Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
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
Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Mizoram
M. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Agartala
B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology (NERIST)
Assistant Professor at SR University, from 2025-09-15 to .
Post Doctoral Fellow at IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, from 2023-10-20 to 2025-09-11.
Assistant Professor at Siliguri Institute of Technology, West Bengal, from 2023-02-08 to 2023-10-13.
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