STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Abhijit Date
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Email:
abhijit.date@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora East Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Research
Dr Abhijit Date's research involves work in areas like heat transfer (heat pipes, vapour chambers), Thermodynamics (low temperature heat engines and water desalination), Renewable energy (Hydro-electricity turbines, concentrated solar PV and solar thermal systems, geothermal energy, solar chimney).
Research collaboration with international industry and academia:
Fujikura – Japan, MWH Global – Australia, GreenEarth Energy – Australia, Protech – Chile, Indian Institute of Technology Madras - India, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - India, University of Pune – India
Research funding
- Bluechalk 2015 - $31k
- AISRF – Early Career Fellow 2013 - $30k
- MWH Global 2012 - $24k
Current PhD’s: 4 – Senior supervisor; 4 – Associate supervisor
Course coordinator and lecturer:
- Final Year Projects (Capstone Projects)
- Applied Thermodynamics
- Mechanical Design 2
- PhD and Master by research supervisor
- PhD RMIT
- BE(Mech) University of Mumbai
- Lecturer, Jan 2014 – to date, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- Visiting Fellow, Sept 2013 – Dec 2013, University of Pune, Pune, India
- IIT Madras, May 2013 – July 2013, Chennai, India
- Post Doctorate Research Fellow, April 2010 to Dec 2013, RMIT University, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Melbourne, Australia
- Teacher / Program coordinator, Feb 2009 to April 2010, RMIT University, School of Engineering, Melbourne, Australia
- Research Assistant, Nov 2004 to Jan 2009, RMIT University, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Melbourne, Australia
- Engineer, August 2002 to Jan 2004, Zigma Engineering, Pune, India
- Graduate Trainee Engineer, August 2001 to August 2002, Eaton Hydraulics Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India
- Dehghani, S.,Mahmoudi, F.,Date, A.,Akbarzadeh, A. (2020). Experimental Performance Evaluation of Humidification–Dehumidification System With Direct-Contact Dehumidifier In: Journal of Energy Resources Technology, 142, 1 - 9
- Mahmoudi, F.,Date, A.,Akbarzadeh, A. (2020). Examining the commercially available hydrophobic membranes in combined desalination and power generation through permeate gap membrane distillation In: Desalination, 474, 1 - 11
- Phan, D.,Bab-Hadiashar, A.,Hoseinnezhad, R.,Nakhaie Jazar, R.,Date, A.,Jamali, A.,Pham, D.,Khayyam, H. (2020). Neuro-fuzzy system for energy management of conventional autonomous vehicles In: Energies, 13, 1 - 16
- Ahmadi, M.,Khorasani, A.,Iqbal, M.,Date, A.,Akbarzadeh, A. (2020). Experimental investigation of nozzle geometry effect on two-phase nozzle performance through trilateral flash cycle In: Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 20, 1 - 11
- Ve, Q.,Koirala, R.,Bawahab, M.,Faqeha, H.,Do, M.,Nguyen, Q.,Date, A.,Akbarzadeh, A. (2020). Experimental investigation of the effect of the spacer and operating conditions on mass transfer in direct contact membrane distillation In: Desalination, 500, 1 - 11
- Dehghani, S.,Date, A.,Akbarzadeh, A. (2019). An experimental study of brine recirculation in humidification-dehumidification desalination of seawater In: Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 14, 1 - 10
- Velardo, J.,Date, A.,Singh, R.,Nihill, J.,Date, A.,Phan, T.,Takahashi, M. (2019). Experimental investigation of a vapour chamber heat spreader with hybrid wick structure In: International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 140, 28 - 35
- Ganguly, S.,Date, A.,Akbarzadeh, A. (2019). On increasing the thermal mass of a salinity gradient solar pond with external heat addition: A transient study In: Energy, 168, 43 - 56
- Velardo, J.,Date, A.,Singh, R.,Nihill, J.,Date, A.,Phan, T. (2019). On the effective thermal conductivity of the vapour region in vapour chamber heat spreaders In: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 145, 1 - 2
- Date, A.,Singh, B.,Heidari, S.,Remeli, M. (2019). Importance of making student aware of interconnections and relevance of topics In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEED 2018), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 8-9 November 2018
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
21 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions6 PhD Current Supervisions
Renew energy namely hydro-electric turbines, concentrated solar PV and solar thermal systems, solar desalination, low temperature heat engines, geothermal desalination and power generation and solar chimney.
- Opportunity Assessment: B3 Electrification and renewables to displace fossil fuel process heating. Funded by: Race for 2030 Limited CRC - Competitive from (2021 to 2021)
- Sustainable water management system for water desalination and agricultural irrigation independent of electric grid. Funded by: Australia-India Strategic Research Grant Pre-2014 - Round 8 from (2015 to 2017)
- Advancing Research in Micro Wind Energy Harvesting and Solar Thermal Desalination: Securing Australia's Future Energy and Water Needs. Funded by: DIICCSRTE Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) Grant Pre-2014 from (2013 to 2014)