Teaching Experience:
- Associate Professor, IIT(BHU), 2015-present
- Assistant Professor, IIT (BHU), 2005-2015
- Lecturer , UPES, Dehradun, 2005
Sponsored/Consultancy/Institute Projects:
1. DST, New Delhi (UNDER SERC FAST TRACK PROPOSAL FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS), “Development of Air Breathing Microfluidic Fuel Cell for the Direct use of Ethanol as Fuel for Power Generation”, 24.69 Lakh, (2013-2016); PI.
2. Institute Research Project (For Individual Faculty) on "Development of Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cell (URFC) for In-Situ Production of Hydrogen and Electricity", 14.47 Lakh,(2017-2019); PI.
3. CERD, IIT(BHU) Sponsored Project on " Development of high temperature direct alcohol fuel cell (DAFC) for power generation", 7 Lakh, (2016-17), PI.
4. Institute Project under the scheme Sprouting Grant for Faculty on "Energy", 15 Lakh, (2014-2015); PI.
5. UGC, New Delhi sponsored project Under “Joint Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiatives on “Energy”,1.25 Crores, (2012-2014); (Co-PI).
6. UGC (Minor Project Grant), “Modeling on Direct Ethanol fuel Cell (DEFC)” , 0.5 Lakh, (2008-2010); PI.
7. MHRD, Govt. of India Under FAST Scheme “Centre for Energy and Resources Development “ 2.44 Crores, (2014-16); Co-PI.
Research Interests:
- Fuel cell –DAFC, PEMFC, URFC & Microfluidic Fuel cell
- Electrochemical Engineering
- Energy Engineering
- Biodiesel & Pyrolysis
Publications:
Journals
2. Pramanik, H., Wragg, A. A., Basu, S., “Studies of some operating parameters and cyclic voltammetry for a direct ethanol fuel cell” Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 38 (2008)1321-1328.
3. Basu, S., Agarwal, A., Pramanik, H., “Improvement in performance of a direct ethanol fuel cell: Effect of sulfuric acid and Ni-mesh” Electrochemistry Communications, 10 (2008) 1254–1257.
4. Pramanik, H., Basu, S., “Modeling and experimental validation of overpotentials of a direct ethanol fuel cell”,Chem. Engg. and Process, 49 (2010) 635-642.
5. Pramanik, H., Basu, S., “Cyclic Voltammetry of Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) using Pt based electrocatalysts on a Nafion-bonded Carbon Electrode for Direct Ethanol Fuel cell”, Indian Chemical Engineer 53(3) (2011)124-135.
6. Jazie Ali A., Sinha A. S. K., Pramanik H.,” Optimization of biodiesel production from peanut and rapeseed oils using response surface methodology,” International Journal of Biomass and Renewables,1(2)(2012) 2289– 1492.
7. Jazie Ali A., Pramanik H., Sinha A. S. K.,” Egg shell as eco-friendly catalyst for transesterification of rapeseed oil: optimization for biodiesel production,” International Journal of Sustainable Development and Green Economics, 2 (1) (2013) 2315 – 4721.
8. Jazie Ali A., Pramanik H., Sinha A. S. K., “Egg shell waste-catalyzed transesterific-ation of mustard oil: optimization using response surface methodology (RSM),” 2012 2nd International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPES 2012), DOI: 10.7763/IPCSIT.2012.V56.10, IPCSIT vol. 56 (2012) © IACSIT Press, Singapore, 2012.
9. Jazie Ali A., Pramanik H., Sinha A. S. K. “ Transesterification of peanut and rapesheed oils using waste of animal bone as cost effective catalyst” Mater Renew Sutain Energy (2013) 2:1, DOI 10.1007/s40243-013-0011-4.
10. Pramanik, H., Rathoure, A.K., Jain, V., Srikanth, P.V.K., “Electrooxidation Study of Methanol in a Laminar Flow Membraneless Microfluidic Fuel Cell-A Review”, ICONCE-2014, IEEE ;2014, p-220-223, DOI:10.1109/ICONCE.2014.6808723.
11. Pramanik, H., Rathoure, A.K., “Electrooxidation Study of Ethanol in Air Breathing Microfluidic Fuel Cell at Low Loading of Electrode-catalyst” International Journal of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 6(2) (2015) 90-94.
12. Suroshe, P., Pramanik, H., “Recovery of Valuable Bio-oil and Char via Pyrolysis of Sugarcane Bagasse” International Journal of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 6(3) (2015) 137-141.
13. Pawankumar, S. , Pardhikar,S., Pramanik, H., “Electrooxidation Study of Acetic Acid at Low Temperature in Membraneless Microfluidic Fuel Cell for Portable Power Application” Journal of Modern Chemistry & Chemical Technology, 7(1) (2016) 58-66.
14. Rathoure, A.K., Pramanik, H., “Electrooxidation study of methanol using H2O2 and air as mixed oxidant at cathode in air breathing microfluidic fuel cell” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 41(2016) 15287-15294.
15. Pramanik, H., Rathoure, A.K., “Electrooxidation study of NaBH4 in a membraneless microfluidic fuel cell with air breathing cathode for portable power application” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 42(2017)5340-5350.
16. Gaurh, P., Pramanik, H., “Production and characterization of pyrolysis oil using waste polyethylene in a semi batch reactor” Indian Journal of Chemical Technology, (Accepted) 2017.
17. Gaurh, P., Pramanik, H.,”A novel approach of solid waste management via aromatization using multiphase catalytic pyrolysis of waste polyethylene” Waste Management, 71 (2018) 86–96.