IITKGP

Parthasarathi Ghosh

Professor

Cryogenic Engineering

+91-3222-283594

psghosh@cryo.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

  • Simulation of Hydrogen, He liquefiers
  • Storage and transfer of LH2, LNG, LOX
  • Multiphase flow and cavitation.
  • Reverse Brayton cryocoolers.
  • Cryogenic turbines and turbopumps.
  1. 1. Design and simulation of cryogenic liquefiers and refrigerators.
         a) Simulation and design of large scale cryogenic liquefaction systems such as helium, hydrogen, natural gas (LNG).
         b) Development of cryogenic process plant simulator for cryogenic liquefaction and refrigeration.
         c) Process design of reverse Brayton cycle based cryocooler for high temperature superconductor based application and sensor cooling.

    2. Cryogenic rotating machinery
         a) Design, CFD and experimental studies.
         b) Turbopumps for cryogenic and semi-cryogenic rocket engine.

    3. Cryogenic two phase flow
         a) Direct contact condensation for semi-cryogenic rocket engine.
         b) Development of 1D flow network code (FloNAT) for cryogenic fluid management systems.
         c) Fluid transient in cryogenic system.
         d) Chill-down and flow boiling of cryogenic transfer system at ground and microgravity conditions.
         e) Two-phase instabilities in cryogenic transfer.
         f) Pressurized cryogenic transfer.
         g) Cryogenic safety.

    4. Reverse Brayton cryocooler
         a) Design and experimental studies.
         b) For high temperature superconductor (HTS) based cable and other devices cooling, space sensor cooling.

    5. Cavitation and Bubble dynamics


  2.  
  • Flow-focusing from interacting cavitation bubbles Mishra A., Bourquard C. , Roy A. , Lakkaraju R. , Supponen O. , Ghosh P. By Gallery of Fluid Motion - (2021)
  • Liquid hydrogen pipeline chill-down: Mathematical modelling and investigation Kunniyoor K.R., Govind R., Venkateswaran K.S., Ghosh P. By Cryogenics 118 - (2021)
  • Technical, economic and environmental feasibility of resource recovery technologies from wastewater Yadav G., Mishra A., Ghosh P., Sindhu R., Vinayak V., Pugazhendhi A. By Science of the Total Environment 796 - (2021)
  • Numerical studies on unstable oscillatory direct contact condensation (DCC) of oxygen vapor jets in subcooled flowing liquid oxygen Narayanan J.K., Roy A., Ghosh P. By Cryogenics (DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cryogenics.2020.103176) 111 1-15 (2020)
  • Exergetic analysis of reverse Brayton cryocooler with different turbine arrangements for HTS power cables Dhillon A.K., Ghosh P. By Cryogenics 115 - (2021)
  • Acoustic cavitation-induced shear: a mini-review Mondal J., Lakkaraju R., Ghosh P., Ashokkumar M. By Biophysical Reviews 13 1229-1243 (2021)
  • Optimization of UA of heat exchangers and BOG compressor exit pressure of LNG boil-off gas reliquefaction system using exergy analysis Kochunni S. K., Ghosh P. , Chowdhury K. By IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering 101 1-9 (2015)

Principal Investigator

  • Chilldown Analysis of Cryogenic Jacketed Pipelines for ISRO-IPRC Mahendragiri

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Data driven techniques applied to numerical and experimental study of jet in cross flow Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
  • Design of a jettyless LNG transfer system SP Armada Clean Energy Ventures Private Limited
  • Engineering Design Solutions for Onboard LNG Storage Vessels including Bunkering Ships Ministry of Shipping

Ph. D. Students

Ananta Kumar Sahu

Area of Research: Helium Liquefaction and refrigeration systems

Garva Arjun Girishbhai

Area of Research: Water hammer

Keerthi Raj K

Area of Research: Cryogenic two phase flow

Nithin Krishnan S

Area of Research: Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Rohan Kundu

Area of Research: Storage and transport of liquid cryogen

Sudeep Kumar Gupta

Area of Research: Thermoacoustic

Vinit Kumar Shukla

Area of Research: Process simulator for cryogenic process plants