Dr. Surendhar A : TKM IT

Dr. Surendhar A Head of the Department Food Technology surendhara@tkmit.ac.in Chandra Bhavan, Maranadu P.O, Paruthumpara, Ezhukone, Kollam-691505, Kerala, India

Educational Qualification & Specialization

UG – B.Tech- Food Process Engineering (Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore)
PG – M.Tech- Chemical Engineering (Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore)
Ph.D – Food Engineering (National Institute of Technology, Calicut)

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Food Technology, TKM Institute of Technology, Kollam, Kerala, India ( From 17^th April 2023)
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Technology, TKM Institute of Technology, Kollam, Kerala, India (August 2019 to April 2023, 3 years 8 months)
Teaching Assistant cum Research scholar, Department of Chemical engineering, National Institute of Technology, Calicut (December 2013 to December 2019, 5 years)
Technical Officer (Production), Hat sun Agro Products Ltd (Dairy Division), (May 2010 to September 2011, 1 year, 5 months)

Duties & Responsibilities

Administrative responsibilities as HOD, Department of Food Technology
Chairman, Department Quality Assurance Cell, Department of Food Technology
Member, Internal Quality Assurance Cell, TKM Institute of Technology
Chairman, Final Year Project Presentation, Department of Food Technology
Criteria 2 Coordinator (NBA), Department of Food Technology
Member, Discipline Committee, TKM Institute of Technology, Kollam
Member, Anti-Ragging Committee, TKM Institute of Technology, Kollam
Member, Research Council, TKM Institute of Technology, Kollam
Member, Kerala State Planning Board, SRG Projects –Specialization – Bakery, Beverages and Confectionary
Senior Faculty Advisor, 2022-2026 Batch students
Convener of training programs, workshops, seminars and conferences in food technology department

Membership in Professional Bodies

Associate member in IICHE- LAM-42681

Funded Projects

As a Principal investigator, received financial assistance for the student’s project from the Kerala State Council for Science and Technology for the project work titled “Development of antimicrobial packaging film incorporated with silver nanoparticles”.

Courses and Training Attended

Five days APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University sponsored FDP on “ Emerging Trends and Advances in Food Processing Technology” Conducted by the Department of Food Technology, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, kanjirappally from 23 to 28 January 2023.
Seven Days Workshop on “ Handling perishable agro/food produces- Equipment Handling, Analytical Techniques, Modeling and Scale-up Studies” held between 22 to 28 July 2022 Sponsored by Accelerate Vigyan, Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India, Organised and Conducted by Agro Processing and Technology Division, CSIR – National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvanathapuram.
Five days DST-SERB sponsored Karyashala, High-End International Workshop on “Technologies for Increasing the Shelf-Life of Perishable Foods”(Online Mode) organized by the Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, from 13th to 17th December, 2021.
DST SERB sponsored Five days Online Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on Electrochemical Technology for Environmental Treatment and Clean Energy Conversion - ECTCEC 2020 Organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut during 16th – 20th November 2020
“Online Faculty Development Programme on Novel Perspectives in Electrochemical Processes for Chemical and Environmental Engineering” sponsored by TEQIP-II, organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, from 12 to 17 October 2020.
“Two days TEQIP-III sponsored National webinar on Recent Trends in Non-Thermal Food Processing Technologies” organized by the Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, from September 20 to 21, 2020.
Five days National Webinar Series 2020 on “RECENT ADVANCES IN DAIRY PROCESS ENGINEERING” from24th August 2020 to 28th August 2020 organized by Department of Food Process Engineering, College of Food and Dairy Technology, Koduvalli in association with Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (India), Chennai Chapter.
“Faculty Development Program on Robotics, Automation and Hands on Training on Audrino"held at MES College of Engineering Kerala from 16th to 20th December 2019.
“Successfully completed the training in Manufacturing (Level 2) - Food Safety Supervisor” held on December 2019 at College Seminar Hall TKM Institute of Technology, Musaliar Hills, Karuvelil Kollam Kerala.
“Short-term training program on theory and applications of Adsorption processes – TAPP 2016,” during 27th June – 02nd July 2016, Organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Calicut, Kerala
“Faculty Development Program on Novel Separation Technologies - NST 2015,” during June 14-19, 2015, Organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Calicut, Kerala.
“Completed the one day course on: COMSOL Multiphysics Advanced Features” during February 6, 2015, organized by COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS at Chennai.
“One day workshop on current challenges in oil, gas and allied sectors” during March 22^nd, 2012, organized by the department of chemical engineering, Coimbatore institute of technology, Coimbator, Tamilnadu.
“TEQIP-II Sponsored National Workshop on Water, Air and Soil: Sampling and Analysis (WASSA-2014)” during March 11-12, 2014, organized by department of Civil engineering, NIT Calicut, Kerala.
“Completed the two month course on: Solid works” on August 14, 2008, in ARRIS CADD, Coimbatore.
“Completed the 32 hour course on: Programming in C” on December 13, 2007, in NIIT Academy.

Research Interest & Ongoing PhDs

Microwave assisted drying of agro products
Modeling and simulation of food processes
Food waste management and treatment studies
Studies on Microbial fuel cell System

Achievements

Acted as technical session chair for the stream “ Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology” on 7^th April 2023 in the 5^th International Conference on “ Recent Innovations in Science & Technology (RIST 2023)” conducted on 7^th & 8^th April 2023, organized by Holy Grace Academy of Engineering, Thrissur, Kerala, India in with ISET Research, India
Secured 1^st prize in paper presentation at Chemfest 2K23 on the topic “ Treatment of dairy wastewater using CNT-SPEEK as membrane in MFC” held on 28^thApril organized by Association of Chemical Engineers Students (ACES) at K.K. Wagh Institute of Engineering and Research, Nashik, Maharastra, India
Received MHRD fellowship for pursuing Ph. D at National Institute of Technology, Calicut
Secured best paper presentation award at National Symposium conducted by department of petrochemical engineering, Ramanathan college of Engineering, Erode, India.
Certificate of Merit, for securing highest mark in M.Tech Project work
Participated and secured various prizes in hockey game at school, district and university level sports and games.

Publications

Book Chapters

Jerold, C. Vigneshwaran, A. Surendhar, B.G. Prakash Kumar, and Velmurugan Sivasubramanian, Algal Biosorption of Heavy Metals, Environmental Sustainability Using Green Technologies, CRC Press, pg. 132-143.
D. Vidhyeswari, A. Surendhar, M. Jerold, S. Bhuvaneshwari, and Velmurugan Sivasubramanian, Microbial Fuel Cell Technology: A Sustainable Energy Producer from Wide Variety of Waste Sources, Environmental Sustainability Using Green Technologies, CRC Press, pg. 288-304.

International Journals

Anoopkumar, A.N., Aneesh, E.M., Sirohi, R., Tarafdar, A., Kuriakose, L.L., Surendhar, A., Madhavan, A., Kumar, V., Awasthi, M.K., Binod, P. and Sindhu, R., 2023. Bioactives from citrus food waste: types, extraction technologies and application. Journal of Food Science and Technology, pp.1-15. (IF: 3.117)
Arun, K.B., Madhavan, A., Anoopkumar, A.N., Surendhar, A., Kuriakose, L.L., Tiwari, A., Sirohi, R., Kuddus, M., Rebello, S., Awasthi, M.K. and Varjani, S., 2022. Integrated biorefinery development for pomegranate peel: Prospects for the production of fuel, chemicals and bioactive molecules. Bioresource Technology, p.127833. (IF: 11.889)
Vidhyeswari, D., Surendhar, A. and Bhuvaneshwari, S.S., 2022. General aspects and novel pems in microbial fuel cell technology: A review. Chemosphere, p.136454. (IF8.943)

National Journals

Gnanaprakasam, V.M. Sivakumar, A. Surendhar, M. Thirumarimurugan, and T. Kannadasan, Recent Strategy of Biodiesel Production from Waste Cooking Oil and Process Influencing Parameters: A Review, Journal of Energy, Volume 2013, Article ID 926392, 10 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/926392

International Conferences

A. Surendhar, S. Bhuvaneshwari, D. Vidhyeswari, Development of Composite Ceramic Membrane Using Activated Carbon from Pistachios Shell and its Performance Evaluation in Microbial Cell Application International conference on Energy and Environment (ICEE – 2022)
A. Surendhar, S. Bhuvaneshwari, D. Vidhyeswari, Development of eco-friendly ceramic membrane incorporated with montmorillonite and activated carbon for the enhancement of mfc performance in the 1st international conference on water, energy & environment [weecon 2021] conducted on 23rd & 24th december 2021, organized by iset research India in association with iei vietnam.
A. Surendhar, V. Sivasubramanian, D. Vidhyeswari, Drying kinetics, modeling, energy consumption and quality parameters of microwave dried turmeric slices. International conference on Thermal analysis and energy systems (ICTASE 2018) during April 12-13, 2018, organized by department of mechanical engineering, Hindustan college of engineering and technology, Coimbatore.
A. Surendhar, V. Sivasubramanian, D. Vidhyeswari, Identification of drying conditions for production of desiccated coconut shreds using combined microwave-hot air drying system: An optimization approach, First International conference on Energy and Environment: Global challenges (ICEE – 2018) during March 09-10, 2018, organized by Department of chemical Engineering, NIT Calicut, Kerala
A. Surendhar, V. Sivasubramanian, D. Vidhyeswari, Effect of drying methods on drying kinetics, modeling, energy consumption and quality of desiccated coconut. 3^rd International conference on Recent advancements in chemical, environmental& energy engineering (RACEEE), during February 15-16, 2018, organized by department of chemical engineering, SSN college of engineering, Chennai.
A. Surendhar, V. Sivasubramanian, D. Vidhyeswari, Drying characteristics, kinetics, energy consumption and quality of turmeric slices using different drying methods. International conference on Recent innovations in science and technology (RIST-2017) on March 25, 2017 organized by TRANSIST Online at John Plaza, Marthandam, India
A. Surendhar, V. Sivasubramanian, D. Vidhyeswari, Study on drying characteristics and color value of microwave-convective dried turmeric slices. International conference on memebrane technology and its applications (MEMSEP-2017) during February 21-23, 2017, organized by Department of chemical engineering, NIT- Trichy.

National Conferences

“National seminar on Biodiversity conservation: Status, Future and Way forward” during July 19-20, 2014, organized by department of biotechnology, K.S.Rangasamy college of technolohy, Tiruchencode, Tamilnadu.
“CSIR sponsored national seminar on Application of nanotechnology in environmental bioprocessing” during July 21^st, 2012 at Kongu Engineering College, Erode, TamilNadu.
“Oral presentation on review of Production of cellulose acetate from paddy hull, wheat straw, corn fibres in National level seminar” during July 30-31, 2008, organized by IICPT Thanjavur at Hotel Jayaram, Puducherry.
“Poster Presented on Extraction of bio-oil from cashew nut shell in State level symposium” during July 28, 2008, organized by Agricultural engineering college and research institute, TNAU, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.
“Poster Presented on Ohmic heating of egg in National level technical symposium” during February 21, 2008, organized by department of chemical engineering and food technology association, Kongu Engineering college, Erode, Tamilnadu.