STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Abhijit Date
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Phone:
+61399250612
Email:
abhijit.date@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora East
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
- 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
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
14 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions24 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions
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.
- 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)