Assistant Professor (OG)
Area of Specialization:
- Thermal
Research Interests:
- Renewable Energy
Journal Publications:
- Boiler Blow down Heat Recovery-IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (IOSR-JMCE): e-ISSN: 2278-1684, p-ISSN: 2320-334X, Volume 11, Issue 4 Ver. I (Jul- Aug. 2014), PP 00-00
Working Papers:
- Design and Experimental Investigations on Solar Integrated Collector with PCM
Academic Experience:
- 7 Years 6 months
Conferences/Seminars/Workshops Attended:
- Presented paper “Performance Enhancement of Dual Mode Solar Energy Drier” at “AIMS’ National conference 2015” by C.Abdul Hakeem college of Engineering and Technology (Anna University Affiliated)
- Workshop on Assessment Curriculum syllabus Development-Autonomous organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saveetha Engineering College at ECR
- One Day National Workshop on Economics of Power Generation Technologies organized by Department of Thermal and Energy Engineering, VIT Vellore
Achievements and Awards:
- University Rank 10th in UG
- University Rank 11th in PG
Memberships:
- IAENG
Papers Published:
- Prakash R, Kamatchi R, Selvam R, Devanathan C. Turbulent natural convection heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids. InJournal of Physics: Conference Series 2023 May 1 (Vol. 2484, No. 1, p. 012035). IOP Publishing.
- Prakash R, Kamatchi R. Design, fabrication and investigations of natural convection step serrated fin plate integrated trough array low-cost collector for solar air heating: An application to agricultural crop drying. Solar Energy. 2023 Apr 1;254:42-53.
- Selvam R, Babu Loganathan G, Thomas J, Prakash R, Karthikeyan T, Maridurai T. Analysis of a Cashew Shell and Fly Ash Rich Brake Liner Composite Material. Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing. 2022;19(3):569-77.
Patent:
- Patent titiled “TROUGH STEP SERRATED FIN SOLAR DRYER” bearing Design Registration number: 378449-001 Dated:02/02/2023, Issued on 25/01/2024.
- Patent titled “Cashew shell fly ash rich brake liner” bearing application number 202141062320 A dated 31/12/2021, Published 04/02/2022
Membership: IAENG, SAE
Conference /Seminar Attended:
- Presented paper titled “Design of pressure vessel using friction stir welding in ICIMED conference 2023, at Saveetha Engineering college.
- Presented paper titled “Turbulent Natural convection Heat transfer Enhancement of Nanofluids in ICMMT conference 2022, at Sushila Devi Bansal college of Technology, Indore.
FDP Attended:
- FDP (one week) in Machine learning for Mechanical Engineers from CVR college of Engineering, Dec 2023.
- FDP (online 5 days) in Recent Innovations and Development in Energy technologies (RIDET), Jan 2022. From Velammal Engineering college association with IIC, IEDC.
- FDP (virtual 7 days) on Manufacturing Processes SAEINDIA & SAIRAM Engineering College, Aug 2021.
- FDP (online 7days) on Unconventional Machining Process SAE&ISTE sponsored REC July-Aug 2021.
- FDP (online 5 days) on Inculcating Universal Human value in Technical Education by AICTE July 2021
- FDP on Introduction to soft computing REC June 2020.
- FDP on Applications of Thermal Engineering, Kings Engineering college, June 2020.
- FDP on online Teaching Learning processes using ICT tools for Education 4.0 SVPCET Nagpur June2020.
- FDP101X (IIT Bombay) April 2018.
- FDP in Engineering Mechanics (SEC) Dec2017.
- FDP in Engineering graphics (SEC) Aug2017.
- FDP in Engineering Mechanics (REC-AU) Jan 2016.
- FDP workshop Engineering Graphics (SEC-AU) Aug 2015.
MOOC Courses:[/alert]
- MATLAB Fundamentals from Mathwork Inc Dec2022
- Programming for everybody (Getting started with python) from Coursera, Jul 2022
- “Solar energy” from DelftX, edX.org Sept 2021
- Data Visualization with Power BI from Great Learning sept 2023.
- Fusion 360 from Autodesk Mar 2022
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