faculty Profile

• BE – MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – 2013 – C ABDUL HAKEEM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY – VELLORE
• ME – INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES – 2015 -SRI VEKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING – SRIPERUMBHUDHUR
• Ph.D – DIESEL ENGINE COMBUSTION AND EMISSION CONTROL – 2021 – VIT UIVERSITY – VELLORE

• Assistant Professor, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbhudur, 01/03/2021 to till date

• ENGINEERING DRAWING
• BASIC MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
• THERMAL ENGINEERING LAB – I & II
• ENGINEERIG PRACTICES LAB

• S Saravanan, *C Ramesh Kumar, V. Edwin Geo, “An experimental study to analyze influence of porous media combustor on performance and emission characteristics of a DI diesel engine”, Fuel 280 (2020) 118645 (Impact factor: 5.578)
• S Saravanan, C Ramesh Kumar, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, *Kathirvel Brindhadevi, “Role of thermal barrier coating and porous medium combustor or a diesel engine: An experimental study” Fuel 280 (2020) 118597 (Impact factor: 5.578)
• *S Saravanan, K Pitchandi, G suresh, “An experimental study on premixed charge compression ignition – direct ignition engine fueled with ethanol and gasohol”, Alexandria Engineering Journal (2015) 54, 897-904. (Impact factor: 3.696)
• NKI Wilson, P Gopal, CR Kumar, S Saravanan*, “Exhaust gas recirculation for enhancing performance of HVOF sprayed zirconium dioxide & aluminium oxide coated internal combustion engine”, Materials Today: Proceedings
• NKI Wilson, P Gopal, S Saravanan*, CR Kumar, “Performance and emission evaluation of HVOF sprayed zirconium dioxide and aluminium oxide coated internal combustion engine by incorporating injection timing retardation”, Materials Today: Proceedings
• S Saravanan, *C Ramesh Kumar, “Carbon dioxide capture using Adsorption Technology in Diesel Engines”, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research (2020), 10 (4), 1614-1620. (Scopus Indexed)
• S Saravanan, *C Ramesh Kumar, P Gopal, “Investigation of combustion, performance and emission characters of compression ignition engine fuelled with diesel blends of linseed and cottonseed oil”, Progress in Industrial Ecology, an International Journal (2017) 11 (3), 207-218. (Scopus Indexed)
• S Saravanan, *C Ramesh Kumar, “Experimental investigations on CO2 recovery from petrol engine using adsorption technology”, SAE Technical Paper 2019-28-2577, 2019. (Scopus Indexed)
• *S Saravanan, C Ramesh Kumar, “Study of NOx Reduction efficiency in NSR and NSR-SCR Combined Systems”, SAE Technical Paper 2019-28-0087, 2019, doi:10.4271/2019-28-0087. (Scopus Indexed)
• *S Saravanan, C Ramesh Kumar, “Impacts on NOx Emission Control Measures to Achieve EURO VI Limits – A Review”, Journal Europeen des Systemes Automatises, 52 (2), 163-171, doi.org/10.18280/jesa.520208. (Scopus Indexed)
• *S Saravanan, S Gupta, R Chidambaram, A Jain, K Vora, “Assessment on Performance, Combustion and Emission Characteristics of Diesel Engine Fuelled with Blends of Diesel, Algae Biodiesel and Heptanol”, SAE Technical Paper 2018-28-0077, 2018, doi:10.4271/2018-28-0077. (Scopus Indexed)
• *S Saravanan, CR Kumar, CD Naiju, “NOx Control Using Porous Medium Combustion in DI Diesel Engine-An Attempt through Simulation Study”, SAE Technical Paper 2019-26-0091, doi:10.4271/2019-26-0091. (Scopus Indexed)
• Akash Modi, Azharul Haque, Bhanu Pratap, Ish Kumar Bansal, Prasoon Kumar, S Saravanan, M Senthil Kumar, C Kumar, “A Review on Air Preheater Elements Design and Testing”, Mechanics, Materials Science & Engineering (2017). (Scopus Indexed)

Consultancy:

• Engine cooling system studies using Nano coolants – CVRDE Project
• Water wadding studies of a radiator (porous medium) – Nissan Project
• Conversion of conventional auto rickshaw into battery oriented charging electric

National Conference:

• Presented a paper titled “Investigation of performance and emission characters of Compression Ignition engine fuelled with diesel blends of Linseed and Cottonseed oil” in the “National Conference on Evolution of Green and Materials Processing Technology” Organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering held on 2nd and 3rd March 2017

International Conference:

• Coordinated an “International Conference on Progress in Automotive Technologies” Organized by Vellore Institute of Technology – Vellore held on March 7- 9, 2019
• Presented a paper titled “Impact on NOx emission control measures to achieve EURO-VI limits” in the “International Conference on Progress in Automotive Technologies” Organized by Vellore Institute of Technology – Vellore held on March 7- 9, 2019
• Presented a paper titled “Investigation of performance and emission characters of CNG fuelled petrol engine” in the “International Conference on Trends and Advanced Research in Green Energy Technologies, ICTARGET-2017” Organized by Vellore Institute of Technology – Vellore held on 30 and 31st March 2017
• Participated in the one-day workshop on “Scientific Writing” organized by Periyar E.V.R. Central Library VIT University, in association with Department of Library & Information Science, University of Madras, Chennai held on 30th October 2015
• Presented a paper titled “Combustion and emission characteristics on PCCI-DI engine in dual-mode” in the “International Conference on Science and Innovative Engineering” Organized by the Organization of Science and Innovative Engineering & Technology (OSIET) at Jawahar Engineering College held on 5th April 2015
• Participated in the International Conference on “Computational Systems in Engineering and Technology (ICCSET 2014)” at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Pennalur held on 7th and 8th March 2014

Workshop:

• Participated in the Three day Workshop on “Boundary Layer Theory”, Organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur on 22d, 23rd and 24th of September, 2021
• Attended the NAAC Sponsored One-day Online Seminar on “Qualitative & Quantitative Metrics in RAAF of NAAC” conducted on 17th September, 2021

FDP:

• Attended Six days online Short Term Training Programme – Phase III on “Electric Vehicle Evolution – Impact on Power Grid” Organised by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur during April 19th – 24th, 2021
• Participated in the Faculty Development Programme (FDP) titled CFD in IC engines, conducted by Academic Staff College of VIT University on 28th September 2015

• Faculty Advisor B.E. (2019-2023)

• AS A REVIEW EDITOR IN
• Frontiers in Thermal Engineering – Thermal Science and Energy Systems

AWARDED CERTIFICATE OF REVIEWING IN

• Alexandria Engineering Journal (since January 2016)
• Transportation Research Part D (since November 2016)
• Energy Conversion and Management (since July 2019)
• Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal (since December 2020)
• Energy and Environment
• International Journal of Heat and Technology
• Petroleum Science and Technology
• Advanced Mechanical Engineering
• Heat transfer – Asian Journal (Wiley Online Library)