Faculty Profile

About

I am working in the area of Theoretical and Experimental studies of fluid flow and heat transfer heat recovery systems, Heat pump etc. I also currently working on Bio gas upgradation by using various techniques and green fuels for combustion process.

Education

• Ph.D - Thermal Engineering
  National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal
  Passed Year: 2017 | Program Type: FullTime
• PG - Thermal Science and Engineering
  University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bengaluru
  Passed Year: 2009 | Program Type: FullTime

Selected Publications

• Journal | Published On : 21-05-2018
  Venkatesh T. Lamani, Ajay Kumar Yadav, Kumar G.N
  Combustion, performance and tail pipe emissions of common rail diesel engine fuelled with waste plastic oil-diesel blends, ASME. J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2018;10(5):051007-051007-9. doi:10.1115/1.4039965.
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• Conference | Published On : 27-12-2017
  Venkatesh T. Lamani, Shambhu Kumar Tati, Ajay Kumar Yadav, G. N. Kumar,
  “Numerical investigation of effect of intake valve closing time on common rail diesel engine fuelled with butanol-diesel blends” has been accepted for presentation in the 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2017) during December 27-30, 2017 to be held at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.
• Journal | Published On : 11-09-2017
  Venkatesh T. Lamani, Ajay Kumar Yadav, G. N. Kumar,
  Effect of exhaust gas recirculation rate on performance, emission and combustion characteristics of common rail diesel engine fuelled with n-butanol-diesel blends, Biofuels, doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2017.1369631 Taylor and Francis.
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• Journal | Published On : 25-08-2017
  Venkatesh T. Lamani, Ajay Kumar Yadav, Kumar G.N,
  Performance, emission and combustion characteristics of twin cylinder common rail diesel engine fuelled with butanol-diesel blends, Environmental Science and Pollution Research,2017:24(29), 23351-23362.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-9956-7 Springer.
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• Journal | Published On : 25-05-2017
  Venkatesh T. Lamani, Aditya U. Baliga M, Ajay Kumar Yadav, G. N. Kumar,
  Effect of bioethanol-diesel blends, exhaust gas recirculation rate and injection timing on performance, emission and combustion characteristics of common rail diesel engine, Biofuels, DOI: 10.1080/17597269.2017.1329493, Taylor and Francis.
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• Journal | Published On : 16-05-2017
  Venkatesh T. Lamani, Ajay Kumar Yadav, Kumar G.N,
  Influence of low temperature combustion and dimethyl ether-diesel blends on performance, combustion and emission characteristics of common rail diesel engine, Environmental Science and Pollution Research,24 (18), pp 15500–15509 Springer.
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• Conference | Published On : 24-02-2016
  Venkatesh T. Lamani, Ajay Kumar Yadav, Kumar G.N,
  CFD simulation of a common rail diesel engine with biobutanol-diesel blends for various injection timings, Biofuels and Bioenergy: International conference and Exhibition, 23rd-25th February, 2016 in MANIT, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
• Book Chapter or Books | Published On : 17-02-2016
  Venkatesh T. Lamani, Ajay Kumar Yadav, Kumar G.N,
  CFD simulation of a common rail diesel engine with biobutanol-diesel blends for various injection timings, Springer Proceedings in Energy, Biofuels and Bioenergy (BICE2016), ISBN:978-3-319-47255-3, 337951_1_En, (14).
• Conference | Published On : 05-03-2015
  Venkatesh T. Lamani, Ajay Kumar Yadav, G.N. Kumar,
  Effect of exhaust gas recirculation rate on a single cylinder four stroke CRDI engine using CFD modeling, 4th International Engineering Symposium (IES2015), Kumamoto University, Japan, March 4th-6th, 2015.
• Book Chapter or Books | Published On : 01-01-2015
  Venkatesh T. Lamani, Ajay Kumar Yadav, G. N. Kumar,
  Spray and Combustion Characterization in CRDI Engine- a Review, Fire research and Engineering, Narosha publishing house, ISBN: 978-81-8487-395-5, page no 451-466.

Other Information

1. MOU with Udjan Energy Pvt. Ltd Bangalore on Experimental study for diesel engine using lean AIR+ hydrogen mixture.
2. MOU with M/s KORE’S ENTREPRISES and M/s INVENT EDU TECH CONSULTANTS will collaborate the research work with researchers in Department of Mechanical Engineering at B.M.S. College of Engineering in the area of “Design and development of domestic Heat Pump of about 1kW”
3. Best paper award received in an International Conference on Biofuels and Bio energy 2016.
4. Innovative practitioner award MISSION10X GROUP OF WIPRO-2010.

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