Mechanical Engineering

Head of Department

Dr. Kishore Debnath
Ph.D (IIT Roorkee)

E-mail:
hod.me@nitm.ac.in

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Dr. Bikash Kumar Sarkar Associate Professor

B. E, Jadavpur University, ME, Jadavpur University, Ph.D, Jadavpur University

bikash.sarkar@nitm.ac.in sarkar.bikash@gmail.com
9485177038
https://nitmeghalaya.irins.org/profile/101609

Research Interest

Hydraulic System Design and Control, Hydro Power, Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Robotics, CFD

Education Qualification

B. E, Jadavpur University, ME, Jadavpur University, Ph.D, Jadavpur University

Links

ORCID        Google Scholar      Scopus     Web of Science    Vidwan   Research Gate


Publication

Journal

1.       P. Venkaiah, B. K. Sarkar, and A. Chaterjee, “Pitch control of electrohydraulic semi-rotary-actuated wind turbine with actuator and valve fault using generalized power-based exponential rate reaching law sliding mode controller,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part J. Syst. Control Eng., p. 095965182311546, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1177/09596518231154632.

2.       N. Kumar, P. Venkaiah, B. K. Sarkar, and S. Maity, “Wind turbine electrohydraulic transmission system control for maximum power tracking with pump fault,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part J. Syst. Control Eng., p. 095965182311556, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1177/09596518231155691.

3.       P. Venkaiah, B. K. Sarkar, and A. Chatterjee, “Harris hawks optimization tuned exponential reaching law based integral SMC for pitch control of linear hydraulic actuated wind turbines,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part C J. Mech. Eng. Sci., p. 09544062231193825, Sep. 2023, doi: 10.1177/09544062231193825.

 

4.       J. Vinod, B. K. Sarkar, and D. Sanyal, “Flow control in a small Francis turbine by system identification and fuzzy adaptation of PID and deadband controllers,” Renew. Energy, vol. 201, pp. 87–99, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.11.039.

5.       P. Venkaiah and B. K. Sarkar, “Electrohydraulic proportional valve-controlled vane type semi-rotary actuated wind turbine control by feedforward fractional-order feedback controller,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part J. Syst. Control Eng., vol. 236, no. 2, pp. 318–337, Feb. 2022, doi: 10.1177/09596518211028417.

 

6.       N. Kumar, R. Kumar, B. K. Sarkar, and S. Maity, “Performance Analysis of the Swashplate Axial Piston Pump with Hydraulic Fluid Temperatures,” vol. 80, p. 6, 2021.

7.       P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Experimental and numerical analysis of solar air heater accoutered with modified conical vortex generators in a staggered fashion,” Renew. Energy, vol. 180, pp. 109–131, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.08.046.

8.       P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Experimentally validated 3D simulation and performance optimization of a solar air duct with modified conical vortex generators,” Sol. Energy, vol. 224, pp. 1040–1062, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2021.06.052.

9.       L. Kushwaha, P. Venkaiah, and B. K. Sarkar, “PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE WITH OPTIMISED PITCH ANGLE VARIATION,” vol. 28, no. 2, p. 8, 2021.

10.   N. Kumar, R. Kumar, B. K. Sarkar, and S. Maity, “Condition monitoring of hydraulic transmission system with variable displacement axial piston pump and fixed displacement motor,” Mater. Today Proc., vol. 46, pp. 9758–9765, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.matpr.2020.09.327.

11.   V. J and B. K. Sarkar, “Francis turbine electrohydraulic inlet guide vane control by artificial neural network 2 degree-of-freedom PID controller with actuator fault,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part J. Syst. Control Eng., vol. 235, no. 8, pp. 1494–1509, Sep. 2021, doi: 10.1177/0959651820973797.

  1. M. K. Mondal, N. Biswas, A. Datta, B. K. Sarkar, and N. K. Manna, “Positional impacts of partial wall translations on hybrid nanofluid flow in porous media: Real Coded Genetic Algorithm (RCGA),” Int. J. Mech. Sci., p. 107030, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2021.107030.

 

13.   P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Overall performance analysis and GRA optimization of solar air heater with truncated half conical vortex generators,” Sol. Energy, vol. 196, pp. 637–652, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2019.12.057.

14.   Parag Jyoti Bezbaruah, Rajat Subhra Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Solar Air Heater with Finned Absorber Plate and Helical Flow Path: A CFD Analysis,” Appl. Sol. Energy, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 35–41, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.3103/S0003701X20010041.

15.   P. Venkaiah and B. K. Sarkar, “Hydraulically actuated horizontal axis wind turbine pitch control by model free adaptive controller,” Renew. Energy, vol. 147, pp. 55–68, Mar. 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.08.127.

 

16.   [P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Thermo-hydraulic performance augmentation of solar air duct using modified forms of conical vortex generators,” Heat Mass Transf., vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 1387–1403, May 2019, doi: 10.1007/s00231-018-2521-1.

17.   R. K. Ranjan, N. Alom, J. Singh, and B. K. Sarkar, “Performance investigations of cross flow hydro turbine with the variation of blade and nozzle entry arc angle,” Energy Convers. Manag., vol. 182, pp. 41–50, Feb. 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2018.12.075.

18.   P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Thermal and Fluid Flow Analysis of Miller Teeth Shaped Ribbed Solar Air Heater- A CFD Approach,” vol. 78, p. 5, 2019.

 

19.   B. K. Sarkar, “Modeling and validation of a 2-DOF parallel manipulator for pose control application,” Robot. Comput.-Integr. Manuf., vol. 50, pp. 234–241, Apr. 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.rcim.2017.09.017.

 

  1. P. Mandal, B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, S. Mookherjee, and D. Sanyal, “Designing an optimized model-free controller for improved motion tracking by rugged electrohydraulic system,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part J. Syst. Control Eng., vol. 230, no. 5, pp. 385–396, May 2016, doi: 10.1177/0959651815622847.

 

21.   P. Mandal, B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, A. Chatterjee, S. Mookherjee, and D. Sanyal, “Real-time fuzzy-feedforward controller design by bacterial foraging optimization for an electrohydraulic system,” Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell., vol. 45, pp. 168–179, Oct. 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.engappai.2015.06.018.

22.   B. B. Ghosh, B. K. Sarkar, and R. Saha, “Realtime performance analysis of different combinations of fuzzy–PID and bias controllers for a two degree of freedom electrohydraulic parallel manipulator,” Robot. Comput.-Integr. Manuf., vol. 34, pp. 62–69, Aug. 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.rcim.2014.11.001.

23.   S. Dasmahapatra, B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, A. Chatterjee, S. Mookherjee, and D. Sanyal, “Design of an Adaptive Fuzzy-Bias SMC and Validation for a Rugged Electrohydraulic System,” IEEEASME Trans. Mechatron., vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 2708–2715, Dec. 2015, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2015.2393437.

  1. P. Mandal, B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, S. Mookherjee, S. K. Acharyya, and D. Sanyal, “GA-Optimized Fuzzy-Feedforward-Bias Control of Motion by a Rugged Electrohydraulic System,” IEEEASME Trans. Mechatron., vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 1734–1742, Aug. 2015, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2352156.

 

25.   B. K. Sarkar, P. Mandal, R. Saha, S. Mookherjee, and D. Sanyal, “GA-optimized feedforward-PID tracking control for a rugged electrohydraulic system design,” ISA Trans., vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 853–861, Nov. 2013, doi: 10.1016/j.isatra.2013.07.008.

26.   B. K. Sarkar, J. Das, R. Saha, S. Mookherjee, and D. Sanyal, “Approaching Servoclass Tracking Performance by a Proportional Valve-Controlled System,” IEEEASME Trans. Mechatron., vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1425–1430, Aug. 2013, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2013.2253116.


Conference

  

  1. VINOD J, PALADUGU VENKAIAH, NEERAJ KUMAR, BIKASH KUMAR SARKAR, FRANCIS TURBINE CONTROL WITH ELECTROHYD RAULIC INLET GUIDE VANE SYSTEM DYNAMICS 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY, POWER AND ENVIRONMENT NIT Meghalaya, 2023
  2. PALADUGU VENKAIAH, BIKASH KUMAR SARKAR, AMITAVA CHATTERJEE, HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE PITCH ACTUATION FAULT ANALYSIS AND CONTROL 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE  ENERGY AND FUTURE ELECTRIC TRANSPORTA TION (SEFET) 2023 SoA University, 2023
  3. Jyotipriyam Baruah; Paladugu Venkaiah; Neeraj Kumar; Bikash Kumar Sarkar; Nur Alom, Offshore Wind Turbine Pitch Control with Aeroelastic Effect IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET), Arad, Romania, 2022
  4. AB KHELKAR, K SYRTI, R S DAS, BK SARKAR, AUGMENTING THE THERMAL PERFORMANC E OF SOLAR AIR HEATER WITH ABSORBER PLATE ROUGHENED WITH PINFINS 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND ROBOTICS RESEARCH (ICMERR 2022) KRAKOW, POLAND, 2022
  5. B. B. Ghosh, B. K. Sarkar*, R. Saha, Positional error estimation of the parallel manipulator for control application 7th International Conference on Mechanica lEngineering and Robotics Research (ICMERR 2022) Krakow, Poland, 2022
  6. Saroja Ranjan Pattanayak, Paladugu Venkaiah, Bikash Kumar Sarkar, Bikash Pattanayak, Harish Chandra Das, Modelling and control of parabolic trough field system for feed water heating application, 26thNational and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference  IIT Madras, Chennai-600036, Tamil Nadu, India, 2021
  7. Nur Alom, Bikash Kumar Sarkar, Effect of Exit Blade Angle on the Performance of Cross Flow Hydro Turbine: A Numerical Study, GTINDIA 2021-76037, V001T09A007; 7 pages, ASME Online, 2021
  8.  Jaswant Singh, Nur Alom, Bikash Kumar Sarkar, COMPUTATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CROSS FLOW HYDRO TURBINE BY CHANGING THE ROTATIONAL SPEED,  8th International and 47th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power IIT Guwahati, 2020
  9. P. Venkaiah, B.K. Sarkar, MODELLING AND CONTROL OF THE HYDRAULICALLY ACTUATED HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE PITCH SYSTEM, ASME 2019 Gas Turbine India, 6th Biennial gas turbine India conference, 5th to 6th December 2019, IIT Chennai. (Revised paper submitted), Paper ID:GTINDIA 2019-2378 (Accepted).
  10. Neeraj Kumar, Bikash Kumar Sarkar, Subhendu Maity, Leakage based condition monitoring and pressure control of the swashplate axial piston pump, ASME 2019 Gas Turbine India, 6th Biennial gas turbine India conference, 5th to 6th December 2019, IIT Chennai. (Revised paper submitted), Paper ID:GTINDIA 2019-2385(Accepted).
  11. L. Kushwaha, P. Venkaiah, B. K. Sarkar, Performance analysis of vertical axis wind turbine with optimized pitch angle variation, 10th TSME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, 10th13rd December 2019, Pattaya, Thailand (Abstract accepted, Final Paper submitted)
  12. P. Kumar, Vinod J., B. K. Sarkar, Modelling of the multiple Francis turbine by velocity diagram for speed control application,  10th TSME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, 10th– 13rd December 2019, Pattaya, Thailand (Abstract accepted, Final Paper submitted)
  13. E. K. Mawsor, N. Kumar*, B. K. Sarkar, ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF THE WIND TURBINE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR SMOOTH POWER GENERATION, IC-RIDME 2018, 8th to 10th  December 2018, NIT Meghalaya.
  14. Neeraj Kumar, Bikash Kumar, Sarkar, Subhendu, Maity, , RECENT DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF THE HYDROSTATIC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, IC-RIDME 2018, 8th to 10th  December 2018, NIT Meghalaya.
  15. J. Vinod, B. K. Sarkar, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, ACTIVE POWER CONTROL OF THE FRANCIS TURBINE SYSTEM BY MODEL FREE ADAPTIVE  CONTROLLER, IC-RIDME 2018, 8th to 10th  December 2018, NIT Meghalaya.
  16. P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, B. K. Sarkar, CFD BASED STUDYON THERMAL AND FLUID FLOW DYNAMICS DUE TO MILLER TEETH SHAPED RIBS OVER ABSORBER PLATE OF SOLAR AIR COLLECTOR, IC-RIDME 2018, 8th to 10th December, 2018, NIT Meghalaya.
  17. J. Vinod, P. Venkaiah, B.K. Sarkar, FRANCIS TURBINE IGV CONTROL UNDER FORCE ESTIMATION, INCOM18, Period -4 t0 6 January 2018, Place -Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Page -769-772, 2018.
  18. P. Venkaiah, K. Das, B.K. Sarkar, POWER CONTROL OF THE SMALL SCALE VARIABLE SPEED VARIABLE PITCH WIND TURBINE, INCOM18, Period -4 t0 6 January 2018, Place -Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Page -795-798, 2018.
  19. P. Venkaiah, K. Das, E. K. Mawsor, B. K. Sarkar, WIND TURBINE PITCHING SYSTEM DESIGN AND CONTROLIN THE CONTEXT OF NORTH-EAST INDIA, 6th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER), Paper No. 251, IIT Bombay 12th to 14th December 2017.
  20. P. J. Bezbaruah,, R. S. Das, B. K., Sarkar, Numerical Analysis of Solar Triangular Air Duct with Conical Turbulators, 2nd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Smart Technology (ICEPE), 2018, NIT Meghalaya.
  21. Abhishek Kumar, Gupta, Parag Jyoti Bezbaruah, Rajat, Subhra Das, Bikash Sarkar, Numerical Investigation on Solar Air Heater with Hemispherical Roughness, 2nd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Smart Technology (ICEPE), 2018, NIT Meghalaya

22.  P. Venkaiah B. K.. Sarkar, Position Control of the Hydraulically Actuated Francis Turbine Inlet Guide Vane, ASME 2017 Power Conference Joint With ICOPE-17 collocated with the ASME 2017 11th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, the ASME 2017 15th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, and the ASME 2017 Nuclear Forum, Period -June 26–30, 2017, Place -Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, Page -V002T09A004; 9 pages, 2017. http://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=2653650

23.  B. K. Sarkar R Saha S. Mookherjee D. Sanyal, Speed Control of Hydraulically and Electrically Coupled Multiple Francis Turbines, 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Period -15th-17th December, 2016, Place -MANITA, Allahabad, 2016.

24.  S. Chakrabarty, B. K. Sarkar, S. Maity, CFD Analysis of the Hydraulic Turbine Draft Tube to Improve System Efficiency., Second International Conference on Applied Mechanics, Thailand, Phuket, 27th -28th December, 2015.

25.  B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “Real-Time Pole Placement Control Of The Rugged Electrohydraulic System”, 41st National and 5th  International conference on Fluid mechanics and Fluid Power. IIT Kanpur, 12th -14th December, 2014.  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1202.7609

  1. B. Ghosh, B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, “Performance Analysis of Different Controllers for a 2 DOF Electro-Hydraulic Motion Simulator”, 1st International and 16th National conference on machine and mechanics., IIT Roorkee., 16th -18th December, 2013 
  2. B. K. Sarkar, P. Mandal, R Saha, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “Comparison of a Combined PID Feefforward Controller with a Fuzzy Controller for an Electrohydraulic Actuation System” 38th  National conference on Fluid mechanics and Fluid Power. MANIT Bhopal, 15th-17th December, 2011.
  3. B. K. Sarkar, R Saha, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “Feedback-Feedforward Control of an Electro-Hydraulic Actuator System Using Luenberger Observer” 37th  National and 4th  International conference on Fluid mechanics and Fluid Power. IIT Madras, 16th -18th December, 2010.
  4. B. K. Sarkar, S. Mookherjee,  D. Sanyal, “Size Identification and Design of Speed Controller for a Francis Turbine from Nonlinear Modeling and Operational Characteristics”, 7th  International Fluid Power Conference Aachen, 22nd -24th  March, 2010.
  5. B. K. Sarkar, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “System Identification of a Hydraulic Turbine From Steady State Performance Characteristics ”, 35th  National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power,  pp.535-541, PESIT Bangalore, 11th –13th  December, 2008.
  6. B. K. Sarkar, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “Designing An Integrated Feedforward-Feedback Controller For Speed Governing Of Hydraulic Turbine”, 35th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, pp. 542 -548, PESIT Bangalore, 11th –13th December, 2008.
  7. B. K. Sarkar, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “A New Approach Of Modeling The Dynamics of Hydraulic Reaction Turbines Based on Velocity Diagram”, 34th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 2007, Paper No. -1101, pp. 777-785 BIT Mesra, 10th–12th December, 2007.

Book Chapter

Sl. No.

 

Name of the Book Cltapter(s)

Name ofAutlwr(s), if any

Year of Publication

Publb,·her with addres:,·

Pages

1.       

Design and Development of the Pineapple Harvesting Robotic Gripper..

Kurbah, F., Marwein, S., Marngar, T., Sarkar, B.K*

2022

Communication and Control for Robotic Systems. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies,, Springer, Singapore

437–454

2.       

 Integral Sliding Mode Controller Design for Francis Turbine Electrohydraulic IGV System.

Vinod, J., Sarkar, B.K.

2022

In: Mahanta, P., Kalita, P., Paul, A., Banerjee, A. (eds) Advances in Thermofluids and Renewable Energy . Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore.

277=286

3.       

Active Power Control of the Francis Turbine System by Model-Free Adaptive Controller,

J. Vinod, Bikash Kumar Sarkar, Saikat Mookherjee and Dipankar Sanyal

2020

Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Select Proceedings of ICRIDME 2018, Springer, 2020, eISBN: 978-981-15-0124-1, ,

1627=1539

4.       

Recent Development and Application of the Hydrostatic Transmission System,

Neeraj Kumar, Bikash Kumar Sarkar, Subhendu Maity.

2020

Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Select Proceedings of ICRIDME 2018 eISBN: 978-981-15-0124-1,

1613=1625

5.       

Adaptive Control of the Wind Turbine Transmission System for

Neeraj Kumar, Emanuel Khraw Mawsor and Bikash Kumar Sarkar.

2020

Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Select Proceedings of ICRIDME 2018, Springer, 2020, eISBN: 978-981-15-0124-1

1411=1423

6.       

Numerical Investigation on Triangular Fin-Based Solar Air Heater

 

Parag Jyoti Bezbaruah, Aabir Das, Rajat Subhra DasBikash Kumar Sarkar

2020

Advances in Energy Research, Vol. 2. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore

341-350

7.       

 CFD-Based Study on Thermal and Fluid Flow Dynamics Due to Miller Teeth Shaped Ribs Over Absorber Plate of Solar Air Collector. In: Biswal,

Bezbaruah, P.J., Das, R.S., Sarkar, B.K.

2020

Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore

1045-1053

8.       

Real-Time Pole Placement Control of the Rugged Electrohydraulic System

 

Sarkar B. K, S. Mookherjee, Sanyal D..

2017

Book Title: Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power – Contemporary Research, Springer, 2016,  ISBN : 978-81-322-2741-0

 

2017

Work Experience

Sl. No.

Name & Address of the employer

Desig-nation

Pay Level/Pay Band with AGP / consolidated Pay

From

To

Duration

1

NIT Meghalaya, Shillong, India

Associate Professor

9,500/- AGP Pay level 13A2

20/12/2023

Till date

--

 

NIT Meghalaya, Shillong, India

Assistant Professor

 8,000/- AGP Pay level 12

23/09/2019

19/12/2023

4 Years 3 month

2

NIT Meghalaya, Shillong, India

Assistant Professor

7,000/- AGP Pay level 11

22/01/2015

22/09/2019

4 year 9 month

3

NIT Meghalaya, Shillong, India

Assistant Professor

 6,000/- AGP
 

21/08/2013

20/01/2015

1 year 5 month

Project

Research Project(s) / Sponsored Project(s)

Sl. No.

Sponsoring Agency

Title of the Project(s)/ Patent(s)

Period

Amount

Status

Indicate role as PI / Co-PI

1

DST-SERB

Modeling and Control of the hydraulically actuated Ring Inlet Guide Vane of Francis Turbine by Adaptive Neural Network Sliding mode Controller Design

2016-2019

30.426 lakhs

Completed

PI

2

MHDR-DIC

Design and Development of the Small Wind Turbine Combined with Solar system for Household Application

2018-2019

3.2 lakhs

Completed

PI

3

MHDR-DIC

Design and development of the Nano-hydro Turbine for Standalone Household Power Generation

2018-2019

1.1 lakhs

Completed

PI

4

TEQIP-NIT Meghalaya

REAL TIME ADAPTIVE CONTROL OFROTARY ACTUATED HYDRAULICSYSTEM ROBO

 

1.9 Lakhs

Completed

PI

Consultancy

 Consultancy Activities

Sl. No.

Sponsoring Agency

Title of the Project(s)/ Patent(s)

Period

Amount

Status

Indicate role as PI / Co-PI

1

Vedanta Ltd.

Technical Vetting and Modifications of boiler unit 1 and 4of Vedanta Ltd.

9-11-2021 t0 6-04-2022

2 lakhs

Completed

Co-PI

2

Jindal steel and power limited

Hydra crane runover protection design

3-9-2021 to 15-2-2022

1 lakhs

Completed

PI

Student Guidance:

Ph D

Details of PhD students Guided 

Sl. No.

Name of Student(s)

Title of the Dissertation(s)

Indicate Main / Co-Supervisor

Status [Awarded (with date) / Submitted (with date)]

 1

Vinod J

Design and Analysis of Controller for Electrohydraulically Actuated Inlet Guide Vane System for Francis Turbine

Sole Supervisor

Awarded, 11-08-2023

 2

Paladugu Venkaiah

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF ELECTROHYDRAULIC ORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE PITCH CONTROL SYSTEM

Sole Supervisor

Awarded, 08-04-2023

 3

Neeraj Kumar

ELECTRO-HYDROSTATIC  TRANSMISSION SYSTEM CONTROL FOR MAXIMUM POWER TRACKING OF HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE WITH PUMP FAULT

Main Supervisor

Awarded, 20-02-2023

 4

Parag Jyoti Bezbaruah

Studies of the thermohydraulic performance of Solar Air Heater with Novel Vortex Generation

Co-Supervisor

Awarded, 07-01-2022                          


M. Tech

Name of the Scholar

Title of Thesis

Year of Award

Mr. Jyotipriyam Baruah

Offshore wind turbine pitch control with aeroelastic effect

2021

Mr. Rahul Kumar

CFD analysis of the awash plate axial piston pump

2020

Mr. Pravin Kumar

Adaptive control of the hydraulically and electrically coupled Francis turbine system

2020

Mr. Ankush Bhandarkar

Room temperature control through solar air heater

2020

Mr. J. Singh

 

Performance Analysis of Cross Flow Hydro-Turbine with Blade Modification using CFD

2019

Mr. L. Kushwaha

Performance Analysis of H-Rotor Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

2019

Mr. A. Gupta

Performance Analysis of the solar air Heater with

Hemispherical Turbulators

2018

Mr. E. K. Mawsor

Design and Analysis of the Wind turbine power

transmission system

2018

Mr. R. K. Ranjan

Shape Optimization of the Micro hydro Turbine Using

CFD

2018

Mr. K. Das

Wind Turbine Pitching System Design and Control

The context of North East India

2017

Mr. P. Venkaiah

Position control of the hydraulically actuated Francis

Turbine Inlet Guide Vane

2017


B. Tech Project

Name of the Scholar

Title of Thesis

Year of Award

Chetyanand Nigotia (B17ME016)

Rajendra Meena (B17ME019)

Saurabh Singh (B17ME025)

Prithul Datta (B17ME030)

Transient Analysis of Solar Collection Systems with TRNSYS

Ongoing

Sukrit Maity (Roll No. B16ME011)

Gunsa Irma Ch. Marak (Roll No. B16ME015)

Pyntngen Pohthmi (Roll No. B16ME004)

Development of laboratory scale hydraulically actuated robotic arm for control application

2020

Shemphang Marwein (Roll No. B15ME013)

 Francis Kurbah (Roll No. B15ME012)

Teiborlin Marngar (Roll No. B15ME008)

Development of Robotic Gripper 

for Agricultural Applications

 

2019

Md. Anwar Mujtaba  (B14ME010)

Ramkrishan Jangir (B14ME030)

Sutanu Biswas (B14ME035)

Simulation and control of robotics arm

2018

Bhupendra (B13ME023)

Mangesh Sharma (B13ME030)

Kevin NonGhri (B13ME007)

Design and Fabrication of Microcontroller based robotic arm

2017

 

Summer Project:

Sl. No.

Name of the Student and Institute

Topic Name

Period

1.      

Ankur Kumar

NIT Surat

Component Level Performance Analysis of Hydraulic Steering Using Simhydraulics And Simmechanics

9th June 2014 to 7th July 2014

2.      

Spandan chakrabarty Siddaganga Institute of Technology, tumkur

Shape optimization of elbow draft tube to improve efficiency using cfd tool

10th June 2015 to 8th July 2015

 

Responsibilities:

1.      HoD, Mechanical Engineering Department, September, 2017 to June 2019.

2.      PIC, Center for robotics and Mechatronics, October 2018 to till date.

3.      Chairman, Library committee, March 2017 to June 2019.

4.      DRC, member, Department of Mechanical engineering.

5.      DRC, Allied Member, Department of Mathematics

6.      Member to monitor and approve the evaluation & grading, ME Deptt. Jan to May 2016

7.      Grade Screening Committee, EE Department, Jan to May 2016

8.      External Member of DRC, (Electrical Engineering Department), 2016

9.      Departmental Advisory Committee (DAC) External Member (Chemistry Department), 2016.

10.  Faculty-in- charge Strength of Material lab, NIT Meghalaya, 2014.

11.  Faculty-in- charge Mechanical Workshop, NIT Meghalaya, 2014.

12.  Member, Library Committee, NIT Meghalaya 2015.

13.  Member, Student Appeal Committee, ME Department, NIT Meghalaya 2015.

14.  Coordinator, Result Maintenance Committee, 2014-2015.

15.  Member, Departmental Advisory Committee (DAC), ME Department, NIT Meghalaya, 2014.

16.  Member, Academic Probation Committee, ME Department, NIT Meghalaya, 2014.

17.  Member, Students Counseling Cell, NIT Meghalaya, 2014.

18.  Chairman, Student Branch Change Committee, NIT Meghalaya, 2014-2015.

19.  Member, Departmental Research Committee, NIT Meghalaya

 

Conference/Symposium/Workshop/Seminar Organised

Workshop/Seminar Organized

 

Sl. No.

From

To

Name of the course

Sponsored/ Self financed

Number of Participants

1.         

7th March 2022

 11th March 2022

Controller design and implementation for Renewable power generation system (Hydro, Wind, Solar system)

AICTE

 50

2.        

9th August 2021

11th  August 2021

National Education policy 2020 implimentation

NIT Meghalaya

 60

3.        

17th February 2021

17th February 2021

National Education policy 2020 with a focus on ‘Higher education and research”

TEQIP-III

 60

4.        

September 21, 2020

September 22, 2020

Faculty development program on Outcome based Engineering Education and Accreditation, OBEEA 2020

TEQIP-III

 150

5.        

September 14th to  2020

September 18th  2020

Online short term course on Green Technologies and sustainable growth

TEQIP-III

 50

6.        

8th March 2021

12th March 2021

Role of computational fluid dynamics technique for solusion of Industrial problem

TEQIP -III

 30

7.        

06 September 2019

10 September 2019

Hands-on Training on ANSYS for Computational Fluid Dynamics

TEQIP -III

  30

8.        

24 May 2019

28 May 2019

Workshop on “Enabling Technologies in Robotic through Sensor Integration

TEQIP -III

 40

9.        

22nd March 2018

24th March 2018

Recent Advances in Mechatronics and Robotics, TEQIP, ,

TEQIP -III

 30

10.     

3rd June 2015

7th June 2015

Workshop on ‘Computational Modeling and Analysis using ANSYS and Creo (CoMAAC), Worked as Treasurer

 

 30

11.     

25th February 2014

25th February 2014

 Workshop on ‘Identification of Challenging Need Based Problem Related to Rural Economy’, Worked as Co-Coordinator,

 Rural technology action group

 30

 

 

Conference organized

1.      International Conference on Recent Innovations and Developments in Mechanical Engineering, NIT Meghalaya, 8th -10th November 2016, Worked as chairman.

2.      2016 IEEE First International Conference on Control Measurement and Instrumentation, January 8-10 2016, Kolkata, India, (Worked as Member), November 8-10, 2018, Worked as member.


Lecture Organized

 Sl No.

Title of Lecture

Resource Person

Date

1.      

Recent advances in Additive Manufacturing

Prof. P.N. Rao University of Northern Iowa, USA

May 14, 2018

2.      

Automotive emissions, regulations And control technologies

Mr. Vagesh Shanger, Mahindra Research Valley

May 3, 2019

3.      

Industrial IOT and Mechatronics

Mr. Manoj Kr. Das, CEO, EMBESYS TECHNOLOGIES

27th March 2017

4.      

Demonstration and Discussion about Robot

Mr. Aditya Marathe, NUZENIX

9th March 2017

 



Conference/Workshop/Seminar Attended

Conference:

Sl No.NamePeriodPlaceNational|International
1Second International Conference on Applied Mechanics27-28, December 2015Phuket, ThailandInternational
241st National and 5th International conference on Fluid mechanics and Fluid Power12-14, December 2014IIT Kanpur, IndiaInternational
337th National and 4th International conference on Fluid mechanics and Fluid Power16-18, December 2014IIT Madras, IndiaInternational
47th International Fluid Power Conference22-24, March 2010Aachen, GermanyInternational
535th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power11-13, December 2008PESIT, Bangalore, IndiaNational
634th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power10-12, December 2007BIT Mesra, IndiaNational



Workshop:

Sl No.NamePeriodPlaceNational/International
1Accreditation and Transformation of Technical Education22-23, January 2016NIT Meghalaya, IndiaNational
2Academia Workshop on “Instrument and Control19-20, February 2015Digboi Refinary, Assam.National
3Workshop on Engineering Curriculum and Instructional Design5-7, June 2014NIT Meghalaya, IndiaNational
4SERC School on Combustion Dynamics3-7, December 2012Jadavpur University, IndiaNational
5Mechatronics using LabVIEW27-28, March 2009BESU Shibpur, IndiaNational
6International Workshop on Engineering Fundamentals and Applications of Fuel Cells9-10, January 2008Jadavpur University, IndiaInternational



Seminar:

Sl No.NamePeriodPlaceNational/International
1One day Seminar on Fluid Power and Control20, December 2007Jadavpur University, IndiaNational
2Special Invited Lecture Programme of Instrumentation & Measurement Society, IEEE29 August 2016NIT MeghalayaNational

Additional Responsibility

  • Reviewer-Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering. (SAGE), , from From 2016, (International)
  • Reviewer-Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering. (SAGE), , from From 2016
  • Reviewer-Advances in Mechanical, Industrial, Automation and Management Systems (AMIAMS-2017), MNITA, Allahabad., , from 2016
  • 4. NCPDM-2015, MINT Allahabad, , from 2015
  • 5. 5th International and 26th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference AIMTDR 2014, IIT Guwahati, , from 2014

Professional Membership

Sl No.NameMember IDCategoryValidity
1ASME100784361Member2016
2IEEE, IEEE Control Systems Society  92698285
Member2016
3NSFMFPLM631MemberLifetime
4ISHMT1064Life MemberLifetime

Awards & Recognition

Sl No.Award DetailsYear
1National Doctoral Fellowship2008

Brief Bio.

Brief Bios Dr. B. K. Sarkar

 

Dr. B. K. Sarkar is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Professor in Charge, Centre for Robotics and Mechatronics, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, Shillong. He was Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya during 2017 to 2019. Dr. Sarkar Served various administrative responsibility in the Department and Institute. He obtained his B.E. (Mechanical Engineering), ME and Ph D degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. His major areas of research interests are, Mechatronics control, Robotics, Electrohydraulic system and control, Renewable energy system controller design. More specifically design of the advanced nonlinear control i. e. adaptive control position tracking of loaded electrohydraulic system. In renewable energy hydro power, wind power and solar energy system components design and control for enhance efficiency. In robotics system study the performance of parallel electrohydraulic manipulator, gripper system design and control. He has published 26 papers in reputed international journals, 32 papers in reputed national/international conferences 8 book chapters and 2 books. Dr. Bikash Kumar Sarkar guided ten (10) Masters students and one ongoing Masters student. He has guided 4 Ph D scholar and 4 ongoings. Dr. Sarkar received the National Doctoral fellowship award in the year of 2009. Dr. Sarkar completed three sponsored projects, one sponsored by DST-SERB and the other two sponsored by MHRD. He has organized one International conference and a large number of national workshops and training program in the department.  Dr. B. K. Sarkar served as a resource person for the various workshop ‘Technology Enabled through Sensor integration for robotics application’, organized by the Center for Robotics and Mechatronics, NIT Meghalaya, which was sponsored by TEQIP-III.  Dr. B. K. Sarkar is a life member of professional bodies like the National Society for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (NSFMFP) and Indian society for Heat and Mass Transfer (ISHMT). He is also member of American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).