Avinash Kumar Agarwal

Avinash Kumar Agarwal
Born (1972-08-22) August 22, 1972
Rajasthan, India
Residence Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality Indian
Alma mater
Known for Studies on internal combustion engines and CNG engines
Awards
  • 2002 DST Young Scientist Award
  • 2004 AICTE Career Award
  • 2005 INAE Young Engineer Award
  • 2007 INSA Young Scientists Medal
  • 2007 UICT Alkyl Amine Young Scientist Award
  • 2008 SAE International Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award
  • 2011 IES C. V. Raman Young Teachers Award
  • 2012 NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award
  • 2012 INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award
  • 2016 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisor
  • L. M. Das

Avinash Kumar Agarwal (born August 22, 1972) is an Indian mechanical engineer, tribologist and a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.[1] He is known for his studies on internal combustion engines and CNG engines[2] and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.[3] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2016.[4][note 1]

Biography

IIT Kanpur

Avinash Agarwal, born on 22 August 1972 at Karauli, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, earned his graduate degree in mechanical engineering (BTech) from Malaviya Regional Engineering College (MREC) Jaipur (present-day Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur) of the University of Rajasthan in 1994 and did his master's degree at the Centre for Energy Studies of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi from where he obtained an MTech in energy studies in 1996.[5] During this period, he also served as a teaching assistant at IIT Delhi,[6] simultaneously pursuing his doctoral studies under the guidance of L. M. Das and after securing a PhD in 1999 for his thesis, Performance evaluation and tribological studies on a biodiesel-fuelled compression ignition engine,[7] he moved to the USA for his postdoctoral work which he completed at the Engine Research Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison during 1999–2001. On his return to India in March 2001, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur as an assistant professor,[8] He was promoted as an associate professor in 2007 and has been serving the institute since 2012 as a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.[9] He had four short stints abroad as visiting professor during this period, first at Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering of the University of Loughborough in 2002 second and third, at Photonics Institute of Technical University of Vienna in 2004 and 2013, and the fourth at Hanyang University, South Korea in 2014.[6]

Agarwal is married to Dr. Rashmi A. Agarwal and the couple has two children, Aditya and Rithwik.[10] The family lives in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.[1]

Legacy

Four stroke engine diagram

Agrawal's researches has covered the fields of engine combustion, alternate fuels, emission and particulate control, optical diagnosis, fuel spray optimization and tribology and his work has assisted in the development of low-cost diesel oxidation catalysts and homogeneous charge compression ignition engines.[2] His studies of laser ignition of methane-air hydrogen-air mixtures and biodiesel based on Indian feedstocks have widened the understanding of the subjects;[8] he carried out a project on biodiesels during 2010–13 for the Department of Science and Technology of India.[11] He has documented his researches by way of over 200 articles;[12][13][note 2] Google Scholar and ResearchGate, online repositories of scientific articles, have listed many of them.[14][15] Besides, he has edited two books, Combustion for Power Generation and Transportation,[16] and Novel Combustion Concepts for Sustainable Energy Development[17] and has contributed chapters to both.[18] He is also a co-editor of a five-volume reference text, Handbook of Combustion, published by Wiley-VCH in 2010.[19]

Agarwal is the Editor-in-chief of Journal of Energy and Environmental Sustainability (JEES)[20] and is Associate Editor of two other journals, "ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology", and "Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India): Series C". He is a member of the editorial board of several prestigious journals such as "International Journal of Engine Research, published by SAE International and IMechE, London, UK", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering[21] and Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering of Bentham Science.[22] He is also a former associate editor of the International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing of Inderscience Publishers, "International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology" (IJOGCT), Published by Inderscience Publishers and guest-edited a special issue of the Journal of Automobile Engineering on Alternative Fuels in 2007.[23] He is a member of the Methanol Task Force of the Department of Science and Technology since 2017, former member of Technology Systems Group of the Department of Science and Technology and a former member of the Experts Group on Biofuels and Retrofitting of Engines of the Government of India.[24] He is a member of the board of associates of the Internal Combustion Engines Division of American Society of Mechanical Engineering and is associated with SAE International, sitting in many of their review committees. He was the session organizer for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of SAE World Congress and chaired the 2004, 2005 and 2006 sessions on alternative fuel and internal combustion engines.[24]

Awards and honors

Agarwal received the Young Scientist Award of the Department of Science and Technology in 2002, followed by the Career Award for Young Teachers of the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) in 2004.[25] The Young Engineer Award of the Indian National Academy of Engineering reached him in 2005[26] and the Young Scientists Medal of the Indian National Science Academy came his way in 2007.[27] He received the Alkyl Amine Young Scientist Award of the Institute of Chemical Technology the same year and a year later, SAE International selected him for the 2008 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award.[28] He received the C. V. Raman Young Teachers Award of the IES Group in 2011 and NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award of the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2012.[29] The Indian National Academy of Engineering honored him again in 2012 with the Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2016.[30]

Agarwal, who held the BOYSCAST Fellowship of Department of Science and Technology in 2002 and Devendra Shukla Research Fellowship of IIT Kanpur in 2009, was elected as a fellow by the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2015.[8] He is also a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and SAE International.[24] He was listed in several editions of Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who (Emerging Leaders) and Who's Who in the World.[24]

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Maximilian Lackner (Editor), Franz Winter, Avinash K. Agarwal (April 2010). Handbook of Combustion. Wiley-VCH. p. 3168. ISBN 978-3-527-32449-1.
  • Agarwal, A.K., Pandey, A., Gupta, A.K., Aggarwal, S.K., Kushari, A. (2014). Novel Combustion Concepts for Sustainable Energy Development. Springer. p. 562. ISBN 978-81-322-2211-8.
  • Agarwal, A.K., De, S., Pandey, A., Singh, A.P. (2017). Combustion for Power Generation and Transportation. Springer. p. 451. ISBN 978-981-10-3784-9.

Articles

  • Sumit Pramanik, Avinash Kumar Agarwaly, K. N. Rai (2005). "Development of High Strength Hydroxyapatite for Hard Tissue Replacement". Trends Biomater. Artif. Organs. 19 (1): 46–51.
  • Avinash Kumar Agarwal (2007). "Biofuels (alcohols and biodiesel) applications as fuels for internal combustion engines". Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. 33 (3): 233–271. doi:10.1016/j.pecs.2006.08.003.
  • Deepak Agarwal, Lokesh Kumar, Avinash Kumar Agarwal (2008). "Performance evaluation of a vegetable oil fuelled compression ignition engine". Renewable Energy. 33 (6): 1147–1156. doi:10.1016/j.renene.2007.06.017.
  • Avinash Kumar Agarwal, K. Rajamanoharan (2009). "Experimental investigations of performance and emissions of Karanja oil and its blends in a single cylinder agricultural diesel engine". Applied Energy. 86 (1): 106–112. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2008.04.008.
  • Joonsik Hwang, Choongsik Bae, Chetankumar Patel, Avinash Kumar Agarwal (2016). "An Experimental Investigation on Spray Characteristics of Waste Cooking Oil, Jatropha, and Karanja Biodiesels in a Constant Volume Combustion Chamber". SAE International Technical Papers. doi:10.4271/2016-01-2263.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Long link - please select award year to see details
  2. ↑ Please see Articles section

References

  1. 1 2 "Faculty profile". IIT Kanpur. 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2017.
  3. ↑ "INAE fellows". Indian National Academy of Engineers. 2016.
  4. ↑ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Education". IIT Kanpur. 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Professional Experience". IIT Kanpur. 2017.
  7. ↑ "Performance evaluation and tribological studies on a biodiesel-fuelled compression ignition engine" (PDF). IIT Delhi. 1996.
  8. 1 2 3 "Agarwal on INAE". Indian National Academy of Engineering. 2017.
  9. ↑ "Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering". IIT Kanpur. 2017.
  10. ↑ "Personal Profile". IIT Kanpur. 2017.
  11. ↑ "Project Summary" (PDF). Department of Science and Technology. 2017.
  12. ↑ "On Thermal Science". Thermal Science journal. 2017.
  13. ↑ "On SAE International". SAE International. 2017.
  14. ↑ "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2016.
  15. ↑ "On ResearchGate". On ResearchGate. 2016.
  16. ↑ Agarwal, A.K., De, S., Pandey, A., Singh, A.P. Combustion for Power Generation and Transportation. Springer. p. 451. ISBN 978-981-10-3784-9.
  17. ↑ Agarwal, A.K., Pandey, A., Gupta, A.K., Aggarwal, S.K., Kushari, A. (2014). Novel Combustion Concepts for Sustainable Energy Development. Springer. p. 562. ISBN 978-81-322-2211-8.
  18. ↑ Avinash Kumar Agarwal; Santanu De; Ashok Pandey, Akhilendra Pratap Singh (29 March 2017). Combustion for Power Generation and Transportation: Technology, Challenges and Prospects. Springer. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-981-10-3785-6.
  19. ↑ Maximilian Lackner (Editor), Franz Winter (Editor), Avinash K. Agarwal (Editor) (April 2010). Handbook of Combustion. Wiley-VCH. p. 3168. ISBN 978-3-527-32449-1.
  20. ↑ "Editor in chief". Journal of Energy and Environmental Sustainability. 2017.
  21. ↑ "Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering". Sage Publications. 2017.
  22. ↑ "Editorial Board Members RPME". Bentham Science. 2017.
  23. ↑ "Table of Contents". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D. 2017.
  24. 1 2 3 4 "Engine Research Laboratory Awards". IIT Kanpur. 2017.
  25. ↑ "ResearchGate profile". ResearchGate. 2017.
  26. ↑ "INAE Young Engineer Award". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2017.
  27. ↑ "INSA Young Scientists Medal". Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
  28. ↑ "Ten Engineering Educators Receive SAE Award". SAE International. July 7, 2008.
  29. ↑ "NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017.
  30. ↑ "Engineering Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.

Further reading

  • Avinash Kumar Agrawal (1996). "Performance evaluation and tribological studies on a biodiesel-fuelled compression ignition engine" (PDF). Doctoral thesis. IIT Delhi.
  • Avinash K. Agarwal (2007). "Alternative Fuels". Guest editorial. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D volume 221 issue 8. Missing or empty |url= (help)
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