National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତି ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ ରାଉରକେଲା

An Institute of National Importance

Faculty Profile

EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group
  • Transport Process and Kinetics, Product Development and Ingredients Innovation
Areas of Interest
  • Dairy Engineering and Technology, Food powders, Rheology of food, Development and standardization of the processes of traditional foods

Dibyakanta Seth Assistant Professor Grade-I

Food Process Engineering

sethd@nitrkl.ac.in

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PUBLICATIONS

2

SPONSORED PROJECTS

3

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Dibyakanta Seth

Assistant Professor Grade-I

Food Process Engineering

Room Number: FP-312

Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

2017

Ph.D.
Food Engineering and Technology
Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam

2005

M.Tech
Dairy and Food Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

2002

B.Tech
Agricultural Engineering
Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar

Teaching Experience
  • Food Process Engineering,  National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha,   12 Jun 2020 - Present
  • Food Engineering and Technology,  Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam,   01 Jul 2010 - 10 Jun 2020
  • Food Processing and Engineering,  Karunya University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu,   31 Jul 2009 - 18 Jun 2010
Post Doctoral Research Experience
  • Ultra shear technology (UST) treatment of dairy products,  Department of Food Science & Technology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA,   07 Jul 2021 - 06 Jul 2022
Industrial Experience
  • Technical Expert,  APICOL, Bhubaneswar, Odisha,   01 Aug 2006 - 30 Sep 2007
  • Quality control Engineer,  Prithwiraj Dairy Pvt. Ltd., Cuttack, Odisha,   01 Jul 2005 - 31 Jul 2006

A novel clean label technological intervention in increasing the yield and functionally of weaver ant egg protein and its value addition Science & Engineering Research Board(SERB)
  • Principal Investigator
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  • Running   Sponsored
Waste to Wealth - Sustainable and Innovative Organic Farming Techniques especially for Women Farmers of the Peripheral Areas of RSP. SAIL,RSP
  • Co-Investigator
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  • Running   Sponsored

Total Publications: 32

D. Seth, K. K. Dash, H. N. Mishra, and S. C. Deka,"Thermodynamics of sorption isotherms and storage stability of spray dried sweetened yoghurt powder", Journal of Food Science and Technology, vol.55, no.10, pp.4139--4147, Springer nature, July 2018, 10.1007/s13197-018-3340-6       Article

D. Seth, H. N. Mishra, and S. C. Deka,"Effect of hydrocolloids on the physico-chemical and rheological properties of reconstituted sweetened yoghurt powder", Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture}, vol.98, no.5, pp.1696 -1702, Wiley, March 2018, 10.1002/jsfa.8641       Article

N. Barooah, P. Das, M. S. Barooah, D. Seth, and P. Dutta,"Storage studies on spray dried ripe banana powder produced by response surface methodology", International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, vol.7, no.6, pp.1922-1933, Excellent Publishers, June 2018, 10.20546/ijcmas.2018.706.228       Article

P. Mishra, A. Brahma, and D. Seth,"Physicochemical, functionality and storage stability of hog plum (spondia pinnata) juice powder produced by spray drying", Journal of Food Science and Technology, vol.54, no.5, pp.1052-1061, Springer, February 2017, 10.1007/s13197-017-2531-x       Article

D. Seth, H. N. Mishra, and S. C. Deka,"Functional and reconstitution properties of spray dried sweetened yoghurt powder as influenced by processing conditions", International Journal of Food Properties, vol.20, no.7, pp.1603–1611, Taylor & Francis 2017, 10.1080/10942912.2016.1214965       Article

  • FP3501 : Dairy Process Engineering {Theory}
  • FP4206 : Emerging Technologies in Food Processing {Theory}
  • FP4210 : Food Business Management and Entrepreneurship Development {Theory}
  • FP6272 : Advanced Food Engineering Laboratory {Practical}

Ph.D. Students [3]
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A MECHANICAL PEELER CUM DECORER AND VALORISATION OF KADAMB (Neolamarckia cadamba) FRUIT
Tarak Chandra Panda
Enrolled: Jan 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
Food Processing Technology
Vignesh V
Enrolled: Jul 2022
Continuing
Supervisor
Food Process Engineering and Technology
Jishu Raj Chetia
Enrolled: Jul 2023
Continuing
Supervisor

Awards And Honours
  • Fulbright Post-doctoral Fellowship,   2020
  • Young Educator Award in International Conference on Food Properties held at Sharjah, UAE during 22-24 January, 2018,   2018
  • Young Scientist ICFP 2016 Award in the International Conference on Food Properties held at Bangkok during May 31 – June 2, 2016,   2016
Memberships / Fellowships
  • Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Premier Member,   2022
  • American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE),   2022
  • IEEE,   2022
  • Life member of Association of Food Scientists and Technologists, India,   2019
  • Hon. Secretary, AFST(I), Tezpur Chapter,   2019
  • Full member of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineering,   2015