Specialisation:

Heat Transfer; Manufacturing Processes; Energy Systems

Major Professional Contributions:

• President, Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer (2018-present) • Vice President, Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer (2010-2013) • Member, International Advisory Committee of “Fast Forward with Solar Mission”, FFSM-2014 • Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technology • Member, Editorial Board, ASME Journal of Electronics Packaging • Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Energy, Heat and Mass Transfer • Convener, Sectional Committee III, INAE (2018- present); Member (2015-2017) • Member, Sectional Committee on Engineering and Technology, INSA (2017 – present) • Member, PAC, Mechanical and Civil engineering, Department of Science and Technology (DST), 2012 – present • Member, PAC, Solar energy Research Initiative (SERI), Department of Science and Technology (DST), 2012 - present • Member of Technical Advisory Group, Centre for Railway Research (CRR), IIT Kharagpur • Member of Technical Advisory Group, ARCI’s Centre for Solar Energy Materials • Member, Research Council, IIT Bhubaneshwar • Senior Research Advisor, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala • Member, International Scientific Committee, International Conferences on Semisolid Processing of Alloys and Composites, 2010 – present. • Member, International Scientific Committee, 19th Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems (SolarPACES) Conference, Las Vegas, September 2013. • Member, International Scientific Committee, International Symposium on Innovative Materials for Processes in Energy Systems 2013(IMPRES2013), Fukuoka, Japan • Member, International Scientific Committee, International Symposium on Innovative Materials for Processes in Energy Systems 2013(IMPRES2010), 29 November 2010 - 1 December 2010, Singapore • Organizing Chair, Indo-US Frontier of Engineering Symposium, Irvine, California, 2008

Consultancy Areas:

Sector Associated With:

Industry

Sectors Interested to Offer Service:

Educational / Academic institutions, R&D Organizations

Professional Experience

1978(July 14) : Joined as Senior Engineer ,BHEL R&D: Activities: Turbo-machine Design 1982(June 25):Promoted as Dy Manager, Activities: Devp of FEM based Flow Software 1985(June 25): Promoted as Manager, Activities: Devp of FEM /FVM based Flow Software 1989(June 25): Promoted as Senior Manager, Activities: Devp of Steam Turbine/Hydro Turbine Blades 1993(June 25): Promoted as Dy General Manager, Activities: Creation of CFD Group 1996(June 25):Promoted as Sr Dy General Manager, Activities: Design of Steam Turbine LP Modules & Kaplan Runners 1997(June 25): Promoted as Add General Manager, Activities: CFD group orientation to Furnace & HRSG modeling besides Turbines, Compressor & Pumps Design;became Fellow,INAE in Jan 2000 2000(June 25):Promoted as General Manager (Chief), Activities: (a)Creation of Centre of Excellence for CFD; (b)Total OEM design of 8 MW High Speed Impulse Steam Turbine and followed up to Fabrication, Assembly ,Benchmark testing and final application for compressor test drive run; (c)Redesign of de-rated Vacuum Ejection System of CFFP Furnace;(d)5 nos of US Patents on Blade design sealed 2008(March 24):Promoted as Group General Manager & Head for CorpR&D Division, Hyderabad, Became BHEL Management Committee Member 2008(Nov 6):Promoted as Executive Director & continued as Head for CorpR&D Division,Hyderabad, and BHEL Management Committee Member Since Nov 2009 till date holding post of Vice President(R&D) Activities involved: Design of steam flow paths and blading for more than 50 steam turbines of various ratings:300kw to 12 MW for various industrial applications. Training of design engineers for steam turbine design from fundamentals to software based. Development of various blading softwares to design and aerodynamically analyse and integrating with steam flow path software. Design of cylindrical, taper, taper & twisted blades with aerodynamic characterization such as loss-coefficient , exit angles, Mach number, solidity etc.

Keywords

STEAM TURBINE , BLADE, CFD.