Our Team

Trilok Singh was born in 1949. He received the B.E. in mechanical engineering from Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College (Now NIT), Allahabad in the year 1970. On completion he undertook a one-year orientation course in BARC training school in 1971. During his time at BARC, he was Group Leader and Project Coordinator for a large DAE project “Rare Material Processing Plant” at Mysore, Head of Division and founder member of Cryo-technology Division (2005 – 2010), Project Coordinator for about 10 different research projects sponsored by BRNS on development of Pulse Tube cryo-coolers, Micro J-T Coolers, Turbo expander based Liquid Nitrogen Plant, Thermoacoustic Compressor, Centrifugal Extractor etc. He was also Project Investigator for “development of micro cryo-coolers for Infra-Red based Thermal Imagers for night vision capabilities” for a sponsored project by Army Technology Board. He was the recipient of the Raja Ramana Fellowship for 5 years at BARC. He was a member of the Advanced Technology Committee of Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, DAE and also Chairman and member of Mechanical Engineering Selection Committee for recruitment of graduate/ postgraduate engineers for entry into BARC Training School. He retired as Outstanding Scientist and Head Cryo-technology Division, BARC, Trombay. After retiring, he founded and is presently the director of TriQual Cryogenics Pvt. Ltd. He is presently also the sole proprietor of Sahaj Cryovac Systems, Navi Mumbai.

Post retirement, he has been a professor at several institutes like IIT Bombay, NIT Rourkela, MGM college of engineering wherein he has guided several Mtech and PhD students. He has been a member of the Recruitment and Assessment Board, DRDO, several safety committees for “Nuclear Materials Processing Plants” in BARC and Design Review Committee at ITER India for Helium Cryogenic Distribution Lines for International Project at ITER in France. He has also been a consultant to Indian Oil Corporation for development of carbon fiber reinforced composite vessels for high pressure hydrogen storage. He has been the recipient of several awards from the DAE and has coauthored over 13 publications.

Harshadbhai Ukani was born on 15th August 1952 and had completed his B E in Electronics and Communication from L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad in the year 1976. After completion of Engineering joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in August 1976 and gone through the one-year orientation course in BARC training school in 1976-77 batch. Had worked as instrumentation engineer in Chemical Engineering Division and was part of development team for high-speed rotating Machines. In 1980 joined Mitronics corporation as R & D manager and have developed and manufactured various medical and defense instruments as part of indigenization process. In 1989 has started his own small-scale industry named Quality Loggers which was under taking various development and manufacturing of industrial instruments including vibration sensors, vibration Analysers, data logging, Gas detection, wireless data communication projects etc. The company converted to Quality Loggers Pvt Ltd in the year 1997 and he was a founder director and is currently working as managing director of the same. In the year 2016 has started company along with Mr. Trilok Singh named TriQual Cryogenics Pvt Ltd, with the aim of indigenization of Cryo Engineering equipment.

Puneet Tulsyan received the B.E. in Chemical Engineer from HBTI, Kanpur in 1985, followed by Nuclear Engineering at BARC in 1986. Thereafter he was inducted as a Scientific officer in B.A.R.C., Dept. of Atomic Energy, Mumbai. Later he completed his Masters in Management from Bombay University in 1991.

Technical & Administrative contributions:

1. Process optimization of separative power of separation by high-speed centrifugation.

2. Design, installation & operation of separation plant at Pilot scale and Production level for Strategic applications. This involved large scale feeding and collection systems constituting of De-sublimers, ovens, two phase handling of special gases for classified applications.

3. Designing & operation of large-scale vacuum generating and maintenance facilities constituting rotary vane pumps, diffusion pumps, roots boosters, cryogenic pumping modules etc.

4. Design & construction of heat pipes with various working fluids.

5. Operation & maintenance of chilling plants, DG based Emergency power systems, LN2 storage and distribution, refining & production of special gases etc.

He took voluntary retirement in 2022 while serving as Project Manager of Rare Materials Project under BARC, DAE.

Presently he is serving as Director at TriQual Cryogenics Pvt Ltd, Mumbai.

 Isaac de Souza was born in Navi Mumbai, India, in 1991. He received the B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Mumbai, India, in 2013, and the M.Tech. degree in cryogenics and vacuum technology from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) at Rourkela, India, in 2018. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Cryogenic Engineering Centre, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. From 2013 to 2015, he worked with Larsen & Toubro, Ahmedabad, India, as an Operation and Maintenance Engineer. He is presently also working at TriQual Cryogenics Pvt. Ltd. in the R&D team. His research interests include cryocoolers and high temperature superconducting power cables. 

Wasim Qureshi was born in Harpur, Uttar Pradesh, India in 2000. He completed his ITI from Fr. Agnel Technical Institute in 2020 and consequently received the diploma in mechanical engineering from Fr. Agnel Polytechnic Vashi in 2023. Following this, he successfully completed a training program at Volkswagen Skoda at Pune. Later he worked as an apprentice in Skoda Service Centre Bhandup, Mumbai for one year. Presently, he is working at TriQual Cryogenics Pvt. Ltd. as a part of the R&D team.