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Chemistry with a conscience.
The next decade of industrial chemistry will be judged by the mass balance, not just the yield. We work on the atoms that stay in the process — and the ones that never had to be there.
Est. April 2020 · Mumbai, India · Green Chemistry R&D
Acceleratingthe transition tosustainable &greener chemistry.
An engineering consultation firm turning green chemistry R&D into reproducible, scalable processes for petrochem, pharma, polymers and specialty chemicals.
Founded
April 2020
HQ
Mumbai, IN
Lab
Palghar
Focus
Net-zero enablement
Heterogeneous catalysts◆
Reactor design◆
GC-FID · GC-MS · HPLC◆
Kinetic modeling◆
Cellulosic sugars → diesel◆
PET depolymerization◆
Green solvents◆
Process scale-up◆
Net-zero enablement◆
Heterogeneous catalysts◆
Reactor design◆
GC-FID · GC-MS · HPLC◆
Kinetic modeling◆
Cellulosic sugars → diesel◆
PET depolymerization◆
Green solvents◆
Process scale-up◆
Net-zero enablement◆
§ Services
Ten disciplines. One outcome —
a greener molecule at scale.
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Service
R&D Projects & Technology Development
End-to-end research programs from problem framing to patenting, tuned for scale-up.
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Service
Catalyst Selection & Preparation
Support, active site, synthesis and activation — engineered to your reaction.
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Service
Catalyst Characterization
Full physicochemical profiling: structure, surface, activity.
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Service
Solvent Selection
Cost, recyclability, toxicity, solubility and separation — optimised.
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Service
Experimental Data Analysis
Statistical rigor for messy lab data.
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Service
Mathematical Modeling
Kinetic and mass-transfer models built from experimental data.
§ Manifesto
Four chapters
Why Cat-Chem?
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Catalysts are levers.
A well-chosen catalyst compresses a reaction, an energy bill, and a supply chain into a smaller, cleaner version of itself. Our engineering resolution is set at that level.
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Data is our lab notebook.
Every mechanism we accept has to survive a kinetic model, a mass-transfer check, and a scale-up sanity test. The rest is just plausible narrative.
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Net-zero, but engineered.
We do not sell aspirations. We deliver reproducible processes, sized reactors, and rate equations that plants can actually build against.
§ Our R&D Process
Eight steps. Scale-ready.
Every engagement follows the same disciplined pipeline. We turn open-ended problems into pilot-ready processes that plants can actually build against.
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Problem Definition
Reframe the industrial pain into a research question with clear success metrics.
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Literature & Database Review
Deep priors — publications, patents, thermodynamic data.
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Solvent & Catalyst Selection
Down-select based on cost, EHS, recyclability, activity.
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Lab Experiments
Bench-scale runs under structured design of experiments.
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Data Analysis
Statistical models against raw runs. Kill noise, keep signal.
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Mathematical Modeling
Kinetic and mass-transfer models fitted to your data.
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Optimization
Multi-objective tuning — yield, selectivity, energy, cost.
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Scale-up
Reactor design and pilot-scale validation. Ready for plant.
§ Selected Work
Case studies.
A selection of projects where catalyst design, data and scale-up thinking compressed months of experimentation into decisions. Details available under NDA.
Cellulosic Diesel
82%
Selectivity achieved
Scaling a sugar → diesel catalyst from lab to pilot
PET Depolymerization
3.4×
Cycle-life improvement
Heterogeneous catalyst for closed-loop PET recycling
Green Solvents
−52%
Waste per kg product
Solvent swap that cut process E-factor by half
Founder
Diken Jain
M.Sc. Chem. Eng. · Univ. of Oklahoma
§ Founder
A catalyst engineer who runs plants, not just papers.
Diken’s work spans heterogeneous catalyst synthesis, cellulosic sugar → diesel / PET scale-up, and full analytical stack — GC-FID, GC-MS, HPLC. Cat-Chem is built around the belief that catalysts and reactor design deserve the same rigor as the chemistry they enable.
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