Sirshendu De is an Indian engineering scientist. He is a professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in

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. Sirshendu De's research interests include membrane separations, transport processes and flow through micro-channels. Sirshendu De obtained his Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. He joined Indian Institute of Technology in

in the year 1998. De has won almost every award in the field of Chemical Engineering from Amar Dye Chem award ( 2000) to Herdilia Award (2010). He has also won INAE Young Engineer award (2001),Young Engineer award, Department Of Science and Technology (2001), Sisir Kumar Mitra memorial award (2003), Department of Atomic Energy- SRC Outstanding Investigator award (2012) and Silver Jubilee Young Engineer award (2012) from the Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi. In 2011, he was awarded the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, ...

, the highest science award in

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, in the engineering category."11 scientists selected for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award" ibn live, 26 Sep 201

/ref> He is also a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad. Besides being a prolific scientist, De has also published a number of books and holder of a number of patents. His most important invention being the low cost arsenic filter, whereby he designed an ultra low cost arsenic filter directed for the rural households of India. He is also the developer of an indigenous, low cost process for spinning dialysis membrane. He has won National Award for Technology Innovation in category of polymers in public healthcare as well as being adjudged in Top 10 o
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for this technology. De has over 250 international journal publications/peer reviewed articles, over 50 conference presentations (national and international). He is the hoder of 15 patents (national and international), has authored 8 books and 4 of his developed technologies have been transferred to the industry. His work has been cited over 3400 times, with his H-index being 52. Presently he is the INAE Chair Professor of

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at Indian Institute of Technology in

Major research interests

Membrane separations (analysis, design and development of ultrafiltration / reverse osmosis systems), Application of mathematical methods and modeling for transport processes; Heat and mass transfer; Modeling of material processing; Pollution control; Effluent treatment.

Products developed for research and industry

1. A low cost hollow fiber membrane spinning unit 2. Complete table top set up of hollow fiber membrane module. 3. Design of pilot scale nanfiltration and ultrafiltration units. 4. Design of pilot unit for ceramic membrane filtration. 5. Design of low cost arsenic filter unit both for community and domestic scales.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:De, Sirshendu Living people Engineers from West Bengal Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science 1967 births Indian chemical engineers 20th-century Indian chemists Scientists from Kolkata