Future of the Internal Combustion Engines and Existential Threat from Battery EV?- Avinash K Agarwal

Sixth Lecture Workshop (Online) on "Trans-disciplinary Areas of Research and Teaching by Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Awardee”
(January 03, 2022 – February 02, 2022)
Special Public Webinar
January 28, 2022 - 06:00 pm – 07:00 pm
Future of the Internal Combustion Engines and Existential Threat from Battery Electric Vehicles?
Prof. Avinash K Agarwal, FAAAS, FSAE, FASME, FRSC, FNAE, FNASc, FISEES
J C Bose National Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal obtained his Ph.D. (Energy, 1999) from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. After his Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1999 – 2001) stint at the Engine Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, he returned to India in 2001 and joined Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where he is now serving as SBI Endowed Chair Professor. 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 295 peer reviewed international journal and conference papers, 55 edited books, 75 books chapters and has 10300+ Scopus and 16000+ Google scholar citations. For his outstanding contributions, Prof. Agarwal is conferred upon Sir J C Bose National Fellowship (2019) by SERB, Clarivate Analytics India Citation Award-2017 in Engineering and Technology, Prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2016) in Engineering Sciences, He is an elected Fellow of Society of Automotive Engineers International, USA (SAE; 2012), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME; 2013), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE; 2015), International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (ISEES; 2016), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC; 2018), National Academy of Science Allahabad (NASI; 2018) and American Association for Advancement in Science (AAAS; 2020).