Co-Presenter:
Woodrow Gonsalves, Saiesh Vandkar, Srushti Hallur (SPIT, Mumbai)
Abirami Sivakumar (Univ of Waterloo, Canada)
Abstract:
Low Temperature Facility (LTF) at TIFR is involved in many cryogenic developmental activities. This includes funded research projects by various government agencies, collaborative research activities partnering with academic and research institutions, and guided student projects fostering the next generation of experts in this field. The talk will highlight our two recent/ongoing research activities at LTF.
As a part of the ongoing SERB-funded research project "Extraction of High Purity Oxygen from The Waste Gas Recovery of Existing Liquid Nitrogen Plant", we have recently designed and developed a customized Data Acquisition (DAQ) system in LabVIEW platform. This is a guided project by the students of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (SPIT), Mumbai, which enables the real-time monitoring of the Liquid Oxygen Separation process, gathering data from many process parameters.
The second part of the lecture is a guided research project by a student from the University of Waterloo, Canada, to study the porous regenerator for the Stirling cryocooler. Regenerators play an essential role in cryocoolers by enhancing heat transfer efficiency between the working fluid and porous matrix. The study mainly focuses on the computational fluid analysis of a porous structured cryo-regenerator with baffles designed for additive manufacturing.
About speaker:
Dr. K V Srinivasan is currently serving as Scientist-In-Charge of Low Temperature Facility at TIFR, where he has been working since 25 years. He has done BE(Mechanical), ME(cryogenics) & Doctorate in cryognics engineering. He contributes as technical advisor for the cryogenics facilities of varoius national institutions like IISERs, IITs, NITs, Cenbtral Universities etc.He is a serving member of the Doctoral Research Commiitte of HBNI and acedemic board member for many universities. As a PI of many funded projects in cryogenics deveopment, he has guided many students and has more then 33 publications in peer-reviewed journals. His key research area are cryocoolers, heat transfer, additive manufacturing and automation.
He is currently mentoring a group of students pursuing their internship at LTF, including three UG students from SPIT, Mumbai, working on SERB-funded project and UG student from University of waterloo, Canada working on cryocooler research project.
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