PIMPRI CHINCHWAD EDUCATION TRUST's
PIMPRI CHINCHWAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
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Department Of Mechanical Engineering


Research and Development

Sr. No. Content 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
1 Publication in International Journal 0 10 07 16 09 06
2 Publication In Conference 07 07 05 11 18 04
3 Total 07 17 12 27 27 10


Total Number of Publications till 2018-19 is 100



Journal Publication
Year Faculty/Students Name Journal Publication (Title ) Journal Name/ Volume ( Issue) page number
2018 Komal M. Garse Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Nano Fluids International Journal of Research & Development in Technology,Vol-10, Issue-4,Oct-2018, ISSN 2349-3585
Gouri Doijod Experimental Evaluation of Green Evaporative Air Cooler International Journal of Research & Development in Technology,Vol-10, Issue-4,Nov-2018, ISSN 2349-3585
Komal M. Garse A Review Paper on Techniques for Heat Transfer Enhancement International Journal of Research & Development in Technology, Vol-10, Issue-4,Oct-2018, ISSN 2349-3585
2019 Samiksha Dhokale, Pankaj Anjankar, S S Lakade An Experimental Analysis of Car Air-Condition Test Rig using Microchannel Heat exchanger with R1234yF The IUP Journal of Mechanical Engg. , 21.june.2019/Vol.XIII Nos. 2&3
2020 S. P. Salve, A. M. Fulambarkar, & P. D. Khune. Solar Drying System Integrated with Phase Change Material (PCM) International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT), 9(3), 1897–1902. https://doi.org/10.35940/ijeat.C5321.029320
Kailas Deshmukh, P.A.Deshmukh, N.A.Mandhare Performance Enhancement of Centrifugal Pump by Minimizing Casing Losses Using Coating SN Appl. Sci. 2, 252 , https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-020-2042-7
2021 Sen, R., Thacker, H., Roy, A., Shete, R., Jadhav, A., Raj, C., & Patil, V. Fast Charger for Lead Acid Motive Power Batteries for E-Rickshaw International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy, 10(4): 121-128
Chitrangada Bisht, Akshay Pahade, Prachi Jaiswal, Kiran Giri Quantitavive & Qualitative comparison Of the Energy section in the prevalent green building rating system in India -


Conference Publication
Year Author Name Conference Publication (Title) Conference Name Proceedings name ,DOI/ online link
2019 Sen R., Roy A., Subramaniyan S., and Thacker H Performance Degradation and Revival of Old Solar Power Plants & their Batteries, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Clean Energy and Energy Efficient Electronics Circuit for Sustainable Development (INCCES), DOI: 10.1109/INCCES47820.2019.9167726
Parida S, Roy A, Anjankar P, Design and Experimental Study of Prototype Cold Storage for Various Vegetables Stored Techno-Societal 2018 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16848-3_41
A Roy and G N Kulkarni Optimization of cleaning periodicity of solar photo-voltaic power plants International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE), Sweden 2019 https://www.energy-proceedings.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/685_Paper_0830105717.pdf
2020 Roy A., Sen R., Shete R. Investigation on Different Types of Electric Storage Batteries Used in Off-grid Solar Power Plants and Procedures for Their Performance Improvement 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research. Springer Proceedings in Energy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5955-6_30
More A, Roy A Design and Weight Minimization of Small Wind Turbine Blade for Operation in Low-Wind Areas, 6th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research. Springer Proceedings in Energy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2662-6_29
Salve S P , Fulambarkar A M A solar dryer for drying green chili in a forced convection for increasing the moisture removing rate International Conference on Sustainable Development in Mechanical Engineering, 27th and 28th March 2020, Hyderabad Materials Today: Proceedings 45(053) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.12.360
2021 Ambekar, P., and Roy, A Design and development of a mixing arrangement for a prototype cold storage. World Congress on Optimization and Automation Techniques in Engineering and Management -2020 AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 2417, No. 1, p. 030003). AIP Publishing LLC., https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0072662

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Experimental and Numerical Combustion
  • Renewable Energy: Solar & Wind Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning and HVAC

Core Facilities :

  • Battery & Solar Testing laboratory
  • Variable compression Diesel Engine Test Rig
  • Diesel Engine Test Rig
  • Mini Power Plant
  • Wind Tunnel
  • Weather station with 12 channel datalogger
    • Wind resource analysis
    • Design of renewable energy based systems
    • Power generation forecasting and planning

Computational Facilities :

  • Ansys – Structural 13.0 + CFD (Fluent 19.0, CFX)
  • CATIA V5
  • AutoCAD
  • Matlab 2010B
  • ADAMS
  • NASTRAN & PATRAN
  • 3D Experience

Sr. No. Name of the Investigator Title of Research Project/Scheme Funding agency Duration Amount Sanctioned, Rs
1 Dr. N.R. Deore Experimental studies on propagation of premixed flame in diverging meso-scale channels BCUD S.P. Pune University 2013-15 1,40,000
2 Dr. C.L. Ladekar Experimental investigation for enhancing of latent heat energy storage using embedded heat pipe BCUD S.P. Pune University 2013-15 1,90,000
3 Dr. U G Potdar Experimental investigation on lifted spray flame BCUD S.P. Pune University 2015-17 85,000
4 Prof. S.P. Salve Design and development of low cost solar air dryer using phase change material S.P. Pune University BCUD 2016-18 1,40,000
5 Dr. Anindita Roy Installation of 25 kWp Rooftop Solar PV system BCUD QIP Grants 2016-18 5,00,000
6 Dr. Anindita Roy Development of Solar Passenger Vehicle DassaultSystemes Foundation 2017-18 4,30,000
7 Dr. Anindita Roy and Dr. Narendra Deore Design & Development of Iiquid immersion cooling system for Battery Packs of high performance LEV’s DassaultSystemes Foundation 2019-20 4,00,000
8 Prof. N A Mandhare Minimization of flow instabilities over Impeller eye of a Low head Mixed Flow Centrifugal Pump through design modification of lock nut ASPIRE-BCUD 2019-20 3,00,000
9 Dr. U G Potdar and Dr. N R Deore Design and development of miniature liquid fuel film combustor for thermoelectric power generation SERB-DST 2021-24 25,50,800
10 Mrs. G V Phadtare, Dr. U G Potdar, Dr. P A Deshmukh Utilization of green energy source for the development of solar system for biomedical application AICTE 2022-24 12,14,608

Sr. No. Name of Inventor Patent /Application Number Title of Patent
1 Ajinkya Wankhade 455/MUM/2015 Solar powered portable bucket air conditioner
2 Akash Gurudasani 3529/MUM/2015 Automated fuel cock of motercycle for antitheft of fuel
3 Ramesh Vishwakarma 3530/MUM/2015 Diesel-Ethanol soya oil blend as an alternative fuel
4 Siddharth Shandilya and Dr C L Ladekar 201621022091 Utilization of heat released during cooking with heat pipe embedded TES
5 Anindita Roy and others 202121043252 LWM- Solar Cooker: Simple Low Cost Light Weight Modular Solar Cooker
6 Anindita Roy and Students 202121044931 A low density Low Temperature Thermocline Thermal Energy Storage Tank
7 Anindita Roy, N R Deore and Students 202121053766 Liquid Immersion Cooling System for Battery Packs of High-Performance Light Electric Vehicles
8 Sonali K. Kale, Anindita Roy, S. U. Bhandari, Sonali Patil, Anjali Sakukar, Padmakar Deshmukh 202121056487 A Smart Sustainable Portable Cold Storage

Sr. No. Year Faculty Name Project Name Funds Received, Rs Industry Name Outcome
1 2017 Dr. Anindita Roy Installation of wind –photovoltaic hybrid project at Rajgurunagar, Peth for off grid lighting and water pumping applications Nil M/s. Greenerxia Corp., Pune Able to advise on correct system configuration, turbine selection for
2 2017 Mr. Rajarshi Sen, Dr Anindita Roy Testing of Batteries 16,500 M/s R-Sun Industries, Pune, India Able to provide input on quality and capacity of Battery
3 2018 Mr. Rajarshi Sen, Dr Anindita Roy Development of O & M manual for off-grid solar power plants 6,90,558 M/s. CLEAN Development & Customized Energy Solutions, India O&M Manual for off-grid solar power plant was developed
4 2019 Mr. Rajarshi Sen, Dr Anindita Roy Development of Fast charging system for E-Rickshaw 2,70,518 M/s. Chhabi Electricals, Mumbai & Customized Energy Solutions Commercial version of fast charger was developed for E-Rickshaw Applications
5 2019 Dr P A Deshmukh, Mrs. N A Mandhare Performance enhancement of Centrifugal pump through different coatings 32,000 Henkel Adhesives Pvt Ltd. Investigated experimentally and numerically the effect of surface coatings on the loss minimization
6 2021 Dr Padmakar Deshmukh, Dr Anindita Roy Validation of Diesel Generator Cooling System design 10, 000 M/s/ Inventive Business Solutions Pvt Ltd. Able to validate cooling circuit design for diesel generator sets