4th National Conference on

Emerging Trends in Engineering

NET 2016

07-08 October 2016

Organized by

Government Engineering College, Kozhikode

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

“Energy and Sustainable Technologies”

TECHNICAL SESSION - I

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Date: 7th October 2016, Friday

Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.

Venue : Room No.9, Ground floor

Session Chair : Dr. K M Peethambaran, Professor, GCE Kannur

Session Co-chair : Dr. Sajith P P, Professor, GEC Kozhikode

Co-ordinator : Prof. Sajeeb A.M., Assistant Professor, GEC Kozhikode

2.00 p.m.- 2.40 p.m : Technical Talk by

Mr. K P Murthy,

Former Head of Sales & Marketing, BOSCH Power Tools, India

Consultant, Bosch Management Services India, Robert Bosch India Ltd.,

Director, Governing Council, Bamboo Society of India

List of Papers

Sl.
No. / Paper ID / Time / Title of the Paper / Authors
1 / ME101 / 2.40 – 3.00 / Analytical and Experimental Study of Performance on a Fuel Cell Stack / Ramesh M.R, Rahul N.P, Rohith P.R, Renjith R, Nimya Manoharan T, Dr. P.R. Suresh, and Jyothisankar.P.R
2 / ME105 / 3.00 – 3.20 / Ethanol and Methane from Industrial Hemp / Akhil Sunny and Sajith P P
3 / ME106 / 3.20 – 3.40 / Experimental Investigations for Effect of Al2O3 Nanofluid on the Efficiency of Direct Absorption Solar Collector. / Harikrishnan and Sajeeb A M
4 / ME107 / 3.40 – 4.00 / Experimental investigation of Pongamia oil as an alternative Fuel for Diesel Engine. / Madhan Kumar S, and Sridhar M
5 / ME109 / 4.00 – 4.20 / Performance Evaluation Of a Modified Parabolic Trough Concentrator Using Nanofluid as the Working Fluid / Nikhil M C and Sreejith B
6 / ME112 / 4.20 – 4.40 / Study of Variation in Emission of Engine using Pongamia Bio-diesel as Fuel with Exhaust Gas Re-Circulator (EGR) / Sudheendraraj M K, and Raveendran C K

TECHNICAL SESSION - II

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Date: 8th October 2016, Saturday

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.

Venue : Room No.9, Ground floor

Session Chair : Dr. Sudheesh S, Assistant Professor, GEC Thrissur

Session Co-chair : Dr. Sajith Babu C, Associate Professor, GEC Kozhikode

Co-ordinator : Prof. Sajeeb A.M., Assistant Professor, GEC Kozhikode

10.00 a.m.- 10.40 a.m : Technical Talk by

Dr. Chakravarthy P,

Associate Professor, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram

List of Papers

Sl.
No. / Paper ID / Time / Title of the Paper / Authors
1 / ME102 / 10.40 – 11.00 / A smart and useful robot for agriculture: A agriculture robot (agribot) for harvesting underground plants (rhizomes): / Dinesh R, Manibharathi P, and Vignesh P
2 / ME103 / 11.00 – 11.20 / Active control of vortex shedding in bluff body wake / Vishnu Das Ambali,& Pramode Das K
3 / ME104 / 11.20 – 11.40 / Characterization of Ceria, Ceria-Zirconia Hybrid and Surfactant-Modified Hybrid Nanoparticles Prepared by Precipitation Method. / Jibin T Philip Chacko Preno Koshy
4 / ME108 / 11.40 – 12.00 / Nox Reduction Using a Novel Colloid / Akhil Mohan, Anirudhan P, and Prajeeth Kumar K P
5 / ME110 / 12.00 – 12.20 / Thermal imaging for fault diagnosis: A review / Muneer Babu V Vattapparambil, Prajeeth Kumar K P and Sajith P P
6 / ME111 / 12.20 – 12.40 / Study of Microstructural aspects of Cryotreated Austempered Ductile Cast Iron. / Rinesh K, and Manesh K K
Mr. K P Murthy
Former Head of Sales & Marketing, BOSCH Power Tools, India.
Former National Manager, Marketing, Rallis India (Tata Group) for Ralli-Wolf Power tools. /

PROFILE OF EXPERTS FOR TECHNICAL TALK

Mr. K P Murthy is having 44 years of industrial experience in Power tools for Construction, Automotive, Manufacturing and others. He obtained M.Phil in Energy. Currently he is,

·  Consultant, Bosch Management Services India, Robert Bosch India Limited

·  Member, Tripura Skill development mission, State Planning Board, Govt. of Tripura.

·  Member, SAEINDIA Managing Committee.

·  Consultant, Training, IPRITI, Govt of India.

·  Director, Governing Council, Bamboo Society of India.

·  Technical Advisor, Involute Institute Skill development, a training partner of National Skill Development Corporation, Government of India.

·  Member, Skill and Vocational Council, M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences

·  Member, Central Board, Department of Technical Education. Government of Karnataka

He had innovated First Portable Electric Sprayer in the country, Single PSC Pole Transformer Erection, and Pancake Motor Bicycle. Formerly he had

·  Trained 1500 Vocational Teachers, 225 UNESCO-UNDP sponsored trainees. Organized the Training of 25 Afghan artisans, under the CII – BOSCH initiative on skill development that was applauded by the Presidents of India and Afghanistan, an outstanding example of outcomes.

·  Driven Vocational Education and Training in India, Linking Government, Corporates and Foundations.

·  Supported PURA vision of Dr Abdul Kalam, Former President of India.

·  Founded “VET through PET” –“Vocational Education & Training through Power Tool Education & Training”, endorsed by UNESCO-UNEVOC Bonn for creating self- employment.

Also Mr. K P Murthy was,

·  Strategic Consultant for BOSCH divisions – Power tools, Automotive, Packaging, R&D and Software Solutions from Apr 2005 till March 2010.

·  Former Member, Working group on Vocational Education, National Knowledge Commission of India, headed by Dr. Sam Pitroda.

·  Former Member, Steering Committee, RIF-NABARD and Swiss Development Corporation.

·  Former Member,Skill Board, Government of Assam.

·  Former Member, National Standing Committee(Skills development & Industry- Institute Coordination), MHRD.

·  Former Faculty,MBA,JNTU.

·  Former Hon Advisor, Skill Development, Punjab Technical University.

Dr. Chakravarthy P
Associate Professor,
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST)
Thiruvananthapuram /

Dr. Chakravarthy P is currently working as Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvanathapuram. He is having outstanding academic background in Materials Science and Manufacturing Engineering. Also having 4 years of Experimental research experience in Metal Processing with special focus in P/M and 3 years of experience in Aerospace Materials and failure analysis. His specialities include Heat Treatment, Failure analysis, Product development, and Aerospace Materials.

He acquired Ph.D in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from IIT Madras. Formerly he was Assistant Manager – Research and Development, Sundram Fasteners Ltd, Chennai-600050 (October 2008 to February 2010). His research areas include Materials Forming, Powder Metallurgy, Aerospace Materials, Metal joining, Heat treatment. He is having around 12 international Journal and 5 international conference papers in his credit.