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Dr Sumit Roy, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Engineering
Room number: E268 Higginson
Fellow in the Durham Energy Institute
Contact Dr Sumit Roy (email at sumit.roy@durham.ac.uk)
Education
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Tripura, India
M.Tech in Thermal Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Tripura, India
B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Experience
Research
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sir Joseph Swan Centre for Energy Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon tyne, UK
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Engine Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Tripura, India
Teaching
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, BML Munjal University, Gurgaon, India.
Research Interests
- Alternative energy sources for transportation
- Combined heat and power systems
- Free piston energy generators
- Internal combustion engine and emissions
- Optimising advanced combustion
Selected Publications
Chapter in book
- Chakraborty, Amitav, Roy, Sumit & Banerjee, Rahul (2018). Performance Emission Characterization of a LPG-Diesel Dual Fuel Operation: A Gene Expression Programming Approach. In Harmony Search and Nature Inspired Optimization Algorithms. 741: 405.
Conference Paper
- Gupta, Archit, Agarwal, Siddhartha, Aggarwal, Gianeshwar & Roy, Sumit (2018), Evaluation of Emission and Performance Characteristics of Different Biodiesel Blends with Varying FIP on a Single Cylinder CI Engine, 2018 2nd IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES). 944.
- Nair, Manu J, Pahuja, Vaibhav, Suvesh, P. & Roy, Sumit (2018), Evaluation of Emission Characteristics of Green Diesel in A Single Cylinder CI Engine, 2018 2nd IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES). 1205.
Journal Article
- Roy, Sumit, Parsi, Pranay Kumar, Kotha, R. Sreeram, Barman, Sanmitra, Vinayak, Kalluri, Roy, Mili Mitra & Banerjee, Rahul (2020). Effective utilisation of waste cooking oil in a single-cylinder diesel engine using alumina nanoparticles. Sustainable Energy & Fuels
- Kakati, Dipankar, Roy, Sumit & Banerjee, Rahul (2019). Development of an artificial neural network based virtual sensing platform for the simultaneous prediction of emission-performance-stability parameters of a diesel engine operating in dual fuel mode with port injected methanol. Energy Conversion and Management 184: 488.
- Roberts, John, Chuahy, Flavio D.F., Kokjohn, Sage L. & Roy, Sumit (2019). Isolation of the parametric effects of pre-blended fuel on low load gasoline compression ignition (GCI). Fuel 237: 522.
- Jia, Boru, Smallbone, Andrew, Mikalsen, Rikard, Shivaprasad, K. V., Roy, Sumit & Roskilly, Anthony Paul (2019). Performance Analysis of a Flexi-Fuel Turbine-Combined Free-Piston Engine Generator. ENERGIES 12(14): 2657.
- Chakraborty, Amitav, Roy, Sumit & Banerjee, Rahul (2018). Characterization of performance-emission indices of a diesel engine using ANFIS operating in dual-fuel mode with LPG. Heat and Mass Transfer 54(9): 2725.
- Roy, Sumit & Banerjee, Rahul (2018). Multi-objective optimization of the performance-emission trade-off characteristics of a CRDI coupled CNG diesel dual-fuel operation: A GEP meta-model assisted MOGA endeavour. Fuel 211: 891.
- Banerjee, Rahul, Mikulski, Maciej, Chakraborty, Amitav, Roy, Sumit & Bose, Probir K. (2017). ANN meta-model assisted MOPSO application in an EPA-Tier 4 constrained emission-performance trade-off calibration problem of a hydrogen-diesel-EGR dual fuel operation. Fuel 208: 746.
- Chakraborty, Amitav, Roy, Sumit & Banerjee, Rahul (2016). An experimental based ANN approach in mapping performance-emission characteristics of a diesel engine operating in dual-fuel mode with LPG. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 28: 15.
- Banerjee, Rahul, Debbarma, Bishop, Roy, Sumit, Chakraborti, Prasun & Bose, Probir Kumar (2016). An experimental investigation on the potential of hydrogen–biohol synergy in the performance-emission trade-off paradigm of a diesel engine. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 41(5): 3712.
- Deb, Madhujit, Majumder, Pinki, Majumder, Arindam, Roy, Sumit & Banerjee, Rahul (2016). Application of artificial intelligence (AI) in characterization of the performance–emission profile of a single cylinder CI engine operating with hydrogen in dual fuel mode: An ANN approach with fuzzy-logic based topology optimization. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 41(32): 14330.
- Roy, S., Das, A. K. & Banerjee, R. (2016). Grey-Fuzzy Taguchi approach for multi-objective optimization of performance and emission parameters of a single cylinder crdi engine coupled with EGR. International Journal of Automotive Technology 17(1): 1.
- Roy, Sumit, Das, Ajoy Kumar, Bhadouria, Vivek Singh, Mallik, Santi Ranjan, Banerjee, Rahul & Bose, Probir Kumar (2015). Adaptive-neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) based prediction of performance and emission parameters of a CRDI assisted diesel engine under CNG dual-fuel operation. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 27: 274.
- Roy, Sumit, Ghosh, Ashmita, Das, Ajoy Kumar & Banerjee, Rahul (2015). Development and validation of a GEP model to predict the performance and exhaust emission parameters of a CRDI assisted single cylinder diesel engine coupled with EGR. Applied Energy 140: 52.
- Banerjee, Rahul, Roy, Sumit & Bose, Probir Kumar (2015). Hydrogen-EGR synergy as a promising pathway to meet the PM–NOx–BSFC trade-off contingencies of the diesel engine: A comprehensive review. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 40(37): 12824.
- Roy, Sumit, Ghosh, Ashmita, Das, Ajoy Kumar & Banerjee, Rahul (2014). A comparative study of GEP and an ANN strategy to model engine performance and emission characteristics of a CRDI assisted single cylinder diesel engine under CNG dual-fuel operation. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 21: 814.
- Roy, Sumit, Das, Ajoy Kumar, Banerjee, Rahul & Bose, Probir Kumar (2014). A TMI based CNG dual-fuel approach to address the soot–NOx–BSFC trade-off characteristics of a CRDI assisted diesel engine – an EPA perspective. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 20: 221.
- Roy, Sumit, Das, Ajoy Kumar, Bose, Probir Kumar & Banerjee, Rahul (2014). ANN metamodel assisted Particle Swarm Optimization of the performance-emission trade-off characteristics of a single cylinder CRDI engine under CNG dual-fuel operation. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 21: 1156.
- Roy, Sumit, Das, Ajoy Kumar & Banerjee, Rahul (2014). Application of Grey–Taguchi based multi-objective optimization strategy to calibrate the PM–NHC–BSFC trade-off characteristics of a CRDI assisted CNG dual-fuel engine. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 21: 524.
- Roy, Sumit, Banerjee, Rahul, Das, Ajoy Kumar & Bose, Probir Kumar (2014). Development of an ANN based system identification tool to estimate the performance-emission characteristics of a CRDI assisted CNG dual fuel diesel engine. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 21: 147.
- Roy, Sumit, Banerjee, Rahul & Bose, Probir Kumar (2014). Performance and exhaust emissions prediction of a CRDI assisted single cylinder diesel engine coupled with EGR using artificial neural network. Applied Energy 119: 330.