Prof. Mihir Kumar Purkait
Professor
Key Research Areas :Membrane technology; Effluent treatment and waste management; Advanced separation processes; Catalysis; Nanoparticles and nano-composites; Bio-diesel; Bio-products, vegetable and fruit juice processing; CO2 to products and liquid fuels.
- Phone No: +91 361 258 2262/+91 99542 48807
- Email: mihir@iitg.ac.in
- Room No: 105
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Dr. Mihir Kumar Purkait is a Professor (HAG) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG). Presently he is holding Professor Chair of National Jal Jeevan Mission (NJJM), Min. of Jal Shakti (Govt. of India). He is energetically involved in frontier areas of Chemical Engineering with his major research interest in the field of advanced separation processes and material science. Prof. Purkait has a portfolio of multifarious innovations and inventions in both fundamental and applied research. He has made an outstanding contribution to develop the fundamental concept and mechanism of smart and intelligent responsive materials (thermo-responsive, pH-responsive, dual / multi stimuli-responsive, and piezoelectric) for a wide range of separation applications. He has the credit for commercializing various technologies for up and downstream operation of water purification, many water treatment technologies for contaminated drinking water and industrial wastewater, bio-separation, value-added product separation from plant and agricultural resources, and electrochemical reduction of CO2 to several liquid fuels. His major research areas and output in terms of the number of publications are shown below. Prof. Purkait has done outstanding contribution in translational and applied research on two major sustainable development goals, SDGs (SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation; SDG 9: Industry and Innovation; SDG 12: Production). Quality and quantity of his research is reflected in terms of large number of publications, patents, technology transfer, start-ups, projects, consultancies and involvement with various national and international scientific committees. His work has remarkable relevance in societal as well as industrial sectors. He has more than 23 years of experience in research & academics. With his research team he has published more than 350 high quality International journal papers with h-index of 79 (Citation > 18,000), 14 granted patents and made 3 technology transfer. He has authored 18 books, completed 42 sponsored projects/consultancies funded by various Govt agencies and industries. Prof. Purkait has supervised 24 PhD students and >48 M Tech students on fundamental and applied research. For his scientific and societal contribution, he has been awarded several national level prestigious award from INAE, NASI, INSA, DST etc. He has worked as visiting professor of 3 foreign universities and involved in various international scientific/funding organizations as ECC/PAC expert member like European Science Foundation (ESF, France), Fund for Scientific Research; FWO Flanders, Brussel (Belgium) etc. Prof. Purkait is also actively involved in different capacity like ECC / EC / PAC / selection committee member / advisor / consultant etc in various Govt (state & central) bodies including DST, SERB, DBT, AICTE, BIS, IITs, NITs, Universities, Waste to Wealth (W2W) mission and National Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) of Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the Govt of India and public sector companies. |
Dr. Mihir Kumar Purkait
Chair Professor, National Jal Jeevan Mission (NJJM), Min. of Jal Shakti (Govt. of India)
Professor (HAG), Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Guwahati - 781039, Assam, India
E. Mail: mihir@iitg.ac.in , mihirpurkait@gmail.com
Phone: +91-361-2582262(O), +91 - 9954248807 (Mobile)
Homepage: https://www.iitg.ac.in/chemeng/faculty_profile.php?name=mkp
Google Scholar Citation: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=9Z4kD-sAAAAJ&hl=en
Books authored: https://www.amazon.in/s?k=mihir+kumar+purkait&crid=34TLQFXL5NV4W&sprefix=%2Caps%2C245&ref=nb_sb_ss_recent_1_0_recent
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Mihir Kumar Purkait
Dr. Mihir Kumar Purkait is a Professor (HAG) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG). Presently he is Chair professor of National Jal Jeevan Mission (NJJM), Min. of Jal Shakti (Govt. of India). He is energetically involved in frontier areas of Chemical Engineering with his major research interest in the field of advanced separation processes and material science .
Prof. Purkait has done outstanding contribution in translational and applied research on two major SDGs (SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation; SDG 9: Industry and Innovation; SDG 12: Production). Quality and quantity of his research is reflected in terms of large number of publications, patents, technology transfer, start-ups, projects, consultancies and involvement with various national and international scientific committees. His work has remarkable relevance in societal as well as industrial sectors.
He has more than 20 years of experience in research & academics and published more than 350 papers (Citation: >17000) in different reputed international journals with h-index of 75, 10-index of 193 and 14 granted patents and made 3 technology transfer. He has authored 18 books, completed 42 sponsored projects/consultancies from various funding agencies. Prof. Purkait has supervised 24 PhD students on fundamental and applied research.
Fundamental research:
Prof. Purkait contributed significantly on adsorption, electrocoagulation, nanotechnology, bioenergy, fruit and vegetable juice clarification, value added products from plant extract, treatment of industrial effluents and contaminated drinking water, catalyst development and electrochemical reduction of CO2 to various pure products including liquid fuels. Prof. Purkait has made outstanding contribution in the field of smart membrane fabrication for chemical, biochemical and environmental separation, purification and concentration. He has developed the fundamental concept, mechanism and understanding of smart or intelligent membranes with environmental stimuli-responsive functions. The development ranges from flat membranes to tubular membranes with various responsive properties, such as thermo-responsive, pH-responsive, and dual-/multi-stimuli-responsive. He has also developed antibacterial and antifouling membranes. The development includes design concepts, fabrication strategies and methods, controlled microstructures and surface modifications of smart membranes for wide range of separation applications.
Applied research:
Prof. Purkait has developed greener technology for various applications viz. i) separation of value added products having pharmaceutical and medicinal importance from numerous plants, ii) clarifications of fruit and vegetable juices, iii) pure carbon from coal for steel industries, iv) treatment of industrial effluents from refinery, textile, and tannery and v) prototype treatment units for Iron, Arsenic and Fluoride contaminated drinking water. Most of the technology is patented by him. Prof Purkait has incubated two start-up companies in the technology incubation centre of IIT Guwahati to commercialize the developed products.
