Research Areas

Research competencies in Heat Power

Research Facilities

Core Facilities :

Battery & Solar Testing laboratory
Variable compression Diesel Engine Test Rig
Diesel Engine Test Rig
Mini Power Plant
Wind Tunnel
Weather station with 12 channel datalogger
- Wind resource analysis
- Design of renewable energy based systems
- Power generation forecasting and planning

Computational Facilities :

Research Grants Received :

Sr. No.	Name of the Investigator	Title of Research Project/Scheme	Funding agency	Duration	Amount Sanctioned, Rs
1	N.R. Deore	Experimental studies on propagation of premixed flame in diverging meso-scale channels	BCUD S.P. Pune University	2013-15	1,40,000
2	C.L. Ladekar	Experimental investigation for enhancing of latent heat energy storage using embedded heat pipe	BCUD S.P. Pune University	2013-15	1,90,000
3	U G Potdar	Experimental investigation on lifted spray flame	BCUD S.P. Pune University	2015-17	85,000
3	S.P. Salve	Design and development of low cost solar air dryer using phase change material	S.P. Pune University BCUD	2016-18	1,40,000
4	Anindita Roy	Installation of 25 kWp Rooftop Solar PV system	BCUD QIP Grants	2016-18	5,00,000
5	Anindita Roy	Development of Solar Passenger Vehicle	DassaultSystemes Foundation	2017-18	4,30,000

Research Publications :

Sr. No.	Content	2013-14	2014-2015	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19
1	Publication in International Journal	0	10	7	16	9	6
2	Publication In Conference	07	07	5	11	18	4
3	Total	07	17	12	27	27	10

Total Number of Publications till 2018-19 is 107

Sr.No	Name of Inventor	Patent /Application Number	Title of Patent
1	Ajinkya Wankhade	455/MUM/2015	Solar powered portable bucket air conditioner
2	Akash Gurudasani	3529/MUM/2015	Automated fuel cock of motercycle for antitheft of fuel
3	Ramesh Vishwakarma	3530/MUM/2015	Diesel-Ethanol soya oil blend as an alternative fuel
4	Siddharth Shandilya and Dr C L Ladekar	201621022091	Utilization of heat released during cooking with heat pipe embedded TES

Batch	Project Title	Name of Student	Guide Name
2014-2015	Investigation of performance of solar collectors	Anup Kumar G. Nandekar	Dr. N. R. Deore
	Finite volume time domain method for solution of 2D Maxwell’s equation	Birajdar Nilesh K	Dr. N. R. Deore
	Numerical Simulation & Analysis of HVAC Duct	Shivanand Doddaganiger	Dr. N. R. Deore
2015-2016	Heat flux estimation due to base heating of missiles at high altitudes.	Birendra Kumar Rajan	Dr. N. R. Deore
	Numerical Simulation of Uneven Heating of Missile Surface Travelling at Supersonic Speed.	Malokar Kishor Gajanan	Dr. N. R. Deore
	Aero acoustic Modelling of Radiator Fan.	Mohod Sumedha.	Prof. U. G. Potdar
	Shock wave Interaction In MHD Environment.	Mukharji Ved	Dr. N. R. Deore
2016-2017	CFD Analysis of Furnace secondary air.	Prathamesh Badadal	Dr.N.R.Deore
	Numerical simulation of elliptical fin heat sink	Sayali Kavitake	Dr. P A. Deshmukh
	CFD Analysis of flow through packed bed bunker	Kailas Muke	Dr. N. R. Deore
	Performance evaluation of plate heat exchanger	Ashish Patil	Prof. S.P. Salve
	Numerical simulation of combustion instabilities	Atul Patil	Dr. N. R. Deore.
	CFD simulation of viscous fan test rig	Nikita Patil	Dr. P.A. Deshmukh
	Simulation of indirect charge air cooler for analysing coolant boiling	Sunil Patil	Dr. P.A. Deshmukh
	Performance optimization of Heat pipe heat exchanger.	Mohit M. Taware	Dr. N. R. Deore

Batch	Project Title	Name of Student	Guide Name
2014-2015	Effect of co-flow condition on the performance of lifted spray flame	Ajinkya Manohar J	Prof. U. G. Potdar
	Biogas fuelled diesel dual fuel engine	Ansari Md Afzal	Prof. U. I. Shaikh
	Experimental study of liquid fuel spray characteristics and atomization under co-flow condition	Metange Nareshkumar G	Prof. U. G. Potdar
	'Conversion of natural aspirated engine to CRDI engine for improving BSFC, performance and base emissions	Parab Sakharam R	Dr. H. U. Tiwari
2015-2016	Development of Scrubber System for Cleaning Producer Gas and also Investigate of Producer Gas for Used In I.C.Engine.	Akash Gurudasani	Dr. Sanjay Lakade
2015-2016	Experimental study of lifted spray flame with different preheated co-flow condition.	Kapil S. Sawankar	Prof. U. G. Potdar
2016-2017	Investigation of characteristics of IC engine with producer gas as a fuel	Vijendra Lanjewar	Dr. S.S.Lakade

Batch	Project Title	Name of Student	Guide Name
2014-2015	Numerical investigation of flow over variable length wind turbine blade	Dhone Shruti G	Dr. Anindita Roy
	Study and Experimental Investigation of Solar dryer by using concentric collector with tracking mechanism	Sontakke Megha S	Prof. S. P. Salve
	Experimental analysis for performance enhancement of flat plate collector solar air dryer with thermal energy storage unit(pcm)	Virendra Vishnu B	Prof. S. P. Salve
2015-2016	Design and Optimization of Diesel PV Battery Hybrid System for Isolated Application.	Monika Barade	Dr. Anindita Roy
	Sizing & Optimization of Wind Turbine, PV Array and Battery hybrid system by incorporating resource uncertainty.	Ravindra P. Gonjare	Dr. Anindita Roy
	Design and optimization of solar dryer cabinet with thermal energy storage unit.	Vaibhav V. Pakhare	Prof. S. P. Salve
	Analytical and Experimental analysis of thermocline thermal energy storage tank.	Ramesh S. Vishwakarma	Dr. Anindita Roy
2016-2017	Design and weight minimization a small wind turbine blade for operation in low wind area.	Aarti More	Dr.Anindita Roy
	Design and development of 2kW wind PV battery hybrid system suitable for low wind speed area.	Bhushan. Patil	Dr. Anindita Roy
	Design of cooling system for photovoltaic panel to increase its electrical efficiency	Swapnil Rokade	Prof. C.L. Ladekar

Batch	Project Title	Name of Student	Guide Name
2014-2015	Design and development of air-PCM heat exchanger for free space Cooling according to local climatic conditions	Chavan Priyanka	Prof. U. I. Shaikh
	Design and development of downdraft gasifier to generate producer gas	Ingle Nikhil Ashok	Dr. S. S. Lakade
	Performance enhancement of solar heat pipe collector using nano fluid and PCM as a LTES	Pise Gargee Ashok	Prof. S. P. Salve
2015-2016	Experimental investigation for enhancement of thermal storage using optimized heat pipe	Siddharth Shandilya	Prof. C. L. Ladekar
2016-2017	Investigation of heat dissipation at bearing housing through the thermoelectric generator integrated with breaking system	Akash Dagade	Dr.Anindita Roy
	Thermal design of shell and tube heat exchanger	Priyanka Mahajan	Dr. P.A. Deshmukh
	Accelerated dehydration of grapes using hybrid technology	Parag P. Zade	Dr. S. S. Lakade.

Batch	Project Title	Name of Student	Guide Name
2014-2015	Design and development of indirect evaporative cooling system	Bedre Pallavi B.	Dr. H. U. Tiwari
	Design and Development of 1TR adsorption refrigeration system using waste heat of diesel generator.	Patil Piyush H	Dr. Anindita Roy & Dr. H. U. Tiwari
	Design and development of prototype of vapour absorption refrigeration system	Ware Dhanashree S	Dr. H. U. Tiwari
2015-2016	Vapour adsorption refrigeration system for space cooling.	Pramod S. Gunjarge	Dr. Harish U. Tiwari
2015-2016	Extraction of water from air using adsorption refrigeration system.	Ajinkya R. Wankhade	Dr. Harish U. Tiwari

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