STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Abhijit Date
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Mechanical and Automotive Engineering
Phone:
99250612
Email:
abhijit.date@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora 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
- 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.,Vahaji, S.,Iqbal, A.,Date, A.,Akbarzadeh, A. (2019). Experimental study of converging-Diverging nozzle to generate power by Trilateral Flash Cycle (TFC) In: Applied Thermal Engineering, 147, 675 - 683
- 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
- Mahmoudi, F.,Date, A.,Akbarzadeh, A. (2018). Further investigation of simultaneous fresh water production and power generation concept by permeate gap membrane distillation system In: Journal of Membrane Science, 572, 230 - 245
- Mahmoudi, F.,Date, A.,Akbarzadeh, A. (2018). Combined fresh water production and power generation using membrane distillation technology In: Proceedings of the Chemeca 2018 Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, 30 September - 3 October 2018
- Ganguly, S.,Date, A.,Akbarzadeh, A. (2018). Effectiveness of bottom insulation of a salinity gradient solar pond In: Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, 140, 1 - 5
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
16 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions8 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.
- 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)