Manish Kumar Sinha
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
India
Biography
Dr. Manish kumar Sinha has done his B.E. in Chemical Engineering form Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Pune. Afterwards, he joined M.Tech program in Petroleum Refinery Engineering at India Institute of Technology, Guwahati in 2009. He received PhD degree in 2015 from Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati. His PhD thesis title was "Preparation and Characterization of Fouling Resistant Ultra Filtration Membrane". He has published several research papers in reputed journals like Journal of Membrane Science (Elsevier), Desalination (Elsevier), RSC Advances ( Royal Society of Chemistry) etc. The total impact factor of his publication is 35.34. In 2009 and 2011, he was awarded with MHRD Govt. of India scholarship for perusing M.Tech and PhD respectively. In 2013 at CSIR-CGCRI Kolkata, during ICMA 2013, he was awarded with best poster presentation award.
Research Interest
Synthesis and characterization of stimuli responsive materials, designed to respond to change in pH, temperature and ionic strength and finally their application for the modification of polymeric membranes.
Publications
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Sinha MK (2014) Enhancement of hydrophilicity of poly(vinylidene fluoride-co- hexafluoropylene) (PVDF-HFP) membrane using various alcohols as nonsolvent additives. Desalination: 106-114
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Sinha MK (2015) Use of CS–PAA nanoparticles as an alternative to metal oxide nanoparticles and their effect on fouling mitigation of a PSF ultrafiltration membrane. RSC Advances: 66109-66121
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Sinha MK (2015) Preparation of novel thermo responsive PSF membrane, with cross linked PVCL-co-PSF copolymer for protein separation and easy cleaning. RSC Advances: 22609-22619
