Chemical Engineering

ANKUR SARKAR

PhD. in Chemical Engineering

Phone: +91-725*******/ +91-923******* (M)

email: *.******.****@*****.***; ******.*******@*****.***

Permanent Address: Personal Information:

Vill + P.O.: Sarisha Date of Birth: 25.03.1985

Dist.: South 24 Parganas Nationality: Indian

Pin: 743368, West Bengal, India Marital Status: Single

PRESENT EMPLOYMENT:

IP Analyst, Consultant

GE Global Research, from May, 2014 – Till date

Patent analytics in Chemical/Petrochemical/Environmental Engineering Domain:

Specialties:- Patent Landscaping, non-patent literature search, Patentability analysis etc.

Experience in Working on Various Databases (Thomson Innovation, Espacenet, WIPO, USPTO,

Scopus etc.)

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

PhD. in Chemical Engineering (2013), Jadavpur University, India

Dissertation Title: Development of Novel High-Shear Membrane Module

Advisor: Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Professor, Chemical Engineering Department,

Jadavpur University, India and Dr. Debasish Sarkar, Chemical Engineering

Department, University of Calcutta, India

M.Ch.E in Chemical Engineering (2009) from Jadavpur University with CGPA 8.37

B. Tech in Chemical Engineering (2007) from Haldia Institute of Technology, (West

Bengal University of Technology) with DGPA 7.73

Higher Secondary (2003) from Fatepur Sreenath Institution (West Bengal Council of

Higher Secondary Education) with aggregate percentage of marks – 69.80 %

Secondary (2001) from Ramkrishna Mission Siksha Mandir (West Bengal Board of

Secondary Education) with aggregate percentage of marks – 78.25 %

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:

Research Associate in Department of Chemical Engineering Jadavpur University, India,

May, 2013 – April, 2014 (1 Year)

Senior Research Fellow in Department of Chemical Engineering Calcutta University,

India, July, 2010 – Feb, 2013 (2 Years and 8 Months)

Senior Research Fellow in Department of Chemical Engineering Jadavpur University,

India, October, 2009 – July,2010 (10 Months)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Research Projects (Government sponsored):

Development of Novel High Shear Membrane Module -DST Sponsored Research Project.

From Grey to Green: How to Improve the Sustainability of Waste Water and Drinking

Water- New INDlGO-DST Sponsored Research Project.

Prebiotic Neutraceutical Galacto-Oligosaccharides production from Lactose- collaboration

with Melbourne University, Australia and IIT Kanpur, India-DBT Sponsored.

Industrial colaboration Projects:

Development of Basic Design for Effluent Treatment Plant of Slaughter House: funded by

Himshailo Frozen Foods & Cold Storage Pvt. Ltd.

Development of phosphoric acid process technology through HCl route based on bench

scale experimentation: funded by CFI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Development of a Membrane Separation scheme to recover Lignosulfonates and

Carbohydrates from Black Liquor – funded by Vistarr Organics Pvt. Ltd., India.

Development of a Membrane Separation process to separate Lignonosulfonates from

Black Liquor based Diafiltration technology: funded by Godavari Biorefineries Ltd.

Process Parameter Identification and Optimization to Recover Wax from Greasy Wool:

funded by Jaya Shree Textiles, Aditya Birla group.

Product Quality Assurance: for Raja Khaini Co., India

Product Quality Assurance (oil and chlorinated paraffin wax) for United Chloro

Paraffins.

PATENT FILED:

1. Debasish Sarkar, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Ankur Sarkar, A Shear Enhanced Membrane

Module With Inbuilt Self Cleaning Mechanism, Patent Application no. 845/KOL/2012

dated 27-07-2012.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

International Publications:

1. Santanu Sarkar, Dwaipayan Sen, Sarkar, Sangita Bhattacharjee, Sibdas

Ankur

Bandopadhya, Sourja Ghosh, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Modeling aspects of Carbon dioxide

Capture technologies using Porous Contactors: a Review, Environmental Technology,

accepted on 23rd April, 2014, DOI:10.1080/21622515.2014.919031

2. Sirsha Putatunda, Dwaipayan Sen, Ankur Sarkar, Ranjana Chowdhury, Debasish Sarkar,

Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Two indigenous high sheared membrane modules'performance

expatiation for the ultrafiltration of polyethylene glycol, RSC Advances, 4, 2014,6435-6446.

3. Arnab Baksi, Sirsha Putatunda, Dwaipayan Sen, Ankur Sarkar, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee,

Protocol Development for the Carbohydrate Quantification in Black Liquor with Brix

Refractometer, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series E, 93 (2), 2013, 69-74.

4. Dwaipayan Sen, Ankur Sarkar, Saikat Das, Ranjana Chowdhury, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee,

Batch Hydrolysis and Rotating Disc Membrane Bio Reactor for the Production of Galacto-

oligosaccharides: A Comparative Study, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research,

(Imp. Factor: 1.758) 51, 2012, 106**-*****.

5. Debasish Sarkar, Ankur Sarkar, Anirban Roy, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Performance

characterization and design evaluation of Spinning Basket Membrane (SBM) module using

computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Separation and Purification Technology (Imp.

Factor: 2.774), 94, 2012, 23–33.

6. Ankur Sarkar, Siddhartha Moulik, Debasish Sarkar, Anirban Roy, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee,

Performance characterization and CFD analysis of a novel shear enhanced membrane

module in ultrafiltration of Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA), Desalination (Imp. Factor: 1.899),

292, 2012, 53-63.

7. Ankur Sarkar, Debasish Sarkar, Madhurima Gupta, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Recovery of

Polyvinyl alcohol from desizing waste water using a novel high shear ultrafiltration

module, CLEAN - Soil, Air, Water (Imp. Factor: 1.507), 40 (8), 2012, 830–837.

8. Ankur Sarkar, Debasish Sarkar, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Design and performance

characterization of a new shear enhanced module with inbuilt cleaning arrangement,

Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology (Imp. Factor: 1.818), 87, 2012, 1121–

1130.

9. Debasish Sarkar, Ankur Sarkar, Monojit Chakraborty, Soumyajit Sen and Chiranjib

Bhattacharjee, Transient solute adsorption incorporated modeling and simulation of

unstirred dead-end ultrafiltration of macromolecules: An approach based on self-consistent

field theory, Desalination (Imp. Factor: 1.899), 273, 2011, 155–167.

10. Ranjana Das, Dwaipayan Sen, Ankur Sarkar, Saurav Bhattacharyya and Chiranjib

Bhattacharjee, A comparative study on the production of galacto-oligosaccharide from whey

permeate in recycle membrane reactor and in enzymatic batch reactor, Industrial &

Engineering Chemistry Research (Imp. Factor: 1.758), 50 (2), 2011, 806-816.

11. Dwaipayan Sen, Ankur Sarkar, Aaron Gosling, Sally L. Gras, Geoff W. Stevens, Sandra E.

Kentish, P.K. Bhattacharya, Andrew R. Barber and Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Feasibility study

of enzyme immobilization on polymeric membrane: A case study with enzymatically

Galacto-oligosaccharides production from lactose, Journal of Membrane Science (Imp.

Factor: 4.046), 378, 2011, 471-478.

12. Diptendu Datta, Ankur Sarkar, Debasish Sarkar, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee and Dulal C.

Mukherjee, Characterization of Bovine Serum Albumin adsorption onto polyethersulfone

ultrafiltration membrane, Journal of Indian Chemical Society (Imp. Factor: 0.3), 88, 2011,

1305-1318.

13. Ranjana Das, Dwaipayan Sen, Ankur Sarkar, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Study on the effect of

membrane speed on enzymatic synthesis of galactosyl-oligosaccharides using immobilized

-galactosidase in rotating disk membrane reactor (RDMR), Journal of The Institution of

Engineers (India): Series E, 91, 2011, 3-10.

Conference Papers:

1. Ankur Sarkar, Santanu Sarkar, Membrane Integrated Photobioreactors for CO2 Fixation

and Microalgal Biofuel Production: A Review, CHEMCON 2013 (27-30 December, 2013,

Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai).

2. Ashim Khan, Ankur Sarkar, Debasish Sarkar, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Mathematical Model

Development & Performance Evaluation of a High-Shear Spinning Basket Membrane (SBM)

Module, CHEMCON 2013 (27-30 December, 2013, Institute of Chemical Technology,

Mumbai).

3. Shubhrajit Sarkar, Santanu Sarkar, Ankur Sarkar, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Treatment of

Agricultural waste water by advanced oxidation process: A review, CHEMCON 2013 (27-30

December, 2013, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai).

4. Santanu Sarkar, Ankur Sarkar, Shubhrajit Sarkar, Ranjana Das, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee*,

Surface modification of membranes using nano particles to enhance membrane

performances: A short review, International Conference on Nanotechnology (ICNT -

2013), Haldia, West Bengal, India, 25-26 October, 2013.

5. Ankur Sarkar*, Debasish Sarkar, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Treatment of desizing waste

water using Spinning Basket Membrane (SBM) module and hydrodynamic simulation of the

module using FLUENT, Young Scientist Awards Program, 100th Indian Science Congress,

Kolkata, India (3-7 January, 2013).

6. Ankur Sarkar, Siddhartha Moulik, Debasish Sarkar, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Performance

characterization of a novel high shear membrane module in ultrafiltration of Bovine Serum

Albumin (BSA), CHEMCON 2011 (27-29 December, Bangalore).

7. Sirsha Putatunda, Ankur Sarkar, Santanu Sarkar, Dwaipayan Sen, Debasish Sarkar,

Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Ranjana Chowdhury, Effect of high shear membrane module on

PEG separation: A comparative elucidation with Radial Flow Membrane Module (RFMM)

and Turbine Flow Membrane Module (TFMM), CHEMCON 2011 (27-29 December,

Bangalore).

8. Santanu Sarkar, Sirsha Putatunda, Ankur Sarkar, Arnab Baksi, Dwaipayan Sen, Chiranjib

Bhattacharjee, Measurement of Carbohydrate in Black Liquor using Brix Refractometer,

CHEMCON 2011 (27-29 December, Bangalore).

9. Arnab Dutta, Lipika Das, Sangeeta Sandhu, Tanvi Agarwal, Ankur Sarkar, Dwaipayan Sen,

Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Purification of lignosulphonates from black liquor using

diafiltration accompanied ultrafiltration process, National Seminar on Emerging

Technologies and Sustainable Development, 2011.

10. Ankur Sarkar, Dwaipayan Sen, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Development of diafiltration based

membrane separation to purify lingo sulfonates from KBL, CHEMFERENCE, 2010.

11. Ankur Sarkar, Dwaipayan Sen, Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Removal of chromium (VI) from

tannery waste water using polyacrylamide along with ferric chloride/alum: A case study,

InDA-APDA Conference on Desalination and Water Purification (InDACON), 2010.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION:

Life Member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (I.I.Ch.E.): LM-50196

PROFESSIONAL COURSES:

Certification course on “General Course on Intellectual Property” from WIPO Academy

(World Intellectual Property Organization) from August 15 to October 1, 2014.

Three days training course on Process Modeling using UniSim® Design.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Computer Skills: FLUENT 6.3, Gambit 2.3, Microsoft office, sigmaplot, origin etc.

UV-Visible Spectroscopy, FTIR, HPLC, AAS, Refractometer, SEM etc.

LANGUAGES KNOWN:

Bengali: Native/ Hindi: Intermediate/ English: Fluent

Declaration

I, hereby, solemnly declare that all the statements made in the above are true and correct to the

best of my knowledge and belief and I bear all the responsibilities of the trueness of the above

stated information.

Place: Bangalore

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