Advances in Thermal Engineering, Manufacturing, and Production Management

Dr. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh is currently Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He obtained his B.E (Mechanical Engineering), M.E and Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His major areas of research interests include waste management, circular economy, environmental protection, quality environment safety and energy management systems, green manufacturing, supply chain management, SME sustainability, and total quality management. He has published 03 patents, 42 peer-reviewed journal articles, 167 conference proceedings, 11 books, 02 book chapters and principal investigator of 32 projects. Dr. Ghosh delivered 56 Lectures in various countries. Recently, he was an editorial board member of the Waste Management and Resource Efficiency, Proceedings of 6th IconSWM 2016, Sustainable waste management: Policies & Case Studies: Proceedings of 7th IconSWM , Waste Water Recycling and Management: Proceedings of 7th IconSWM 2017. Dr. Koushik Ghosh is currently Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He obtained his B.E (Mechanical Engineering) from North Bengal University, India, M.E and Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His major areas of research interests include heat transfer, multiphase flow, boiling and condensation and transport in porous media. He has published 31 journal papers, 52 international and national conferences, 06 book chapters. Currently, he is a Co-Editor of Two-Phase Flow for Automotive and Power Generation Sectors (Book), Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, Springer, 2019; and member of reviewer panel of international journals (Applied Thermal Engineering (Elsevier), Applied Energy (Elsevier) Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics (Taylors and Francis), Heat and Mass Transfer (Springer), Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications (ASME). Dr. Santanu Das is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kalyani Government Engineering College, India. He obtained his B.E (Mechanical Engineering) and M.E from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. His major areas of research interests include manufacturing technology: machining, grinding, welding, weld cladding, coating, production and inventory management, etc. He has published 132 journal papers, 80 international conferences, 100 national conferences/seminars, 16 national magazines, 10 workshops, 09 short term training course papers, 07 books edited, 07 books reviewed. He has received the ‘Shiksha Ratna Award’ in 2018 as an ‘Outstanding Teacher’ from Education Department, Government of West Bengal. Currently, he is an Editor, Journal of The Association of Engineers, India; Member of Editorial Board, Indian Welding Journal; Chief Editor, Indian Welding Journal; and Editor-in-Chief, Bulletin of the Association of Machines and Mechanisms.  Dr. Pranab Kumar Dan is currently Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in the Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. He obtained his B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) and M.Tech from the Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, West Bengal, India, and Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His major research interests include production management and industrial Engineering, engineering design process and product innovation and development. He has published 34 journal papers, 12 international conferences, 08 books chapters, 08 national journals, 12 national conferences and 01 patent filed. Currently, he is a reviewer of International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Springer) and Journal ofEngineering Manufacture (Sage). Dr. Arijit Kundu is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. He obtained his B.E (Mechanical Engineering) and M.E (Heat Power) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and Ph.D. (Refrigeration and Air Conditioning; Thermal Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. His research interests include heat transfer, multiphase flow, boiling and condensation of eco-friendly refrigerants in re-entrant tubes, waste management, environmental protection, energy management systems, green manufacturing, sustainability, etc. He has published 05 international journals, 18 international and national conferences and running one project sanctioned from the Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology and Biotechnology, Government of West Bengal. Currently, he is an editorialboard member of the Proceedings of International Conference on Multidisciplinary Innovation in Academic Research (ICMIAR) 2019.

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