Home > Academics > Academic Units > Departments > Chemical Engineering > Saikat Chakraborty
Ph.D., University of Houston, USA
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
Energy Science and Engineering
Multiscale Bioenergy Systems
The Bioenergy Group in the Department of Chemical Engineering focuses on the production of second generation lignocellulosic biofuels and third generation algal biofuels. We follow a multiscale approach towards producing renewable fuels from plants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. We perform tightly-coupled experimental and theoretical studies across the various length scales that constitute second and third generation bioenergy systems - from the gene scale to study the upregulation of transcription factors and metabolic pathways, through the molecular scale where biochemical reactions promote fuel synthesis, to the reactor scale where scale-up and optimization facilitate large scale biofuel production. The coupled effects of the mass transport and reaction kinetics across these disparate scales - micro, meso and macro - are quantified using multiscale mathematical models of lignocellulosic and algal biofuel systems. Non-linear dynamical studies are also performed to optimize the performance of biofuel reactors operating far from equilibrium.
Microwave-assisted ionic liquid-mediated rapid catalytic conversion of non-edible lignocellulosic Sunn hemp fibres to biofuels by Paul S. K., Chakraborty S. Bioresource Technology 253 85-93 (2018)
Mixing effects on the kinetics and the dynamics of two-phase enzymatic hydrolysis of hemicellulose for biofuel production by Dutta S. K., Chakraborty S. Bioresource Technology 259 276-285 (2018)
Microreactor-based mixing strategy suppresses product inhibition to enhance sugar yields in enzymatic hydrolysis for cellulosic biofuel production by Chakraborty S., Singh P. K., Paramashetti P. Bioresource Technology 237, 99-107 (2017)
Two-scale model for quantifying the effects of laminar and turbulent mixing on algal growth in loop photobioreactors by Shariff S., Chakraborty S. Applied Energy 185 973-984 (2017)
Pore-scale dynamics of enzyme adsorption, swelling and reactive dissolution determine sugar yield in hemicellulose hydrolysis for biofuel production by Dutta S. K., Chakraborty S. Scientific Reports 6: 38173 1-13 (2016)
Kinetic analysis of two-phase enzymatic hydrolysis of hemicellulose of xylan type by Dutta S. K., Chakraborty S. Bioresource Technology 198 642-650 (2015)
A multiscale three-zone reactive mixing model for engineering a scale separation in enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose by Chakraborty S., Raju S. , Pal R. Bioresource Technology, 173 140-147 (2014)
Mixing and temperature effects on the kinetics of alkali metal catalyzed, ionic liquid based batch conversion of cellulose to fuel products by Gaikwad A., Chakraborty S. Chemical Engineering Journal, 240 109-115 (2014)
A Kinetic Study of Pyrolysis and Combustion of Microalgae Chlorella vulgaris using Thermogravimetric Analysis by Agrawal A., Chakraborty S. Bioresource Technology 128 72-80 (2013)
Mixing Effects on the Kinetics of Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Avicel for Batch Production of Cellulosic Ethanol by Gaikwad A., Chakraborty S. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 52 3988-99 (2013)
DBT Pan IIT Center for Bioenergy DBT, NEW DELHI
Optimal design and scale-up photobioreactor for high density algal cell production DBT, NEW DELHI
PK SINHA CENTRE PROJECT Dr. Prabhantkant Sinha
Development of suitable microalgae harvesting technology DBT, NEW DELHI
Award of fellowship under national renewable fellowships MNRE
V Ramya
Area of Research: Microbial fermentation for energy production
Sajal Kanti Dutta
Area of Research: Bioenergy
Souvik Kumar Paul
Area of Research: Bioenergy
Arun Kumar Mehta
Area of Research: Algal Biofuel
Sourav Mondal
Area of Research: Bioenergy
Subhrajit Roy
Area of Research: Lignocellulosic Biofuel
