Dr. Saroj Kumar Sahoo

About

A research oriented professional with 3 years of experience in the field of coal and mineral processing industries. Currently, I am working as an Energy Analyst with Ministry of Coal, Government of India with a special focus on analyzing emerging energy scenario, surface coal gasification, green hydrogen production status and its implementation, looking towards energy security, transition, efficiency, policies, tender adjudication, and handle bidders, auction, and allocation of coal mines. Earlier key roles include Research associate at TATA STEEL LTD and Consultant, ABH Engineering Inc., Canada where I gained my domain experience in the field of R&D work on mine waste, chromite, manganese ore beneficiation, Briquetting Technology, value engineering and optimization, project cost estimation at PEA, PFS and FS level, CAPEX and OPEX estimation and economic analysis.

I have earned my PhD in Mineral Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad. I have published 9 journal articles and 5 conference papers to my credit. I have also awarded best researcher award in 2018 (IMTR) and in 2019 (MESA). I am passionate about fine particle and industrial mineral processing, froth flotation and dewatering of minerals, petrography and mineralogical study, application of statistics, soft computing tools and image analysis to mineral processing unit operations.

Employment

• National Metallurgical Laboratory National Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad PhD (Mineral Engineering)
  2014 - 2018

Projects & Funding

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Publications (13)

• Performance Evaluation of Batch Coal Flotation from the Petrologic Point of View
  International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization 2021 DOI: 10.1080/19392699.2018.1455668
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• Determining the Best Particle Size-Class for Flotation of a High Ash Coal
  International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization 2020 DOI: 10.1080/19392699.2017.1409216
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• Flotation production of vitrinite maceral concentrate and its optimization using response surface approach
  International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization 2020 DOI: 10.1080/19392699.2017.1356827
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• Kinetic Studies on Petrographic Components of Coal in Batch Flotation Operation
  International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization 2019 DOI: 10.1080/19392699.2017.1314966
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• Performance Evaluation of Basic Flotation Kinetic Models Using Advanced Statistical Techniques
  International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization 2019 DOI: 10.1080/19392699.2017.1302436
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• Recovery of coal values from the refuse pond coal slurry using flotation
  Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects 2018 DOI: 10.1080/15567036.2018.1476620
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• Characterization of macerals from the coal flotation froth fraction
  Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects 2017 DOI: 10.1080/15567036.2017.1283550
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• Studies on Separation of Macerals from Coal by Froth Flotation
  Journal of Energy and Natural Resources 2017 DOI: 10.11648/j.jenr.20170603.12
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• A review of different factors affecting Jigging Performance
  International conferences on Mineral Processing and Technology (MPT 2018)
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• Application of MLP neural network for classification of coal macerals
  International conferences on Mineral Processing and Technology (MPT 2017)
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