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Associate Professor Abhijit Date
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
- Koirala, R.,Ve, Q.,Rupakheti, E.,Inthavong, K.,Date, A. (2023). Design Enhancement of Eductor for Active Vapor Transport and Condensation during Two-Phase Single-Species Flow In: Energies, 16, 1 - 22
- Koirala, R.,Inthavong, K.,Date, A. (2022). Numerical study of flow and direct contact condensation of entrained vapor in water jet eductor In: Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flow, 4, 291 - 303
- Valderrama, C.,Pallas, J.,Akbarzadeh, A.,Bawahab, M.,Faqeha, H.,Date, A. (2022). Solar Pond In: Storing Energy, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Date, A.,Traisak, O.,Ward, M.,Rupakheti, E.,Hu, E.,Khayyam, H. (2022). Experimental and Theoretical Study on Mechanical Performance of a Sustainable Method to Simultaneously Generate Power and Fresh Water In: Sustainability, 14, 1 - 15
- Faqeha, H.,Bawahab, M.,Ve, Q.,Traisak, O.,Koirala, R.,Akbarzadeh, A.,Date, A. (2022). Solar Energy Driven Membrane Desalination: Experimental Heat Transfer Analysis In: Energies, 15, 1 - 18
- Zhang, X.,Koirala, R.,Date, A.,Jegatheesan, V. (2022). Modelling and simulation of flux prediction and salinity variation in direct contact membrane distillation for seawater desalination and brine treatment In: Desalination, 540, 1 - 13
- Erinofiardi, E.,Koirala, R.,Shiwakoti, N.,Date, A. (2022). Sustainable Power Generation Using Archimedean Screw Turbine: Influence of Blade Number on Flow and Performance In: Sustainability, 14, 1 - 25
- Koirala, R.,Zhang, X.,Rupakheti, E.,Inthavong, K.,Date, A. (2022). Performance Study of Eductor with Finite Secondary Source for Membrane Distillation In: Energies, 15, 1 - 19
- Velardo, J.,Singh, R.,Long, P.,Kajtaz, M.,Date, A. (2022). A model based on analytical spreading relations for predicting the thermal performance of vapour chambers in thermal management solutions In: International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 185, 1 - 14
- Ranaraja, I.,Jollands, M.,Kestell, C.,Date, A. (2021). Engineering employability: Local and international student views in an Australian context In: Proceedings of the 32nd Research in Engineering Education Symposium & Australian Association for Engineering Education Conference (REES AAEE 2021), Perth, Australia, 5 - 8 December 2021
14 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions24 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions
- Improved PV/solar thermal pool heating systems. Funded by: Innovation Connections grant - Cat 1 from (2023 to 2023)
- Techno-economic feasibility study of Mechanical Vapour Recompression for improving Energy Efficiency in Meat Rendering (RACE for 2030 Limited (CRC Company) Fast Track Project Agreement. Funded by: Race for 2030 Limited CRC - Competitive from (2023 to 2024)
- 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)