Funding

Sponsored projects

Twelve projects, all as Principal Investigator, totalling ₹23.2 crore. Amounts in ₹ lakh (1 lakh = ₹100,000).

Background: dual fluidized bed gasifier at IIT Kanpur

ProjectSponsor₹ lakhPeriod
Flame stabilization and NOx emission characteristics of NH3/H2 mixtures in an RQL combustor
Ongoing
ANRF – ARG99.9803/2026 – 03/2029
Experimental characterization of flame stabilization in a jet engine afterburner
Ongoing
ARDB1019.0002/2024 – 08/2027
Valorisation of oil sludge from petroleum industries based on bubbling fluidized bed pyrolysis
Completed
GAIL78.0009/2022 – 05/2025
Investigation of effects of shear and stratification on swirling H2/CNG-air flames
Completed
SERB – CRG69.5603/2021 – 03/2025
Design, development, testing and evaluation of a lean premixed swirl-stabilized gas turbine combustor for stationary power generation using high-hydrogen-content fuel
Completed
DST – Hydrogen & Fuel Cell290.0003/2020 – 05/2025
Lean premixed prevaporized combustion of diesel and biofuels in a laboratory-scale gas turbine combustor (with Lund University)
Completed
MHRD SPARC47.5003/2019 – 10/2023
Numerical investigation of a kerosene-fuelled scramjet combustor using RANS based flamelet model
Completed
ISRO-IITK STC10.1304/2018 – 04/2019
Numerical simulation of liquid-sheet breakup in gas-centered swirl coaxial atomizers
Completed
ISRO-IITK STC22.2207/2017 – 07/2019
Mixing and autoignition of dimethyl ether jets in a preheated turbulent coflowing air stream
Completed
SERB – Early Career Research Award50.0003/2017 – 02/2020
Decentralized power generation using micro gas turbines
Completed
IMPRINT (MHRD, Ministry of Coal)398.9602/2017 – 01/2020
Development of pressurized dual fluidized bed gasifier for high-ash Indian coal (with CSIR-CMERI)
Completed
IMPRINT (MHRD, Ministry of Coal)200.0002/2017 – 01/2020
Multiple mapping conditioning approach for turbulent lifted jet diffusion flames
Completed
IITK Research Initiation Grant39.0004/2016 – 03/2018
Total2,324.35