B. P. Pattanaik

• Ph.D.
• Principal at Hooghly Engineering & Technology College

Tall structures are built in urban areas to accommodate large number of populations because of land constraint issue. These types of structures are susceptible to strong ground motions of varying frequency contents. Many researchers have developed various mechanisms to minimize the vibration of tall and slender structures subjected to strong ground...

The increasing demand for fossil fuel owing to rapid growth in civilization, industries, automobiles etc., not only depletes the conventional energy sources, but also responsible for global climate change. In this context, biofuels in recent years have emerged as potential substitute for the conventional fuels. There are growing opportunities for d...

Experiments are performed on a diesel engine working in single fuel mode using fossil diesel (FD) as well as 5% and 10% (v/v) di-ethyl ether (DEE) additives with FD as fuels as well as in dual fuel mode using the above fuels as pilot fuels along with producer gas (PG) as primary fuel. This study aims to draw comparative analyses of engine combustio...

The increasing demand for fossil fuel owing to rapid growth in civilization, industries, automobiles etc., not only deplete the conventional energy sources, but also responsible for the global climate change. In this context, biofuels in recent years have emerged as potential substitute for various conventional fuels. There are growing opportunitie...

The present work studies the influence of di-tertiary-butyl peroxide (DTBP) as a cetane-improving additive to karanja methyl ester (KME) on the combustion, performance and emission characteristics of a diesel engine. KME produced by base catalyzed transesterification of non-edible karanja oil was blended with DTBP in different volume proportions to...

Over exploitation of fossil-based fuels for energy has given rise to serious issues like environmental degradation and global warming. Replacement of petroleum-based fuels with biofuels, such as vegetable oils, biodiesels, etc. has drawn the attention of researchers in order to address the a fore-mentioned issues in recent years. The present experi...

In this study, 18 soapnut biodiesel-diesel blends along with soapnut oil as an additive in some blends were prepared and used in a diesel engine to investigate the effect of oxygen content in the fuel blends on engine performance and emission characteristics. Considering the large variations in the oxygen content of these fuel blends, the obtained...