Dr. BK. Sanfui
Ceramic Technology
Assistant Professor of Ceramics
Email: barunksanfui@gcect.ac.in
Dr. BK. Sanfui, Assistant Professor of Ceramic Technology, did his B.Sc. (Honours in Chemistry), B.Tech., M.Tech. (J.U) & Ph.D. (Tech.) from the University of Calcutta. He has also completed his DITA Course. He has been teaching Ceramic Raw Materials, Refractories, Processing of Ceramics, Fundamental of Metallurgy, Oxide Ceramics, Refractories for Ferrous Industries, Design of Furnaces and Kilns, Refractory Lab, Chemical Analysis Lab, Fabrication and Testing of Ceramic Products Lab etc. His areas of research are in the field of Waste management, Ceramic/polymer membranes, Nano ceramic/polymer composites, CNT, Rheological behaviour of clay, Abrasion resistant ceramics, Refractories and High temperature oxide/non-oxide composites. He has successfully completed ten (10) numbers of projects of value more than 4 crores and currently is investigating a number of sponsored research projects primarily funded by DST, SERB-DST, IREL, Govt. of India etc. In addition, he is also actively pursuing research work in collaboration with IITG, CSIR-CG&CRI, C.U, J.U and other reputed Institutions. He has published thirty-nine (39) numbers of publications in reputed national, international journals and conferences. He has successfully applied four (04) numbers of Indian patents. He is actively supervising four (04) numbers of research scholars for their Ph.D degree. He has also successfully supervised sixty-one (61) numbers of B.Tech. and eight (08) numbers of M.Tech. projects. He is life member of different learned societies like The Indian science congress association, The Indian chemical society, The Indian ceramic society etc. Apart from his normal academic work, he is also actively involved with other administrative works of the institute.