Dr Biswajit Mandal

@hithaldia.ac.in

Associate Professor,Department of Chemical Engineering
Haldia Instityte of Technology

He has vast research experience on biological hydrogen and developed a 1000 liter pilot plant at IIT kharagpur in the year 2005. Dr. Mandal also has research experience on hydrogen production through water fracturing process such as electrolysis, membrane electrolysis, magnetolysis and solar hydrogen from water. He contributed significantly in the area of hydrogen production, hydroxy gas generator and Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell. Based on the works in these areas, he has published many papers in national and international journals. His contribution on hydroxyl gas generator certified by Indian patent office entitled “A brown (HHO) gas generator adapted for use in automobile engine” Patent number 283077, 03.05.2017. He also received another patent for the process of removal of color from fatty acid, Patent number: 292435, 31.1.2018. Another patent on "A new polymeric IPN membrane for regenerative fuel cell, fuel cell and pervaporative separation" is under examination, Patent

EDUCATION

Dr. Biswajit Mandal, Associate Professor of Chemical engineering Department in Haldia Institute of Technology did B.Sc. in Chemistry Honours in the year 1998 from Belur Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Calcutta University and then did B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D from Rajabazar Science College, Calcutta University in the year 2001, 2003 and 2016 respectively. He is a life member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (LM-45506).

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Chemical Engineering, Multidisciplinary, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Publications

I. Swikriti Khadke, Brindha Ramasubramanian, Pranto Paul, Raghavendra Lawaniya, • Suma Dawn, Angana Chakraborty, Biswajit Mandal, Goutam Kumar Dalapati, • Avishek Kumar, Seeram Ramakrishna, “Predicting Active Solar Power with Machine Learning and Weather Data” Materials Circular Economy, 19 September 2023,

II. Samyabrata Bhattacharjee, Avijit Ghosh, Biswajit Mandal and Sunil Baran Kuila “Adsorptive separation of dye by filled polymeric FIPN hydrogel” Indian Chemical Engineer- Taylor & Francis, , 2022

III. Avijit Ghosh, Biswajit Mandal, Sunil Baran Kuila “Development of Functionalized Graphene Supported Highly Durable Pt-Free Bi-metallic Electrocatalysts for PEMFC” Materials Today-ELSEVIER, Proceedings 18 pp 660–670, 2019.

IV. Biswajit Mandal, A. Sirkar, P. De, S. B. Kuila,“Studies on the effect of electrolyte concentration on alkaline electrolysis and ion exchange membrane water splitting for production of hydrogen” International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, vol. 5, pp 8-12, 2016.
V. Biswajit Mandal, A. Sirkar, P. De, A. Ghosh,“Analysis of coupled effect of pertinent process parameters of water electrolysis” International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, vol. 5, pp 13-15, 2016.

VI. Biswajit Mandal, A. Sirkar, P. De, A. Ghosh,“Studies on the different type of catalysts on aqueous electrolysis as well as membrane water splitting for production o

RESEARCH OUTPUTS (PATENTS, SOFTWARE, PUBLICATIONS, PRODUCTS)

b) Patent certified for “ A BROWN(HHO) GAS GENERATOR ADAPTED FOR USE IN AUTOMOBILE ENGINE” Patent number 283077, 03/05/2017

c) Patent certified for the process of removal of color from fatty acid. Patent number: 292435, 31/1/2018

d) Patent application No. 2O223LO25760 dated O3-O5-2O22 entitled "A NEW POLYMERIC IPN MEMBRANE FOR REGENERATIVE FUEL CELL, FUEL CELL AND PERVAPORATIVE SEPARATION" in the name of HALDIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

e) patent on “Air Analyzing Cum Air Health Monitoring System” dated 03/03/2023 was also filed with application number 202331014510

CONSULTANCY

He is a Technical consultant for sustainable energy of Sunkonnect Pte Ltd. Singapore. He is the Advisory Board Member of laboxd-science experiment kits in Orissa, Uttarakhand and west Bengal Region. Moreover he serves as Technical Consultant for training, research and development on the sustainable energy and environmental waste minimization at Terra Green Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata. In addition he is also an Advisory Board member of Sarthak Aqua Enterprise, Mahishadal, West Bengal.