Courses Taught at NITK
B.Tech.: Production of Iron and Ferro Alloys, Production of Steel, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Processes, Extractive Metallurgy Lab
M. Tech.: Advances in Iron Making, Advances in Steel Making, Thermodynamics of Solids

Courses Taught at IIT Bhubaneswar
B.Tech.: Metallurgical Thermodynamics, Process Control and Instrumentation Lab

• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Vishnu Teja Mantripragada, Sabita Sarkar, Mathematical modeling of fluidized bed magnetizing roasting of iron ore fines, Steel Research International, 2400446, pp. 1-11., Vol. 96, No. 8, 2025.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.202400446
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, An experimental investigation of slugging phenomenon in 2D binary gas-solid tapered fluidized beds, Steel Research International, 2300757, pp. 1-11, Vol. 96, No. 4, 2025.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.202300757
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, A simplified bubble size relation compatible with the EMMS drag model for studying hydrodynamics in a 2D gas-solid tapered fluidized bed, Steel Research International, 2300703, pp. 1-12, Vol. 96, No. 4, 2025.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.202300703
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, A hybrid drag model for studying hydrodynamics in a 2D gas-solid tapered fluidized bed, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Vol-195, pp. 572-586, 2023.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2023.05.057
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, Experimental study of bubble behavior in a two-dimensional gas-solid tapered fluidized bed, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol-60, No. 34, pp. 12740-12751, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.1c01496

• Abhishek Sinha, Naman Gupta, Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Experimental investigation on the reduction of iron ore pellets using biochar as a reducing agent for sustainable ironmaking, 5th International Conference on Science and Technology of Ironmaking and Steelmaking (STIS 2025), IISc Bangalore, Bengaluru, India (December 2025).
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, Influence of Different Bubble Size Correlations on Hybrid Drag Model for Prediction of Bubble Behavior in a 2D Gas-Solid Tapered Fluidized Bed, 5th International Conference on Science and Technology of Ironmaking and Steelmaking (STIS 2025), IISc Bangalore, Bengaluru, India (December 2025).
• S. Tejas and Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Production of Aluminium Alloy Powders through the Gas-atomization Process: A Numerical Simulation Study, 13th International Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium Conference & Exhibition (IBAAS-IMMT-IIM 2025), CSIR-IMMT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India (October 2025).
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, Experimental investigation on the influence of particle size on bubble behavior in 2D gas-solid tapered fluidized beds using digital image analysis technique, International Conference on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Materials (IC4M-2025), CSIR-IMMT Bhubaneswar, India (January 2025).
• Hemant Kumar Bajaj, Girase Aditya Sanjaysing, Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Chinta Sankar Rao, Numerical simulation of microwave assisted catalytic pyrolysis of biomass for fuel production, 4th International Symposium on Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis (PyroAsia 2024), IIT Guwahati, India (November 2024).
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Shiba Narayan Sahu, R. Sankarasubramanian, Sabita Sarkar, Numerical simulation of close-coupled gas atomization for prediction of particle size and its thermal profile for nickel-based superalloy powders, 26th International Conference of the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), Daegu, Korea (August 2024).
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, An experimental study of slug behavior in 2D gas-solid tapered fluidized beds, 11th International Conference on Multiphase Flow (ICMF 2023), Kobe, Japan (April 2023).
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, Hydrodynamic study of 2D gas-solid tapered fluidized bed, 178th Iron and Steel Institute of Japan (ISIJ) Meeting, Okayama, Japan (September 2019).
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, An experimental study of bubble size distribution in a two-dimensional gas-solid tapered fluidized bed, Fluidization XVI, Guilin, China (May 2019).
• N. S. Randhawa, Manoj Kumar, L. K. Sahoo, Gulzar Hussain, D. C. Sau, Direct electrolytic refining of waste copper wire scraps and fabrication rejects for production of high purity copper powder, 19th International Conference on Nonferrous Metals (ICNFM 2015), Bhubaneswar, India (July 2015).

• S. Tejas, Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Numerical simulation of gas atomization process for production of Aluminium alloy powders, 1st National Conference on Climate Resilience and Environmentally Sustainable Technologies (NITK-CREST 2025), NITK Surathkal, Mangaluru, India (February 2025).
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, An experimental study of bubble dynamics in 2D gas-solid tapered fluidized beds using digital image analysis technique for Geldart A/B particles, Platinum Jubilee Conference on Perspectives in Materials Research, IISc Bangalore, Bangalore, India (December 2022).
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, An experimental study of slug behavior in 2D gas-solid tapered fluidized beds for Geldart D particles, Advances in Materials and Processing: Challenges and Opportunities (AMPCO’22), IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India (October 2022).
• Jayant Barode, Krishanu Kumar, M. Vishnu Teja, Lipak Sahoo, Manas Mukherjee, Lakshman Neelakantan, Sabita Sarkar, Fluidization of red mud fines in a reduction atmosphere: Recovery of Fe, Proceedings of International Conference on Innovations in Aluminium Technology (INALT 2020), pp. 1-4, NALCO, Angul, India, 2020.
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, Effect of secondary gas injection on the solids flow pattern in tapered fluidized bed: A CFD study, 55th National Metallurgists Day and 71st Annual Technical Meeting (NMD-ATM 2017), Indian Institute of Metals, Goa, India (November 2017).

Patents
• Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Sabita Sarkar, Jayant Barode, System and method for producing magnetite from red mud using two-stage reactors, Patent No. 410117, October 2022.
• Sabita Sarkar, Sreeram K. Kalpathy, Lipak Kumar Sahoo, A centrifugal atomization apparatus configured to form solid particles from molten material in inert atmosphere, Patent No. 600287, August 2026.

B.Tech. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from National Institute of Technology Srinagar, J and K

M.S. + Ph.D. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Assistant Professor (December 2023 – June 2026)
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, NITK Surathkal, Mangaluru-575025