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Dr. Dipankar Saha

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Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering

NIT Mizoram

Total Experience: 5

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Waste-to-Energy, Plastic Waste Management, Alternative Fuels for Compression Ignition Engines, Pyrolysis of Plastics, Emulsified Oils, Bio-additives, Algal Oil, Biodegradation of Plastics

Pyrolysis, Combustion & Engine Applications | Dual Fuel CI Engine Operation with Hydrogen | Biofuels | Plastic to Fuel | Sustainable Energy | Bio-additives | Alternative Fuel

Mail: dipankar.saha@sru.edu.in

Educational
Qualifications
(From Highest)

2023

Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Mizoram

2015

M. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Agartala

2013

B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology (NERIST)

Professional
Experience

2025

Assistant Professor at SR University, from 2025-09-15 to .

2023

Post Doctoral Fellow at IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, from 2023-10-20 to 2025-09-11.

2023

Assistant Professor at Siliguri Institute of Technology, West Bengal, from 2023-02-08 to 2023-10-13.

Key Publications

Saha D, Majumder P, Roy B, Kundu PP (2025) Effect of areca nut husk bio-additive on combustion, performance, and emission analyses of a hydrogen enriched CRDI CI engine fueled with a plastic oil-ethanol-diesel blend. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 153: 150134https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.150134

Saha D, Pattanayak S, Roy B, Kundu PP (2025) Hydrogen induced CRDI CI engine fuelled with a ternary blend of plastic grocery bag derived oil-ethanol-diesel: combustion, emission and performance analysis. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy157: 150247https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.150247

Saha D, Roy B, Kundu PP (2025) A comprehensive investigation on the prospects of ternary blends of ethanol-plastic grocery bag derived oil- diesel for CRDI CI engine: combustion, performance, and emission analysis.Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-025-03162-4

Saha D, Roy B, Kundu PP (2025) Hydrogen-induction in a dual-fuel mode common-rail-direct-injection compression ignition engine running on ethanol-diesel blends: combustion, performance and emission characteristics. Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Part A: Sustainable and Renewable Energy 1: 042304https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4068211

Saha D, Roy B, Kundu PP (2024) Areca nut husk nanoadditive for compression ignition engine: characterisation, energy–exergy–exergoeconomic, and sustainability analyses. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry149:12385–12398. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-024-13594-7

Saha D, Roy B, Kundu PP (2024) Influence of injection timing variation on combustion-emission-performance aspects of emulsified plastic oil-run compression ignition engine. Journal of Energy Resources Technology146:091201.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4065540

Saha D, Roy B, Pattanayak S, Mishra L, Kundu PP (2024) Performance, emission, combustion, exergy, exergoeconomic and sustainability analyses of EGR incorporated CI engine fuelled with areca nut husk nano-additive dosed plastic oil-water-diesel emulsion blend. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 47: 102317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2023.102317

Saha D, Roy B (2023) Plastic-grocery-bag derived oil and its emulsion for compression ignition engine application: emulsion characteristics, and combustion-performance-emission analysis. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry148: 13929–13940. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-023-12700-5

Saha D, Roy B (2023) Influence of areca nut husk nano-additive on combustion, performance, and emission characteristics of compression ignition engine fueled with plastic-grocery-bag derived oil-water-diesel emulsion.Energy268: 126682.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.126682

Saha D, Roy B (2022)Effects of plastic-grocery-bag derived oil-water-diesel emulsions on combustion, performance and emission characteristics, and exergoeconomic aspects of compression ignition engine. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments54: 102877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.102877

Saha D, Gurung J, Roy B, Pulikkal AK, Bhowmik A, Pattanayak S (2022) Optimizing pyrolysis process parameters of plastic grocery bag, with mass–energy assessment and characterization of oil at optimal condition. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy24: 1927-1944. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-022-02298-x

Saha D, Sinha A, Roy B (2021) Critical insights into the effects of plastic pyrolysis oil on emission and performance characteristics of CI engine. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28: 44598-44621.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14919-x

Saha D, Sinha A, Pattanayak S, Roy B (2021) Pyrolysis kinetics and thermodynamic parameters of plasticgrocery bag based on thermogravimetric data using iso-conversional methods. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology19: 391-406.https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-020-03106-z

Saha D, Sinha A, Roy B (2020)A critical review of emission and performance characteristics of CI engine using bio-additives. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy22: 1613–1638.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-020-01918-8

Rinki, Saha D, Geetanjali, Kumar Deepak, Kundu PP (2025) Development of sulfonated porous graphitized carbon by pyrolysis from lemongrass and its coating on sulfonated carbon brush for use as anode in single chambered microbial fuel cell. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-025-06791-3

Pattanayak S, Loha C, Singh RK, Saha D(2023) Experimental investigation of thermal performance, kinetic triplets, andsynergistic effect for bamboo-waste plastic (PP & PE) blends usingthermogravimetric analyser in N2 atmosphere. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments57: 103266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2023.103266

Pattanayak S, Hauchhum L, Loha C, Sailo L, Saha D (2023) Thermal performance and synergetic behaviour of co-pyrolysis of North East Indian bamboo biomass with coal using thermogravimetric analysis. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 13: 11755-11768.https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-021-02196-0

Research Projects / Patents

Project
System zur Herstellung von diesel, dotiert mit Nano-Additiven aus Areca-Nussschalen für C-Motoren. German Patent. Patent number: 2020221

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