Methanol and the Alternate Fuel Economy

Liquid Sunshine for Indian Railways.- Prospective of methanol economy.- Enabling rural economy in India to partially substitute petroleum products by methanol- technology solutions and policy support.- Petroleum Carcinogenecity: The Indian Challenge.- Methanol as a Locomotive Fuel: Challenges and Opportunities for India.- Reactivity-Controlled Compression Ignition Combustion Engine using Alcohols.- Impact of tri-fuel on compression ignition engine emissions- Blends of waste frying oil - alcohol - diesel.- Exhaust Emissions of an Automotive Diesel Engine Fuelled with Petro- Diesels and B20 Blends.- Exhaust Emissions of DI-CI Engine Fuelled with Neat Biodiesel Fuels.- Energy analysis biodiesel: environmental aspects.- H2 Enriched CNG as Alternative fuel for Internal Combustion Engines.- Review on the use of essential oils in compression ignition engines.- Biogas as a Fuel for Agricultural Applications.- Methanol as an Alternative fuel for Diesel Engine.

Avinash K Agarwal is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His areas of interest are IC engines, combustion, alternative fuels, conventional fuels, optical diagnostics, laser ignition, HCCI, emission and particulate control, and large bore engines. He has published 24 books and 230+ international journal and conference papers. Prof. Agarwal is a Fellow of SAE (2012), ASME (2013), ISEES (2015) and INAE (2015). He received several awards such as Prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award-2016 in Engineering Sciences, Rajib Goyal prize-2015, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award-2012; INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award-2012; SAE International's Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award-2008; INSA Young Scientist Award-2007; UICT Young Scientist Award-2007; INAE Young Engineer Award-2005.




Gautam Anirudh is the Executive Director of the Research Designs & Standards Organization, Ministry ofRailways in Lucknow, India. He has completed his Masters in Engine Systems from the University of Wisconsin Madison (USA) and his PhD from IIT Kanpur, India. After working on the maintenance and operations of locomotives in the Indian Railways, he moved to the manufacture of diesel locomotives at Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi, India where he worked on the diesel engines for locomotives. He was instrumental in developing in the first indigenous EMD design locomotive in India and has also developed the ALCO locomotive electronic fuel injection system and the mobile emission test car. His main areas of interest are energy production devices, fuel cells, hybrid power trains and sustainable motive power systems, control systems development and structures optimization. He has been the recipient of many awards and is now working on developing locomotive engines for alternative fuel sources and increased fuel and emission efficiency.

Nikhil Sharma is a CSIR-Pool