IITKGP

Hifjur Raheman

Professor

Agricultural and Food Engineering

+91-3222-283160

hifjur@agfe.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

  • Renewable energy operated agri-machinery
  • Rubber tracks for walking tractor
  • Unmanned agricultural machinery
  • Development of onion harvester
  • Electrostatic charging of liquid droplet
Improvement in tractive ability of power tillers, development of combination tillage implements for better power utilization, lesser fuel consumption with reduced labour requirement, improvement of mechanization of vegetable transplanting  using robotic arms, generation of green electricity using biofuels and use of non-conventional energy operated machinery. All these efforts are made to reduce fuel consumption, dependency on conventional fuel and labour requirement and to improve field capacity and  field efficiency. These research activities are supported by funding agencies such as DST, CSIR and ICAR.
  • An AI-based approach to improve the fuel properties and performance of nano graphene added straight Karanja oil prepared with optimal dispersion parameters Patidar S. K., Raheman H. By Biofuels Open acess 01-15 (2023)
  • Rubber tracked walking tractor Rasool S., Raheman H. By - (2017)
  • A system for sensing and indicating choking of boots of a seed drill Kumar R., Raheman H. By - (2017)

Co-Principal Investigator

  • National Initiative for Design Innovation MHRD

Ph. D. Students

Anshu Kumari

Area of Research: Development of Agricultural Machinery

Anup Behera

Area of Research: Renewable energy operated agricultural machinery

Gourav Sahu

Area of Research: Farm Machinery and Power

Gunasagar Sahu

Area of Research: Use of solar Energy for operating agricultural Machinery

Harsha Chandrakar

Area of Research: Development of AI based Models for estmation of soil compaction

Jadhav Swapnaja Kabirrao

Area of Research: Farm Machinery, Power and Energy

Manish Patel

Area of Research: Sensor development for agricultural machinery

Modak Shreyas Prakash

Area of Research: Development of harvesting equipment

Mohammad Ismail Moqbal

Area of Research: Farm technology for production improvement

Pranay Sarkar

Area of Research: Development of vegetable harvesting machinery

Rajesh Yadav

Area of Research: Traction improvement in walking tractorwer tillers

Sonu Kumar Patidar

Area of Research: Alternate fuel for diesel engine

Sunny Kumar Sharma

Area of Research: Unmanned agricultural machinery

Swagatika Priyadarshini Mohanty

Area of Research: Development of Agricultural Machinry

Vanknavath Shobhan Naik

Area of Research: Harvesting of cotton crops

Vinay Bansal

Area of Research: Combustion and emissions in IC engine