Meet Our Team

Manish Bhargava, Founder & CEO

Process intensification and Dividing Wall Column specialist helping refiners and chemical producers cut energy use, add capacity and make new products.

About Manish

Manish Bhargava has spent more than 23 years on one question: how to separate more, using less energy and less steel.

As Founder and CEO of DWC Innovations LLC (DWCI), he helps refiners and chemical producers answer it with Dividing Wall Column (DWC) technology. He founded DWCI in 2018 to make advanced distillation practical for operating plants, so clients can add capacity, cut utility costs and lower emissions without a major rebuild.

He has personally contributed to more than 35 DWC installations worldwide and holds more than 14 patents in distillation and separation technology. Few engineers have taken as many DWCs from design through to start-up.

Career Highlights

Founder & CEO, DWC InnovationsLeads DWCI’s technology from feasibility study through licensing, engineering and start-up. Under his leadership, DWCI delivered the world’s first commercial dual DWC and has since delivered five, making it the only company with proven commercial dual DWC experience.

Head, Advanced Separations Group, GTC TechnologyLed the group in Houston, developing and commercializing DWCs for refinery and petrochemical service.

KBR, HoustonSpent six years on process engineering, refinery technologies and large-scale project execution.

Selected Projects

BPCL MumbaiWorld’s first commercial dual DWCA grassroots dual dividing wall DAS splitter in the refinery’s lube oil base stock unit.Read the case study →MRPL MangaloreNaphtha splitter revamp to dual DWCTurnkey revamp, feasibility to start-up: three naphtha cuts with no change in reboiler duty.Read the case study →CPCL ChennaiDual dividing wall deisohexanizerConverts an isomerization unit to produce food- and pharma-grade hexane.Read the case study →

Areas of Expertise

In His Words

“Distillation is one of the biggest energy users in any plant. When we separate smarter, the savings go straight to our client’s margin and to a lower carbon footprint.”

Education

Manish holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur.

Patents & Publications

Manish is a regular speaker at the AIChE Spring Meeting, including the Kister Distillation Symposium, and his articles appear in Chemical Engineering Progress, PTQ and Hydrocarbon Processing.

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Conference Papers
US Patents & Applications