Intelligent Manufacturing and Energy Sustainability

Metallographic Analysis of the Percentage of Carbon in the Test Tube Based on Artificial Vision.- Machinability Study of "Nickel Material" in Deep Micro-holes Fabrication Through miECM.- Three-Dimensional FEM Analysis of Nanoparticle Assisted Radio Frequency Ablation of Tissue Mimicking Phantom.- Investigations on Electrochemical Discharge Machining of Al2O3 Ceramics.- Design and Numerical Simulation of PCM Based Energy Storage Device for Helmet Cooling.- Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Tank Filling Time and Flow Sequence.- GA Based Tuning of Integral Controller for Frequency Regulation of Hybrid Two Area Power System with Nonlinearities and Electric Vehicles.- Design and Analysis of Vehicle Tyres with Phase Change Material for Anti-Freezing.- Experimentation and Mathematical Modelling: Indirect  Forced Convection Solar Drying of Tomato with Novel Drying Chamber Arrangement using Phase Change Material as Thermal Energy Storage.- The Effect of Indoor and Outdoor Conditions on Performance of Solar Hybrid VCR System -An Experimental Study.

Dr. A. N. R. Reddy, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Head of the Department, obtained his B.Tech. and M.Tech. from JNT University, Hyderabad, India, and Ph.D. from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia. Dr. A.N.R. has received many prestigious research innovation and academic excellence awards that include Malaysian Government International Student Award 'Malaysian International Scholarship'; Zamalah Graduate Scholarship; Two Silver medals and best Paper Presentation Awards for his state-of-the-art for research innovations in biofuels and nano catalysts. His main research domains are  bioenergy, pyrolysis of biomass, synthesis of nano materials, spectrophotometry, applied & fluid mechanics, modelling, optimization, DOE and TRIZ. Dr. A.N.R., as a Principle Investigator, has successfully completed AICTE, Govt. of India sponsored research project entitled 'Multi Objective Optimization of Production Process Parameters using Evolutionary Algorithms', and guidedmany PG and UG projects. He is a life member of several professional associations such as ORSI, ISTAM, IndACM, ISTE, EWB, SAE India and ISSMO. Having over 20 years of service in both academics and research, he has more than 35 publications to his credit in various ISI/ Scopus indexed journals and Conference proceedings. Dr. A.N.R. was an Organizing Chair & Editor for SIST Series 'Proceedings of Intelligent Manufacturing and Energy Sustainability 2019', also he is actively involved in organizing trainings, seminars, conferences, FDPs and workshops for the benefit of academia.
Dr. Deepak Marla is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). He has obtained Ph.D. from IIT Bombay and had done his postdoctoral work from the Technical University of Denmark & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work is in the domain of micro-/nano-manufacturing using advanced techniques