Recent Advances in Manufacturing and Thermal Engineering

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials, Manufacturing and Thermal Engineering (RAMMTE 2022). It broadly covers the topics of manufacturing and thermal engineering. Various topics covered in this book include alternative fuels, automation, mechatronics and robotics, CAD, CAM, FMS, CIM, CN, CFD, failure and fracture mechanics, friction, wear, tribology, and surface engineering, heat treatment, microstructure and refrigeration and cryogenics, heating ventilation and air conditioning system, heat transfer, internal combustion engines, machinability and formability of materials, mechanisms and machines, rapid manufacturing technologies and prototyping, turbo machinery, thermal engineering, and traditional and non-traditional machining processes. This book is useful for researchers and professionals working in the areas of manufacturing and thermal engineering.

Dr. Anil Kumar is currently working as Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, India. He has completed his B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi (India), M.Tech. from Tezpur University, Tezpur (India), and Ph.D. in Solar Energy from the Centre for Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. His nature of experience in teaching and research (science, technology, society, and sustainable development). His areas of specialization are energy technology, renewable energy, solar energy applications, energy economics, heat transfer, natural rubber sheet drying, and environmental issues. He has over 17 years of experience in the field of energy technology. He has published 184 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and 85 papers in international/national conference proceedings. He has developed a thin-layer drying model in 2014. He is the author of 11 books (4 national and 7 international editions). He is Fellow and Chartered Engineer of The Institution of Engineers (India). He appears as the most cited number of Information Systems (IS) researchers featured in the World Ranking of “Top 2% scientists created by Stanford University (2019, 2020 and 2021)".

Dr. Mohammad Zunaid is currently working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, India. He has obtained his B.E. (Mechanical Engineering) and M.Tech. (Thermal Science) from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India), and his Ph.D. from Delhi Technological University, Delhi (India). He has over 15 years of experience in the field of teaching and research. His areas of specialization are Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), computational heat transfer and fluid flow, fluid mechanics, fluid dynamics, refrigeration and air conditioning, power plant engineering, and thermal engineering. He is a life member of The Institution of Engineers, India. He has published more than sixty research papers in national/international journals and conferences. He has guided one Ph.D., fifteen M.Tech. and forty B.Tech. level students for their dissertations.

Dr. K. A. Subramanian is working as Professor and founder Head of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, and former Head of the Centre for Energy Studies. After he completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, he worked as Scientist at the Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun. He has published more than 75 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals. His main research area includes hydrogen energy, alternative-fueled internal combustion engines/vehicles, hydrogen backfire and combustion, hydrogen fuel cell, oxy-combustion, biofuels and engines, zero-emission vehicles, hybrid energy systems, and integrated energy systems. He is one among the top 2% scientist by Stanford University, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in the world. He recently developed the technology for the utilization of hydrogen in spark-ignition engines for electrical power generation, and dimethyl ether-fueled engines/vehicles with the collaboration of oil and original engine manufacturers. He has also developed alcohol-fueled engines, biogas vehicles, DME-fueled engines/vehicles, dual-fuel engines (hydrogen-diesel, CNG-diesel, biogas-diesel), and energy efficiency improvement using oxy-combustion. He developed many numbers of courses including hydrogen energy, zero-emission vehicles, bioenergy: resources, technologies and assessment, carbon capture and storage, and organic waste to energy conversion technology. He has guided several doctoral scholars and published several research papers in journals of national and international repute.

Dr. Heechang Lim is currently working as Professor at Pusan National University (PNU), South Korea. He obtained his B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Pusan National University (PNU), South Korea, M.S and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Environment Engineering, respectively, from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea. He has published more than 100 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences.