Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline
Generic
Omkar Thaval

Omkar Thaval

Sugar Technologist
Braunschweig

Summary

Dr Thaval's expertise includes cane milling, juice evaporation, sugar crystallization, process modelling, process optimization, project management and execution. He has wide ranging engineering consultancy and research experience in plantation white sugar, raw sugar and refined sugar processes

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
13
13
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Manager - Product Development

BMA GmbH
08.2024 - Current
  • Developing and implementing market-oriented and techno-commercial concepts of cane sugar factory product.
  • Interact, engage, and collaborate with individual product-owners for incessant development of engineered products. (Diffuser, FFE, VKT, OVC, Engineering).
  • Interact, and engage with individual product-owners for current and future development of standard products. (DVK, Melters, Minglers, Centrifugal, DRP).
  • Leading technical discussions/negotiations with end users.
  • Through collaboration with the product-owner’s team and competence’s team, generate ideas for research & development for product optimization and adoption.
  • Supervising Bachelor’s and Master’s student for R&D projects in line with product management process.
  • Monitoring patent landscapes and conduct literature review.
  • Generate annual product development roadmaps.
  • Keep track of competitor actions and strategies

Senior Process Engineer

BMA GmbH
10.2018 - 07.2024
  • Leading concept engineering, basic engineering, detail engineering projects for cane sugar factories and sugar refineries.
  • Leading process team for complete plant commissioning.
  • Collaborate with sales teams for market surveillance activities.
  • Intensive co-operation, training and support to international subsidiaries and agencies.
  • Generation of standard documents for all products and their transmission to relevant departments.
  • Act as the company’s representative and undertaking networking in international conferences, seminars, workshops by representing BMA brand, products and papers.

Process Engineer

JPMA Pvt Ltd
06.2016 - 08.2018
  • Undertaking re-engineering, corrective engineering for brown-field cane sugar factories in India.
  • Preparing technical offers for engineering services and equipment.
  • Market the company's products and services.
  • part of the commissioning activity/team for cane milling, juice evaporation and sugar crystallization.
  • Technical discussions/negotiations with clients

Research Engineer

Queensland University of Technology, QUT
01.2011 - 04.2016
  • Undertaking mass and heat balances for complete sugar factory.
  • Development of dynamic milling extraction model.
  • Development of evaporator station model.
  • Development of pan stage model
  • Development of "whole of sugar factory" model in SysCAD proprietary software.

Education

Ph.D. - Process Engineering

Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
04.2013 - 09.2019

Master of Science - Process Modelling

Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
08.2010 - 12.2012

Sugar Technology

SGGS Institute of Engineering & Technology
India
06.2006 - 05.2010

Skills

Process modelling, Process optimization, Project management & execution, Engineering consultation

Timeline

Senior Manager - Product Development

BMA GmbH
08.2024 - Current

Senior Process Engineer

BMA GmbH
10.2018 - 07.2024

Process Engineer

JPMA Pvt Ltd
06.2016 - 08.2018

Ph.D. - Process Engineering

Queensland University of Technology
04.2013 - 09.2019

Research Engineer

Queensland University of Technology, QUT
01.2011 - 04.2016

Master of Science - Process Modelling

Queensland University of Technology
08.2010 - 12.2012

Sugar Technology

SGGS Institute of Engineering & Technology
06.2006 - 05.2010

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Omkar ThavalSugar Technologist