Dr. Alfiya P V

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Name	Dr. Alfiya P V
Designation	Scientist
Discipline	Agricultural Structures and Process Engineering
Qualification	Ph.D (Agricultural Engineering)
Specialisation	Processing and Food Engineering
Contact	alfiya.pv@icar.gov.in
Areas of Interest	Conventional and novel methods of food drying, Spice processing, Design and development of post-harvest machineries for food processing
Research Experience	ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (October, 2016-April, 2022), ICAR-Indian Institute of Spices Research (April, 2022 and continuing)
Total publications	25

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Research Publications

Research Publications:

Alfiya PV, Jayashree E, Theertha K V. (2025). Design and development of infrared convective dryer for spices: 4E (energy, efficiency, exergy, and economic) analysis. Biomass Conv. Bioref. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-025-06535-3
Alfiya, P. V., Jayashree, E., & Theertha, K. V. (2025). Conventional sun drying and infrared convective drying of spices: A comparative evaluation on kinetics and quality. Solar Energy, 291, 113396.
Alfiya, P. V., & Jayashree, E. (2024). Solar Energy, 277, 112717. /doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2024.112717
Alfiya PV, Jayashree E, Anees K. Techno-economic, environmental impact and exergy analysisof microwave assisted drying of nutmeg mace. Environ Prog Sustainable Energy. 2025;44(2):e14550. doi:10.1002/ep.14550
P V Alfiya, S Murali, DS Aniesrani Delfiya and Manoj P Samuel. (2024). Design and development of biomass‑fueled convective dryer for marine products: energy, exergy, environmental, and economic (4E) analysis. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. doi.org/10.1007/s13399-024-06001-6
Alfiya, P. V., Rajesh, G. K., Murali, S., Delfiya, D. A., Samuel, M. P., & Prince, M. V., K P Sudheer (2023). Process optimization for drying of shrimp (Metapenaeus dobsoni) under hot air-assisted microwave drying technology using response surface methodology. Journal of Food Process Engineering.
Alfiya, P. V., Rajesh, G. K., Murali, S., Delfiya, D. A., Samuel, M. P., & Prince, M. V. (2022). Quality evaluation of solar and microwave dried shrimps–A comparative study on renewable and dielectric heating methods. Solar Energy, 246, 234-244.
Alfiya, P. V., Rajesh, G. K., Murali, S., Delfiya, D. A., Samuel, M. P., & Prince, M. V. (2022). Development and evaluation of hot air assisted microwave dryer for shrimp (Metapenaeus dobsoni). Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, e17112.
Alfiya, P. V., Murali, S., Delfiya, D. A., Sreelakshmi, K. R., Sivaraman, G. K., & Ninan, G. (2022). Kinetics, modelling and evaluation of Bombay duck (Harpodon nehereus) dried in solar-LPG hybrid dryer. Solar Energy, 242, 70-78.
Murali, S., Amulya, P. R., Alfiya, P. V., Delfiya, D. A., & Samuel, M. P. (2020). Design and performance evaluation of solar-LPG hybrid dryer for drying of shrimps. Renewable Energy, 147, 2417-2428.
Murali, S., Alfiya, P. V., Delfiya, D. A., Harikrishnan, S., Kunjulakshmi, S., & Samuel, M. P. (2022). Performance evaluation of PV powered solar tunnel dryer integrated with a mobile alert system for shrimp drying. Solar Energy, 240, 246-257.
Kunjulakshmi, S., Harikrishnan, S., Murali, S., Jeff Martin D'Silva., Binsi, P.K., Murugadas, V., Alfiya, P.V., Aniesrani Delfiya, D.S. and Manoj P. Samuel. (2020). Development of portable, non-destructive freshness indicative sensor for Indian Mackerel (Rastrelliger kanagurta) stored under ice. Journal of Food Engineering.
Murali, S., Sathish Kumar, K., Alfiya, P.V., Aniesrani Delfiya, D.S. and Manoj P. Samuel. (2019). Drying kinetics and quality characteristics of Indian mackerel (Rastrelliger kanagurta) in solar–electrical hybrid dryer. Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology. 28(5).

IP generated

Received Patent for the invention entitled ‘hybrid solar dryer for drying of agricultural commodities’ (Patent no.: 485252, Application no.: 202041042996).
Received Certificate of Design Registration for the invention entitled ‘Hot air assisted infrared dryer for spices’ (Design no.: 420100-001, Dated: 14/06/2024).
Received Certificate of Design Registration for the invention entitled ‘Solar Gasifier Hybrid Dryer’ (Design no.: 402040-001, Date: 13.12.2023).
Received Copyright Certificate for the innovation ‘Mobile alert system for dryer users’ (No.: SW – 13307/2020 dated 24.02.2020)
Received Certificate of Design Registration for the invention entitled ‘Hot-air assisted continuous infrared dryer’ (Design no.: 341136 - 001, Date: 20.03.2021).
Received Certificate of Design Registration for the invention entitled ‘Refrigerated Mobile Fish Vending Kiosk’ (Design no.: 319819- 004, Dated: 20.07.2019).

Awards

Awards:

Alfiya P V received Ph.D best thesis award during the 58^th ISAE Annual Convention and International Sympossium organized at Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidhyapeeth, Parbhani held on 12 – 14 November 2024.
Alfiya P V bagged first prize for poster presentation XVI Agricultural Science Congress and AS Expo, Transformation of Agri-food systems for achieving sustainable development goals. National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi and ICAR – Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, India under the theme horticulture-based transformation systems during 10-13 October 2023.
Alfiya P V bagged second prize for poster presentation at the National Conference on Spices, Aromatic and Medicinal Plants for Economic Prosperity and Ecological Sustainability (SAMPEPES-2023), ICAR- Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair- 744 105. Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India during 05 – 06 October 2023.