-8|pages=293–|chapter=Gas-Solid Non-catalytic Reactions}}

=== Selected patents ===
* {{Cite web |title=Method and an Apparatus for the Identification and/or Separation of Complex Composite Signals into its Deterministic and Noisy Components |author1=Viruthiamparambath Ravi Kumar |author2=Bhaskar Dattatraya Kulkarni |author3=Narendra Madhukar Dixit |author4=Nitin Vaish |publisher=Google Patents |work=US 6208951 B1 |date=27 March 2001}}
* {{Cite web |title=Process for preparation of pure alkyl esters from alkali metal salt of carboxylic acid |last=Prashant Purushottam Barve, Bhaskar Dattatraya Kulkarni, Milind Yashwant Gupte, Sanjay Narayan Nene, Ravindra William Shinde |publisher=Google Patents |work=WO 2011027211 A3 |date=5 May 2011}}
* {{Cite web |title=Enantioselective resolution process for arylpropionic acid drugs from the racemic mixture |last=Nirmal Kishor Yadav, Bhaskar Dattatraya Kulkarni, Ramdas Bhagvan Khomane |publisher=Google Patents |work=US6093830 A |date=15 March 1999}}

== See also ==
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* [[List of chemical engineers]]
* [[History of chemical engineering]]
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{{portal|India|Engineering}}

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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/dora/gvp/11-12-I/ |title=Petro Tel Distinguished Lecture series in Chemical Engineering |date=2017 |publisher=IIT Kanpur |work=Alumni Re-Union report}}

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