Mohit Raj Saxena

Designation: 
Research Scholar
Email: 
mohitraj@iitrpr.ac.in
Department: 
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Biography: 

Mr. Mohit Raj Saxena is working as Research Scholar at IIT Ropar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He joined IIT Ropar in 2014.  He received M.Tech. Degree from Galgotias University,   Gr.  Noida in 2014. He has done B.Tech. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur in 2011. His research area is Advance Combustion   Techniques, Alternative fuels, Combustion Diagnostics, Engine Emissions in an internal combustion engine.

 

Area of Research: IC Engine- Alternative fuel, Combustion diagnostics, Engine Emissions, Reactivity Control Compression Ignition (RCCI)

 

Peer Reviewed / Journals

  • 1.    Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Effect of Fuel Injection Strategy on Nano-particle Emissions from RCCI Engine", SAE 2018-01-1709, SAE Technical Paper, 2018.
  • 2.      Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Effect of butanol addition on performance, combustion stability and nano-particle emissions of a conventional diesel engine", SAE 2018-01-1795, SAE Technical Paper, 2018.
  • 3.      Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, " Effect of Diesel Injection Timing on Peak Pressure Rise Rate and Combustion Stability in RCCI Engine", SAE 2018-01-1731, SAE Technical Paper, 2018.
  • 4.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Parth Jaggi and Mohit Raj Saxena, "Crank-angle resolved exergy analysis of Ethanol fuelled HCCI engine using newly reduced ethanol oxidation mechanism",  SAE 2018-01-1683, SAE Technical Paper, 2018.
  • 5.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Rahul Yadav, and Akshay Rathore, " Numerical investigation of Syngas fueled HCCI engine using stochastic reactor model with detailed kinetic mechanism", SAE 2018-01-1661, SAE Technical Paper, 2018.
  • 6.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Mohit Raj Saxena, "Characterization of Ringing Intensity in a Hydrogen-Fueled HCCI Engine", International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 43, Issue 19, 10 May 2018, Pages 9423–9437. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.03.194
  • 7.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Piyush Rai, and Aashish Bhardwaj, “Effect of Compression Ratio, Nozzle Opening Pressure, Engine Load and Butanol Addition on Particle Emissions from a Nonroad Diesel Engine"  Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Volume 25, Issue 15, pp 14674–14689, May 2018. DOI:10.1007/s11356-018-1644-8.
  • 8.      Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Optimization of Engine Operating Conditions and Investigation of Nano-Particle Emissions from a Non-Road Engine Fuelled with Butanol/Diesel Blends",  Biofuels, 22 September 2017. DOI:  10.1080/17597269.2017.1378987.
  • 9.      Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Effect of Premixing Ratio, Injection Timing and Compression Ratio on Nano Particle Emissions from Dual Fuel Non-Road Compression Ignition Engine Fueled with Gasoline/Methanol (Port Injection) and Diesel (Direct Injection),  Fuel. Volume 203,1 September 2017, Pages 894–914. DOI:10.1016/j.fuel.2017.05.015.
  • 10.  Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Effect of Butanol Blends on Nano Particle Emissions from a Stationary Conventional Diesel Engine", Aerosol and Air        Quality Research, Volume 16, No. 9, Pages 2255-2266; September 2016. DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2016.04.0144.

 

Refereed International Conference/ Published in Proceedings

  • 1.      Mohit Raj Saxena, Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Geo Alex, “Comparative study on characteristics of compression ignition engine in dual fuel mode employing gasoline/butanol and diesel”, International    Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges (SEEC-2018) Dec 31, 2017- Jan 3, 2018, 2018, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
  • 2.      Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Experimental Investigation on Range of Fuel Premixing Ratio for Stable Engine Operation of Dual Fuel Engine using Port Injection of Gasoline/Methanol   and Direct Injection of Diesel”, International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER), December 2017. IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
  • 3.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Rahul Yadav and Akshay Rathore,  "Comparative analysis on simulation ability of several syngas reaction Mechanisms in HCCI engine", Paper NO-SEEC-   2017-123 , International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges (SEEC-2017) 26 – 28 February, 2017, Mohali, India.
  • 4.      Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Investigation of cyclic variability in a non road diesel engine fueled with Diesel/butanol blends", Paper NO-SEEC-2017-60 , International Conference on   Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges (SEEC-2017) 26 – 28 February, 2017, Mohali, India.
  • 5.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Mohit Raj Saxena, "Investigation of Effect of Butanol Addition on Cyclic Variability in a Diesel Engine using Wavelets", Second International Symposium on Intelligent   Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’16) September 21-24, 2016 Jaipur, India. (LMNIT).
  • 6.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Nikkanti Akhil, “Experimental Investigation of Cyclic Variation in a Diesel Engine Using Wavelets” International Symposium on Intelligent Systems   Technologies and Applications (ISTA’15), August 10-13, 2015, Kochi, Kerala, India.

 

 

 Book Chapters

  • 1.      Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Performance, Combustion and Emissions Characteristics of Conventional Diesel Engine Using Butanol Blends”, In: Srivastava, D.K., Agarwal, A.K., Dutta,   A., Maurya, R.K. (Eds.) Advances in Internal Combustion Engine Research, Springer 2018. ISBN 978-981-10-7574-2.
  • 2.      Mohit Raj Saxena   and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Characterization of Cycle to Cycle Variations in Conventional Diesel Engine Using Wavelets”, In: Srivastava, D.K., Agarwal, A.K., Dutta, A., Maurya, R.K.   (Eds.) Advances in Internal Combustion Engine Research, Springer 2018. ISBN 978-981-10-7574-2.
  • 3.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Akshay Rathore and Rahul Yadav, “Chemical Kinetic Simulation of Syngas Fueled HCCI Engine”, In: Srivastava, D.K., Agarwal, A.K., Dutta, A., Maurya, R.K.   (Eds.)  Advances in Internal Combustion Engine Research, Springer 2018. ISBN 978-981-10-7574-2.
  • 4.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Mohit Raj Saxena, “Characterization of Ringing Operation in Ethanol Fueled HCCI Engine using Chemical Kinetics and Artificial Neural Network”, In: Srivastava, D.K.,   Agarwal, A.K., Dutta, A., Maurya, R.K.(Eds.) Advances in Internal Combustion Engine Research, Springer 2018. ISBN 978-981-10-7574-2.
  • 5.      Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Impact of Fuel Premixing Ratio and Injection Timing on Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition Engine",  In: Agarwal A.K., De S., Pandey A., and   Singh  A.P. (Eds) Combustion for Power Generation and Transportation: Technology, Challenges and Prospects, Springer, 2017, pp-277-296, ISBN:978-981-10-3784-9. DOI:10.1007/978-981-10-3785-6_13.
  • 6.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, "Investigation of Effect of Butanol Addition on Cyclic Variability in a Diesel Engine using Wavelets", In:Corchado Rodriguez, J.M., Mitra, S., Thampi, S.M., El-   Alfy, E.-S. (Eds.)Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications 2016, Springer 2016, pp 965-976, 978-3-319-47951-4; DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-47952-1_77.
  • 7.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, "High Efficiency Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition Engine" Chapter 12 p.p. 313-328, In: A.K. Agarwal, S.K. Aggarwal, A.K. Gupta, A. Kushari, and A.   Pandey (Eds.) Energy, Combustion& Propulsion: New Perspectives, Athena Academic, UK 2015. ISBN:9781910390290.
  • 8.      Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Nikkanti Akhil, “Experimental Investigation of Cyclic Variation in a Diesel Engine Using Wavelets" In: Berretti S., Thampi S.M., Dasgupta S. (Eds.) Intelligent   Systems Technologies and Applications, Springer 2016. pp 247-257; ISBN 978-3-319-23036-8.
Faculty Supervisor: 
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Maurya