摘要：

Today the world is demanding ‘Green’ machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, automobiles with ever increasing efficiencies so how do rubber products specially the tyre and automobile rubber components affects this picture and where can this ‘Green’ demand lead the tyre, auto rubber component including automobile industry?  All these questions are currently budging about auto and tyre industry, especially when Governments starts getting involved, wanting to legislate and regulate tyre and vehicle performance. In this paper above questions are addressed through new Eco Systems, Design for Environment, Cleaner Production and Resource Optimisation.

Keywords: Sustainable Growth, Green Technology, Eco Systems, Design for Environment, Cleaner Production & Resource Optimisation.

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个人简介：

Director (R&D)-JK Tyre & Industries Ltd.                     Office 91-2952-232019/232079

Director & CE-HASETRI.                                 Phone: 91 294-2451015

Chairman, Indian Rubber Institute                  Fax : 91 2952-232030/232018

 510, Panchratna Complex                                   Mobile: 91 94141 56197  

 Bedla Road, Fatehpura                                                  91 9929199931

Udaipur, Rajasthan, India                               Email: rm@ktp.jkmail.com/rm@hasetri.com

Current affiliation

 J.K. Tyre & Industries Limited 1987 till date

 Director (R&D) of JK Tyre & Industries Ltd.  and

Director & CE of HASETRI (Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer & Tyre Research Institute)

 Past Experience
 Technical Manager - Bayer AG, Germany & Bayer (India) Ltd (Rubber Chemical Division) 1979-1987  Faculty member - Rubber Tech. Centre, IIT, Kharagpur - 1975 - 1978
 Education
 Ph.D (Rubber Tech.) (Title of thesis: High Temperature Vulcanisation of Elastomers) from IIT Kharagpur in 1978

 LPRI(Rubber) from The Plastic & Rubber Institute (London) 1977

 M.Sc.(App.Chem.) – from IIT Kharagpur in 1975

 AMIE (Chem Engg) from Institution of Engineers (India) in 1973

 Zertifikat Deutsch AIS Fremdsprache Indian Institute of German Studies - Max Muller Bhavan , Bombay in 1983

 Others Accomplishments

 1    No. of  publications       :    175

2.   No. of  patent filed        :    7 (3 -  accepted & 4 under process)

  Membership of Professional Institutions:

 (a)  Fellow  Member :

1. Indian National Academy of Engineers  

2.  The Institution of Engineers (I) – Ch.Engg 

3.  The Indian Rubber Institute  (IRI)

4.   Indian Society of Analytical Scientists

5.          Indian Institute of Quality

 (b) Member :

1.   American Chemical Society (Rubber Divn)

2.  The New York Academy of Science, U.S.A.

3.   Technical Advisory Committee of All India  Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA)

4.   Certification Advisory Committee, BSI

5.    Lead Assessor – CII Exim Bank Business Excellence TQM Model.

6.    All India Rubber Industries Association

7.   Governing Council member, Rubber Skill Development Centre, (RSDC), under National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)

8.   Academic Senate, IIT Patna

9.   Advisory Board of Techno India NJR Institute of Technology, Udaipur.

 ACHIEVEMENTS

1.   Professional Achievements

·  Established a full fledged Research and Development institute (Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer & Tyre Research Institute-HASETRI – An Institute recognized by Govt. of India as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and NABL accredited Institute), at Jaykaygram, Kankroli for carrying out Basic as well as applied research on Elastomers, tyre and other rubber products.  This institute is affiliated to different IITs and Universities for Ph.D/M.Tech programmes. 

 ·  To fulfill the emerging needs of Indian Automobile Industry in the field of Vehicle Dynamics and advanced tyre mechanics, established “Raghupati Singhania Centre of Excellence for Tyre and Vehicle Dynamics” at IIT Chennai campus and an extension centre of HASETRI at Faridabad.

 ·  To fulfill the emerging need of automobile manufacturers and the tyre industry, a full fledged Tyre Testing Centre was established in 2006 at HASETRI, Jaykaygram Campus

 ·   A separate Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory and the Simulation and Predictive Technology Centre for the automobile and tyre industry was established in 2007 at HASETRI Faridabad campus.

 2.  Contribution to the Indian Rubber Industry

 Under the leadership of Dr. R Mukhopadhyay, following Development project carried out at HASETRI-JK Tyre R& D Centre :

 a)  Development of all Steel Radial tyre Technology for Truck/Bus and fabric-steel tyres for Passenger/LCV for Indian as well as overseas markets.

b)   Development of Environment friendly technology for rubber industry including use of recycled material.

c)  Development of 100% Silica based tread compound for reduced rolling resistance, improved fuel consumption thereby helping in both pollution control (less emission) and reduction in depletion of natural resource (crude oil which is source of carbon black, predominantly used by tyre industry).

d)  Development of water based lube in place of solvent based for inner and outer lube in Tyre Industry.

e)   Energy conservation projects for tyre industry: JK Tyre has reduced total energy cost despite increase in production output through innovative approach.  Energy saving through intensive R&D approach, they have been considered as benchmark for energy cost in tyre industry in India.

f)   Simulation & predictive Testing in Tyre Design & Development:

i)   Developed experimental techniques to study Tyre-Vehicle-Road and handling characteristics covering Ride Dynamics, Impact Simulation, Handling characteristics, Instrument ride and handling test.

ii)  Tyre and road noise

iii)   Tyre Foot print mechanics

iv)   Non-destructive test development.

  g)  Various Development Projects on different rubber products for non tyre industry.

h)   Development of different National and International Standard Test Methods for Rubber and Allied Industries as a member of BIS - PCDC 13 and ISO TC45.

   3.  Academic Achievements (Education/Training/Research)

 (a)   Six Scientists at HASETRI received Ph.D. degree and five scientists are pursuing Ph.D programme under my guidance  from I.I.T, Kharagpur, IIT Madras, University of Calcutta in the field of Polymer Science & Rubber Technology.  Guided 60 students for  B.Tech/M.Tech programme from different Universities and IITs in the field of Rubber Science and Technology.

 (b)  Jointly running a M. Sc. Course on Polymer Science & Technology (2 years duration)  in association with Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur since 1990.

 (c)  Initiated a Post Diploma Course in Polymer Science & Rubber Technology at Vidya Bhawan Polytechnic, Udaipur, which was approved by AICTE and Directorate of Technical Education, Govt. of Rajasthan in association with JK Tyre, IRI Rajasthan Branch and HASETRI

 (d)  Under the chairman ship of Dr. R Mukhopadhyay, Indian Rubber Institute Rajasthan Branch in association with MLS University and HASETRI organized India International Rubber Conference & Expo 2007 (IRC-2007) at Udaipur during 1-3 November 2007 and contributed Rs. 51 lacs towards establishment of a full fledged Polymer Science and Rubber Technology Centre (24000 sq.ft) at Mohanlal Sukhadia University Campus, Udaipur.

 (e)  Visiting Professor at Polymer Science & Rubber Technology Centre- IIT Kharagpur, MIT-Chennai & MLS University, Udaipur.

 (f)  Regularly conducting different short-term courses/workshops on Rubber Science and Technology, Quality Management Systems (ISO-9000, ISO-14000, TS-16949, OHSAS-18000), Total Quality Management (EFQM Model, RGNQA) and Tools & Techniques for Continual Improvement (5S, TPM, Mistake-Proofing, SPC, DOE, TOC, FMEA, Cost of Quality etc.) including Benchmarking, Business Process Reengineering & Sustainable Development.

 (g)  Under the leadership of Dr. R Mukhopadhyay, HASETRI is the first Institute in India to get affiliation as Training Provider for Rubber sector under National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in August 2013 & providing training to Rubber Sector.

 (h) Books/Chapters/Proceedings:
 · Book published - “Reverse Engineering with Rubber Products: Concepts, Tools and Techniques, published by CRC Press, UK and edited by Prof. AK Bhowmick. 

 · Chapter on “Automotive Application of Rubber Clay Nano composites” in the book entitled “Rubber Clay Nano composites” published by Willey,USA edited by Mauriuzio Galimerti in 2011

· Chapter on “Recent Advances in Eco Friendly material in Rubber industry” in the book Current Topics in Elastomer Research published by CRC Press, UK in 2008

·  Chapters on Mixing Technology, Moulding and Compounding Technology in the book Current Trends in Engineering Practice, Edited by Prof.CV Ramakrishnan, INAE.

* Introduction to Polymer Science and Rubber Technology, published by IRI Rajasthan Branch.

·  India International Rubber Conference & Expo 2007 (IRC-2007) at Udaipur.

*  India Rub Tech 2004, Mysore

* Asia Rub Tech Expo 2002 – International Conference on Rubber and Allied materials, Delhi

*  Rub Tech 2000 – International Rubber Conference, Delhi

* Rubber Con ’93 – International Rubber Conference, Delhi