Areas of Interest

• Internal Combustion Engines; Alternative Fuels (Biodiesel, Alcohols, HVO)
• Diesel Emissions and their Control
• Unregulated Emissions from Diesel and Gasoline Engines
• Aftertreatment Devices; Fuel Spray and its Characterization
• Electric Vehicle Battery Thermal Management System
• Environmental Science and Air pollution

Education

• PhD, 2016, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
• MTech, 2009, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
• BE, 2006, Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla University, Raipur

Past Experience

• Dec 2015 – Aug 2016: Postdoc fellow at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France
• Sep 2016 – March 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Division of Combustion Engines, Lund University, sweden.

Awards and Honors

• Young Scientist Award-2018, International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability.
• Postdoctoral fellowship at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France under ERASMUS MUNDUS Partnership scheme, 2015.
• Appointed as Senior Research Associateship (Pool scientist scheme), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India) from 1st March 2014 to 30th November 2015.

PG Students

Ph.D.: 1 Student completed; 3 Students Pursuing

1. Dr. Tomesh Kumar Sahu (Completed) has completed his Doctoral thesis with a tentative title of ‘Parametric Study of Sugar Extraction from Lignocellulosic Biomass and Combustion Stability Investigation in High Compression Ratio CI Engine Fuelled with Ethanol-Diesel Blend.’
2. Vikas Kumar Sahu (Ongoing) is currently doing his Doctoral thesis with a tentative title of ‘Design and Micromachining of Injector Nozzles for Alcohol Injection and its Spray Chamber Study’. (with Dr. Soumya Gangopadhyay)
3. Durgesh Srivastava (Ongoing) is currently doing his thesis with a tentative title of ‘Bio-based Phase Change Material for Thermal Management’ (with Dr. Nagesh D Patil)
4. Ashi Dutta (Ongoing) is currently doing her thesis with a tentative title of ‘Particulate Emission from a Gasoline Direct Injection Engine’.

M.Tech: 6 Students Completed; 2 Student Ongoing

1. Atul Kumar (Completed) completed his master’s project titled ‘Design, Fabrication of a Partial Flow Dilution Tunnel and Emission, Performance, Heat Loss Analysis in a Compression Ignition Engine’
2. Ravindra Kshatri (Completed) completed his master’s project titled ‘Combustion and Emission Investigation in an Ethanol-Diesel Fueled Twin-Cylinder CRDI Engine’
3. Ankit Tamrakar (Completed) completed his master’s project titled ‘Effect of Al2O3 addition on the characteristics of 8YSZ Thermal Barrier Coating and its Performance Evaluation in Engine Test’ (with Dr. Soumya Gangopadhyay)
4. Nidhish Thawarey (Completed) completed his master’s project titled ‘Macroscopic Spray Investigation of ED95 Fuel in a Constant Volume Spray Chamber’ (with Dr. Vijay S Duryodhan)
5. Aman Verma (Completed) completed his master’s project titled ‘Study of Diesel Emulsification Process in Step Microchannel’ (with Dr. Vijay S Duryodhan)
6. Asmat Ali (Completed) completed his master’s project titled ‘State of Health Prediction for EV Batteries using Machine Learning’ (with Dr. Nitin Khanna)
7. Saurabh Gangber (Ongoing)
8. Ajay Rameshwar Bhakare (Ongoing) (with Dr. Nagesh D Patil)

Present Research and Project Staffs

1. Bhupendara, Pratived Sahu, Pulak Haldar, Danvir Kaushik, Surendra Singh Rathore, Drishty Singh,

Pojects

1. Working on a sponsored project (as PI) funded by Department of Science and Technology Technology Mission Division (DST-TMD) titled ‘Source based Parametric Investigation for Various Pretreatment Method for VOC Reduction in CO-Firing Biomass with Coal’ (Funding amount: 38.57 Lakh)
2. Working on a sponsored project (as Co-PI) funded by Core Research Grant (CRG), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST) titled ‘Development of Flash Atomiser Injectors for Ethanol-Diesel Blends and its Characterisation in Compression Ignition Engines’ (Funding amount: 47.13 Lakh)
3. Working on a sponsored project (as Co-PI) funded by Tribal Area Sub plan (TSP) scheme of IBITF titled ‘Economic Feasibility Study and Process Parameter optimization for Mahua flower-based Ethanol production for the Upliftment of Tribals of Chhattisgarh’ (Funding amount: 75.47 Lakh)
4. Working on a sponsored project (as PI) funded by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST) titled ‘Development of High Compression Ratio Engine using Second Generation Fuel’ (Funding amount: 21.38 Lakh)
5. Working on Institute sponsored project funded under Research Initiation Grant (RIG) titled ‘Development of High Entropy Alloy based thermal barrier coating for IC-engine piston and its effect on combustion, performance and emission in a light-duty CRDI diesel engine fuelled with Neem based biodiesel blend (B20)’ (Funding amount: 11.68 Lakh)

Selected Publications

Journal Papers

1. Sahu, Vikas Kumar, Pravesh Chandra Shukla, and Soumya Gangopadhyay. "Development of surface textures using micro-milling operation for improved tribological characteristics of aluminium alloy." The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (2024): 1-16.
2. Saravanan, Govindachetty, Rohini Khobragade, Pravesh Chandra Shukla, Tarun Gupta, Avinash Kumar Agarwal, and Nitin Kumar Labhsetwar. "Manganese-Substituted Strontium Ferrite Catalyst on Honeycomb Structured Cordierite Support for Oxidation of Diesel Particulate Matter." Available at SSRN 4773581.
3. Sahu VK, Rajeev P, Vishwakarma P, Shukla PC, Gupta T. Total carbon characterization and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon toxicity assessment for particulate matter produced from Alcohol-Diesel blend. Fuel. 2024 May 15;364:131050.
4. Sahu TK, Shukla PC, Mondal A, Gupta S, Belgiorno G, Di Blasio G. Assessment of particulate PAHs toxicity from alcohol-diesel blends fuelled high compression ratio CI engine. Cleaner Engineering and Technology. 2024 Feb 1;18:100725.
5. Rajeev P, Shukla PC, Singh GK, Das D, Gupta T. Assessment of entrainment of key PAHs emanating from major combustion sources into the ambient air. Fuel. 2023 Sep 1;347:128430.
6. Sahu TK, Shukla PC. Effect of inherent oxygen mass fraction of alcohol blends with diesel on combustion and emission parameters. Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy. 2023 May;42(3):e14030.
7. Sahu TK, Sahu VK, Mondal A, Shukla PC, Gupta S, Sarkar S. Investigation of sugar extraction capability from rice paddy straw for potential use of bioethanol production towards energy security. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects. 2022 Mar 31;44(1):272-86.
8. Hunicz J, Mikulski M, Shukla PC, Gęca MS. Partially premixed combustion of hydrotreated vegetable oil in a diesel engine: Sensitivity to boost and exhaust gas recirculation. Fuel. 2022 Jan 1;307:121910.
9. Sahu TK, Shukla PC, Belgiorno G, Maurya RK. Alcohols as alternative fuels in compression ignition engines for sustainable transportation: A review. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects. 2022 Dec 21;44(4):8736-59.
10. Khobragade R, Saravanan G, Einaga H, Nagashima H, Shukla P, Gupta T, Agarwal AK, Labhasetwar N. Diesel fuel particulate emission control using low-cost catalytic materials. Fuel. 2021 Oct 15;302:121157.
11. Sahu TK, Sarkar S, Shukla PC. Combustion investigation of waste cooking oil (WCO) with varying compression ratio in a single cylinder CI engine. Fuel. 2021 Jan 1;283:119262.
12. Gren L, Malmborg VB, Jacobsen NR, Shukla PC, Bendtsen KM, Eriksson AC, Essig YJ, Krais AM, Loeschner K, Shamun S, Strandberg B. Effect of renewable fuels and intake O2 concentration on diesel engine emission characteristics and reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation. Atmosphere. 2020 Jun 16;11(6):641.
13. Bendtsen KM, Gren L, Malmborg VB, Shukla PC, Tunér M, Essig YJ, Krais AM, Clausen PA, Berthing T, Loeschner K, Jacobsen NR. Particle characterization and toxicity in C57BL/6 mice following instillation of five different diesel exhaust particles designed to differ in physicochemical properties. Particle and Fibre Toxicology. 2020 Dec;17:1-25.
14. Zincir B, Shukla P, Shamun S, Tuner M, Deniz C, Johansson B. Investigation of effects of intake temperature on low load limitations of methanol partially premixed combustion. Energy & Fuels. 2019 May 24;33(6):5695-709.
15. Khobragade R, Singh SK, Shukla PC, Gupta T, Al-Fatesh AS, Agarwal AK, Labhasetwar NK. Chemical composition of diesel particulate matter and its control. Catalysis Reviews. 2019 Jun 11.
16. Agarwal AK, Singh AP, Maurya RK, Shukla PC, Dhar A, Srivastava DK. Combustion characteristics of a common rail direct injection engine using different fuel injection strategies. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 2018 Dec 1;134:475-84.
17. Agarwal AK, Ateeq B, Gupta T, Singh AP, Pandey SK, Sharma N, Agarwal RA, Gupta NK, Sharma H, Jain A, Shukla PC. Toxicity and mutagenicity of exhaust from compressed natural gas: Could this be a clean solution for megacities with mixed-traffic conditions?. Environmental Pollution. 2018 Aug 1;239:499-511.
18. Shukla PC, Shamun S, Gren L, Malmborg V, Pagels J, Tuner M. Investigation of particle number emission characteristics in a heavy-duty compression ignition engine fueled with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants. 2018 Jan 1;11(4):495-506.
19. Shukla PC, Gupta T, Agarwal AK. Performance evaluation of a biodiesel fuelled transportation engine retrofitted with a non-noble metal catalysed diesel oxidation catalyst for controlling unregulated emissions. Journal of hazardous materials. 2018 Feb 15;344:615-25.
20. Shukla PC, Gupta T, Gupta N, Agarwal AK. A qualitative correlation between engine exhaust particulate number and mass emissions. Fuel. 2017 Aug 15;202:241-5.
21. Shukla PC, Gupta T, Labhsetwar NK, Agarwal AK. Trace metals and ions in particulates emitted by biodiesel fuelled engine. Fuel. 2017 Jan 15;188:603-9.
22. Shukla PC, Gupta T, Labhasetwar NK, Khobaragade R, Gupta NK, Agarwal AK. Effectiveness of non-noble metal based diesel oxidation catalysts on particle number emissions from diesel and biodiesel exhaust. Science of the Total Environment. 2017 Jan 1;574:1512-20.
23. Agarwal AK, Shukla PC, Patel C, Gupta JG, Sharma N, Prasad RK, Agarwal RA. Unregulated emissions and health risk potential from biodiesel (KB5, KB20) and methanol blend (M5) fuelled transportation diesel engines. Renewable Energy. 2016 Dec 1;98:283-91.
24. Hora TS, Shukla PC, Agarwal AK. Particulate emissions from hydrogen enriched compressed natural gas engine. Fuel. 2016 Feb 15;166:574-80.
25. Shukla PC, Gupta T, Labhsetwar NK, Agarwal AK. Development of low cost mixed metal oxide based diesel oxidation catalysts and their comparative performance evaluation. RSC advances. 2016;6(61):55884-93.
26. Shukla PC, Gupta T, Labhsetwar NK, Agarwal AK. Physico-chemical speciation of particulates emanating from Karanja biodiesel fuelled automotive engine. Fuel. 2015 Dec 15;162:84-90.
27. Agarwal AK, Som S, Shukla PC, Goyal H, Longman D. In-nozzle flow and spray characteristics for mineral diesel, Karanja, and Jatropha biodiesels. Applied Energy. 2015 Oct 15;156:138-48.
28. Agarwal AK, Bothra P, Shukla PC. Particulate characterization of CNG fuelled public transport vehicles at traffic junctions. Aerosol Air Qual Res 15: 2168–2174.
29. Agarwal AK, Shukla PC, Gupta JG, Patel C, Prasad RK, Sharma N. Unregulated emissions from a gasohol (E5, E15, M5, and M15) fuelled spark ignition engine. Applied Energy. 2015 Sep 15;154:732-41.
30. Shukla PC, Gupta T, Agarwal AK. A comparative morphological study of primary and aged particles emitted from a biodiesel (B20) vis-à;-vis Diesel Fuelled CRDI Engine. Aerosol and Air Quality Research. 2014 Mar;14(3):934-42.
31. Agarwal AK, Gupta T, Dixit N, Shukla PC. Assessment of toxic potential of primary and secondary particulates/aerosols from biodiesel vis-a-vis mineral diesel fuelled engine. Inhalation toxicology. 2013 May 1;25(6):325-32.

Conferences

1. Srivastav D, Patil ND, Shukla PC. Numerical Investigation of a Single Cell (Li-Ion) Combined with Phase Change Material and Additives for Battery Thermal Management. SAE Technical Paper; 2024 Apr 9.
2. Kumar A, Sahu TK, Shukla PC. Design and fabrication of a partial flow dilution tunnel for particulate mass sampling in an ethanol blended CI engine. InIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 2022 Jul 1 (Vol. 1042, No. 1, p. 012006). IOP Publishing.
3. Sharma S, Shukla PC, Gangopadhyay S. Deposition and Characterization of Thermal 80% 8YSZ/20% Al Barrier Coating. Advances in Modern Machining Processes: Proceedings of AIMTDR 2021. 2022 Dec 14:321.
4. Sharma S, Shukla PC, Gangopadhyay S. Deposition and Characterization of 80% 8YSZ/20% Al2O3 Plasma Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coating. InAdvances in Modern Machining Processes: Proceedings of AIMTDR 2021 2022 Dec 15 (pp. 321-331). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
5. Sahu TK, Sahu VK, Shukla PC. Effect of Oxygen Percentage in Combustion Characteristics and Combustion Phase of Methanol-Diesel Fuelled CI Engine. InConference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power 2021 Dec 27 (pp. 149-154). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
6. Sahu TK, Shukla PC, Sahu VK, Gupta S, Sarkar S. Fuel property investigation: jatropha biodiesel, used cooking oil biodiesel and fuel-grade ethanol blends. InIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2021 May 1 (Vol. 1146, No. 1, p. 012012). IOP Publishing.
7. Sahu TK, Gupta S, Shukla PC. Second generation bioethanol production from organic waste. Alternative Fuels and Their Utilization Strategies in Internal Combustion Engines. 2020:49-64.
8. Shamun S, Zincir B, Shukla P, Garcia Valladolid P, Verhelst S, Tunér M. Quantification and analysis of the charge cooling effect of methanol in a compression ignition engine utilizing PPC strategy. InInternal combustion engine division fall technical conference 2018 Nov 4 (Vol. 51982, p. V001T02A007). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
9. Shukla PC, Gupta T, Agarwal AK. Evaluation of Lanthanum based diesel oxidation catalyst for emission reduction with and without Ceria support. SAE Technical Paper; 2016 Feb 1.

Books

1. Shukla PC, Belgiorno G, Di Blasio G, Agarwal AK. Renewable Fuels for Sustainable Mobility. Springer Nature Singapore; 2023.
2. Shukla PC, Belgiorno G, Di Blasio G, Agarwal AK, editors. Alcohol as an alternative fuel for internal combustion engines. Singapore: Springer; 2021 May 15.

Book Chapters

1. Sahu TK, Shukla PC. Combustion and Emission Characteristics of Oxygenated Alternative Fuels in Compression Ignition Engines. InRenewable Fuels for Sustainable Mobility 2023 May 7 (pp. 79-95). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
2. Sahu TK, Shukla PC. Combustion and emission characteristics of butanol-diesel blend (B15) doped with diethyl ether, diglyme and ethyl diglyme in a CRDI diesel engine. SAE Technical Paper; 2022 Aug 30.
3. Rana S, Saxena MR, Maurya RK, Shukla PC. Numerical Investigation on the Effect of Fuel Injection Timing on Soot Particle Size and Number Characteristics of Diesel Engine. SAE Technical Paper; 2022 Aug 30.
4. Sahu TK, Kshatri R, Kumar A, Shukla PC. Combustion stability investigation of ethanol blends (E05, E10) in a twin-cylinder ci engine. SAE Technical Paper; 2022 Mar 29.
5. Di Blasio G, Agarwal AK, Belgiorno G, Shukla PC, editors. Clean Fuels for Mobility. Springer; 2022.
6. Sahu VK, Sahu TK, Shukla PC. Fuel injection strategies for alcohol utilization in combustion engines. InApplication of Clean Fuels in Combustion Engines 2022 Jan 4 (pp. 55-69). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
7. Kumar Sahu V, Singh I, Dhar A, Kumar P, Chandra Shukla P. Investigation on the effect of injection timings on combustion, performance and emissions of a pure methanol fuelled DISI engine through 1-D simulations. InEngine Modeling and Simulation 2021 Dec 17 (pp. 299-320). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
8. Shukla PC, Gupta T, Agarwal AK. Techniques to control emissions from a diesel engine. Air pollution and control. 2018:57-72.

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