1. Why do you wish to pursue PhD?

I like to solve the practical problems and this is main motivation behind desire for doing PhD. I
myself take the practical problems as a challenge and enjoy the process of solving these
problems. This keeps me involved. I would still further want to improve my abilities to
understand and solve problems. I want to become expert in mentioned field of interest. I want to
make myself a better resource person and gain skills that may lead to a better acknowledged.
2. What is your motivation for applying to IIT Gandhinagar?

Though it is recently established institute but it has better research facility. The institute has
worldwide recognized faculty which coordinately supervise and guide well in definite path.
3. What are your long term career objectives?

My long term career objective is to seek a teaching position for guiding the students and
encourage them. Continuing research work in any institute would fulfill my aim. Spreading
knowledge and sharing experience will keep me long-going.
4. What is the area of your research interest and why?

Thermal engineering.
It is broader area out of them solar energy, heat transfer and fluid mechanics have more scope for
research. These fields are creating new challenges now-a-days. Taking up these challenges has
brought upon keen interest in me.
Any thermal system has got lower efficiency so steps are needed to taken to solve the problems.
There is scope to makes such systems efficient. Also abundant solar energy is available but
requires more research to enhance its utility to maximum level. The inventions like heat pipe
encourage me to get involved in such research.

Research work:1) The design of system which stacks the bearing ball according to their
diameter and its manufacturing is done. The programmable logical
controller, electro-pneumatics, actuator are coupled in such way that
operation of pneumatic was done as signal given by PLC. The proximity
sensor is used to count the number of ball bearing and measures the
diameter of it, sends signal to PLC accordingly operation of actuator takes
place.

1) Designed and developed multi material stacking system for stacking of

bearing balls according to their sizes. The programmable logical controller,
electro-pneumatics, pneumatic actuator are used to make the system fully
automatic. This project was sponsored by localized industry at aurangabd.
2) Longer length of wire or a length of strip product will generally require a
continuous annealing furnace but in current practice the annealing of wire is
done by using batch furnace because there are numerous technical
difficulties in continuous annealing furnace. I designed and developed
continuous annealing furnace by using basic heat transfer equation and
applying lumped system analysis for determination of annealing time for
continuous moving wire. Alumina refractory tube was used to support
kanthal heating element and it is covered by ceramic wool insulation. The
furnace temperature and annealing time are required to decide the speed of
wire on which designing of motor and pulley takes place. The motor and
pulley are used to pull the wire from cold rolling machine through the tube
furnace continuously.