Suddhasatwa Basu


Sudhhasatwa Basu is the Director of Council of Scientific Industrial Research - Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India and Professor of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and Professor of AcSIR. He is a Fellow of National Academy Sciences of India. He has published more than 180 articles with H-index of 32 and undertaken many sponsored projects, several technologies transferred and 8 patents filed / granted. He has received many awards e.g., Herdillia Award, Excellence in Basic Research in Chemical Engineering, IIChE 2016, Dr. A. V. Rama Rao Foundation's Research Excellence Award in Chemical Engineering / Technology for the year 2016 etc. He is editor / Editorial board member of many international Journals e.g., Indian Chemical Engineer, WIRES: Energy & Environment, ACS Omega, Ionics, Int J Energy Research,, Carbon Resources Conversion.

Biography

Suddhasatwa Basu, born 5th January 1963, completed B.Tech from University of Calcutta in 1987 and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1993 in Chemical Engineering. Then he worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Visiting Faculty in Dept. of Chemical & Material Engineering at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He worked on Oil Sands extraction technology at the University of Alberta and closely involved in various projects. After completion of the research, he joined IIT Delhi, New Delhi as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1998 and presently he is Professor, IIT Delhi, whereas worked as Head of the Chemical Engineering Department from 2012 to 2015 and Associate Dean of R&D, IIT Delhi from 2016 to 2017. Currently he is the Director of Council of Scientific Industrial Research - Institute  of Minerals  and  Materials Technology since 2018 with Outstanding Professor, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, AcSIR and Adjunct Professor    in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai.
He was visiting Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2000 and 2002, University of Newcastle, Australia 2005, University Karlsruhe, Germany 2006 and University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2008 and 2010. His broad research interests are in the area of Interfacial and Electrochemical Engineering and their application in hydrogen energy and fuel cell technology. He has addressed the issues coming out of nexus between energy and environment. His works on development of direct alcohol and glucose PEM and AEM Fuel Cells, PEMFC diagnostics, solid oxide fuel cells, as the source of renewable energy sources and removal ionic dyes from water by reverse micelles selectively, reuse of dye and solvent, CO2 conversion to chemical fuels and dye mineralization by photo catalysis, as environment benign technologies. He has published more than 180 articles in high impact factor journals, 28 conferences and 8 patents. He is recipient of many awards, visiting fellow of Royal Society, UK, DAAD fellow, UKIERI award, Distinguish Alumni Award from Chemical Engineering Department, Calcutta University, FITT award for best thesis at IIT Delhi.

Awards and Honors

  1. Title: "An Improved Process for De-dyeing of Liquid Waste"; Inventor: Suddhasatwa Basu, Patent granted: No #271063; DEL/377/2003
  2. Title: "Direct Ethanol /Methanol alkaline fuel cell"; Inventor: Suddhasatwa Basu, Indian Patent: 1139/DEL/2010
  3. Title: "A composite electrocatalyst for CO2 reduction through electrolysis"; Inventor: Neetu Kumari, Suddhasatwa Basu, Ali Haider, T. P. Yuvraj, R.K. Kashyap; Indian Patent Application No.: 201611039740; Patent No. 335419
  4. Title: "Regeneration of carbon monoxide poisoned anode catalysts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells"; Inventor: Harikrishnan, Suddhasatwa Basu, Indian Patent Application No.: 201611043064
  5. Title: "Microfluidic chip for neurotransmitter detection"; Inventor: Appan Roy Chowdhury, Suddhasatwa Basu and Sandeep Jha; Indian Patent Application No 201811000669
  6. Title: "Formation of thin film like assembly by solvent non-evaporative method using centrifuge"; Inventor: Suddhasatwa Basu and Ravi Tejasvi, US Patent application 16118949
  7. Title: "Bi-doped A-site deficient composite perovskite anode for methane based solid oxide fuel cells"; Inventor: Suddhasatwa Basu and Md. Shahid, Indian Patent Application No. 201911030199
  8. Title: Membrane-less microfluidic reactor with asymmetric electrolyte for water splitting and process for process for producing the same ; Inventor: Suddhasatwa Basu, Biswajit De, Neeraj Khare, Indian Patent Application no. 202011022122

    Selected bibliography

Books / Book Chapters / Monographs

Overall Best 10 papers cited = 1090; H-index = 32 ; Authored Book cited = 288
SlJournalCitation &   Source: ScopusJournal Impact Factor & Publisher
1Appan Roy Chowdhury, Suddhasatwa Basu, Sandip K Jha, Dopamine biosensor based on surface functionalized nanostructured nickel oxide platform, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 84, 72-81 83IF=8.17
Elsevier
2Tayal, J., Rawat, B., S. Basu, Effect of Addition of Rhenium to Pt-based Anode Catalysts in Electro-oxidation of Ethanol in Direct Ethanol PEM Fuel Cell, Intl J. Hydrogen Energy 37, 4597-4605 82IF=4.3
Elsevier
3D Basu, S Basu, Performance studies of Pd–Pt and Pt–Pd–Au catalyst for electro- oxidation of glucose in direct glucose fuel cell Intl J. Hydrogen Energy 37, 4678-4684 92IF = 4.3
Elsevier
4J Tayal, B Rawat, S Basu, Bi-metallic and tri-metallic Pt–Sn/C, Pt–Ir/C, Pt–Ir–Sn/C catalysts for electro-oxidation of ethanol in direct ethanol fuel cell, Intl J. of Hydrogen Energy 36, 14884-14897 153IF=4.3
Elsevier
5Awasthi, A., S. Basu, K. Scott, "Dynamic modeling and simulation of a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer for hydrogen production" Intl J Hydrogen Energy, 36 14779-14786 99IF=4.3
Elsevier
6D Basu, S Basu, A study on direct glucose and fructose alkaline fuel cell, Electrochim Acta 55, 5775-5779 106IF=52.4;
Elsevier
6A Verma, S Basu, Direct alkaline fuel cell for multiple liquid fuels: Anode electrode studies, J. of Power Sources 174, 180-185 80IF = 7.4;
Elsevier
7A Verma, S Basu, Direct use of alcohols and sodium borohydride as fuel in an alkaline fuel cell, J. of Power Sources 145, 282-285 137IF = 7.4;
Elsevier
8A Verma, AK Jha, S Basu, Manganese dioxide as a cathode catalyst for a direct alcohol or sodium borohydride fuel cell with a flowing alkaline electrolyte, J. of Power Sources 141, 30-34 131IF = 7.4;
Elsevier
9P Pandit, S Basu, Removal of ionic dyes from water by solvent extraction using reverse micelles, Environ Sci & Technol 38, 2435-2442 127IF=7.14;
American Chemical Society
10S. Basu, Recent Trends in Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Springer, New York 288Springer, N.Y.