Purkait Mihir K.
Professor
chemical engineering
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati
India
Biography
Dr. Mihir Kumar Purkait is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahatiat (IITG). He became Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2017 and Fellow of Institute of Engineers (FIE) in 2016. Prior to joining as faculty in IITG in 2004 he has received his PhD and M. Tech in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IITKGP) after completing his B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from University of Calcutta. He has received several awards like; Dr. A.V. Rama Rao Foundation’s Best PhD Thesis in India and Research Award in Chemical Engineering from IIChE (2007), BOYSCAST Fellow award (2009-10) from the DST, Young Engineers Award in the field of Chemical Engineering from the Institute of engineers (India, 2009), young scientist medal award from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA, 2009). Prof. Mihir Kumar Purkait is energetically involved in frontier areas of Chemical Engineering with his major research interest in the field of membrane based separation processes. His contribution in this field covers both fundamental and applied research.
Research Interest
Environmental pollution control • Membrane technology (preparation/fabrication of ceramic/polymeric membranes and their application in RO, NF, UF and MF) • Treatment of industrial effluent and waste management • Advance separation processes • Smart membrane and responsive materials for environmental, biological and chemical separation • Adsorption • Extraction of value added products from plant sources • Fruit juice clarification
Publications
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M Ghaedi, A Daneshyar, A Asfaram, MK Purkait, Adsorption of naphthalene onto high-surface-area nanoparticle loaded activated carbon by high performance liquid chromatography: response surface methodology, isotherm and kinetic study, RSC Advances 6 (59)(2016) 54322 – 54330.
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N. Sharma, M.K.Purkait, Impact of synthesized amino alcohol plasticizer on the morphology and hydrophilicity of polysulfone ultrafiltration membrane, J. Member Sci DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2016.08.068.
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S Bahrani, M Ghaedi, MJK Mansoorkhani, A Asfaram, AA Bazrafshan, M K Purkait, Ultrasonic assisted dispersive solid-phase microextraction of Eriochrome cyanine R from water sample on ultrasonically synthesized lead (II) dioxide nanoparticles loaded on activated carbon: Experimental design methodology, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2016.06.004
