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Overview

Ramkrishna Sen is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in India. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and materials science, with a specific focus on subfields such as biomedical engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, materials chemistry, molecular biology, and biomaterials.

Their work concentrates on several key research topics including:

  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction
  • Calcium carbonate crystallization and inhibition
  • Enzyme production and characterization
  • Biodiesel production and applications
  • Advanced photocatalysis techniques

Ramkrishna Sen has contributed to research published in several notable scientific venues. The frequent publication venues include:

  • New Biotechnology
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
  • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ramkrishna Sen are:

  • A comparative life cycle assessment of microalgae production by CO2 sequestration from flue gas in outdoor raceway ponds under batch and semi-continuous regime, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Enhanced biodegradation of total petroleum hydrocarbons by implementing a novel two-step bioaugmentation strategy using indigenous bacterial consortium, 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Synthesis and commercialization of bioplastics: Organic waste as a sustainable feedstock, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Strategic implementation of integrated bioaugmentation and biostimulation for efficient mitigation of petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants from terrestrial and aquatic environment, 2022, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Environmental impact analysis of oleaginous yeast based biodiesel and bio-crude production by life cycle assessment, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production

Frequent collaborators in Ramkrishna Sen's research include:

  • Chinmay Hazra
  • Karabi Das
  • Siddhartha Das
  • Debanjali Dey
  • Shamik Chowdhury

Best Publications

  • Towards commercial production of microbial surfactants

    Soumen Mukherjee;Palashpriya Das;Ramkrishna Sen

  • Biotechnology in petroleum recovery: The microbial EOR

    Ramkrishna Sen

  • Commercializing lignocellulosic bioethanol: technology bottlenecks and possible remedies

    Saumita Banerjee;Sandeep Mudliar;Ramkrishna Sen;Balendu Giri

  • Antimicrobial potential of a lipopeptide biosurfactant derived from a marine Bacillus circulans

    P. Das;S. Mukherjee;R. Sen

  • Lignocellulosic biorefinery as a model for sustainable development of biofuels and value added products

    Goldy De Bhowmick;Ajit K. Sarmah;Ramkrishna Sen

  • Enhancement of tensile strength of lignocellulosic jute fibers by alkali-steam treatment.

    Prosenjit Saha;Suvendu Manna;Sougata Roy Chowdhury;Ramkrishna Sen

  • Potential therapeutic applications of biosurfactants

    Eduardo J. Gudiña;Vivek Rangarajan;Ramkrishna Sen;Lígia R. Rodrigues

  • Response surface modeling and optimization to elucidate and analyze the effects of inoculum age and size on surfactin production

    Ramkrishna Sen;T. Swaminathan

  • Improved bioavailability and biodegradation of a model polyaromatic hydrocarbon by a biosurfactant producing bacterium of marine origin

    Palashpriya Das;Soumen Mukherjee;Ramkrishna Sen

  • Recent developments in microbial enhanced oil recovery

    Jay Patel;Subrata Borgohain;Mayank Kumar;Vivek Rangarajan

  • Antioxidant and free radical scavenging activities of an exopolysaccharide from a probiotic bacterium.

    Vidya Prabhakar Kodali;Ramkrishna Sen

  • Application of response-surface methodology to evaluate the optimum environmental conditions for the enhanced production of surfactin

    R. Sen;T. Swaminathan

  • Performance evaluation of microalgae for concomitant wastewater bioremediation, CO2 biofixation and lipid biosynthesis for biodiesel application

    Manoranjan Nayak;Ankush Karemore;Ramkrishna Sen

  • Response Surface Optimization of the Critical Media Components for the Production of Surfactin

    Ramkrishna Sen

  • Evaluation of wet air oxidation as a pretreatment strategy for bioethanol production from rice husk and process optimization

    Saumita Banerjee;Saumita Banerjee;Ramkrishna Sen;R.A. Pandey;Tapan Chakrabarti

  • Zero-waste algal biorefinery for bioenergy and biochar: A green leap towards achieving energy and environmental sustainability

    Goldy De Bhowmick;Ajit K. Sarmah;Ramkrishna Sen

  • Biosurfactant of marine origin exhibiting heavy metal remediation properties.

    Palashpriya Das;Soumen Mukherjee;Ramkrishna Sen

  • Genetic regulations of the biosynthesis of microbial surfactants: an overview.

    Palashpriya Das;Soumen Mukherjee;Ramkrishna Sen

  • Artificial neural network modeling and genetic algorithm based medium optimization for the improved production of marine biosurfactant.

    C. Sivapathasekaran;Soumen Mukherjee;Arja Ray;Ashish Gupta

  • Substrate dependent production of extracellular biosurfactant by a marine bacterium.

    Palashpriya Das;Soumen Mukherjee;Ramkrishna Sen

Frequent Co-Authors

Mahitosh Mandal
Mahitosh Mandal Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Ajit K. Sarmah
Ajit K. Sarmah University of Auckland
Dipak Rana
Dipak Rana University of Ottawa
Sirshendu De
Sirshendu De Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Bhim Charan Meikap
Bhim Charan Meikap Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Sandeep N. Mudliar
Sandeep N. Mudliar Central Food Technological Research Institute
Santanu Dhara
Santanu Dhara Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Ponisseril Somasundaran
Ponisseril Somasundaran Columbia University
Subir Biswas
Subir Biswas Michigan State University
Dibyendu Mondal
Dibyendu Mondal Jain University

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