Dr. Thota S S Bhaskara Rao

Qualification : Ph.D. (NIT, Rourkela)

Details of Educational Qualification:

Course Specialization Group College Name/University Year of Passing
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering National Institute of Technology, Rourkela 2023
M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Gokul Group of Institutions, JNTU Kakinada 2015
B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Kakinada Institute of Technology and Sciences, JNTU Kakinada 2013

 

List of Publications

S.No Title of the Paper Full Details of Journal Name / Conference Name, Volume number, page number, Date
1 Assessment of energy, exergy, environmental, and economic study of an evacuated tube solar dryer for drying Krishna Tulsi. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Springer Nature, April 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-27085-z (Q1, SCIE, Impact factor: 5.8)
2 Experimental investigation of drying neem (Azadirachta indica) in an evacuated tube solar dryer: Performance, drying kinetics and characterization. Solar Energy, Elsevier 2023 March 15:253:270-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2023.02.031 (Q1, SCIE, Impact factor: 6.7)
3 Solar drying of medicinal herbs: A review. Solar Energy, Elsevier 2021 Jul 15;223:415-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.05.065 (Q1, SCIE, Impact factor: 6.7)
4 Performance investigation of drying Ashwagandha roots in a forced convection-evacuated tube indirect solar dryer. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering. 2023;0(0). Sage Publications https://doi:10.1177/09544089231215949 (Q3, SCIE, Impact factor: 2.4)
5 Effect of color change and characterization of the Krishna tulsi leaves dried in a solar dryer [11th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference (ADC), Feb 18-19, 2023, Kolkata, West Bengal, India].
6 Energetic and exergetic performance of an evacuated tube U-type solar collector for medium temperature industrial process air heating: An experimental study [9th International and 49th National conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), December 14-16, 2022, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, 247664, Uttarakhand, India].
7 Performance Enhance- ment and Exergy Analysis of Thermosyphon ETSC with TiO2 + CuO Hybrid Nanofluid, International Conference on Innovations in Thermo-Fluid and Engineering Sciences (ICITFES-2020, February 10-12 at NIT Rourkela].
8 Innovations in Energy, Power and Thermal Engineering Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer Nature, Singapore (Pages: 53-59), 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4489-4_6
9 Application of Metal Spraying in Decoration, Electrical and Other Engineering Industries International Conference on Contemporary Design and Analysis of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering Systems (CDAMIES-2018), organized by Department of Production Engineering, at NIT Trichy during 18th - 20th January 2018.
10 Mitigation of CO2 using solar dryers for environmental sustainability over conventional dryers. National Conference on Waste to Energy, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (NCWECCUS-2023), organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Rourkela during 22-24 December 2023.
11 Heat dissipation investigation of grooved heat pipe. International Journal of Innovative Technology and Research. 5-2017, 6477-6485.
12 CFD analysis on pulsating heat pipe to improve heat transfer International Journal of Research and Innovation in Thermal Engineering, 3-2016, 107-111.

Book Chapter

  • Thota S S Bhaskara Rao, Murugan S. Solar Thermal Energy for Industrial Process Heating Applications, Chapter-4: Medicinal/Pharmaceutical Industries, in CRC Press, Taylor and Francis group (Pages: 99-199), 2023. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003263326