Bidyut Baran Saha

Bidyut Baran Saha obtained his B.S. degree (with honors) and M.S. degree from Dhaka University of Bangladesh in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He worked as a Bose Research Fellow at the Bose Center for Advanced Study in Natural Sciences, Dhaka University, from 1991 to 1992. In 1993, he joined the Mechanical Systems Engineering (MSE) Department of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan, as an MEXT supported research student, and obtained the Ph.D. degree from the same university in 1997 in the field of refrigeration and air conditioning powered by nonconventional energy sources. Just after finishing his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Saha joined as an Assistant Professor the MSE Department of TUAT and was promoted as an Associate Professor in 2000. In 2001, he joined the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan, as an Associate Professor, and in 2006 he moved to the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences of Kyushu University. Professor Saha has published about 160 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. He has written 6 book chapters and holds 5 patents. His main research interests are in sorption (adsorption and absorption) cooling systems, heat transfer enhancement technologies, heat pumps, and energy efficiency assessment. Professor Saha is currently a member of ASME, JSME, JSRAE, and JSTP; a Life Member of BMS and JUAAB; and an Executive Member of HPTCJ Research Group on Low Temperature Heat Utilization. Saha has been awarded the JSRAE Best Paper Award in 1995; Outstanding Paper Awards in CSS6, South Korea, in 2004, and in CSS9, South Korea, in 2007. He has been an Editorial Board Member of Engineering Sciences Reports of Kyushu University, the Open Mechanical Engineering Journals (OMEJs), and the Open Thermodynamics Journal (OTherJ). He worked as the Coguest Editor for a special issue in Heat Transfer Engineering Journal.

Biography Updated on 2 April 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Isotherms and thermodynamics for the adsorption of n-butane on pitch based activated carbon
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 51, no. 7-8, pp. 1582–1589, 2008
  2. Study on a re-heat two-stage adsorption chiller – The influence of thermal capacitance ratio, overall thermal conductance ratio and adsorbent mass on system performance
    Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 1677–1685, 2007
  3. Study on an activated carbon fiber–ethanol adsorption chiller: Part I – system description and modelling
    International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 86–95, 2007
  4. Study on an activated carbon fiber–ethanol adsorption chiller: Part II – performance evaluation
    International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 96–102, 2007
  5. Isosteric heats of adsorption extracted from experiments of ethanol and HFC 134a on carbon based adsorbents
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 50, no. 5-6, pp. 902–907, 2007
  6. Specific heat capacity of a single component adsorbent-adsorbate system
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, no. 17, p. 171902, 2007
  7. Thin-Film Thermoelectric Cooler: Thermodynamic Modelling and its Temperature—entropy Flux Formulation
    Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, vol. 221, no. 1, pp. 33–46, 2007
  8. The Electro-Adsorption Chiller: Performance Rating of a Novel Miniaturized Cooling Cycle for Electronics Cooling
    Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 128, no. 9, p. 889, 2006
  9. Parametric study of a two-stage adsorption chiller using re-heat—The effect of overall thermal conductance and adsorbent mass on system performance
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 511–519, 2006
  10. Experimental investigation of activated carbon fibers/ethanol pairs for adsorption cooling system application
    Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 26, no. 8-9, pp. 859–865, 2006
  11. Experimental study on performance improvement of a four-bed adsorption chiller by using heat and mass recovery
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 49, no. 19-20, pp. 3343–3348, 2006
  12. A study on the kinetics of ethanol-activated carbon fiber: Theory and experiments
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 49, no. 17-18, pp. 3104–3110, 2006
  13. Thermodynamic modelling of a solid state thermoelectric cooling device: Temperature–entropy analysis
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 49, no. 19-20, pp. 3547–3554, 2006
  14. Study on adsorption refrigeration cycle utilizing activated carbon fibers. Part 1. Adsorption characteristics
    International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 305–314, 2006
  15. Study on adsorption refrigeration cycle utilizing activated carbon fibers. Part 2. Cycle performance evaluation
    International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 315–327, 2006
  16. Evaluation of minimum desorption temperatures of thermal compressors in adsorption refrigeration cycles
    International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 1175–1181, 2006
  17. Système à adsorption multiétagé à régénération cyclique, à partir de chaleur perdue
    International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 749–757, 2003
  18. Performance evaluation of a low-temperature waste heat driven multi-bed adsorption chiller
    International Journal of Multiphase Flow, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 1249–1263, 2003
  19. Refroidisseur à adsorption à régénérateur à plusieurs lits – amélioration de l'utilisation de la chaleur récupérée et réduction des variations de température de l'eau refroidie
    International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 124–136, 2001
  20. Experimental investigation of the silica gel–water adsorption isotherm characteristics
    Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 21, no. 16, pp. 1631–1642, 2001
  21. Heat exchanger design effect on the system performance of silica gel adsorption refrigeration systems
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 43, no. 24, pp. 4419–4431, 2000
  22. Modeling the performance of two-bed, sillica gel-water adsorption chillersModélisation de la performance des refroidisseurs à deux lits à adsorption utilisant le gel de silice/eau
    International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 194–204, 1999
  23. Thermodynamic analysis of absorption chillers: internal dissipation and process average temperature
    Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 671–682, 1998
  24. Silica gel water advanced adsorption refrigeration cycle
    Energy, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 437–447, 1997
  25. Computational analysis of an advanced adsorption-refrigeration cycle
    Energy, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 983–994, 1995