Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal

Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal obtained his B.E. (Mech Engg., 1994) from MREC, Jaipur and M.Tech. (Energy, 1996) and Ph.D. (Energy, 1999) from IIT Delhi. After his Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1999 – 2001) at the ERC, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, he returned to India in 2001 and joined Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as Assistant Professor, where he is serving as a SBI Endowed Chair Professor currently. He was a Visiting Professor to University of Loughborough, UK, Photonics Institute, University of Vienna, Austria, Hanyang University, South Korea and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. At IIT Kanpur, Prof. Agarwal worked in the areas of IC engines, combustion, conventional fuels, alternative fuels, methanol fuelled engine development, hydrogen, fuel sprays, lubricating oil tribology, optical diagnostics, laser ignition, HCCI, particulate and emission control, and large bore engines. He has developed laser fired hydrogen and CNG engines in automotive sizes and developed the first electronic fuel injection system equipped locomotive engine for Indian Railways, which improved duty-cycle fuel economy and reduced particulate emissions substantially. Currently, Prof. Agarwal is involved in development of Methanol and DME fuelled vehicles for automotive sector. Prof. Agarwal has published more than 270 peer reviewed international journal and conference papers, 35 edited books, 63 books chapters and has 7600+ Scopus and 11900+ Google scholar citations. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Energy and Environmental Sustainability and Associate Editor of Journal of Energy Resources Technology (Transactions of ASME), International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing and the Journal of the Institute of Engineers (Series C). He has edited “Handbook of Combustion” (5 Volumes; 3168 pages), published by Wiley VCH, Germany, which is the most updated compilation on combustion in the world.

• Teaching
• Combustion
• Automotive Instrumentation
• CNG
• Energy systems
• DME
• Hydrogen Production and Storage
• Emissions Control
• IC Engines
• fuel systems
• DME-fueled automotive engines
• laser ignition systems
• Internal Combustion Engine Design
• Combustion Diagnostics
• Methanol
• Tribology of Lubricating Oils
• Emission Control
• Reduction Technologies
• Optical Diagnostic Techniques
• Fuel Spray Analysis
• Injection Systems
• Large Bore Engine Development
• Electronic Fuel Injection System Design
• Locomotive Engine Development
• Academic Research and Publishing
• Journal Editorial and Peer Review
• International Collaboration in Research
• Project Management in R&D
• Advanced Energy Systems Research
• Book Editing
• Curriculum Development
• Compilation
• Technical Leadership
• Industry-Academic Interface Expertise
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