Specialisation:

Heat Transfer-Compact Heat Exchangers; Aircraft Environmental Control Systems, Boiling and Condensation

Major Professional Contributions:

a) Design & Development of Environmental Control Systems (ECS) and LCA (Tejas) Aircraft
b) Design & Development of Compact Heat Exchangers (CHEs) for Tejas: ADA’s most successful indigenous project under my leadership is design and flight qualification of CHEs. 15 types of Heat Exchangers are successfully obtained type approval.
c) Design & Development of ECS Valves and other components

Consultancy Areas:

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Projects Under Progress:

1) Consultancy project with M/s Rangsons Aerospace Limited, Bangalore for Thermal Projects.

2) Project on conceptual Design of Environmental Control System for Unmanned aircraft program from ADE, Bangalore. 

Projects Handled:

a)      Design & Development of Cold Air Unit, HAL, Lucknow,

                                                                                 - Cost in 1995: Rs. 160,00000

b)      Design & Development of Valves, HAL, Lucknow, - Cost in 1995: Rs. 150,00000

c)      ECS test rig at GTRE, Bangalore                   – Cost in 1996 :    Rs. 467,00000

d)      Heat Exchanger Qualification test rig at GTRE - Cost in 2001 : Rs. 700,00000

e)      SPS Heat Exchanger test rigs at CMTI          - Cost in 1999 :     Rs. 187,00000

f)       Design & Development of ECS Heat Exchangers, BHPV- Cost in 1996: 

                                                                                                     Rs. 500,00000

g)      Design & Development of SPS Heat Exchangers, BHPV- Cost in 1996: 

                                                                                                     Rs. 250,00000

h)      Establishment of Fin making machine at BHPV- Cost in 2001: 

                                                                                                     Rs. 700,00000

i)       Heat Exchanger Acceptance Test rigs at BHPV- Cost in 1997 : Rs. 350,00000

j)       Heat Exchanger core Single Blow Transient test rig at GTRE – Rs. 25,00000

k)      Jet Pump and Heat Exchanger test rigs at NAL - Cost in 1994  -  Rs. 40,00000

l)       Experimental Evaluation of Boiling and Condensation parameters for Wavy and Serrated fins at NAL-                                       Cost in 2018       - Rs. 130,00000

m)   Heat Exchangers and ECS items performance test rigs at NAL

                                                                                                       - Cost in 2017: Rs. 120,00000

                  n) Design and development of Cabin Shut Off Valve (SOV) for ECS of LCA at

                       HAL, Lucknow                                                            -cost in 2018   Rs. 1,92,00000

o)      Design and development of Temperature Control Valve (TCV) for ECS of LCA at

              HAL, Lucknow                                                         cost in 2018     Rs. 1,89,00000

p)      Design and development of Pre-cooler and Primary Heat Exchanger at BHEL, Visakhapatnam for LCA                                             cost in 2016     Rs. 4,90,00000 

Sector Associated With:

R&D Sectors: 

ADA, Bangalore

ADE, Bangalore

GTRE, Bangalore

NAL, Bangalore

Rangsons Aerospace Private limited

R&D, BHEL Vizag,

NIOT, Chennai,

DST, Delhi

Educational Institutions:

BITS, Pilani

PES University Bangalore

Dyananda Sagar University, Bangalore

IISc, Bangalore

Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany

University of South Africa, Johannesburg 

Sectors Interested to Offer Service:

Educational / Academic institutions, R&D Organizations, Government (including funding agencies)

Professional Experience

Keywords

Environmental Control System, Thermal Engineering/Heat Transfer, Compact Heat Exchangers, Boiling and Condensation .