Prof. Pinakeswar Mahanta

Pinakeswar Mahanta
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engg.
Email: pinak[*AT]iitg.ernet.in
Phone: Extn. 2662 (+91 361 2582662)

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B.Tech.	M.Tech.	PhD

B.Tech. ( Completed - 12, Ongoing - 3 )

Sl.No.	Name of Student	Title of Project	Year of Joining	Status
1.	S.Kumar	Solution of conjugate heat transfer problem in participating medium	2003	Completed
2.	R.Setiya and P.Srivastava	Performance evaluation of a nahar and jetropha fuel run 5hp diesel engine	2004	Completed
3.	S.Arya	Development of a diesel engine with carburetion	2004	Completed
4.	H.V.Reddy and Praveen Kumar	Performance evaluation of multi-cylinder CI engine with various blends of Jetropha curcus with diesel oil	2005	Completed
5.	M.Das and Chakresh Gupta	Heat Transfer and hydrodynamics in an annular flow heat exchanger	2006	Completed
6.	K.Vinayesh Reddy, Rakesh Kumar and M.V.Puneeth Kumar	Performance evaluation of a bubbling bed grain dryer	2006	Completed
7.	G.Rajkumar, Leksar Modi	Performance study of a PEM fuel cell	2007	Completed
8.	Dani Rissang and Sanjeev Kumar Meena	Performance study of Thermoelectric Generator	2007	Completed
9.	Yogesh Yadav	Design of a pneumatic conveying system	2007	Completed
10.	Bed Prakash and Kanad Shaurya	Performance improvement of cross flow cooling tower	2008	Completed
11.	Aditya Taneja and Kunal Kumar	Modelling of biogas digester	2008	Completed
12.	Palle Raghabendra and Alok Verma	Experimental Studies and analysis of Heat Pipe	2008	Completed

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M.Tech. ( Completed - 15, Ongoing - 3 )

Sl.No.	Name of Student	Title of Project	Year of Completion	Remarks
1.	A.S.Grinspan	Development of a low speed wind tunnel and testing of savonius wind turbine rotors with twisted blades	2002	Co-guided with Dr.U.K.Saha
2.	P.S.Kumar	Experimental Investigation on heat transfer enhancement in a concentric tube heat exchanger	2002	Co-guided with Dr.A.Dewan
3.	K.S.Raju	Heat Transfer enhancement in a concentric tube heat exchanger	2004	Co-guided with Dr.A.Dewan
4.	K.L.Meena	Heat Transfer Characteristics on the upper splash region and in a cyclone separator of a CFB unit	2004	Completed
5.	K.Rawat	Thermodynamic analysis of a flat plate solar water heater with porous medium	2005	Completed
6.	Y.Singh	Evaluation of engine performance with biodiesel fuel	2005	Co-guided with Dr.S.C.Mishra
7.	K.Singh	Development of a fan testing set-up	2005	Co-guided with Dr.U.K.Saha
8.	Ankur Srivastava	Biodiesel Extraction and Processing Technology	2006	Completed
9.	Sheikh Abdul Sajeed	Heat Transfer and Hydrodynamics in the Cyclone Separator of a Circulating Fluidized Bed	2006	Completed
10.	Tanuja Vaidya	Fluidization of nano particles	2006	Completed
11.	Pabitra Singh	Development of a trans-esterification set-up	2007	Completed
12.	Ramachandra Chopade	Long term performance evaluation of CI engine with SVO	2007	Completed
13.	Vamsi Kiran	Numerical Study of pressure drop and heat transfer in a circular tube heat exchanger	2008	Completed
14.	Y.Pavithran	Development of a circulating fluidized bed biomass dryer	2008	Completed
15.	Ramwendra Kumar Mech	Design and development of a 50kw biomass gasifier	2009	Ongoing
16.	Devendra Singh Dandotiya	Parametric study on thermal energy storage systems	2009	Ongoing
17.	Pankaj Kalita	Heat Transfer and hydrodynamics of a Downdraft Biomass Gasifier	2009	Ongoing/part time

PhD ( Ongoing - 5 )

( Mechanical Engg. - 1; Centre for Energy - 4 )

Sl.No.	Name of Student	Title of Project	Year of Joining
1.	Buljit Buragohain	Design, development and performance analysis of a circulating fluidized bed biomass gasifier	2005
2.	Sushovan Chatterjee	Application of microbial lipase and biosurfactant for transesterification of lipids	2005
3.	Moni Kankana Sharma	Heat Transfer in Porous Medium	2005
4.	Ranjit Patil	Scale up effect on Circulating Fluidized Bed	2006
5.	R.M.Chopade	Heat Transfer enhancement in a high temperature furnace using porous burner	2007

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pinakeswar mahanta | dept. of mechanical engineering | iit guwahati