Debkumar Chakraborty
Assistant Professor, Life sciences, GSS, VSP
1. Eight years of postdoctoral research and teaching experience 2. Doctorate in Biotechnology (Specialization: Fermentation Technology/Metabolic Engineering/Food Biotechnology/Biohydrogen and bio methanation) 3. Well-versed in the design of anaerobic digestion/fermentation processes 4. Currently working on wastewater and solid waste treatment and bioresource recovery
Research Publications
- 1. Chakraborty, D., Chatterjee, S., Althuri, A., Palani, S.G., Venkata Mohan, S. 2022. Sustainable enzymatic treatment of organic waste in a framework of circular economy. Bioresource Technology, 370, p2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2022. I.F: 11.889
- 2. Chakraborty, D., Karthikeyan, O.P., Selvam, A., Palani, S.G., Ghangrekar, M.M. and Wong, J.W.C 2022. Two-phase anaerobic digestion of food waste: Effect of semi-continuous feeding on acidogenesis and methane production. Bioresource Technology, 346, p.126396. I.F: 11.889
- 3. Chakraborty D*., and Venkata Mohan, S. 2019. Efficient resource valorization by co-digestion of Food and Vegetable Waste using Three Stage Integrated Bioprocess. Bioresource Technology, 284, 373-380. I.F: 11.889
- 4. Chakraborty D., and Venkata Mohan, S. (2018) Effect of Food to Vegetable Waste Ratio on Acidogenesis and Methanogenesis During Two-Stage Integration. Bioresource Technology, 254, 256-263.
- 5. Kaur, B. and Chakraborty, D. (2013) Biotechnological and molecular approaches for vanillin production: a review. Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 169(8): 1353-1372. I.F: 3.094
Ongoing Research Projects
- 1) “Effects of salt and heat pre-treated inoculum on bio hydrogen production and metabolic profiling during acidogenesis of food and vegetable waste”, GITAM SEED grant (5/12/2023-5/12/2024), 5 lakh (ongoing). GITAM Visakhapatnam campus
- 2. “ZDHYDRO Development of an Integrated Zero Discharge Model for Sewage Sludge to Enhanced Hydrogen Production”, a multi-Institute and Multi nation project (DST/INT-ETC/IGDF-2022/08) (96,56,702/-) (ongoing at IIT KGP). Team member.
- 3. “Selective resource recovery from kitchen waste by integrated Dark Fermentation-Microbial electrolysis cell and ion substitution electrodialysis”. IIT KGP and National Institute of Research and Development for Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter, Romania (PNRR-I8-2023). Accepted. Team member.
Expertise
- Biohydrogen and biomethanation in circular economy
- Microbial technology
- Environmental Biotechnology and organic waste management
- Metabolic engineering
- Fermentation technology