Research Areas
- Advanced Separation Technology (Membrane based separation).
Teaching
Courses Taught Undergraduate Level
- Fluid Mechanics (CT-203)
- Heat Transfer-I (CT-206)
- Heat Transfer-II (CT-305)
- Mass Transfer (CT-307)
- Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering (CT-306)
- Computational Lab. (CT-358)
- Fluid Mechanics Lab. (CT-252)
- Heat Transfer Lab. (CT-353)
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Postgraduate Level
- Advanced Separation Technology (CT-503)
- Membrane Science & Technology (CT-518)
- Advanced Separation Engineering (CT-617)
- Advance Computational Lab. (CT-555)
Research Supervision
- M. Tech
- Completed: 2
- Continuing: 1
Membership
- Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers ( IIChE )
Awards & Honours
- University Scholarship: 1993-1996
- Awarded as the best presentation in National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Engineering (2007) at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, December 2007.
Patent
- B. Sarkar , P. Rai, S. De, S. DasGupta, A method of separation of pectin during membrane clarification of fruit juice for productivity improvement, Applied for Indian patent , Application 697/KOL/2007, P ublished 2008-11-14, filed 2007-05-07 ( Link )
Book Published
- Biswajit Sarkar, Sirshendu De, Sunando DasGupta, Electric Field Enhanced Membrane Separation System: Principles and Typical Applications, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. New York, ISBN: 978-1-60741-592-3.9 ( Link )
Research Publication
International Journal 2007-2008
- B. Sarkar, S. Pal, U. Banerjee, S. De, S. DasGupta, Evaluation of Surface Charge by Electro kinetic Method of Ultrafiltration Membranes. International Journal of Chemical Sciences, 5 (2007) 1902-1912. (PDF)
- Biswajit Sarkar, Sunando DasGupta, Sirshendu De, Effect of Electric field during gel-layer controlled ultrafiltration of synthetic and fruit juice, Journal of Membrane Science, 307 (2008) 268-276. ( PDF )
- Biswajit Sarkar, Srimanta Pal, Timir Baran Ghosh, Sirshendu De, Sunando DasGupta, A study of electric field enhanced ultrafiltration of synthetic fruit juice and optical quantification of gel deposition, Journal of Membrane Science, 311 (2008) 112-120 . (PDF)
- Biswajit Sarkar, Sunando DasGupta, Sirshendu De, Prediction of permeate flux during osmotic pressure controlled electric field enhanced cross flow ultrafiltratio n , Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 319 (2008) 236-246. ( PDF )
- Biswajit Sarkar, Sunando DasGupta, Sirshendu De, Cross-flow electro-ultrafiltration of mosambi ( Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck ) juice, Journal of Food Engineering, 89 (2008) 241-245. ( PDF )
- Biswajit Sarkar, Sirshendu De Sunando DasGupta, Pulsed-electric field enhanced ultrafiltration of synthetic and fruit juice, Separation and Purification Technology, 63 (3) (2008) 582-591.
2009-2010
- Biswajit Sarkar, Aritra Sengupta , Sirshendu De, Sunando DasGupta, Prediction of permeate flux during electric field enhanced cross-flow ultrafiltration - A neural network approach , Separation and Purification Technology, 65 (3) (2009) 260-268. ( PDF )
- Biswajit Sarkar, Sunando DasGupta, Sirshendu De, Flux decline during electric field assisted cross flow ultrafiltration of mosambi (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck) juice, Journal of Membrane Science, 331 (1-2) (2009) 75-83. ( PDF )
- Biswajit Sarkar, Sunando DasGupta, Sirshendu De, Application of electric field to enhance permeate flux during micellar enhanced ultrafiltration, Separation and Purification Technology, 66(2) (2009) 263-272. ( PDF )
- Biswajit Sarkar, Sunando DasGupta, Sirshendu De, Electric field enhanced fractionation of protein mixture using ultrafiltration, J ournal of Membrane Science, 341(2009) 11-20. ( PDF )
- Biswajit Sarkar, Sirshendu De, Electric field enhanced gel controlled cross-flow ultrafiltration under turbulent conditions, Separation and Purification Technology, 74 (2010) 3–82. ( PDF )
2011
- Biswajit Sarkar, Sirshendu De, Prediction of permeate flux for turbulent flow in cross flow electric field assisted ultrafiltration, Journal of Membrane Science, 369(2011) 77-87. ( PDF )
- Biswajit Sarkar , Sirshendu De, A combined complete pore blocking and cake filtration model for steady state electric field assisted cross flow ultrafiltration, AIChE, DOI: 10.1002/aic.12667. ( PDF )
Conference Proceedings
- B. Sarkar , S. DasGupta, S. De, Cross flow electro-ultrafiltration of synthetic fruit juice, CHEMCON 2006, 27–30 th December, 2006, Ankleshwar, India.
- B. Sarkar, S. Pal, S. De, S. DasGupta, Electric field enhanced cross flow ultrafiltration of pectin and sucrose, ‘ISSCS 2007' at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. 15-16 th November 2007.
- S.Pal , B. Sarkar , S. K. Ghatak, S. De, S. DasGupta, Plasma Modification of Polymer Membrane Surface to Reduce Adsorption of Protein Macromolecules During Ultrafiltration, ‘ISSCS 2007' at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. 15-16 th November, 2007
- S.Pal , B. Sarkar , S. K. Ghatak, S. De, S. DasGupta, Wavelet Analysis for Roughness Measurement of CO 2 Plasma Treated PES Membrane and Quantification of Fouling Reduction of Plasma Treated Membranes, National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical engineering (2007 ) at Indian IIT, Guwahati, Dec. 2007.
- A.Maiti, V. Aggarwal, J.K.Basu, B.Sarkar, S.DasGupta, S.De, Removal of arsenate from aqueous system by iron oxide impregnated activated carbon prepared from tamarind shell, Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON-2007) , 27 – 30 th December, 2007, Kolkata, India.
- Sunil Kumar, Biswajit Sarkar , Subhojit Sarkar, Barun Kumar Thakur, Sirshendu De, Electric field assisted micellar enhanced ultrafiltration of naphthenic acid from water, ( CHEMCON-2010) 27–29 th December, 2010, Chidambaram, India.
- B. Sarkar , U.K. Mandal, Prediction of permeate flux for gel-layer controlled laminar cross flow ultrafiltration, International Conference on Recent Advances in Chemical Engineering and Technology (RACET 2011) , Cochin, India, 10-12 th March, 2011.
Sponsored Project
- Project Title : Enhancement in productivity of apple juice using ultrafiltration
Principal Investigator : Dr. Biswajit Sarkar
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. U.K. Mandal
Sponsor : CSIR
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