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Dr. Hanumantharaju KN
Assistant Professor
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Faculty of Life and Allied Health Sciences
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Department of Food Technology
Dr. Hanumantharaju K N is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Technology, FLASH, and RUAS from 2020 and carries about 9 years of experience in the academic and research field. Before that, he has been an Assistant Professor at Post Harvest Engineering and technology Scheme, UAS Bangalore (2019−2020). He is keen on research in the areas of small processing machineries, food product development and herbal products.
Dr.Raju studied B.Tech (Agricultural Engineering-2009) and M.Tech (Processing and Food Engineering-2012) at University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore. He went to Tamil Nadu Agricultural University for his doctoral degree in Agricultural Process Engineering (2015−18) with Senior research fellowship award (2015).
Qualifications
- Ph.D. Agricultural Process Engineering
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 2018
- M.Tech. in Processing and Food Engineering
University of Agricultural Sciences –Bangalore, 2012
- B.Tech. in Agricultural Engineering
University of Agricultural Sciences – Bangalore, 2009
Experience
Total Years of Experience
10 Years
Academic Experience
9 Years
Industry Experience
1 Year
Training Experience
- 20 days training program on mango processing in Fairy food products Pvt. Ltd.
- Farm Machinery and Farm power in Central Southern Region for Farm Testing and Training Institute-Ananthpur.
- SUJAY Drip irrigations solutions for 20 days.
- Small food processing technologies
- Food Product development
- Renewable energy sources
- Farm machineries
- Medicinal plants
- Best M. Tech. thesis award - 2019 (IARDO)
- Young investigator award - 2018 (International conference held in Pune, Maharashtra organized by Scire Science organization)
- Best poster Award - 2017 (National seminar conducted by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University)
- Qualified ICAR-NET Exam - 2015 (Agricultural Process Engineering)
- ICAR-SRF Fellowship was awarded - 2015 (for pursuing Ph.D.)
Ph.D. Dissertation
- Development of Prototype Electrostatic Spray Coating Machine for Edible Coating of Fruits Using Natural Plant Extracts.
National Conference Papers
- Ramya.H.N, Hanumantharaju.K. N and Sridevi.S., Effect of Surrounding Atmosphere on Physico –Chemical Properties of Stored Jaggery Preparation in Mandya District. National Seminar on Recent Advances and Challenges In Sugarcane Research January 23 – 24th, 2014.
- Hanumantharaju. K. N, Mahadev.J and Praveen. P. An Overview of Biogas Production. Alternate Sources of Energy for Agriculture and Allied Purposes 28th And 29th March 2014.
International Conference Papers
- 107th Indian Science Congress (Jointly Organized by UAS, Bangalore and ISCA), Jan 3–7, 2020.
- International conference on the role of agricultural engineering towards global food security. Organized by The Institution of Engineers, India. 11-13th April 2019. Bangalore, India.
- National Conference on Food Technology (NCOFTECH-2012) (Jointly Organized by UAS, Bangalore and IIFPT, Thanjavur), Oct 5–6, 2012.
National Journal Papers
- Hanumantharaju. K. N, Thangavel. K, Amirtham. D and Rajamani. K., "Plant extract based edible coating solution and its properties," GREEN FARMING, 2018, 9(5).
- Hanumantharaju. K. N, Thangavel. K, Ganapathy. S and Manohar Jesudas, "Effect of starch on rheological properties of the formulated edible coating solution," Trends in Biosciences, 2018, 11(37), 3976–3980.
- Hanumantharaju. K.N, Venu. S.A, Lakshmi. R, Ramya. H.N and Sridevi. M.S., "Comparative Study on Different Methods of Threshing Finger Millet Earheads," GREEN FARMING, 2013, 4 (2): 217–220.
International Journal Papers
- Hanumantharaju. K.N, Thangavel. K, Amirtham. D and Rajamani. K, "Physical properties and optimization of biofilms prepared with corn starch and Justicia adhatoda leaf extract," Medicinal Plants – International Journal of Phytochemicals and Related Industries, 2019, 11(3).
- Hanumantharaju. K. N, Thangavel. K and Ganapathy. S., "Rheological and surface properties of edible coating solution prepared from vasa plant (Justicia adhatoda L.) leaf extract," Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 2020, 57(3).
- Hanumantharaju. K. N, Thangavel. K, Amirtham. D and Indurani C, "Physical and Antimicrobial Properties of Cissus quadrangularis Stem Extract Incorporated Edible Films," Indian Journal of Ecology, 2020, 47(2): 497–501.
- Hanumantharaju. K. N, Poornima. D.S and Ramya. H. N, "Development and Performance Evaluation of Whole Crop Finger Millet Thresher," Multi Logics in Sciences, 2019, 9(31).
- Poornima. D.S, Hanumantharaju. K. N, Sivashankar V, Suresh Kumar. K and Ramya. H. N., "Influence of moisture content and temperature on mechanical extraction of oil from watermelon seeds," Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 2019, 8(4): 275–279.
- Hanumantharaju. K. N, Vikas. L and Prasanna Kumar, "Comparison study of prototype thresher with different methods of threshing whole Crop finger millet," International Journal of Science, Environment and Technology, 2017, 6(1): 391–398.
Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers: Life member
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Institution of Engineers (India): Life member
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Society of Fisheries and Life Sciences, College of Fisheries): Life member
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Trends in Biosciences: Life member
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