Prof. Baruah obtained B.E. (Ag) from Rajasthan Agricultural University in 1988 and completed his M. Tech. from IIT, Kharagpur in 1990. He got his Ph.D. from Punjab Agricultural University, in 2000. Prof. Baruah keeps research interest in Renewable Energy; Applications of Modeling techniques for Energy Management and Rural Energy Management

Jobs profile

Prof. Baruah served Assam Agricultural University (AAU) for about 17 years (1989 to 2006) in various teaching and research positions. Major research involvement has been in farm mechanization, energy management in agriculture & tea production. He taught courses on Agricultural Engineering and led numbers of field demonstration programmes on modern farm machinery in various parts of Assam while he was in AAU.  He also handled number of sponsored research projects concerning Energy Requirement in Agricultural, Farm Implements & Machinery and Renewable Energy during his engagement in AAU. Prof. Baruah joined Tezpur University in March 2006 as Reader and promoted to the post of Professor in September 2009.

Teaching Courses

Heat Transfer

Power Plant Engineering

Wind energy and small hydropower Conversion

Energy modeling and project management

Biomass Energy Utilization

Doctoral Research Methodology for Energy Studies 

Sponsored Research projects

Instrumented solar hot air generator (ISHAG) for optimum thermal load in tea processing, DST, Rs 28.54 L, 2013-2016

Optimizing phosphate recovery from community bio-energy system: low cost sustainable fertilizer production for rural community, UGC-UKIERI (Indo-UK), Rs 15.72 L, 2013-2015

Utilization of Bio-energy By-product for value addition and nutrient enhancement, EPSRC (Indo-UK), Rs 4.39 L, 2012-2013

Rural Hybrid Energy Enterprise Systems, (UKRC-DST Joint sponsorship). Rs. 198 L, 2013-2016

Development of a fuel efficient all-purpose biomass cook stove sponsored by ASTEC (Assam Science Technology and Environmental Council), Govt. of Assam, India, 1.75 L, 2014-2015.

Design and development of a Renewable Energy Hybrid Tea Drier for fossil fuel substitution in Tea Industry sponsored by All India Council for Technical Education, Govt. of India, New Delhi (Funding amount Rs.12.5 L) completed

Agro-Climatic Zone Based Mapping of Renewable Energy Resources in Assam sponsored by Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi (Funding amount Rs. 18.0 L) completed

PhD research supervised/supervising

Assessment of Water Resources and Hydro Power Potential in Kopili River Basin of Assam using Modeling Technique

(B C Kusre, completed)

Performance evaluation of bio-diesel run IC engine through experimentally validated simulation model

(Tapan Gogoi, completed)

Effect of formation water disposal on ground water in the oilfields of Dibrugarh  and Tinsukia district s of Assam  

(B N Sahoo, completed)

Production, characterization and testing of biodiesel from terminalia belerica r. and sapindus mukorossi g. oil seeds available in north east India (Maumita Chakraborty, completed)

MW assisted VFBD tea drying using experimentally validated simulation model  

(Diganta Hatibaruah, completed)

Investigation of solar-biomass renewable energy application in tea drying through enhanced utilization efficiency

(Partha Pratim Dutta, completed)

Application of GIS technique for Renewable Energy Planning

(M Hiloidhari, completed)

Energy management in wetland traction

(Arvind Kumar, completed)

Control system for Renewable Hybrid mode of energy

(P K Chaudhury, on-going)

Managing bioenergy by-products for optimal utilization in crop production 

(S Kataki, on-going)

Biomass Gasification Modelling

(Dipal Baruah, on-going)

Development of a fuel efficient all-purpose biomass cookstove

(B Gogoi, on-going)

Energy Conservation by waste heat recovery from low and medium temperature sources

(R Patowary, on-going)

Development of an electricity demand-supply forecasting tool and its application in Assam

(D Patowary, on-going)

Master degree research supervised/supervising

Thirty one M Tech research projects are supervised and Two M Tech research projects are on-going in the fields of (i)  energy management; (ii) bio-diesel; (iii) rural energy and (iv) application of GIS in energy management (v) solar thermal (vi) Bio-energy by-product utilization and (vii) CO2 emission

Publications

International Journals

National Journal

Proceedings of conferences

Research reports/Extension bulletin

Conferences, seminars and scientific engagement

• Discussion of Research and Staff exchanges under the joint British Council INSPIRE Round-4 project entitled Renewable Energy from animal wastes: Benefits to agriculture and society at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Bangladesh during during 15-22 April, 2014.
• Talk on Biomass and Bio-energy: an alternative to conventional energy sources in the One Week Short Term Course on Renewable in Science and Engineering (RISE-2014) organized by National Institute of Technology, Silchar during January 10-14, 2014
• Talk as an invited speaker on Renewable energy for North-East India: Assessment for resources and technologies in the National Seminar on Energy Science and Engineering held in the Tripura Institute of Technology during November 29-30, 2013.
• Promoting Bio-diesel through  prevailing socio-economic situations:  An agro-technological analysis in  rural India by DC Baruah in the Indo-Finnish Symposium on "Role of Catalysts on Production of Green fuel" on 1.2.2013, organized by Department of Energy, Tezpur University, Assam
• Geospatial Assessment of Biomass Resources by Baruah D C in the National seminar organized by Cogeneration Association of India held in Guwahati on 24 January, 2012
• Utilization of Agricultural Surplus Byproducts for Substitution of Fossil Energy in Agricultural Production System: an Analysis by Nath A J, Baruah D C presented in the 46^th Annual Convention of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (ISAE) and International Symposium on Grain Storage held at Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar during 27-29 February, 2012.
• Effect of Torrefaction and Additive on Quality of Biomass Residue Pellets: A Laboratory Based Investigation by Das D, Medhi H, Hiloidhari M, Baruah D C in the 46^th Annual Convention of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (ISAE) and International Symposium on Grain Storage held at Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar during 27-29 February, 2012.
• Wet Briquette Production from Locally Available Biomass by Baruah D C, Clifford M, Saikia M in the 46th Annual Convention of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (ISAE) and International Symposium on Grain Storage held at GovindBallabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar during 27-29 February, 2012.
• Preserving traditional knowledge for IPR  by D C Baruah in the Workshop on IPR jointly organized by NIT, Agartala, TIFAC (DST) and IPR Cell TU at NIT Agartala on 10 August, 2012
• Worked in the laboratory of the Department of Mechanical, Material and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK as Indian Distinguished Visiting Fellow during May-July 2010 and also visited:
  • European Bio-energy Research Institute (EBRI) located at Auston University, Birmingham, UK ; Bio-energy Research Centre at Sutton Bonington Campus, The University of Nottingham, UK ;
  • Bio-energy Research Laboratory, University of Glassgow, UK  and
  • Renewable Energy Laboratories, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland UK ;
• Attended International Workshop on Energy and Development: The Political Economy of Energy Choices at Holywell Park, University of Loughborough, UK organized by the Midlands Energy Graduate School
• Participated Indo-UK Renewable Energy net-working Conference at Birmingham, UK during November, 2010

Major Additional responsibilities

• Dean, Students Welfare, Tezpur University since 2013

• Fellow, The Institution of Engineers, India

• Coordinator, Tezpur University IPR Cell 2009-2013

• Head, of the Department (2010-2013)

• Convenor, Solar gadget Installation Committee in Tezpur University Campus 2011-2013

• Vice Chairman, Tezpur University Entrance Examination for two consecutive terms (2006 to 2008)

• Member of the conference's Programme Committee of International Symposium on Energy Engineering, Economics and Policy (EEEP 2012), organized in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Membership of professional societies

• Life Member, Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers, New Delhi, India 

• Life Member, Assam Science Society

Fellowship/Awards

• A research paper entitled: "Energy Use Pattern and Paddy Yield in Assam (India)", has been adjudged best paper at the International Symposium on Energy, Informatics and Cybernetics (EIC 2005), held in Orlando, USA, on July 10-13, 2005
• Received Indian Distinguished Visiting Fellowship offered by University of Nottingham, UK in 2010
• Received Commendation Medal offered by Indian Society of Agricultural Engineering, New Delhi in 2011 for outstanding contribution in the area of Energy in Agriculture

Contact

Department of Energy, Tezpur University, Tezpur 784028, Assam, India

Phone : +91-3712-275307(office); 273677(residence)

Mobile : 9435508563

Fax: +91-3712-267006

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