Rajeev Madhva Jorapur is working with Bajaj Auto Limited as Vice President. Prior to this assignment, he was with Mercedes Benz India Pvt Ltd as Environment Specialist and had served as Assistant Director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute. Presently, he is involved in the development and marketing of environmentally friendly technologies like low density and leafy biomass gasification systems for thermal applications in different industries. The systems can run on bio-gases, sugarcane trash and different agricultural residues and have thermal capacities up to 850,000 Kcal/h (1 mega-watt).
He received B.Tech.in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is also a member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Mr.Jorapur is interested in renewable energy technologies, particularly those related to biomass and environmental analysis. Past projects undertaken by Mr.Jorapur include the production of ethanol from sweet sorghum using solar energy and a techno-economic feasibility study of setting up a biomass-based 10 mega-watt power plant in western India.