Our team

Anil Vashishta is a Metallurgical Engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, and has over 20 years of experience in Material and Corrosion and Metallurgy/Mechanical laboratory setup and Management.

He is the Managing Director at Colossal Consultants LLC, United Arab Emirates which was formed in 2019 to cater to clients in the GCC & the South-Eastern regions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Certified NACE Corrosion Specialist & NACE Material Selection Design Specialist.
• Material Selection for Oil and Gas Industries.
• Corrosion Assessment and Mitigation.
• Turnkey laboratory setup.
• Metallurgical laboratory operations and management.
• Root Cause /Failure Analysis.
• In-situ Replica Metallography.
• Condition Assessment / Fitness for service assessment.
• Coating evaluation, assessment, and failure studies.
• Cathodic Protection.

Prof Lalit Vashista, a Chemical Engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, boasts over 35 years of expertise in filtration and separation technologies. Specializing in wastewater toxic COD, oily wastewater, and produced water treatment, he holds a patent for a uniquely designed reactor for Polypropylene catalysts.

He has concentrated in Process Intensification of Chemical operations and processes. Moving on from designing innovative filtration and separation systems, now his company has designed a continuous reactor based on flow chemistry experiments and scale-up in their Innovation center in Mumbai. He is the Director at Diva Envitec - US, Diva Envitec Europe Ltd, UK, and Diva Envitec in India; an ancillary of Colossal Consultants LLC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Microfiltration and Crossflow Filtration concepts for Process Industries.
• Membrane processing for Biologicals and Chemicals -Ceramic, Polymeric - RO/NF/UF and MF, MBR
• Designing of Drying systems for sludge dewatering.
• Novel Evaporation techniques using Vapo-Towers.
• Sugar Industry - Innovative process intensification to improve filterability.
• API/ Pharmaceutical Industry - Product recovery from waste streams for increasing profitability - Sustainability.
• Wastewater and Effluent Treatment.
• Precious Metal Catalyst Recovery.
• Feasibility Studies, and R&D Projects.
• Air Pollution Control/Hot gas filtration.

Vinayak Madhekar, a seasoned process expert with three decades of dedicated experience, holds a B.Sc (Engineering) degree from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.

Starting his journey in 1986, he contributed expertise to organizations like Sudarshan Chemical Industries Ltd and Thermax Ltd before co-founding his current venture.

Specializing in distillation, filtration, and energy audit, Vinayak excels in delivering turnkey solutions for distillation, productivity improvement, and wastewater treatment.

Recognized as a Certified and Accredited Energy Auditor by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), he has conducted over 200 energy audits in the past decade