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Debabrata Das

Also known as: Professor and researcher

ORCID iD 0000-0002-1018-5091
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Dr. Debabrata Das pursued his doctoral studies from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and post-doctoral research work at Uni versity of Utah (UU), USA. He is a Senior Professor at IIT Kharagpur. He was also associated as MNRE Renewable Energy Chair Professor. He has pioneered the promising R&D of Bioenergy production processes by applying fermentation technology. He is actively involved in the research of hydrogen biotechnology for a period of last eighteen years. His commendable contributions towards development of a commercially competitive and environmentally benign bioprocess began with the isolation and characterization of high-yielding bacterial strain Klebsiella pneumoniae IIT-BT 08 (previously known as Enterobacter cloacae IIT-BT 08) which as of today is known to be the highest producer of hydrogen by fermentation. He has also established thermophilic hydrogen production process for the utilization of the higher temperature industrial wastes like distillery effluent. His recent work on biohythane process for the maximization of gaseous energy recovery from the organic wastes is worth mentioning. Prof. Das is also involved in CO2 sequestration, biohydrogen, biodiesel, phycobillin protein etc. production from microalgae research work. The major aim of the research work on MFC was to synchronize the bioremediation of wastewater with clean energy generation. Presently, he has the Google h-index of 41 for his research work. He has 23 National and International sponsored research projects. He has about 135 research publications in the peer reviewed journals and contributed more than 22 chapters in the books published by International publishers. He is the author of the two books entitled “Biohydrogen Production: Fundamentals and Technology Advances” and “Biohythane: Fuel for the Future” published by M/s. CRC Press, New York and M.s. Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd., Singapore respectively. He is the Editor of the book entitled “Algal Biorefinery: An Integrated Approach” and “Microbial Fuel Cell: A bioelectrocheemical system that converts Wastes to Watts” published separately by Springer, Switzerland and Capital Publishing Company, India. He was the Guest Editor of the two special issues of International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and one special issue of Journal of Algological Studies. He has two Indian patents and also filed three patent applications. Presently, he is involved with 10 m3 pilot plant study for the commercial exploitation of biohydrogen production process. He was awarded IAHE Akira Mitsue award 2008 and BRSI Malaviya Memmorial award 2013 for his contribution in hydrogen research. He is the Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Biomass and Bioenergy. He is the member of the editorial board of several International Journals. He is the Fellow of International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE), Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE); Biotechnology Research Society of India (BRSI); West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAScT); Institute of Engineers (India) [IE(I)].

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