Ajay K. Dalai is the Canada Research Chair of Bio-energy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing and a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan.
Professor Dalai's research areas include environmental catalysis such as alkylates from butane using solid acids and conversion of sulphur containing compounds from gases and waste water and other streams; chemical process and product development; upgrading and hydrotreating of hydrocarbon fluids; renewable energy such as hydrogen and bio-diesel from bio-mass and bio-oils; production and applications of activated carbon for mercury removal from flue gases; production of carbon nano tubes, and their catalytic applications.