Dr.Agnimitra Biswas

Information

  • Designation : Associate Professor
  • Email : agnibis@mech.nits.ac.in
  • Phone : 9435500659

Research Group

  • Thermal Engineering Group, Renewable Energy Group.

Key Notes

  • Journals: 23
  • Patents: 4
  • PhD: Guided: 10
  • Post Graduates: Guided: 29

23

PUBLICATIONS

10

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

4

PATENTS

7

PROJECTS

Introduction [Biosketch]

  • Dr. Agnimitra Biswas did his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College Silchar in 2001, M.Tech in Thermal Engineering from NIT Silchar in 2007, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Silchar in 2010. His research area was Vertical Axis Wind Turbines using experimental and computational methods. He has more than 13 years of teaching and research experiences. Presently he is working as an Associate Professor in ME Department, NIT Silchar since July 2022. His current research areas include hybrid renewable energy systems, vertical axis wind turbines, micro hydro-turbines, and solar energy systems. He has published more than 60 research papers till date in various referred international journals and conferences. He is an associate member of Institution of Engineers (India). He is a regular reviewer of various Energy related SCI indexed journals. He is also the principal investigator of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) sponsored solar RTC project of this institution, and an in-charge of MNRE recognized Regional Test Center for solar thermal devices at ME Department, NIT Silchar. This center has bagged the prestigious NABL accreditation for testing laboratory in 2017.

Areas of Interest

  • Thermal Engineering, Renewable Energy

Institution Year Degree
Regional Engineering College Silchar 2001 BE in Mechanical Engineering
National Institute of Technology Silchar 2007 M.Tech in Thermal Engineering
National Institute of Technology Silchar 2010 PhD in Mechanical Engineering

Teaching Experience
Associate Professor
6 July 2022 - Present
National Institute of Technology Silchar

Assistant Professor, Grade-I
26 June 2018 - 5 July 2022
National Institute of Technology Silchar

Assistant Professor, Grade-II
7 November 2012 - 25 June 2018
National Institute of Technology Silchar

Kalpaayan Bhattacharjee
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2023-2024

Satyam Gupta
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Tanmoy Malakar
Academic Year : 2022-2023

Raju Thota
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Biplab Das
Academic Year : 2021-2022

Sudhir Kumar Gupta
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2021-2022

Alok Ranjan
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Biplab Das
Academic Year : 2020-2021

Ajay Pratap Singh
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2020-2021

Biswajit Nath
Completed
Supervisor : A. Brusly Solomon
Co Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2020-2021

Govinda Koli
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2019-2020

Soumith Vodepalli
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Sujit Nath
Academic Year : 2019-2020

Prayag Raj Chanda
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2019-2020

Raju Sah
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Krishna Murari Pandey
Academic Year : 2018-2019

Yogesh Kumar Dokwal
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2018-2019

Ankur Srivastav
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Biplab Das
Academic Year : 2017-2018

Sanjeet Kumar
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Biplab Das
Academic Year : 2017-2018

Monotosh Das
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2017-2018

Shymal Das
Completed
Supervisor : R.D. Misra
Co Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2016-2017

Thochi Seb Rengma
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2016-2017

Ajitabh Bhaumick
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Darpahari Das
Academic Year : 2016-2017

Sunay Dev Pushan
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2015-2016

Kan Deka
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Ranjith G. Nair
Academic Year : 2015-2016

Narendra Thakur
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Darpahari Das
Academic Year : 2015-2016

Alok Kumar
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2015-2016

Ms Mithinga Basumatary
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2015-2016

Bishal Podder
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2014-2015

Sachin Gangwar
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2014-2015

Manash Pratim Borthakur
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2014-2015

Ms Shikha Bhuyan
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2014-2015

Maisanam Anil Kr. Singh
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2013-2014

Neelam Kumar Sarma
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : R.D. Misra
Academic Year : 2012-2013

Mahammed Anis Ansari
Completed
Supervisor : Alfa Bisoi
Co Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2024-2025

Kanak Chandra Sarma
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : R.D. Misra
Academic Year : 2024-2025

Supreme Das
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Biplab Das
Academic Year : 2023-2024

Sujit Roy
Completed
Supervisor : Biplab Das
Co Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2022-2023

Ankur Gupta
Completed
Supervisor : Biplab Das
Co Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2022-2023

Maisanam Anil Kr. Singh
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Kaushal Kumar Sharma
Academic Year : 2021-2022

Bishal Podder
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2020-2021

Ms Mithinga Basumatary
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : R.D. Misra
Academic Year : 2020-2021

Hussain Mahamed Sahed Mostafa Mazarbhuiya
Completed
Supervisor : Kaushal Kumar Sharma
Co Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Academic Year : 2020-2021

Anal Ranjan Sengupta
Completed
Supervisor : Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Rajat Gupta
Academic Year : 2015-2016

Awards And Honours

    • NIWE-IREDA award for best research work in Wind Energy, 2021; Best Reviewer Award from International Journal of Green Energy for the year 2021; Review Editor for Wind Energy, Frontiers in Energy Research Journal (SCIE)

A system for investigating the performance of two-bladed double stage Savonius-akin hydrokinetic turbine at low flow velocity conditions

“A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”

Germany
Patent Registration ID, 202023101859
A system for investigating the performance of two-bladed double stage Savonius-akin hydrokinetic turbine at low flow velocity conditions, (**GRANTED**)

A triple-bladed dual-stage Savonius-alike hydrokinetic turbine system.

“A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”

India
Patent Registration ID, 546316
A triple-bladed dual-stage Savonius-alike hydrokinetic turbine system., (**GRANTED**)

Jet Impingement Nozzle-Array Solar Air Heating System

“A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”

India
Patent Registration ID, 411006-001
Jet Impingement Nozzle-Array Solar Air Heating System, (**GRANTED**)

Jet Impingement Technique-Based Solar-Thermal Air Collector System for Energy and Exergy Analysis and A Method Thereof

“A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”

South Africa
Patent Registration ID, 2024/02815
Jet Impingement Technique-Based Solar-Thermal Air Collector System for Energy and Exergy Analysis and A Method Thereof, (**GRANTED**)

Sl.No: 1

Title Of Research Project: " Establishment of Regional Test Center (RTC) - Cum Technology Back Up Unit For Solar Thermal Devices at ME Department, NIT Silchar (Assam) "

Sponsored By:

Overall Budget: Rs 73.86

Duration: Mar 26, 2013 - Mar 31, 2017 (4 years 5 days)

Status: Completed

Principal Investigator: Agnimitra Biswas

Co Principal Investigator: R.D. Misra

Sl.No: 2

Title Of Research Project: " Harvesting Pico-scale water power using zero-head modified Savonius water turbine "

Sponsored By: SERB or ANRF

Overall Budget: Rs 30.02

Duration: Feb 25, 2022 - Mar 25, 2025 (3 years 1 month)

Status: Completed

Principal Investigator: Agnimitra Biswas

Co Principal Investigator: R.D. Misra

Sl.No: 3

Title Of Research Project: " Design and development of a hybrid photo voltaic thermal (PVT) system for rural application "

Sponsored By: DST

Overall Budget: Rs 14.60

Duration: Apr 01, 2017 - Mar 31, 2020 (2 years 11 months 30 days)

Status: Completed

Principal Investigator: Biplab Das

Co Principal Investigator: Agnimitra Biswas

Sl.No: 4

Title Of Research Project: " Development and testing of hybrid solar photovoltaic thermal (PVT) air system for the composite environment of North-East India for tea drying applications "

Sponsored By: DST

Overall Budget: Rs 30.3

Duration: Mar 10, 2018 - Aug 31, 2021 (3 years 5 months 21 days)

Status: Completed

Principal Investigator: Biplab Das

Co Principal Investigator: Agnimitra Biswas

Sl.No: 5

Title Of Research Project: " Development of visible active multiphasic titania-metal oxide nano heterojunction photo catalyst with enhanced green hydrogen production capacity and test its utility in an indigenously fabricated prototype solar photocatalytic reactor for large scale app "

Sponsored By: SERB or ANRF

Overall Budget: Rs 46.42

Duration: Jan 24, 2023 - Jan 24, 2026 (3 years)

Status: Ongoing

Principal Investigator: Ranjith G. Nair

Co Principal Investigator: Agnimitra Biswas and Siddhartha Shankar Dhar

Sl.No: 6

Title Of Research Project: " Design, Development, and Testing of Sediment Erosion- Resistive Micro Hydro Turbine for off-grid application "

Sponsored By: TIH

Overall Budget: Rs 8

Duration: Feb 28, 2024 - Feb 28, 2026 (2 years)

Status: Ongoing

Principal Investigator: Biplab Das

Co Principal Investigator: Agnimitra Biswas and Ojing Siram

Sl.No: 7

Title Of Research Project: " Development of smart solar photovoltaic system having encapsulated phase change material with artificial intelligence based real-time condition monitoring "

Sponsored By: SERB or ANRF

Overall Budget: Rs 45

Duration: Mar 18, 2024 - Mar 18, 2027 (3 years)

Status: Ongoing

Principal Investigator: Sudipta Halder

Co Principal Investigator: Agnimitra Biswas, Kedar Nath Dash, and Sudarshan Sahu

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