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Dr. Krishna Kant Dwivedi

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Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering

NIT Durgapur

03 Years & 09 Months

Thermal Engineering, Gasification, Pyrolysis, CFD

Renewable Energy, Thermochemical Conversion, Fluidized Bed Reactor, Carbon Capture & Utilisation

Mail: kkdwivedi@sru.edu.in

Educational
Qualifications
(From Highest)

2020

Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Durgapur, India

2014

M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Govt. Engg. College (JEC) Jabalpur, India

2012

B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from RGPV Bhopal, India

Professional
Experience

2025

Assistant Professor at SR University, Warangal, from 2025-09-08 to .

2024

Principal Project Scientist at IIT Madras, from 2024-12-02 to 2025-08-31.

2020

Post Doctoral Fellow at IIT Madras, from 2020-12-01 to 2023-11-30.

Key Publications

K. K. Dwivedi, A. K. Pramanick, M. K. Karmakar, P. K. Chatterjee (2022), ‘Synergistic effect on copyrolysis mechanism and kinetics of waste coal blended with high rank coal and biomass’, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Vol. 147, pp. 8323–8343, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-021-11123-4

K. K. Dwivedi, P. Shrivastav, M. K. Karmakar, A. K. Pramanick, P. K. Chatterjee (2019), ‘A comparative study on Pyrolysis Characteristics of bituminous coal and low rank coal using thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA),’ International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization,1(39),pp.1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392699.2019.1566130

K. K. Dwivedi, S., Dutta, C., Loha., M. K. Karmakar, P. K. Chatterjee (2021), ‘A numerical study on the wall erosion impact and gas-particle hydrodynamics in circulating fluidized bed riser’, Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 22, pp. 100852, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2021.100852

K. K. Dwivedi, Prabhansu, M. K. Karmakar, P. K. Chatterjee (2020), ‘Thermal degradation, characterization and kinetic modeling of different particle size coal through TGA’, Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 18, pp. 100523. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2020.100523

K. K. Dwivedi, A. K. Pramanick, M. K. Karmakar, P. K. Chatterjee (2020), ‘Three dimensional CFD simulation and experimental validation of particle segregation in CFB riser’, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 31 No. 4, pp.1144-1171, https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/HFF-04-2020-0197/full/html

K. K. Dwivedi, P. K. Chatterjee, M. K. Karmakar, A. K. Pramanick, (2019), ‘Pyrolysis characteristics and kinetics of Indian low rank coal by using thermo-gravimetric analysis’, International Journal of Coal Science and Technology, 6(2), pp 102-112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40789-019-0236-7

K. K. Dwivedi, M. K. Karmakr, A. K. Pramanick, P. K. Chatterjee, (2019), ‘A brief review on hydrodynamic behaviour analysis of coal gasification in a circulating fluidized bed gasifier,’ International Journal of Heat and Technology, 37(3), pp. 792-802. https://doi.org/10.18280/ijht.370316

K. K. Dwivedi, A. K. Pramanick, M. K. Karmakar, P. K. Chatterjee, (2019), ‘Experimental study and characterization of coal gasification in a circulating fluidized bed gasifier,’ IOP Science: Materials Science and Engineering, 577, pp. 1-9.

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