Funded Research Projects

Research Projects

Name of the Faculty Member	Project Title		Funding   Agency	Amount (Rs.)
ACY 2021-2022
Faculty: Dr.R.Shanthi Studetns: Kanishkar.H SharathPrasanna.R Harikrishnan Kaushik.K		Design and Development of Sterilizing air curtain with BiPolar Ionization	Student Research Project Grant 2021 - 22 ISHRAE	48,500
ACY 2020-21
Dr.S.Sekar Mr.P.Chandrasekar Ph.D. Scholar: Mr. S. D. Sekar Students: Mr. S. Monish Mr. R.L Hariharan		Design and development of low-cost solar dryers for vegetables and fruits for rural applications	RuTAG - IIT Madras	3,60,000
Dr. Kalaiselvi   Mr. S. Vinothkumar		Technology Interventions for Indigenous Handcrafted Products of Tamil Nadu (Second Phase)	DST	2.12 crores
Dr.N.Venkateshwaran		3D Printer and Scanner	MODROBS	972549
ACY 2019-20
Dr. R. Shanthi Mr. Shiva Shankar & Team		Experimental Studies On Building Cooling By Incorporating Phase Change Material on The Roof	ISHRAE	50,000
Mr.T.Vignesh Mr.M.Ajin		SAE Baja Vehicle	Rajalakshmi Engineering College	1,00,000
ACY 2018 - 2019
Dr.N.Venkateshwaran Mr.S.Arulmurugan		Sound Absorption Characterisation of Various Natural Fibers for Acoustic Applications	Institution of Engineers(I)	10,000
Dr.R.Shanthi		Hybrid Techno Board	REC	15,000
Mr.T.Vignesh Mr.M.Ajin		SAE Baja Vehicle	REC	1,50,000
Mr.S. Sakthivel		Solar Vehicle	REC	1,00,000
ACY 2017-2018
Dr. N M Sudharsan Mr. P. Chandrasekar		Development and evaluation of rotating nozzle for diesel engine	DRDO/ CVRDE	17,67,645
ACY 2016-2017
Dr. Natteri M Sudharsan & Dr. N Venkateswaran		Trajectory Estimation of the Large Object Inside an Intake Duct of an aircraft	GTRE, Minstry of Defense, Banglore	6,21,000
ACY 2015-2016
Prof. Natteri M Sudharsan &    Dr. N Venkateswaran		Detail engineering design of a compressor test rig for small gas turbine	GTRE, Bangalore	9,29,060
Dr. S.P. Srinivasan & Mr. A. Vinothkumar		Portable  hand held microscopic telescope-SD	REC	3000
ACY 2014-2015
Mr. S.Arul murugan		Vibration analysis of nano clay filled natural fiber composites	UGC_ MRP	5,00,000
Mrs. Ramya G		Industrial case study analysis for job shop scheduling and its integration with production resource planning	UGC_ MRP	1,00,000
Mr. Shankar E		Surface modified roller burnishing of Al – SiC composites	UGC_ MRP	4,85,000
ACY 2013-2014
Dr. Natteri M Sudharsan		Thermography as a tool to detect foetus abnormality	ICMR	10,32,638

Consultancy Projects

Name of the faculty	Project Title			Funding Agency	Amount Rs.
ACY 2019-2020
Dr.Natteri M Sudharsan		Design and Development of Turbocharger Test Rig	Shakthi Tech Manufacturing India Pvt. Ltd.		425000
Mr.S.Vinothkumar		Fabrication of sanitary napkin vending machine	Rajalakshmi Engineering College		5000
Dr.S.P.Srinivasan Dr.N.Venkateshwaran Mr.S.Vinothkumar		Utilization of Compression Mould Furnace and Optimized Paver Mould for Manufacturing of Plastic Paver Block sWaste Plastic Paver Brick	Think Green Enterprise		75000
Dr. N. Venkateshwaran Mr.A.Selvaramkumar Mr.K.Loganathan		Design and fabrication of TVS-Leak Test machine	TVS		11250
Dr. R. Shanthi Mr. M.S. Natarajan     Mr. M. Ajin		Design and fabrication of Hot Plate Welding Machine for Sintex BAPL	Sintex		10000
ACY 2018-2019
Mr. S. Sakthivel		Effect of compression ratio on a single cylinder diesel Engine operated with Ternary fuel	Mr.M.Yuvaraj, Saveetha School of engineering, Chennai.		4,300
Mr.S. Sakthivel		Effect of Titanium oxide Nano particles in Tamanu biodiesel operated in a single cylinder diesel engine to estimate performance, combustion and emission characteristics	Mr.P.Karthikeyan, Saveetha School of engineering, Chennai.		2,300
Mr.S. Sakthivel		Effect of waste transformer oil in bio diesel operated in a single cylinder diesel engine to estimate performance, combustion and emission	Mr.M.Ajay, Saveetha School of engineering, Chennai.		6,300
Dr.N.Venkateswaran Dr.R.Shanthi Mr.K.Loganathan Mr.MS.Natarajan Mr.S.Arulmurugan Mr.Hariram Mr.M.Ajin & Student Team In association with CDCE		Consultancy for Design and Development of Automatic Nut Insert Assembly Machine for Six Auto Components of Yamaha Fascino	Yamaha		7,920 (Shared by MECH, MCT & EEE)
Dr.S.P.Srinivasan Mr.Irudhayaraj		Making of supports using steel plates	Centre of Excellence in MEMS & Micro fluids,REC		4730
ACY 2017-2018
Mr.S.Girishankar		Modulus of Rupture & Modulus of Elasticity	Saint Gobain Glass, India		3,000
Dr.S.P.Srinivasan Dr.V.Santhanam Dr.N.Venkateswaran Dr.A.Rajkumar Dr.G.Ramya Dr.P.Chithambaranathan Mr.N.Vinoth Babu		Resource balancing data and analysis:   H-block, Head (Weight reduction)	Ashok Leyland		-
Mr. R. Arif Mohamed Khan		AMC for existing machine vision system	Nanchil Technologies (Super Auto Forge pvt ltd)		48,750
Dr.R.Shanthi Dr.G.Ramya Ms.D.Bharathi		A study on the feasibility of women employability	Ashok Leyland		-
ACY 2016-2017
Mr.P.Chandrasekar		VCR Engine	Sairam Engineering College		2,250
Dr.N.Venkateswaran &   Mr. S. Arulmurugan		Vibration measurement in carrier & cylinder	M\S.ATALON, No.9,NGO colony, Sriperumbudur-602105		25,000
Dr. S. P. Srinivasan & Mr. Irudhayarai		Stainless steel MEMS-MF device holders	Center of Excellence in MEMS & Microfluidics, REC		10,445
Mr. S. Girishankar		Modulus of rupture and modulus of Elasticity	Saint Gobain Glass ,India		4,500
Mr. S. Girishankar		Modulus of rupture and modulus of Elasticity	Saint Gobain Glass ,India		16,200
Mr. S. Girishankar		Modulus of rupture and modulus of Elasticity	Saint Gobain Glass ,India		4,050
Mr. R. Arif Mohamed Khan		Vision System for Bearing assembly line (Mechanical system Design)	Nanchil Technologies (Super Auto Forge pvt ltd)		66,750
ACY 2015-2016
Mr. S. Girisankar		Modulus of rupture and modulus of Elasticity	Saint Gobain Glass ,India		5,670
Mr. R. Arif Mohamed Khan		APQ machine vision solution	Nanchil Technologies (Super Auto Forge pvt ltd)		71,775
Mr. R. Arif Mohamed Khan		AMC for existing-I (Machine vision system)	Nanchil Technologies (Super Auto Forge pvt ltd)		90,000
Mr. R. Arif Mohamed Khan		Model addition to detect number of teeth in exist design layout	Nanchil Technologies( Iljin Automotive Private Limited)		15,750
ACY 2014-2015
Mr. S.Giri sankar		Modulus of rupture and modulus of Elasticity	Saint Gobain Glass ,India		41,040
ACY 2013-2014
Mr Shankar Bharathi		M V based Inspection system for rubber gasket with automation	Nanchil Technologies (Jain Rubbers pvt ltd)		1,40,625
Mr Shankar Bharathi		M V system for FS piston with surface inspection	Super auto forge pvt Ltd		1,98,750
Mr.P.Chandrasekar		Emission characters of Bio - Fuel	Research scholar (Satyabama university)		5,000
Mr. S.Girisankar		Modulus of rupture and modulus of Elasticity	Saint Gobain Glass,India		20,000

VCR Engine setup details:

Name of the faculty	Project Title	Funding Agency	Amount Rs.	Year
Dr M Mani	Computerised VCR Engine Setup Cylinder	DST	6,59,892	2007

Tyre Pyrolysis Set Up:

Title :Experimental Investigations on the Environmental impact of using Tyre Pyrolysis Oil in Diesel Engines
Funding Agency: Ministry of Environment and Forests
Principal Investigator: Mr S. Murugan

Name of the Equiment	Amount (Rs)	Year
Engine Exhaust Gas Analyser	3,15,000	2006
Air Flow Meter	16,120	2006
Heating Set up for Pyrolysis Treatment	3,06,800	2007

Other Noteworthy Research Projects:

Nature of the Project	Duration Year	Title of the project	Name of the funding agency	Total grant (Rupees in lakhs)
				Sanctioned	Received
Major projects		Synthetic ate aperture radar photos adoption by removing speckle noise Security concerned removal using image processing of criminals eye	AICTE	14.0	14.0
	2 years 2010-2012	Synthesis of Novel non-toxuc Quantum dots for early stage detection of cancer	AICTE	8.0	8.0
	2 years 2010-2012	Fabrication of supercapactiors using conducting polymer nanotubes for Automobiles	AICTE	9.5	9.5
	2 years 2011-2013	Efficient classifier for clinical life data (Parkinsons, Breast cancer and p53 mutants) through feature relevance analysis and classification	AICTE	7.0	7.0
	1 year 2013	Measurement of combustion and emission characteristics of waste plastic oil as an alternate fuel in CI engines	AICTE	5.5	5.5
Students research project	1 year 2012	Forced linear actuator for Single leg prosthesis	Computer Society of India	0.50	0.15
Inter disciplinary projects	3 years 2009-2012	Machine Vision	DST (TIFAC CORE)	515.10	500

Equipment Purchase Details:

Sl. No.	Equipment / spares & accessories / chemicals	Date of Purchase	Whether Imported or Indigenous	Cost of Equipment (Rs.)
1	Rotavapor Evaporator R-3, V-Condenser; R-3, V29/32 230V S/N: 1000101341 Gasket KD22	14.12.2011	Imported	Rs,1,51,200/-
2	CARY Eclipse Fluorescence Spectrofluorimeter.	09.02.2012	Imported	Rs.6,78,150/-
3	Aglient B2902A- LXI complaint 2CH Precision source / Measure meter	22-12-2011	Imported (By agent)	Rs.5,26,500/-
4	Aglient OPT 34972A- 20CH scanning Mux I/F	22-12-2011	Imported (By agent)	Rs.1,40,810/-
5	4263B-LCR meter- 100Hz to 100 KHz	22-12-2011	Imported (By agent)	Rs.2,08,069/-
6	IBM Server Part No : 737913S X3400M2 Tower Model Dual Socket Server Intel Xeon E5507 (Quad Core) 2.26 ghz/4MB 800 MHz 4GB DDR3/146GB 2.5” Hot DVD RW	17-02-2012	Imported (By agent)	Rs.1,34,400/-
7	HCL Infiniti A 380 PRO PC Intel Core 15, PC 5 No.	31-01-2012	Indigenous	Rs.1,32,000/-