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{{Infobox scientist<br />
| name = Banwari Lal<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1960|7|1}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Rajasthan]], India<br />
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| residence = [[New Delhi]], India<br />
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]<br />
| fields = {{ublist | [[Biotechnology]] }}<br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[The Energy and Resources Institute]] | [[The Energy and Resources Institute|TERI]] School of Advanced Studies}}<br />
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[University of Rajasthan]] }}<br />
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| known_for = Development of ''oilzapper'' technology<br />
| awards = {{ublist| 2001&nbsp;All India Biotech Association Award | 2002&nbsp;Biotech Product and Process Development for Commercialization Award | 2002&nbsp;Jawarharlal Nehru Memorial National Gold Medal | 2002&nbsp;Burhani Foundation-[[NEERI]] Award | 2003&nbsp;National Petroleum Management Programme Award | 2004&nbsp;[[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] | 2005&nbsp;[[National Research Development Corporation|NRDC]] Innovation Award | 2008&nbsp;Biotech Product and Process Development for Commercialization Award }}<br />
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'''Banwari Lal''' (born 1 July 1960) is an Indian environmental and industrial biotechnologist and the director of the Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology Division at [[The Energy and Resources Institute]] (TERI). Known for the development of ''oilzapper'' technology, Dr. Lal is the Chief Executive Officer of ONGC-TERI Biotech Limited, a collaborative venture between TERI and the [[Oil and Natural Gas Corporation|Oil and Natural Gas Corporation since 2008]]. The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2004. He have many indian and international joint patents with ONGC, DBT, IOCL, OIL INDIA and TERI. <br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Rajasthan University Gate.JPG|thumb|left|Entrance to the [[University of Rajasthan]].]]<br />
Banwari Lal, born on 1 July 1960<ref name="Background: Banwari Lal - The World Technology Network">{{Cite web |url=https://wtn.net/2004/bio34.html |title=Background: Banwari Lal - The World Technology Network |date=2017-12-14 |website=wtn.net |language=en |access-date=2017-12-14}}</ref> in the Indian state of [[Rajasthan]], completed his undergraduate studies at The [[University of Rajasthan]] in 1981 and continued at the university to earn an MSc in microbiology in 1983.<ref name="Faculty - TERI University">{{Cite web |url=http://www.teriuniversity.ac.in/index.php?option=com_faculty&task=aboutcv&fid=0044 |title=Faculty - TERI University |date=2017-12-13 |website=www.teriuniversity.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2017-12-13}}</ref> His doctoral studies were also at the same university and after securing a PhD in microbial biotechnology in 1987, he joined the [[The Energy and Resources Institute|TERI]] School of Advanced Studies as a member of faculty. He has served [[The Energy and Resources Institute]] in various capacities and <br />
is the director of the Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology.<ref name="Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology Research - TERI">{{Cite web |url=http://www.teriin.org/index.php?option=com_division&task=contact&id=17&Itemid=139 |title=Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology Research - TERI |date=2017-12-13 |website=www.teriin.org |language=en |access-date=2017-12-13}}</ref><ref name="Banwari Lal: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg">{{Cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=39565053&privcapId=26268543 |title=Banwari Lal: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg |website=www.bloomberg.com |access-date=2017-12-14}}</ref> In 1996, when the [[Oil and Natural Gas Corporation]] and TERI formed ONGC TERI Biotech Limited (OTBL) for exploiting the commercial prospects of technologies developed by Lal,<ref name="Profile - Dr Banwari Lal - TERI">{{Cite web |url=http://www.teriin.org/profile/Banwari-Lal |title=Profile - Dr Banwari Lal - TERI |date=2017-12-13 |website=www.teriin.org |language=en-gb |access-date=2017-12-13}}</ref> he became the chief operating officer of the newly formed company.<ref name="Board Members">{{Cite web |url=http://www.otbl.co.in/Board-Members.php |title=Board Members |date=2017-12-13 |website=www.otbl.co.in |language=en |access-date=2017-12-13}}</ref> He is associated with Glori Energy, a Houston-based energy firm, as the chief scientist<ref name="Faculty - TERI University" /> and is a member of scientific panels of the Food Authority of India and the [[Food Safety and Standards Authority of India]], both government agencies working under the [[Ministry of Health and Family Welfare]].<ref name="Banwari Lal - CEO">{{Cite web |url=http://www.otbl.co.in/Dr-Banwari-Lal.php |title=Banwari Lal - CEO |date=2017-12-13 |website=www.otbl.co.in |language=en |access-date=2017-12-13}}</ref><br />
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== Legacy ==<br />
[[File:Oil-spill.jpg|thumb|Oil spill]]<br />
Banwari Lal's research interests covered the fields of bioresources as well as environmental and industrial biotechnology.<ref name="Faculty - TERI University" /> He is known to have made contributions in the areas of clean technology development, [[bioremediation]] of oil contaminated sites, oil recovery using microbes, and preventive protocol development for blocking paraffin deposition in oil well flow lines. The team led by him developed an ''oilzapper'' technology,<ref name="Details of bioremediation and Oilzapper Technology">{{Cite web |url=https://www.slideshare.net/ManishDwivedi9/details-of-bioremediation-and-oilzapper-technology |title=Details of bioremediation and Oilzapper Technology |last=Manish Dwivedi |date=2015-12-30 |publisher=Oil and Natural Gas Commission |access-date=2017-12-13}}</ref> a bioremediative and organic technology for cleaning the oil spills using microbes and bacteria,<ref name="Oil contamination: TERI offers help">{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Oil-contamination-TERI-offers-help/article16129324.ece |title=Oil contamination: TERI offers help |last=Deshpande |first=Vinaya |date=2010-08-13 |work=The Hindu |access-date=2017-12-13 |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> which was later employed for cleaning the [[2010 Mumbai oil spill]].<ref name="Chitra spill: ‘oilzapper' to be used for bioremediation">{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Chitra-spill-lsquooilzapper-to-be-used-for-bioremediation/article16140442.ece |title=Chitra spill: 'oilzapper' to be used for bioremediation |last=Deshpande |first=Vinaya |date=2010-08-22 |work=The Hindu |access-date=2017-12-13 |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> The technology is reported to be cost-effective and most of major oil companies in India such as the [[Indian Oil Corporation]], [[Bharat Petroleum Corporation]], [[Hindustan Petroleum Corporation]], [[Oil and Natural Gas Corporation]], [[Oil India]], [[Indian Petrochemicals Corporation]] and [[Reliance Petroleum]] as well as [[Abu Dhabi National Oil Company]] employ it.<ref name="Background: Banwari Lal - The World Technology Network" /> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="Banwari Lal on Loop">{{Cite web |url=https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/246931/overview |title=Banwari Lal on Loop |date=2017-12-12 |publisher=Frontiers Media |access-date=2017-12-12}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific articles has listed 141 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/10528989_Banwari_Lal |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-11-23 |publisher=On ResearchGate |access-date=2017-11-23}}</ref> Besides, he has published one book, ''Wealth from waste : trends and technologies''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Wealth from waste : trends and technologies |last=Lal |first=Banwari |date=2011 |publisher=The Energy and Resources Institute |isbn=9788179934241 |edition=Third |location=New Delhi |oclc=858862144}}</ref> He holds 8 patents for the processes developed by him<ref name="Faculty - TERI University" /> and various institutions. However some of patents he surrendered as per Goole patents. He is a member of the [[American Society for Microbiology]], the Society of Applied Microbiology, the [[Society of General Microbiology]], the [[International Water Association]], the [[Society for Industrial Microbiology]] and the Association of Microbiologists of India.<ref name="Background: Banwari Lal - The World Technology Network" /><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
Banwari Lal received the AIBA Award from the All India Biotech Association in 2001 and he was chosen to receive three awards in 2002 namely, the Biotech Product and Process Development for Commercialization Award of the Department of Biotechnology, the Jawarharlal Nehru Memorial National Gold Medal Award of the International Greenland Society and the Burhani Foundation-[[NEERI]] Award for the development of ''oilzapper'' technology.<ref name="Profile - Dr Banwari Lal - TERI" /> The National Petroleum Management Association presented him the Program Award in 2003 and he was one of the finalists shortlisted for the 2004 World Technology Award of the World Technology Network.<ref name="2004 World Technology Award Winners & Finalists - The World Technology Network">{{Cite web |url=https://wtn.net/2004/winners.html |title=2004 World Technology Award Winners & Finalists - The World Technology Network |website=wtn.net |language=en |access-date=2017-12-14}}</ref> The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2004.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref> The same year, he received the NRDC Innovation Award of the [[National Research Development Corporation]].<ref name="Banwari Lal - CEO" /> The Department of Biotechnology honored him again with a second Biotech Product and Process Development for Commercialization Award in 2008, the award presented to him by the then President of India, [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]].<ref name="Profile - Dr Banwari Lal - TERI" /><br />
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== Selected bibliography ==<br />
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=== Patents ===<br />
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==== Banwari Lal has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). ====<br />
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==== Process for enhanced recovery of crude oil from oil wells using novel microbial consortium ====<br />
Patent number: 7484560<br />
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Publication number: 20070092930<br />
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Abstract: The present invention provides a microbial consortium containing three hyperthermophilic, barophilic, acidogenic, anaerobic bacterial strains for enhanced oil recovery from oil reservoirs where temperatures range from 70° C. to 90? C. The said microbial consortium is unique in producing a variety of metabolic products mainly CO2, methane, biosurfactant, volatile fatty acids and alcohols in the presence of specially designed nutrient medium. These metabolic products increase sweep efficiency of crude oil from oil bearing poles of rock formation. The present invention also provides a process for enhancing the oil recovery by in situ application of the said microbial consortium.<br />
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Type: Grant<br />
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Filed: July 14, 2004<br />
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Date of Patent: February 3, 2009<br />
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Status: Expired - Fee Related<br />
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Adjusted expiration: 2025-02-05<br />
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Assignees: The Energy and Resource Institute, Institute of Reservoir Studies<br />
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Inventors: Banwari Lal, Mula Ramajaneya Varaprasada Reddy, Anil Agnihotri, Ashok Kumar, Munish Prasad Sarbhai, Nimmi Singh, Raj Karan Khurana, Shinben Kishen Khazanchi, Tilak Ram Misra<br />
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==== WELLBORE TREATMENT FOR REDUCING WAX DEPOSITS ====<br />
Publication number: 20090025931<br />
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Abstract: A method of reducing wax deposition in an oil wellbore tubing are disclosed which comprise providing an aqueous bioslurry comprising at least one microbe capable of degrading paraffin wax at about 20-45° C. and a nutrient medium containing one or more carbon source and a source of O2. The method further includes providing an oil wellbore completion having a production tubing with an interior surface including a zone that is susceptible to wax deposition when the well is operated to produce oil.<br />
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Type: Application<br />
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Filed: June 12, 2008<br />
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Publication date: January 29, 2009<br />
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Patent Grant number: 7681638<br />
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Applicant: GLORI OIL LIMITED<br />
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Inventors: Bhupendra Soni, Banwari Lal<br />
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Status: Active<br />
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Anticipated expiration: 2028-06-12<br />
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==== PROCESS FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY USING A MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM ====<br />
Publication number: 20090029879<br />
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Abstract: A process and related apparatus for enhancing the oil recovery from an oil well are described. An embodiment of the process generally includes selection of a candidate reservoir; collecting oil formation water samples under anaerobic conditions; selecting media and enriching the microbes derived from the formation water; characterizing and identifying the selected consortium; mass scale production of the selected consortium; anaerobically preparing a defined composition nutrient medium, transportation of the nutrient medium by ISO tankers and the consortium by a specially designed field laboratory unit to the selected well treatment site; injecting the medium and consortium into the reservoir of the well; closing the well for the proliferation of microbes for one to three weeks; and allowing the microbes to dislodge oil in the reservoir and thereby enhance recovery of oil from the well.<br />
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Type: Application<br />
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Filed: July 2, 2008<br />
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Publication date: January 29, 2009<br />
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Applicant: GLORI OIL LIMITED<br />
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Inventors: Bhupendra SONI, Banwari LAL, John Allen BABCOCK<br />
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=== Books ===<br />
* {{Cite book |title=Wealth from waste : trends and technologies |last=Lal |first=Banwari |date=2011 |publisher=The Energy and Resources Institute |isbn=9788179934241 |edition=Third |location=New Delhi |oclc=858862144}}<br />
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=== Articles ===<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Mishra |first=Sanjeet |last2=Jyot |first2=Jeevan |last3=Kuhad |first3=Ramesh Chander |last4=Lal |first4=Banwari |date=2001-11-01 |title=In Situ Bioremediation Potential of an Oily Sludge-Degrading Bacterial Consortium |journal=Current Microbiology |language=en |volume=43 |issue=5 |pages=328–335 |doi=10.1007/s002840010311 |issn=0343-8651}}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Singh |first=Sneha |last2=Sudhakaran |first2=Anu K. |last3=Sarma |first3=Priyangshu Manab |last4=Subudhi |first4=Sanjukta |last5=Mandal |first5=Ajoy Kumar |last6=Gandham |first6=Ganesh |last7=Lal |first7=Banwari |title=Dark fermentative biohydrogen production by mesophilic bacterial consortia isolated from riverbed sediments |journal=International Journal of Hydrogen Energy |language=en |volume=35 |issue=19 |pages=10645–10652 |doi=10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.03.010|year=2010 }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Chatterjee |first=Dibyendu |last2=Mohanty |first2=Sangita |last3=Guru |first3=Prabhat Kumar |last4=Swain |first4=Chinmaya Kumar |last5=Tripathi |first5=Rahul |last6=Shahid |first6=M. |last7=Kumar |first7=Upendra |last8=Kumar |first8=Anjani |last9=Bhattacharyya |first9=Pratap |last10=Lal |first10= Banwari |title=Comparative assessment of urea briquette applicators on [[greenhouse gas emissions|greenhouse gas emission]], nitrogen loss and soil enzymatic activities in tropical lowland rice |journal=Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment |language=en |volume=252 |pages=178–190 |doi=10.1016/j.agee.2017.10.013|year=2018 }}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Oil spill]]<br />
* [[Spill containment]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{Cite web |url=https://inhabitat.com/oil-eating-microbes-successfully-clean-up-mumbai-oil-spill/ |title=Oil-Eating Microbes Successfully Clean Up Mumbai Oil Spill |date=23 August 2010 |website=Inhabitat |access-date=2017-12-13}}<br />
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.teriin.org/technology/oilzapper.php |title=Oilzapper and Oilivorous-S oil spill treatment bacteria, microbes |date=2017-12-14 |website=www.teriin.org |access-date=2017-12-14}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7102603276 |title=Author details (Lal, Banwari) |date=2017-12-13 |website=www.scopus.com |language=en-US |access-date=2017-12-13}}<br />
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgqid2xCz3w |title=ONGC TERI - Oilzapper |last=Green Leaf Ent |date=2010-12-22 |format=YouTube video |access-date=2017-12-14}}<br />
*https://patents.justia.com/inventor/banwari-lal<br />
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