4. Prof A. K. Saha
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DR. ASIT K SAHA
15-07-1963
Name
Date of Birth
Educational
Qualification
Work Experience
Area of
Specialization
Subject teaching
Ph.D., M.Tech., B.E.
Teaching
15
Research
6
Industry
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Others
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Mass Transfer, Reaction Engineering, & Cryogenics.
Under Graduate
Separation Processes-I&II,
Modern Separation
Technology, Safety and
Hazard Management.
Post Graduate
Heat
Transfer,
Safety,
Advanced
Numerical
Methods
and Statistical
Analysis.
Master's
National
Conference
International
Conference
Review
2
5
1
1
Ph. D
National
Journal
International
Journal
Review
1
3
6
Research
Guidance
Projects Carried out
Patents
Technology Transfer
Research Publication
No. of Books
published with details
Two.
14
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10. Papers Published:
(Refereed Journals)
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Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S. and Biswas, A.K., “Absorption of carbon dioxide in
alkanolamines in the presence of fine activated carbon particles” in The Canadian
Chemical Engineering, Vol. 70, 193-196, Feb., 1992.
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Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S. and Biswas, A.K., “Solubility and diffusivity of N2O
and CO2 in aqueous solutions of 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol” in Journal of Chemical
Engineering Data, vol. 38, No.1, 78-82, 1993.
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Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S., Saju, P. and Biswas, A.K., “Selective removal of H2S
from gases containing H2S and CO2 by absorption into aqueous solutions of 2-amino-2methyl-1-propanol” in Industrial Engineering Chemistry Res. 32, 3051-3055, 1993.
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Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S. and Biswas, A.K., “Kinetics of absorption of CO2 into
aqueous solutions of 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol” in Chemical Engineering Science,
vol. 50, No.22, pp. 3587-3598, 1995.
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Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S. and Biswas, A.K., “Absorption of CO2 in a sterically
hindered amine: modeling of absorption in a mechanically agitated contactor” in
Separation and Purification Technology. 15(2): 101-112, Mar.8, 1999.
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Saha, A.K. and Ganguly U.P., "Relationship between Rate Constants in Sedimentation of
Coal Slurry in Water", IE(I) Journal-CH, pp 33-37,Vol 84, September, 2003.
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Chakraborty. R., Saha. A. K., and Bhattacharya. P., “Modeling and simulation of
parametric sensitivity in primary freeze drying of food stuffs, Separation and Purification
Technology, 49 (2006) 258–263
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Chakrabarty, R., Saha, A. K. and Bhattacharya, P. B., “Determination of Thermophysical Properties of freeze-dried foodstuffs”, Indian Journal of Chemical Technology,
Vol.13, November 2006, pp.597-604.
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Chakrabarty, R., Saha, A. K. and Bhattacharya, P. B., “Convective freeze drying of food
stuff using LN2 boil-off and gaseous N2 as carrier gas”, Indian Journal of Cryogenics.
VOL-31, No.-1-4, 2006.
Papers Published in Conference proceedings:
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Saha, A.K. and Ganguly, U.P.,“Some Studies on the settling characteristics of coal-water
suspension: Determination of the falling rate of sedimentation”, Proc. Of the Eleventh
National Convention of Chemical Engineers, Sept. 28-29, pp. I-14 - I-16, 1995.
Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S. and Biswas, A.K., “A numerical model for CO2
absorption into aqueous solutions of 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol”, Proc. of the
international Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering (ICAChE-96), 101-106,
1996.
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Saha, A.K.,“Cryogenics: Its scope of application in the perspective of Haldia”, Proc. of
DST sponsored workshop CRYOVISION-2000, held at HIT, Haldia, 71-72, 2000.
Khan, S., Chakraborty, R., Saha, A.K., and Bhattacharya, P., “Development and
Validation of Heat and Mass Transfer Model in Freeze Drying Operation”- Proc.of the
Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON-2003) held in Bhubaneswar,
December, 2003 (CD-ROM).
Papers presented in conferences:
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Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S. and Biswas, A.K., “Enhanced absorption of
carbon dioxide in alkanolamines in presence of activated carbon particles”, paper
presented in the 43rd Indian Chemical Engineering Congress, BHU, Varanasi,
December, 1990.
Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S. and Biswas, A.K., “Removal of carbon dioxide
from sour natural gas stream by sterically hindered amines”, paper presented in
the 11th National Symposium on Cryogenics, IIT, Kharagpur, January, 1991.
Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S. and Biswas, A.K., “Absorption of carbon
dioxide in a sterically hindered amine”, paper presented in the 44th Indian
Chemical Engineering Congress, Madras, December, 1991.
Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S. and Biswas, A.K., “Solubility and diffusivity of
N2O and CO2 in aqueous solutions of monoethanolamine”, paper presented in the
46th Indian Chemical Engineering Congress, Bombay, December, 1993.
Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S. and Biswas, A.K., “Determination of
volumetric mass transfer coefficient and interfacial area in mechanically agitated
contactor”, paper presented in the 46th Indian Chemical Engineering Congress,
Bombay, December, 1993.
Saha, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.S. and Biswas, A.K., “A simple computerized
technique to measure the unsteady state rate of absorption by volume uptake
method”, paper presented in the 47th Indian Chemical Engineering Congress,
Kharagpur, December, 1994.
Saha, A.K. and Ganguly, U.P.,“Some aspect on the sedimentation of coal water
slurry: Prediction of the constant rate of sedimentation”, paper presented at the
83rd session of the Indian Science Congress, Patiala, 3-8th January, 1996.
Saha, A.K., Paira, B.B., and Bandyopadhyay, S.S., “An improved conductance
measurement technique for hydrodynamic studies of carbon dioxide-water
system”. Paper presented in the 51st Indian Chemical Engineering Congress,
Vishakhapattanam, December, 1998.
Saha, A.K. and Banyopadhyay, S. S., “Freeze Drying with Liquid Nitrogen: The
Tunneling Effect”, accepted for presentation in the annual meeting American
Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) ,Austine, Texas, USA November 7-12,
2004.
Saha, A.K., Chakraborty, R., and Bhattacharya, P., “Facilitated Transport of Water
Molecules in Freeze Drying using Liquid Nitrogen Cooled Condensing Surface”,
paper presented in the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow,
Scotland, U.K., 10-14 July 2005.
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Saha, A.K., Chakraborty, R., and Bhattacharya, P., “A Study on Enhancement of
Freeze Drying Rate of Food Stuff using an inert medium (N2)”, paper accepted for
presentation in the 59th Indian Chemical Engineering Congress, Ankleshar,
Gujrat, December, 2006.
Saha, A.K., and Paruya, S., “Development of a Load Cell based Digital
Manometer”, paper accepted for presentation in the 59th Indian Chemical
Engineering Congress, Ankleshar, Gujrat, December, 2006.
Saha, A. K., “ A Computer Programme for Heat Exchanger Network Design”,
paper accepted for presentation in the 59th Indian Chemical Engineering Congress,
Ankleshar, Gujrat, December, 2006.