Dr. Pradyumna Kumar Choudhury
Assistant Professor
Qualification: BE (Electrical Engg.), MTech. (Energy Technology), PhD. (Energy)
Area of Specialization/ Research:
- Solar Energy
- Hybrid Energy System
- Energy Conservation and management
- Instrumentation & Control
- Grid Integrated System
Research Publications (Recent Publications):
- Phibarisha Sohtun, Deepjyoti Deb, Neelam Bora, Rupam Goswami, Pradyumna Kumar Choudhury, Rajender Boddula, Prakash Kumar Sarangi, Rupam Kataki, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Agriculture biomass‑derived carbon materials for their application in sustainable energy storage, Carbon Letters, Publisher: Springer, March, 2025, Online ISSN 2233-4998, Print ISSN 1976-4251. DOI: 10.1007/s42823-025-00884-9
- Harjyoti Das, Pooja Dutta, Partha Pratim Dutta, Pradyumna Kumar Choudhury, Experimental analysis of a solar air heater using waste mild steel chips as a sensible
heat storage material, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Publisher: Springer, October 2024, Electronic ISSN 1614-7499. DOI: 10.1007/S11356-024
35415-Y
- Pradyumna Kumar Choudhury and Debendra Chandra Baruah, Microcontroller-based integrated data logging system for solar air heater performance assessment,
Energy Sources, Part A : Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 46(1):11435-11451, 2024. Publisher: Taylor & Francis,
Print ISSN: 1556-7036, Online ISSN: 1556-7230. DOI: 10.1080/15567036.2024.2389221
- Dutta, P. , Dutta, P. P., Kalita, P., Goswami, P. and Choudhury, P. K.,
Energy analysis of a mixed-mode corrugated aluminium alloy (AlMn1Cu) plate solar air heater,
Materials Today: Proceedings, 47(11):3352-3357, 2021. Publisher: Elsevier,
ISSN: 2214-7853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.07.156
- Pradyumna Kumar Choudhury and Debendra Chandra Baruah, Experimental
investigation of a tool for assessing solar air heater (SAH) performance, Alternative
Energy and Distributed Generation, 1(2):45-59, 2019, Publisher: Association of Energy
Engineers (AEE), Atlanta, ISSN: 2643-6973 (print), 2643-6981 (online).
Papers in Conference Proceedings:
- Achyutish Borgohain and Pradyumna Kumar Choudhury, Role of Portable Charger in Electric Vehicle,
Advances in Science and Technology, ISSN: 1662-0356, Vol. 130, pp 121-128, 2023, Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Switzerland, doi:10.4028/p-5UFf4x.
Third International Conference on Future Technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design & Energy (iCoftMADE 2022), 14-16 December, 2022, National institute of Technology, Puducherry
- Jitumoni Swargiary and Pradyumna Kumar Choudhury, Design and Simulation of Grid Connected Inverters for Solar Photovoltaic Applications,
Advances in Science and Technology, ISSN: 1662-0356, Vol. 130, pp 165-172, 2023, Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Switzerland, doi:10.4028/p-GN763x.
Third International Conference on Future Technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design & Energy (iCoftMADE 2022), 14-16 December, 2022, National institute of Technology, Puducherry
- Dhritika Saikia and Pradyumna Kumar Choudhury, A case study on micro grid with
flywheel energy storage system using Homer software, Journal of Energy Research and
Environmental Technology (JERET), 6(30):198-202, 2019, Publisher: Krishi Sanskriti
Publications, New Delhi, India, p-ISSN: 2394-1561.
- T. Gogoi and P. K. Choudhury. Role of Nanomaterials in super capacitor application.
International conference on Energy Options for Tomorrow: Technology to Sustainability
(ICEOT 2017), 17- 19 April, 2017, The Neotia University, Kolkata
- Washima Tasnin and Pradyumna Kumar Choudhury, Design and development of an
automatic solar water heater controller, 2015 International Conference on Energy, Power
and Environment: Towards Sustainable Growth (ICEPE), 12-13 June 2015, NIT
Shillong, Meghalaya, 2015, pp. 1-6, Publisher: IEEE; DOI: 10.1109/
EPETSG.2015.7510073; Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4673-6503-1; Print on Demand (PoD)
ISBN: 978-1-4673-6504-8.
Other Publications (Books/ Book Chapters, etc.):
Book Chapters:
- Neonjyoti Bordoloi, Rumi Narzari, Pradyumna K. Choudhury, Rupam Kataki,
Bioconversion of Food Waste into Biogas. In: Inamuddin & A. Khan (eds.), Sustainable
Bioconversion of Waste to Value Added Products, Advances in Science, Technology &
Innovation, pp 81-94, 2021, Publisher: Springer, ISSN 2522-8714, 2522-8722 (electronic),
ISBN 978-3-030-61836-0, 978-3-030-61837-7 (eBook). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61837-7_5
- Bhaskar Ranjan Tamuli and Pradyumna Kumar Choudhury, Comparative performance
assessment of a solar hybrid dryer with traditional drying techniques. In: Singh, S. and
Ramadesigan (eds.), Advances in Energy Research, Vol. 2, pp 351- 260, Springer, 2020.
- P.K. Choudhury, R.C. Nath, K.K. Sasi, and T.B. Isha, Energy Conservation in
Ventilation Fans. In: Pandel, U., Poonia, M.P. (eds.) Energy Technologies for Sustainable
Development, Prime Publishing House, Ghaziabad, U.P., India, pp. 94-96, 2003.
Research Projects:
- Flywheel energy storage systems for roof top photovoltaic systems (Rs. 3.00 Lacs);Funding agency : ASTU,2019-21 (Co PI)
- Development of Test setup for solar thermal collector with air as working fluid and design a microcontroller based mechanism for controlling the collector output (Rs. 1.25 Lacs); Funding agency : ASTEC,2014-17
Patent/ Consultancy/ Innovations, etc.:
- Patent:
Granted - 1 (India), Patent No: 325837 dtd. 26/11/2019, Patent Application NO. 20/KOL/2011; Title:Digital occupancy meter for commercial passenger vehicle.
Awards/ Honours, etc.:
- Best Poster Award:
Choudhury P. K., Tamuli B. R., Gogoi T., Baruah G. and Baruah
D.C. Development of a multi-point temperature measurement system for low temperature
application. In: International Conference on Energy Options for Tomorrow: Technology
to Sustainability (ICEOT 2017), 17-19 April 2017, Kolkata, India.